It was 10 weeks ago that this child arrived. It feels like I could say ten years, really.

This is what she looked like the first day:

 That’s her little teeny round fat face.

She is so much more alert now. She knows and wants to know so much. She’s accomplisehda a lot–both of us have–in the past ten weeks. At this point, I feel like the clock is winding down, and I am going to have to get ready to go back to work.

She barely needs me anymore. The days go by as days, and sometimes even as weeks now. There’s been ten of them, you know?

Here is what she looks like now, as she’s getting ready to go to sleep for a WHOLE NIGHT: