Week 5 of Beautiful Julia's life

Let's dance! I love the monster mash...don't you? I do it well don't I?

I had to share these shots. She is such a wiggle worm, it cracks me up some of the pictures we end up with!

Our little princess has reached the ripe old age of 5 weeks. It's amazing how quickly our time together is flowing by. I keep trying not to think of what I'll be missing when I go back to work but it's hard not to when she gifts me with little presents every day. This last Tuesday, she gifted me with her first real smile...not gas mind you.. a real smile! Jason was placing her in my arms for her mid-morning feeding and I said what I normally do...Hi Baby girl! She turned her head, looked me in the eye and blasted me with the best looking gummy smile ever! I felt so lucky to be given that gift! Then this morning, I had to call for Jason to stop working out and come upstairs. She was laying in her crib, waiting for someone to come greet her awakening eyes and when we did...smile after smile after smile!! They didn't stop! I thought for sure, once I started calling Jason, she'd stop but no, she kept them right on coming. Sunshine. That's what they are, little gifts of sunshine!

We celebrated Father's Day this last weekend at Dad's house. She was such a trooper she didn't fuss hardly any at all when being passed around to her Aunts and Uncles. But...she gave Daddy one heck of a Father's Day present that night. Up all night our little one was. Testing out her newest cries. I gotta tell you. I don't know what kind of Mother this makes me but her new cries crack me up! She's trying out this little eh eh wah, eh eh wah, sounding thing and then when she gets really mad...a deep lioness roaring sound comes forth. Both crack me up!! I figure I can't be too bad of a Mom if I can find humor in the rough moments!

She's starting to get her nights and days into alignment with me..Yay! Now I just have to get her back in the habit of not waking up once I lay her down...I told Jason she's like a doll with the eyes that open and close..but backwards. She keeps opening her eyes when laid down instead of closing them! Oh well, if that's the worst I have to work on..I cannot really complain can I?

She passed the 10lb mark this last Saturday and at the Dr.'s office today..10.7!!! Michelin thighs here we come! Mommy cannot wait to share those with everyone!

Everything else is going pretty well. One major meltdown last Friday from me and bless her, my Mom(see her in our generation photo? Beautiful!) took my midnight sobs in stride and came up on Saturday to help me through the next night..of course my little angel slept pretty soundly after being awake all night on Friday!! Go figure..oh well, we really enjoyed the company from her on Saturday.

I think this weekend Jason and I are going to start our hunts for new cars. I've got my test drive vehicles down to 4...he's still browsing. Both of our cars are kinda limping along. Now that I've got little Miss. Julia, I'm not so comfortable driving my car that has no a/c, only 1 of 4 windows that rolls down and lots of tune up work to do. I kept telling myself before, it's just me and I can handle it but now...I'm not sure if it's the perfect excuse or sensibility, but I don't want to put my baby girl in the misery of a car that is slowly falling apart. Right now, we've been solely relying on Jason's Jeep for travel but it too is kinda jenky. So, wish us luck if you would please. I hate car shopping..another reason I've put it off for so long...and really need all the good fortune I am able to get!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Love, Ang