One Month

The life of Ellie Callait Johnson has officially hit one month today.  The little princess is still the most perfect baby ever.  She now cries a little more than she used to. Heaven forbid she might be realizing that this is how she gets what she wants lol. Her days are spent lounging around the house being waited on hand and foot. When she is not reading Russian fairy tales with Dad she is reading pathophysiology with mom. She loves to read books, but unfortunately she doesn't look at the pictures too well in her kid books just yet so she is read books like Bates guide to physical examination and Sean Hannity's political pieces. By the time this little gal is three she will be able to give a complete physical and talk to you about the problems in the American government...in both english and russian haha. We have started referring to her as our little democrat because she gets in moods where she wants her food and she wants it now.  And she will only take it from the bottle because she doesn't want to work for it. Lately we have broken her of that deadly mind set. At one month she is eating about three or four ounces at every setting, she smiles when you play with her bottom lip, she loves to cuddle (sometimes she will cry and the only thing she wanted was to be laying on someones tummy), she still has clogged tear ducts and her eyes water and get goopies a lot, she likes to grunt all night long (and I mean loudly...she grunts really loudly she could wake up the neighbors), she loves bath time and kicking her legs around in the water, she also loves to stretch, she likes to sing ABCs with mom (and jaxon or carder), she likes to sleep on her dads chest and when she is taken off that claimed bed of hers she will always wake right up.  We could not ask for a better child.  She honestly is the reason behind everything I do. She motivates me to get through the day because I know if I do I get to come home to her sweet face. I hope one day she realizes how hard I have worked and what I have accomplished and knows that anything is possible in this world.  Everything in life that I have been through seems so bland compared to each day I spend with her. I love her with all my heart and am beyond grateful to be her mother.  Speaking of mothers my good friend Katie also had her baby Camden Olivia.  She is two weeks younger than Belly and they got to meet for the first time today.  They are going to be best friends as Katie and I truck through PA school. This is their first picture together.

Its amazing how big she looks in comparison. I hate that she gets bigger and bigger everyday. I wish there were a way to keep her this small forever.