5 Weeks Old!

 Today Nora is five weeks old! And, coincidentally, today is the day she really started smiling consistently in response to us. Before today there had been a few smiles here and there, arguably some of them "real" smiles, but mostly just reflexive smiles. I was able to catch a couple of them in pictures...the last picture was taken on my phone with Instagram, which is why it looks a little strange. I love the "surprised" look on her face in the one with her wearing the green shirt (thank you Cary & Jeff!). And I just can't ever have too many pictures of Henry and Nora together. Other than the smiling, there haven't really been any other new "milestones" happening this week. Nora is definitely exiting that lovely newborn phase of sleeping all the time, in any place. We're entering into the phase of needing actual nap times - which will be something to figure out how to do with Henry and all his activities he does.
I forgot to say that she weighed 8 pounds even when I took her in last Thursday. Good - but I expected more!