so in love...
11:48 p.m. on April 30, 2006
i'm so in love. i just can't get over how much in love i am with her. i can go hours holding her in my arms just staring at her and every little feature of her face...her smiles, her frowns, the way she wrinkles her nose, the way she puckers her lips, the way she curls her bottom lip and sticks our her tongue....all of it is so precious and already recorded to memory.
she's such a good baby. i hate to even say it out loud for fear of being stoned to death by all the sleep deprived mommies that are at their wits end. my sister-in-law & brother-in-law and their new baby (born on the 24th as well) haven't had a good long rest since they got home from the hospital. Baby Boy doesn't like his bassinet, his crib or any other place they want to put him down to sleep. apparantly he doesn't like to sleep at all. all he wants to do is eat, pee, poop and cry to keep them awake. she's getting scared that she's not a good mommy but i try to reassure her that it's still too early to be perfect at this.
in turn, Naima is totally the opposite. all she wants to do is sleep! she pees and poops then sleeps. she eats then sleeps. she gets some sun (to help with the little jaundice she has) then sleeps. and it doesn't matter where she's at or who's around or what's going on....she'll still sleep through it all! we took her to out today for the first time since we got home...church, mall, target...and she slept through it all. not once did she even flinch or get startled to wake up. it wasn't until we home that she finally woke up...as we pulled up in the drive way she opened her eyes and let us know she needed to be changed. if it wasn't for the pee/poopy diapers and her hunger we would never know what her cries sounded like. those are the only times she cries. and then minute those issues are resolved she's back to sleep.
this sleeping thing is starting to worry me. can a baby sleep too much? i know the jaundice can make a baby lathargic and sleepy (we were warned about that before we left from the hospital) but she's already been to see the pediatrician on thursday and friday of last week to check on that and she's apparantly doing fine. both abel and mom say she's just a baby and babies are supposed to sleep a lot the first few days but i still can't help but to worry about it.
but no matter what...fussy or not...i still think she's the most precious and perfect baby in the whole world. i know, every mother is supposed to say that about their child.
