8 Things

Okay, Trishy tagged me and asked me to share 8 things I love about Harlie - Here goes:

1. Her smile - I know every mom says this, but it really is the best thing! I love the way she raises her eyebrows and her eyes get so big when she's smiling. It really melts my heart.

2. I love that she loves to be left alone sometimes. This is just one of the many things that remind her of me. She loves attention, and she loves being around people, but she also loves to lay by herself and just kick and squirm, especially when she's naked (okay you funny guys and gals - the naked part does not apply to her mommy)!

3. When she talks - She started cooing at us at a very early age, probably when she was only a month old. She loves to talk and ooh and ahh. Everyone that got to see her as Baby Jesus this Christmas Eve loved how she just talked and talked. Another thing they say she does like her mom. A total blabber!

4. Her attentiveness - Harlie has been a very alert baby right from the moment she was born. I remember them tossing her on me in the hospital as soon as she was born and I saw these two wide eyes staring back at me. The first stranger I ever loved!

5. Speaking of when she was first born... I can still picture her all swaddled up when the nurses would bring her to me. She was always so awake, and so peaceful. I love the memory of her first days.

6. Her predictability - I know this may sound so boring and silly, but I love that she is such a scheduled girl already. It may mess us up sometimes, and she may change schedule at times and create total chaos, but for the most part I know what she'll want and when she'll want it and it makes it so much easier to make her happy. She eats at the same times every day, naps for the same 3 hours every afternoon, and sleeps for the same 10 hours every night. She may sway a little here and there, but she's so predictable, and so great!

7. Her chubby thighs... and cheeks, and feet, and arms, and hands! I love those little rolls that appear, and I love kissing those cheeks and feet. She was cute when she was born, and she was so skinny, but we really love her with that extra weight on there. It makes her even more squeezable!

8. I love that she loves me no matter what. New moms make mistakes; all moms make mistakes. And I know I've made my share already, and I still will make some more. But even after I've forced her to have Tummy Time, or a bath, or I've squished that mean hat on her head one more time, she still loves me. I can tell it by the way she looks at me, and the way she rests in my arms. They were right when they said having a baby changes your life. I just didn't realize how right, and how good it would be.