All about Grace

Disclaimer: This is a shameless post detailing how we dote upon our daughter. I am a new mother, so I'm allowed.

First bandaids from first series of shots. Four hours later, first inconsolable hour of crying.

2 month stats:

Weight: 10 lbs 2 oz (just over the 50 percentile)

*That's right--double the birthweight*

Length: 21 1/2 inches (25 percentile)

Head: um... I don't remember, I'll update when I find the little paper (25 percentile)

Grace is starting to grow out of the newborn stage, so for posterity's sake, I want to dwell on a few points we love about her before I forget and she grows out of them.

• Grace laughs in her sleep. It's a much more mature laugh than she's capable of when she's awake. I love it! It always makes Scott and me laugh ourselves.
• Grace is one noisy baby girl. She has different noises for different activities. When she eats, with every breath it's "*squeak*-sigh-*squeak*-sigh." Sometimes even when she's done eating and she's contentedly full she keeps the squeak-sigh breathing for a few minutes. When I'm sleeping with her sleeping on my chest, I'm woken up occasionally because she sighs with each exhale. It's utterly precious. During her waking hours, she is constantly grunting and humming. She's growing out of the grunting, but now it's being replaced with cooing! Oh, being a new parent is so fun.
• In the past two weeks, Grace has become a very wiggly girl. Already she's started migrating to the corner of her crib when she's sleeping. When we set her on a flat surface while she's awake, she'll happily kick and punch the air for 15 or more minutes. For such a little body it must be exhausting!
• Grace will contentedly sit or lay by herself for up to a half hour!
• Grace loves her daddy's game of touching different parts of her face and repeating their names in a high falsetto voice. She almost always smiles at him.
• Bath time has become an anticipated event. Grace will regularly calm down from fussiness if she hears the water running. When she gets excited she breathes quicker with intermittent squeaks and sticks her lips out like a little duck. It's much cuter than it sounds, I promise.
• Every day Scott and I have moments of awe and wonder at such a beautiful little girl. It takes our breath away. We are so lucky.