"She is a mini Noel!"

My thought is if all the photos were in black and white then people would say she looks more like me. As it stands now Noel's family says "it's a mini Noel! Look at how beautiful she is. And soo brown!" I say at least she came out of me!

Month 2: Hmmm who does she look like?

Week 1: definately looks like Noel

Month 4: A mini Noel

Month 4: Mama's delicate features with Papa's coloring?

Month 4: It's hard to tell who she looks like when cheeks get this big!

Slow Down Amanda!

I knew babies grew quickly but being with her everyday I don't notice it unless I look back through photos. Here are months 2, 3 and 4. Note progressive lack of hair! My baby girl is balding, now down to a mohawk and mullet at 4.5 months! The big developments were growing a booty and face cheeks during month 3 by nursing every 1-1.5 hours. I am happy she gets a booty as finding jeans is much harder without one ;) Now nearing the end of month 4 she has started sleeping 6 hours at a stretch without crying or nursing. Not every night but I am grateful all the same. We call her pterodactyl baby because loves to talk in a screechy voice. Sometimes I can't get a word in edgewise!

2 months: in the Peruvian hat Katy sent. I tried to shrink it to no avail

2 months: sleepy head

3 months: I found my hands. They are incredibly delicious and never run out of flavor!

3 months: She makes many faces and loves to talk

3 months: Hanging out with Lily on the porch

3 months: upside down time is second best to naked time!

4 months: Mommy makes me wear these silly headbands because I have lost almost all my hair!
Don't worry she only picks ones that do not dent my head.

Baby photos, what you came here for, right?!

Mi chiquita bebe

12 days "late" - perfect time for her

already following family tradition

Born at home in the kiddy pool in the kitchen into my (tired) waiting arms

Yes that would be a drug free birth, natural oxytocin is awesome

as is a kickass doula friend

Isn't she just perfect?!

8 pounds, 10 ounces, 20 inches long, 14 inch head

gotta love that she got her daddy's lips

still connected to mommy, not happy to be outside her personal perfect temp amnio pool, working her lungs to the fullest

Sorry the rest are not in order....

2nd evening, already trying to hold her own head up

2nd day sunbathing, supposedly my half-brown baby is jaundiced...or maybe she is just light brown!

20 hours new

18 hours, very sleepy

5 hours old, second nursing, she is a champion latcher

what cute cloth diaper covers, my skinny 16 day old chica

my little cross eyed pink convict, 15 days

13 days, you see any resemblance? at least she came out of me :)

10 days

10 days in her jammies

first real bath, not happy, she would rather have bath time with mommy

5 days, first time in carseat for trip to chiropractor, not okay with it

day 3, very milk drunk, still with swollen eyes

3 weeks

7 weeks, finally caught a smile

7 weeks

in the soccer clothes her Honduran gramma sent, mi catrachita

Life gets busy & busier

Hmmm excuses why I haven't written a darn thing since October. Yes 7 whole months.
In chronological order:
1- Noel LOVES netflix & takes over the computer when he gets home, which was before me
2- I wasn't sure if anyone read it. Not that I told more than 5 people...
3- I was pregnant, had a full time job & loved sleeping in
4- I decided it was a good idea (pregnancy brain?!) to plan ahead for my return to grad school & take Pharm for nurse practitioners online. At 7 months pregnant. A semester long class that bridged....
5- my baby Amanda's birth!!!
6- we moved at 8 months pregnant
7- see #5!

But now (I think) I'm ready to try again. In advance forgive the unusual grammar. Sleep deprivation saps my English language skills. And Spanish too, Noel has been correcting me alot lately, which hasn't happened in ages.

Let's do a quick photo recap (of those on my phone as the computer told me last week "replace hard drive!). These are the pics I have on my phone...Nevermind I am not smart enough to figure that out. Next time I swear!!!