6 Weeks

We had your 6-week picture taken today at Sears in your beautiful white dress Grandma and Latia Kristi bought you. You looked so pretty!

Looking back on the past six weeks, I can say now that they have gone by fast. But I can only say that in retrospect. Making it through the first six weeks was often endlessly long and tiring. It seemed like time was at a standstill. And at times I felt like the day or the week would never end. But through it all I knew to appreciate every moment with you because you are only this little once! And every week you change and get older and bigger and I will never be able to turn back the hands of time. Just look at how much you've changed! You are awake much more of the day and enjoy spending that time staring at people's faces or your Mickey Mouse toy or ceiling fans. Who knew ceiling fans could be so great?!? And you're trying to talk now too! You have so much to say, if only we knew what you were saying. And you have found your fist, you make loud funny noises sucking on it. Those few that have ventured a guess say you look most like Daddy, but agree that you have Mommy's eyes. Mommy and Daddy haven't decided yet who you most look like, but we can't wait to see! The two things strangers feel obligated to say to me when we're out is, (1) "It'll get better" and (2) "Are you getting any sleep?" Lets take a moment to address these comments. First: What will get better? By 'better' do you mean 'easier'? And do you mean that its not good now? You can't appreciate something being better until you've been through it and can look back on it, so please, let me discover and decide this for myself. Second: If you've already had a child, you know how the sleep thing goes, its the same for all newborns, so stop asking!

Latia Kristi is a good babysitter. She can always get you to sleep!