6 Weeks Old

It's 9:30pm and I'm sitting in bed listening to my sweet 7 week old daughter snore softly (and pass gas loudly) in her sleep next to me and I can't help but think about how lucky I am to have such a beautiful little one who brings me so much happiness.  We have learned and grown so much together in this crazy new life we're living and finally we are close to having daily routines and I'm also getting pretty good at interpreting cries.  if only I could figure out what will make her give a big gummy smile and a giggle.  Oh I long to hear her sweet laugh!!!  We are currently still wearing newborn onesies, pants, and diapers!!!  We are wearing mostly 0-3m sleepers, because she is a whopping 21 1/2 inches long.  She weighs 8.9 lbs.  She'll sleep 4-6 hours at a time and then eat and go back to sleep easily (unless those darn hiccups grace us with their presence).  Her hair seems to have very light touches of red in it.  We may have a strawberry blonde on our hands!!!  She still hates tummy time most of the time but she loves her activity gym and her taggie puppy.  She loves being carried in her moby wrap but isn't too sure about this ergo.  When I lay her down at night after her last feeding of the day she'll always either fall asleep right away or she'll lay awake for a few minutes and let me lay down and go to bed.  She feels that mornings are for sleeping and eating, afternoons are for playing and snuggling, and night is for being wide awake until about 9:30 - 10ish... sometimes a little later.  She cries anytime that she has anything at all in her diaper.  She'll stop crying when I pick her up and take her upstairs to change her diaper, and then she'll start crying again the second I lay her down on the changing table.  Most of her cries now are more like complaints and rarely will I see a tear anymore.

*I took these pictures when she was about 5 1/2 - 6 wks old