What I'm Thankful For...

This Thanksgiving I am most grateful for our daughter Lily. Being her mom is by far the greatest joy of my life and even though she's only 6 weeks old, I can't imagine life without her. A few things I'd like to say thanks for...

• The little noises she makes...squeaks, hiccups, whines, sighs, grunts, mmmms, purrs


• How she gives advance notice of an impending cry with three quick, hard breaths


• The way she moves her head in a complete circle when she yawns


• The cowlicks that make her hair stand up in a little faux-hawk


• Her tiny fists holding my fingers...I know it's a reflex, but in my heart we're holding hands


• How she is growing and developing the sweetest little belly and pudgy legs


• Her bright, beautiful eyes that go from blue to gray to brown


• How those eyes are now tracking, focus on the ceiling light, her mobile, and today locked onto her bottle, seeming to know food was on the way


• The start of her smile, especially when her daddy gave her a bath this morning


• How on her 6-week birthday she slept through the night and has been doing so almost every night since


• How she shakes her head when grabbing her binky and then how cute it is when she's working said binky


• How she sometimes looks at us as if asking "Are you serious?"


• The way her arms fly straight up the minute she is un-swaddled


• How her forehead wrinkles and she looks quite concerned when I lean her forward to burp her
• How she either purses her lips or juts out her lower lip and dramatically turns her head to the side on the rare occassions she doesn't want her binky
  

I am sure there are a dozen more things I am forgetting, but I am sure you get the idea. I don't know what we did to deserve such a blessing, but I am eternally grateful I get to be Lily's mom.

Best Baby EVER!

Lily is sleeping through the night! She was 6 weeks old on Saturday and to celebrate she slept all night long. We thought it was a fluke but she did it again last night! We are blessed with an angel baby.