On our babymoon

       What is a babymoon you may ask? It is the time after a new little one is born when you just sit around staring at the beautiful, perfect little angel that is gracing you with its presence. It's the time before the strange sleeping schedules and baby demands catch up with you and you start wondering when the real parents going to come pick the baby up and take it away for a few days to give you a break.
       My mom doesnt get here until tonight, and Sam's parents get here this weekend, so it's just been our cute little family here at home this last week and it's been surprisingly chill and blissful.
       I just grow more and more in love with Little Adelaide every day. We call her either Adelaide, Addie, Lady, little lady, or Ladybug. She's such a sweet baby and is so good to us. She hasnt ever cried for longer than 40 seconds, is easily calmed, eats like a champ, and just generally does all she can to make being new parents easy on us.
       As for me, I've been nearly completely healed from the birth for the last 3 days or so. I'm just dealing with some minor swelling, but nothing that is too uncomfortable at all. My boobs were insane when my milk came in, but that discomfort only lasted for 2 days, now my chest is back to a happy, normal-proportioned status. Also, i've lost 23 pounds now, so that's good news. Every day I wake up to a smaller, tighter tummy- it's great.
       Feeding has gone extremely well; she wakes up every 2-4 hours, makes snarky squeak noises to let us know she's hungry, then she eats for 10-30 minutes and either goes back to sleep, or has some quality "staring at mom" time. She makes just the cutest faces and squeaky noises, she totally melts my heart.
       Sam is a very good daddy. Even though he cant feed her, he does a great job of soothing her when she starts to get squirmy/fussy. He's such a great help and I just love him times ten. He's been able to work from home all week so it's been great having him here with me all day.
       I keep waiting for everything to start sucking. I know it will come; there's no way that we'll get off the hook this easily. But honestly, this last week with Addie has been the best week of my life. I am excited to spend every day with her and see what she will do. Yes, I have to wake up every 3-4 hours at night to feed her and I am dead tired when I do so, but I can't hardly complain about that when I know it could be so much worse. The days are just delightful though. She's just happy and cute all day long. When she's sleeping I get to play on the laptop with her cuddled up next to me, or I put her in her swing and I take a shower, clean the house, or do whatever else I want to do to pass the time. When she's awake, she just sits there and stares and us and makes cute faces. What more could parents ask for?
       So perhaps you can all remind me of this post in 2 weeks when she's awake more and crying and driving us crazy... but until then- we are two very happy (though slighty tired) parents. Here are some pics I've taken of her the last few days:
Here she is wearing her "Born to be spoiled" shirt that my neighbor megs gave to us. I usually hate print tees with sayings on them, but this one is just way cute on her.