six weeks

my sweet baby girl is 6 weeks old already.  we are starting to see her little personality unfold and it is so sweet to see her calmly taking in the world around her.

she has such an easy going personality and though she is a fabulous sleeper, she is spending more time awake just watching her brother run wild, looking at her animals, and snuggling in mommy and daddy's arms. 

i think that she is going to have blue eyes, and i love that we get to see more and more of them these days!

she has been perfecting her modeling poses and does a great job of cooperating when mommy wants to catch her being a sweet little doll!

she is also starting to give us some little smiles!  she has actually been a smiley girl since the day we came home from the hospital; but now they are in response to us talking to her which absolutely melts me!

i think her looks are really starting to change as she grows and fills out a bit, and she is looking less and less like her brother to me.

she has grown out of all her newborn outfits and is wearing size three months already.  i was shocked to have to clean out her drawers already, but thrilled to see little bits of chub on her legs and cheeks and know that she is getting enough milk to thrive and grow!

she is going for longer and longer stretches at night, though nothing very consistently.  we have had two random 8 hour stretches (though of course they started at like 7pm, so mommy did not take advantage of the opportunity to get that much sleep in a row......i wish i had!) 

 i am starting to get in the groove of the midnight feedings though, and don't feel as much like a zombie these days...

  

hendrix is still an adoring big brother, and loves that she wants to play more these days.  he likes to tell her what sounds animals make, and recently has taken an active role in plugging her up with a paci at just the slightest little whimper.

these two keep my days (and nights) full!  ;)  

love them to pieces......

no swaddling here

i know that every baby is different, but i can't help myself from comparing the ways that hendrix and blaire are so totally different.  

one of the biggest ways is in the swaddling, or lack thereof.  hendrix adored being swaddled, and that was the only way that he slept for the first four months of his life until we had to wean him off of swaddling (which was a difficult endeavor).

blaire wants nothing to do with it.  

she does like to have a blanket on her, but she doesn't want those arms pinned down at all.  

she wants to put them up over her head.  

this is basically the position that i sleep in every night, so it seems fitting that this mama's girl should follow in my footsteps.  lol

another big difference between them so far is in the paci department.  hendrix was attached to his from day one in the hospital, and we just finally got rid of it after his second birthday last month. 

blaire hasn't had one at all yet.  and she doesn't seem to know or care what she is missing out on!

she is really a very content baby, and spends most of her time sleeping.  she is still getting up about 3 times a night to eat, but i have been able to catch some catnaps during the afternoons when both she and hendrix nap  so i have been able to handle the lack of sleep okay.

this little girl is such a blessing to our family, and we are loving getting to know her a little more each day.  ;)