A Message from the Auntie

So I've been in St. Louis for about a week and a half. It's been awesome getting to know Hannah (whom we still call Duckie sometimes). I love holding her. Her toes are adorable her hands and feet are actually proportionally large so maybe she'll be tall! She has monkey length arms too. And she is so cute for the twenty minutes at a time that she is content and awake. She sleeps a lot, which is fine because she is super cute to stare at while sleeping.

She gets the hiccups constantly and they vary from the silent ones that just shake her entire body, to the scary sounding ones that make you just stare at her nervously to make sure she's not choking or anything, to the ones that sound like she has a squeeze-toy in her stomach and you can't help but laugh because it's hilarious. Everything she does is adorable and miniature. Sneezing, coughing. I am of the opinion that she's even cute while crying, but others are of the opinion that this is only because I don't wake up with her in the middle of the night. She sleeps a lot at night though, so they're pretty lucky.

My sister puts her in these adorable headbands when we go out. Half because she wants people to know immediately that she is a girl and half because they are just soooo pretty. We're not supposed to take her out much, so we limit. We went to the zoo today. She slept through the whole thing.

She's also so cute in the bath. She got her first bath while I was here. We put her in this sunflower sink insert and run water on her head and she just sits and coos a little. She doesn't even care that there is water on her head.

I'm coming back on Wednesday night. It'll be nice to be back home and see friends and snuggle with my cats, but I can't imagine not getting to see her and get to know her and her quirks. They'll be in for like ten days in mid-September and then again in November, but considering how she grows so noticeably overnight sometimes, a month or two seems endless. Sigh. I'd love to see you next week! Tell me in detail about how work is going! My mom asked...