Smilin' Skyla

The most amazing thing happened to me on 9/11.  Skyla woke up at about 5:30 to eat.  I changed her, started feeding her, and did what I often do during feedings: I checked the news on my phone.  The top story was the 9/11 10th-anniversary memorial, which was already airing on tv.  I turned it on just as they were starting the first moment of silence.  I kept it on after she was done eating, and watched as family members recited names of the victims.  It was very emotional, especially when the children went up there, so I immediately started to cry.  I looked over at Skyla and she must have known her mommy was sad because she responded in the most perfect way that just melted my heart: she gave me her first real smile.  I started to laugh through the tears and kissed her over and over again.  She's so young and she already knows how to make me so happy!

Since then she has been a smiling machine.  Geordie told me we should call her smilin' Skyla.  I agree!

These last two are from the other day when we played with toys from Fiona and Serena.  She just loves them, as you can see.

Family fun

It has been so great staying with my parents and living so close to Geordie and his family.  Roma just loves coming over and visiting Skyla.  The other day she brought over a ton of cute clothes that she had grown out of.  Boy was Skyla excited!  (Not to mention her mom at the prospect of getting all these super-cute hand-me-downs in the future!)  They also came over last night to deliver Skyla a cute present from the Renaissance fair they went to: a knitted pirate rattle, complete with a peg leg!

The other great thing about living with my folks is that we're so close to William Street Park.  The other night we took a trip as a whole family and tried out the Baby Bjorn for the first time.

Crazy hair

This is really a continuation of the last post but it was getting super-dooper long.  I also wanted to highlight the excellent hair she had after her bath the other night!

We stayed up together afterwards and I got to watch Tory feed Skyla a bottle.  She looked so cute I couldn't resist:

And now a few more shots of her hairdo (which I'm afraid is becoming a hairDON'T as it starts to resemble a mullet more and more.)

Any ideas how we can use this hairdo in a rockin' Halloween costume???

First Big Girl Bath!

Skyla finally graduated from the froggy sponge bath mat to a real big girl tub.  Although I'm happy that she's healthy and growing, I'm sad that she's growing up so fast.

It was still exciting to bathe her for the first time in the tub.  I had flashbacks of the instructor's voice from our baby care class telling us not to ever turn our backs on a baby in a tub, and better yet to keep one hand on her at all times.  She wasn't kidding!  What a squirmy wormy!

I especially love that last one because it is a preview of how crazy her hair got after it dried.  Believe it or not, it stayed like that until we gave her another bath!  It got me thinking about Halloween and a costume based on that hair!  The most exciting part of this bath for everyone was that she got to try out her new Winnie the Pooh bathrobe and booties!

She looked so beautiful in her new bath outfit that I forgot to be sad about her growing up too fast :)



6 weeks old and happy as can be

Now that Skyla is 6 weeks old she is a lot more active and is growing up right before my eyes.  She's doing a few more "grown up" things, like holding onto her own pacifier and crossing her legs:

The best part of this age is how curious and happy she is.  We listened to some excellent classical music today and she was just mesmerized.

By far the best new talent she has is her beautiful smile!  It's hard to get a picture of it because she changes her facial expressions so quickly but here is a pretty good one from today:

Two cute pics

Tory is rarely the one behind the camera but I think he should do it a lot more often because the results are priceless.  Here are two favorites (in the first one I wasn't quite ready but she still looks cute). The second one especially is so gosh-darn cute I thought it deserved its own post :)

Brunch with Lissy and Mo

Last weekend we went to brunch with Lissy and Mo and their guys.  We went to Flames in downtown San Jose -- apparently quite the hot spot!  The main reason had to be their bottomless mimosas.  Unfortunately I think one of the patrons had a few too many of them because she was in the bathroom throwing up until a waitress cursed her out and got her to leave.  Gotta love San Jose. 

We had a lot of fun catching up.  I kept thinking about how long I've known these girls and how happy I am that they are still a big part of my life!

Our guys had a good time too (except for the part where we talked about all the people we went to high school with -- I don't think they had any idea what the heck we were talking about.)  Here they are hamming it up with Lissy's purse and then cheesing it up for the camera.

Afterwards we took some pics with the baby outside.  We had to improvise because we didn't want to wake her up.