One month!

It's past 3am and yes, I'm up and feeding her. Anyway, I guess I haven't paid much attention to babycenter.com since I had Toni but they have weekely updates for newborns too! So here's the 4 week update:

Your baby may gurgle, coo, grunt, and hum to express his feelings. A few babies also begin squealing and laughing. Be sure to coo and gurgle back, and talk to your baby face to face. He'll enjoy holding your gaze now.If you have things to do, your baby will still enjoy hearing your voice from across the room. And don't feel silly about talking baby talk — babies are particularly attuned to this high-pitched, drawn-out way of communicating that can actually teach your baby about the structure and function of language.

I always read that all babies develop at different times and speeds and is in no way a determining factor of how they will develop in life (i.e. a slow child or not) so that these "milestones" that are listed by age doesn't mean your child is fast or slow. But I compare to some degeree anyway. haha! basically if my child does something "ahead" of schedule then I say she's smart. If she's right on schedule, then good. And if she's behind, well she's really not b/c all babies develop differfently anwyay. haha!

Like the update says, though, she does make a lot of sounds. She definitely grunts with every move. It's pretty funny. IT's really cute because if she's not grunting, she makes these little kitten like noises. haha! it's so cute! She hasn't squealed or laughed yet, but I think it's coming up. Sometimes it just looks like she really wants to but there is no sound to it yet. The cool part is she can mimic some of the things we do. Like if we stick our tounge out, she'll copy. /if we open our mouth, she'll do the same. I read somewhere else that around this age, they will start to smile at you... and REALLY smile at you. Not just because they passed gas... which she does A LOT. But that's good because I'd rather that than her be a colicky baby.