Baby girls

I can't get over how different my kids are. In reading some of my old blogs about Hayden's newborn stage and the first few months, they don't seem all that different. They have the same sweet disposition, the same snuggle-into-your-neck when you pick them up, the same baby smile. But Lila is much more calm and laid back than Hayden ever was. She bears a strong resemblance to him at this age, but she's less of a mini-Jay and more like a half-Hayden. The response isn't overwhelmingly "oh she looks just like her dad" like it was with Hayden, mainly because we can see much of her other family members in her. But man is she a doll!

She loves to stick out that little tongue, and she LOVES to be held. She's starting to respond to our voices more, and definitely knows when mom, dad or Hayden is talking. She recently discovered those little things at the end of her legs the other night, and was absolutely fascinated watching her feet and toes move.

She started daycare last Monday and is doing really well! They just adore her at daycare and she's in a room with about four other babies under six months. They have a variety of swings and bouncy seats and boppies, so it's not much different from home. She eats like a champ of course, and is getting better at sleeping there. At night she's doing a pretty consistent 6+ hours and I cannot complain a bit, as Hayden was six months old before he ever entertained the idea of 6 hours.

Everything about her seems much more petite and delicate. Hayden had these huge man hands and Flintstone feet from the start, but she has these long skinny fingers and tiny little feet and loooooong legs. Her legs are slim, but she does have the baby-girl-rolls in her upper thighs which are just so cute. Her umbilical hernia has started going down (!) and her cradle cap has migrated up to her scalp where it belongs. Not a day goes by that I don't realize how lucky we are to have two perfectly healthy, completely different children. I know many people that would give anything to be able to say that, and these little miracles are not lost on me.