Sleepy Happy Baby

It's pretty late (at least, it's late to the parents of a newborn - both of whom aren't getting much sleep) but I wanted to get to the posting that I was intending to post all day.  Today I worked on my thesis during baby nap times, so I do not have any crafts to post.  Rather, I wanted to post pictures of my baby girl - only a few of the lucky moments I get to experience everyday.  At this age, here are two sides of Ivy that I really love.  (I love them all, but here are just a couple I captured today on camera).

(1)  there's the sleepy baby...

Entitled 'Any bats in the cave?'

I like to call this one - 'Look at my crazy-after-bath-fuzzy-baby-hair mohawk'

And - the view I get most of the day while she is riding in my front baby carrier...

(2) and the happy playful baby...

She loves spending her free time reaching at and talking to her buddy, Mr. Giraffe.  She flails her left arm in his direction and bellows out a 'Wha-ah'...

 

She gets really excited when she accidentally gets ahold of the flower in the giraffe's mouth and surprises herself when she pulls him near to her.

Check out that E.T. neck (like from that scene in E.T. where Elliot and E.T. first meet in the corn fields and E.T. elongates his neck to be the same height as Elliot.  That scene used to scare the bejesus out of me).  She seems to have had a really strong neck since birth.  Here she is trying to look around to see where her puppy dog, Chuck, is.

Here she's demonstrating her coy charms as a photographed model.  (She learns this one from her Grandma Philps, who also likes to close her eyes during pictures).  :-)

And, to finish off for the night, here she is with that smile - one you can't get enough of.

Good night.  Sweet dreams.