Cooing

You've been cooing for a while now, but you're starting to talk more and more.

The other night, your dad fed you at 4am, and put you back in your crib, and you proceeded to talk to yourself (loudly) for about 45 minutes. We are pretty sure that you are going to have a lot to say in this life.

Since your little sounds are the cutest I've ever heard, we recorded them for posterity.

Cheeks

You really like to sit up now, in a particular position: perpendicular to me (or dad), with your back to my right arm which helps support you. It's so cozy to have you tucked in like that.

When I look down, I see the curve of your forehead, your silky eyelashes, your cute-as-a-button-nose, and best of all, your round apricot cheeks, which are getting chubbier by the day. It's practically impossible to not pinch them. 

In training

You've basically been in training since you were born - first on your changing table, now in your activity gym. As soon as we put you down, you begin what we call "your exercises." You start kicking out your legs as if you're dancing a jig, and you make little chubby fists with your hands and start flailing your arms around above your head and in front of you. You can do this for half an hour or more quite happily, especially if your music is playing.

Since I carried you for forty weeks, I am somehow not surprised. Even at your twenty-week ultrasound, the technician told your dad and me "this is a very active baby." You never stopped moving, and that's the case even now.

Since you were about four weeks old, you've been standing in my lap, and at about six weeks, you started taking little steps. When you "walk" on my lap, you point your toes and turn your feet out, like a little ballerina.

Your dad and I are always wondering what sports you will play - he is hoping for soccer so he can play with you, and your little turned-out steps make me think you will try ballet. Anything that makes you happy will be A-OK by us. It's just fun to ponder.

xx

Lila Jane

How to name this feeling? This sense that although you just came into this world one month ago, you have forever been a part of me. And I have always known you.

And nothing has ever felt more certain in my life than this: you had to be you.

Somehow the stars aligned and the heavens smiled down on us and you were born, just as you were meant to be. It's simply not possible to imagine you as anybody else. You were just waiting for your moment. 

We are so overjoyed that you are here, and so head over heels in love with you. 

Welcome to our family, Lila Jane!