One Month

It's hard to believe that a month has already passed since Oliver joined our family. 

We've been having a beautiful autumn and though this picture is fairly recent, the leaves are mostly done. It's been a reminder of all of the changes. Though, much is the same, we are noticing that Oliver is more alert and spends more time observing his environment. There have also been a few recent "firsts".

 

Oliver saw his room for the first time about a week ago. He has been sleeping in our room as we had planned and although we've had the nursery/guest room ready for awhile, we realized recently that Oliver had never been in his room. He won't be sleeping in his crib until all of us are ready, but he did seem to have a positive first impression.  

first time in his crib

This past week Mel's mom Linda came to visit. It was her first time in the Twin Cities and her first time meeting her grandson. We spent most of our time enjoying each other's company, drinking coffee, and watching movies.

Linda and Oliver

Oliver also took his first feeding from a bottle a few days ago. Melanie won't be back to professing full time until January, but when she is it will be up to Chris to take care of a lot of his feedings with pumped milk from a bottle. We thought it would be a good idea to start getting Oliver used to bottle feeding. He took to it with ease.

first bottle

Of course, there will be more and greater "firsts", but we are enjoying all of the small things as they come.

Here are some more pictures from his first month.