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Most Precious Smiles!

That's right, Isabella is smiling away now!  She loves to smile at mom and dad when we are talking to her.  She is especially happy in the mornings after a diaper change.  It is the most precious thing when she smiles at us.  My heart just melts whenever I am talking to her and she breaks into that beautiful smile.  She can go from being upset and wining to smiling away when we get up close and show her some love.

Another lucky piece of information about our little angel is that she is not a major crier!  Thank goodness for that! Don't get me wrong, she cries for all the normal baby reasons (like when momma can't get her to food fast enough) but her cries are more like loud wines.  She isn't too loud and hopefully it will stay that way for a while.  She has found her voice and cues at us so hopefully this is the volume her 'talking' will stay.

More 1-2 month developments include:

  • Lifting her head off the floor during tummy time for a few seconds at a time 
  • Fighting sleep until she can't keep her eyes open anymore
  • Sleeping 3-4 hours straight at night and about 2-2.5 hour naps throughout the day

Cloth diapering is going brilliantly!  I am loving it!  I love seeing her in her cloth diapers that give her a big, fluffy butt.  Miraculously she still fits into all of her newborn and 0-3 month clothes even with the larger sized diapers.  Right now we are only able to use the bum genius and fuzzie bums diapers right now because the other brands that we have do not fit her well enough around the thighs.  With the bum genius and fuzzie bums diapers we have about 24 diapers in circulation so I am doing laundry every other day.  It works out nicely though.  I don't mind doing the diaper laundry.  It is actually a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.  And being on Guam where it is always so hot outside, the diapers dry pretty quickly when I line dry them outside.  

Well that is all the updating that I can think of for now so instead of reading more of my blabbering, here are some adorable pictures and a funny video!











If you can't see the video here, you should be able to get to it through this address:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXsPsJN_R0&feature=youtu.be 

Thanks for reading!

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