Bragging Time

So in addition to being the cutest baby in the world, my daughter is also the best behaved. Totally objective. I put this poor little girl in the car at 4:30 today. I stopped at a store 10 minutes away from home, ran her in and out in her carseat, and then buckled her back up for a one hour, ten minute ride. Once we arrived, I took her from the carseat and put her directly in the Ergo - she was in there for an hour without so much as a peep (just big smiles for momma every time I looked down at her). When we were finished, she went back into the carseat and along for the hour and fifteen minute ride home. She started fussing about 45 minutes away from home and so momma started singing. I actually ran out of baby songs to sing and started making up my own - thank goodness she's an easy audience. As long as I sang, she was a happy passenger. So sing, I did. I made words rhyme that have never rhymed before. We were both relieved by the time we pulled into our driveway four hours after leaving!

I nursed her for as long as she wanted and then we had some Momma and Juliette play time - the best! She loves blowing her lips and spitting right now so I let her do that in my lap for almost half hour straight. My cousin brought over her five-week old baby earlier today and it blew my mind - where does the time go? How did Juliette change from that little, tiny, helpless lump into her fun little self? When did she grow so much? Learn so much? 

I remember being worried when she was really tiny - will I love her as much when she's not so tiny and new? I even asked my sister! And the answer is no - I will not love her as much; I will love her one million times more. Every day that I am with her - every hour - more love sneaks in between us. Juliette and I have discussed this and we've come to the conclusion that it must sneak in at night when we don't see. Because I love this little girl even more than I did yesterday (but slightly less than I will tomorrow). I can't help it.

Somehow, I won the baby lottery and got the best baby there is. What a lucky, lucky gal.

The best baby in the world. Fact.