all smiles!

I'm so sorry I haven't posted in almost a month -- wow, the time has flown!

We're all doing well, and continuing to enjoy life as a threesome. :) It has become even more fun now that Gwyneth has begun responding to us and - you guessed it - smiling!! She wakes up every morning with the most beautiful grin. I haven't been able to get a picture of one of her big gummy smiles yet, but I have gotten some of her little grins.

It's amazing already to look back at pictures of her first week; she's changed so much, and put on so much weight! We bought a baby scale a few weeks ago, and it's been fun to weigh her every few days to watch her progress. She started out at 5 lb. 14 oz., and is now up to about 9 1/2 lbs!! So much of her weight is in length -- I've included a picture of her lying next to one of her burp clothes when she was two weeks old, and one of her lying on a burp cloth just yesterday; can you believe how much longer she is?!?

She still loves her sleep, and is only awake for about 6 hours of each day. She still has some nights when she wants to be fed every 3 or 4 hours, but earlier this week she slept for 9 hours straight! I'll tell you what - I certainly appreciated that much sleep in one stretch! She's been going to bed at about 6:00 for the last two weeks. I would love to be able to keep her up longer so that Jason could have more time with her on the weeknights, but it's just impossible to keep her awake! Once she decides to sleep, that's all she wrote. One upside to her early bedtime is that we've been leading a Wednesday night Bible study for the college students, and she sleeps thru the whole thing, allowing us to have it in our home. Sunday mornings are another story; she tends to be awake a bit during the Sunday school hour, and I've been tempted not to go simply to keep the girls from being distracted by her! They sure do love little Gwyneth, and we will definitely have no shortage of great babysitters when we get to that stage.

Well, the weather is beginning to be more spring-like here (although not without wintery days; snow is in the forecast for the coming week). We bought a jogging stroller a couple of weeks ago, and it's been wonderful to get outside with Gwyneth. She falls asleep almost before we've left our driveway; it will be fun when she's awake more to enjoy the beautiful outdoors with us!

Jason has been in Virginia this week for a business trip, and I'm so excited that he's on the last leg of his flight home right now!! Tomorrow is supposed to be absolutely gorgeous, and we're both looking forward to spending the whole day together outside.

Ok, I'll hang it up for now... hope you enjoy the pictures, and have a wonderful weekend!

Here she is at 2 weeks...

And now... look how much bigger she is!!

There's that grin!She just loves looking at the big window in her nursery.

Some Daddy time...

Some Mommy time...

Some Petey time...Some outside time...