Madison has recently surprised us by starting to try to smile! It's the cutest thing.. she starts out with just a little hint with her tongue, and then suddenly it becomes this big, open-mouthed smile! Of course, the actual sightings of this while she's not having gas or sleeping are few & far between, but I guarantee it has happened! We've both seen it!
I tried to capture it on film today & managed to get kind of a "before" & "after" :)
Before:
After!
As you can see, Madison has also recently developed a mild case of "baby acne," poor thing! I know babies can get it so I wasn't too surprised, but Todd seems to think it's some sort of a bad teenage mustache on our baby. I read about it the other day in "What to Expect the First Year," and apparently it's from the hormones -- in the mom! -- not in the baby -- and they are passed along through the breast milk.
So not only am I having to deal with all the hormones, hot flashes, etc streaming through my own war-battered body, but now I am apparently passing them on to my baby, too! Ah, such lovely things no one ever tells you about pregnancy til you are in the thick of it! Or maybe I just ignored it all before....
complete with bunny tail!
And Paw-Paw:
