Happy One Month Birthday, Caroline!

Today Caroline is officially one month old today. I am so proud of the progress we've made the past month. She can now regularly lie on her stomach and turn her head from side to side, and she even rolled over last night! I don't think this will be a normal thing for a while, but you should see how hard she works when she's on her playmat to achieve these feats! It's actually really funny - they say you don't really know a baby's personality until they are older, but when Caroline gets frustrated while trying to roll over/shimmy around, she acts exactly like Greg when he gets frustrated. It's adorable.

Last night, to celebrate her one month eve, Caroline slept from 11:30 PM to 5:30 PM! Praise the Lord! It was much needed sleep. While I know that probably won't continue on a nightly basis for a few weeks, she is consistently only waking up once a night and is doing at least on 4-5 hour stretch. If I've already said this on the blog pardon me - I definitely have mommy brain right now.

The biggest event that happened this morning was that Caroline had her first string of definite, smile because she's happy smiles. She did it this morning as we were reading our books. It was adorable! Here is a photo of it:

And then she got tired:

These photos both just make me smile to see - as I said above, her personality shows more and more every day.

Many thanks to those of you who have sent Greg mail. I spoke with him this week, and I think the newness of the deployment may be starting to wear off. I know he would really appreciate any letters or packages, especially "fun things" - easy to read books (thank you Maurels, for the John Grisham novel!), DVDs, cards, etc. If you don't have his address and are interested and sending something to him, let me know and I'll give it to you. Motivation is the key to making this deployment go by like honey, instead of molasses! I think we've given up on thinking that it will "fly" by...so I'm being realistic at this point :)

I wonder what Caroline will be like in one month from today. We'll see!