Incipient

Adjective:  in an initial stage, beginning to happen or develop; (of a person) developing into a specified type or role.

Incipient is another word for something in the early stages of development.  Like an incipient player who has just joined the big leagues for their rookie season.  It seems  a  good word at one week into a new year.  Incipient is similar to the previously posted word nascent, though incipient seems to imply something that is already somewhat established where nascent refers to something just coming into being.  Though it is cold here in the northern hemisphere, enjoy the incipient weeks of the year.