Evaëlle's first month

Evaëlle's first month of life was a success. Her first weekend home she experienced her first walk, her first trip to the park and her first campfire. Okay, so really she slept through her first walk, her first trip to the park and her first campfire. Daniel took his paternity for her first week. While maternity leave is pretty good here (you receive 80% of your salary for four months following the birth) paternity leave is not required, but luckily Daniel's company gave him a week off.

 We received daily visits for 10 days postpartum from the midwife. Here she is weighing Evaëlle using a fish scale.

Timing worked out great; as soon as Daniel had to go back to work my dad and my sister, Susan, arrived to help me out (my mom couldn't come due to some health problems). It was so great to have them here! It had been over three years since I had seen my sister last and it was so much fun to be able to spend some concentrated time with her. We had some really nice days (and some not so nice days) that we were able to take advantage of. We visited Gruyere, Chateau de Chillon, Lausanne and Yvoire, among others. Little Eva essential slept through all of the adventures. 

This baby got super spoiled (me too!) while they were here. I thought it was going to be quite a shock for her when they left and she suddenly realized that she wasn't going to be cuddled constantly whether awake or asleep for the rest of her life. But she has done okay.

We took Evaëlle to her first Halloween party at Chateau de Chillon.

We bought her this little polar bear ensemble form H&M for the occasion. As if Jonas needed even more incentive to treat her like a teddy bear.

Jaxon likes to read her books.

Learning to take a bottle; she does really good.

Jonas protecting Evaëlle's eyes from the flash

The boys making bread at the Signal de Bougy boulangerie. I just had to throw this in somewhere.

So that is about it. We are certainly loving having this little baby girl around. It has been even more fun as she has started to give us the best smiles ever (I still need to catch that on camera). Jaxon says that she is the best one in our family. It is amazing how even one month in it is already hard to imagine life without her.