lots of pictures since the new year

This post is just gonna be a bunch of random pictures from daily life since 2010 began. Here is Gracie Bella's New Year shout out picture. She's 4 days old.

These next few pictures I took simply because she looked so cute sleeping in her bassinet.

I love her little tiny face and her smirk and her teeny tiny ears

All my pretty peeps

This isn't a super flattering picture, but it is cute. Levi is doing "this little Piggy" to Gracie's toes

Levi does enjoy (from time to time) preforming his big brotherly duties. On this occasion he fed her the entire bottle. He definitely likes to help with most of the daily baby jobs. His biggest job is going and getting things for me that I need.

She has to be burped. His favorite part.

Just a random picture of the Levite being silly

Grandma Connie sent all the makings for a pine cone bird feeder. Papa and Levi assembled it together.

On the day of Gracie's one week mark I looked back at pictures of Levi from the same check point. I tried to take some similar poses of Gracie for easy comparisons.

Gracie Bella's first outing...Walmart of course! It was also Levi's first social event as an infant. We have similar pictures for him.

But now he's the "biggest brother ever"

Another silly picture that happens daily around here.

Gracie likes to just lie in her bassinet during her short times throughout the day when she's actually awake and stare at everything around her. On this day I had her pulled up next to the big window in the living room. She was just chillin with the view.

She's is quite a smiler. I don't know what's normal timeline wise for first smiles, but she starting smiling at us in the hospital. And she's even giggled a few times. She smiles several times every day in response to our voices or faces or even something funny. She loves to be held and cuddled. When she's done eating and I have her on my shoulder to burp her, she always lifts her head as much as she can and gets her face positioned next to mine so that our cheeks are touching. She's done it enough times that I can know it's deliberate. I just know she's gonna be so sweet.

Her shirt speaks the truth. She does love him. If he's anywhere near (which he always is) she looks for him. She likes when he talks to her and quiets immediately. Last week Levi and I spent a good 20-30 minutes making up songs about Gracie Bella while she sat in her swing and watched us with smiles here and there.