One Month!

Today is Maia & Sean's One month Birthday!! Woo hoo! We're having steak, sweet potatoes (just baked-- no goo on them, just a little butter) and broccoli & bread & then ice cream as a celebratory dinner. :) Later, we also plan to mash their little hands and feet into one of those memory clay things you can buy to commemorate their tiny feet & hands sizes.

It's been a helluva ride so far. They're both flashing us their very first "social smiles" the last day or so. You know, when babies are tiny, the little smiles you see are mostly just contentment after eating, or practice. But then, after a while, they can see, and they work out smiling. It goes straight to their little eyes, and their whole face smiles. So far, in this, Sean is a little bit ahead of his sister--he's a bit more smiley overall, and better at the responding to Mommy's smile bit.

We also went to the grocery store today, and they were fawned over by grandmotherly types all over the place. It was fun; they'd been feeling a little neglected since no one new had told them how cute they were in a while.

Now, to look up some info and help Andrew cook the broccoli. Broccoli!!!!!