Newborns

I keep wanting to write a post about having newborn, but keep being too tired to do it, or I forget. Which is, in its own way, a very accurate statement about having a newborn!

And now, my newborn isn't a newborn any more. He's grown into that next "little baby" stage. How soon the newborn period passes - in retrospect! (Which is another accurate statement about having a newborn).

But for the record -
- I love how they make little fists with their tiny hands as they feed.
- I love the satisfied noises they make as they feed (mmm! mmm!)
- And the look of anticipation in the moment before they latch!
- I love how (in three of my children at least) they have soft fuzzy down on their heads which slowly turns into baby hair.
- It can be long and lonely for the night feeds, but on the other hand it is a quiet moment when it is just you and baby.
- I love how they are so trusting, so small, so sweet!
- I love their cute little voices - those lovely coos and gurgles.
- And that indescribably wonderful feeling as you hold them close to your heart, or press their little cheek gently into yours. The feeling of the little head snuggled under your chin as you hold them upright.



And then you get this:









and this!











and some brotherly love