Ruthie is now 4 and 1/2 weeks old and has celebrated her first Christmas with Betsy's family in Midland. She is an "easy" baby so far with an emerging personality of what we think is pretty laid back and possibly talkative...time will tell. We are settling into an incredibly different way of life from what we've been used to, and we smile and laugh a lot with Ruthie. She consistently goes at least 5 hours between feedings at night, which allows Betsy to sleep 4 hours straight before a feeding.
She continues to earn the nicknames "the cutest timebomb", and "our little geyser" with her unpredictable large spit ups! She is growing well, we think, and her milestones to date have been finding her thumb to suck when she was 22 days old (but hasn't found it since), rolling herself from her stomach to her back on Christmas day (it was a fluk accident that made her cry, but hey, it still counts!), and smiling back at us on December 26! She wore her first dress on Christmas day (the red one).
