Back to Work

Tonight is my last night of maternity leave. Of course, it's Sunday, so I'm not sure if Friday was technically my last night but whatever. I'm partly excited to get back to "my" life, but mostly bummed that I won't be sharing every day with Alli. I'm sure we'll adjust just fine, it will just take a little while - kinda like it took both of us some time to adjust to life with each other with her outside the womb!

I figured I would take this opportunity to document some of Alli's characteristics. She is definitely a pliable little girl - very easy going. She has adjusted to about every situation we've thrown her into, whether it was dragging her all over town in the heat of Arizona, to hanging out at home, to having lots of people over making lots of noise in the house. She rarely cries most days, and smiles quite often.

She seems like she's ready to talk already. For instance, I'll tell her to say "hi" to someone and and sometimes she'll make some sort of noise, more sounding like "haaa" than "hi", but we'll take it. :) She has lots of different sounds, so in her mind I think she is already communicating - we just have no clue what she's saying.

She's very observant. Every time we take her someplace she just stares and takes everything in. For instance Kim got a haircut over the weekend and we turned it into a family affair. There were many people in the place and she just quietly stared wide-eyed and took in the surroundings. For an entire hour while all the women jabbered on, Alli checked out the scene.

We are told by strangers and friends alike what a beautiful baby we have. Of course, we know this. And of course we are not biased at all!!! :) The one I do have to record was a lady who told us as that we had "a ridiculously cute baby". Since then it's become our favorite phrase for Alli - "oh, you are so ridiculously cute!"

Alli has been trying really hard to roll over but it hasn't happened yet. I was hoping it would happen before I started back to work... What she is really good at is lying on her stomach and being able to move her head from one side to the other, and even holding her head up and looking ahead. She's actually been able to do this for a while now. Strong little peanut!

So now that I'll be going back to work, posts to the blog may become a little more sparse. I will definitely capture milestones, and we will try to take pictures and post them periodically (for sure every month).