m2colvin: Just can't get enough

Everyone tells me kids grow up fast and I'm really starting to notice it. I've been trying to cherish all our time right now even if that means a 3:00 in the morning feeding. I can't seem to get enough cuddles in during a day and that's really all we do. Matt once made a comment that there seems to be way less time in a day because you don't even realize you've been staring at Adley for hours. She has so many funny facial expressions it's hard to get anything done these days.

This past week and a half she has developed quite the personality. Which can be a good thing but also a bad. I keep joking that she is bipolar, she can easily go from a huge (ear to ear and whole face) smile to screaming bloody murder for an hour. Thankfully she only has fussy time for a few hours in the evenings and we've only had 5 real bad episodes. This is how I pictured being a parent would be, her screaming and me not knowing what to do... total frustration. Thankfully that is not how it is 95% of the time. Adley is such an easy carefree baby and because of that I can handle a few light episodes.

Adley is really starting to hold her head up this week and loves to "jump" and push with her very strong legs. Even though most of the time she is sleeping and if she isn't sleeping she is eating, there are a few moments during the day that she shows off her cute personality. One of my favorite things she does is make eye contact with me, smirk, then she makes her eyes go quickly back and forth as if to say she "wasn't looking at me, you didn't catch me looking". Another cute thing she does is let out a big sneeze then she sighs right after as if to relive herself from the sneeze. When I'm not staring at our daughter I'm trying to get house work done and I'm trying to create a photo baby book for Adley.

The idea of the scrap book is that she will have a keep sake from her first year of life. I saved all the cards from my 5 showers and all the ones sent after Adley was born and I'm using them in her book as backdrops! I'm super excited about how cute the book might turn out. I just wish I had more time in a day to work on it and at the rate we are taking pictures it's going to take forever to put together.