Julia is 1 month old

Julia was one month old on October 16.  She is a pretty amazing little girl.  In her first month, she went through a surgery and spent 22 nights in the NICU.  She also went to New York for a weekend- pretty quick turnaround :)  Here are some of the things Julia does at 1 month old:
-sleeps a lot
-is a pretty good eater
-likes to cuddle with mom and dad
-likes to watch her big brothers
-is starting to have a little longer awake periods
-follows with her eyes when we talk to her
-lost her stump from her umbilical cord/surgery on her 1 month birthday

Look-a-likes

We have thought Julia looked a lot like Parker since she was born, but as I was flipping through some pictures, I saw one of Julia and felt like I had seen that picture before.  It just happened that the picture I had seen was actually Parker.  Here are pictures of our two look-a-likes.

Julia after her first bath at home

Parker after his first bath at home

Oliver's First Day of Preschool

 Oliver with his backpack in our living room

Oliver all ready for preschool

Oliver in front of the school

A close up of Oliver in front of the school

Oliver with his nametag waiting to go to his classroom

Oliver started preschool today.  It is at the Urbana High School and done through the child development class.  The program is 8 weeks long and he goes Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00-10:30.  He did really well today.  He was a little nervous, but walked in with me and Eric.  He had his Thomas backpack packed with his snack for the day.  I was pretty impressed that when the teacher asked him his name, he actually answered her.  He has been going through a shy phase.  

Eric and I walked along with him to his classroom.  He definitely seemed anxious while waiting to go and walking down the hallway, but the second he saw the classroom, he was good to go.  He had to hang his backpack up in his cubby and then he was ready to play.  There were lots of fun things to do- he went straight to the water table where there was green and red water.  He told us good-bye without any problem and we headed out the door.  

I was back to pick him up and he was happy to see me, but definitely didn't seem like he had a hard time.  I asked him what he did and he told me lots of fun stuff.  He said he painted an apple, played a game where you had to find pretend apples, and read a story about apples.  He also told me he only ate the marshmallows from his snack.  :)  It sounded like he had a fun day and when I said he would go back on Thursday, he said "is that tomorrow?"