Ten Weeks

Dear Abigail,

I forgot how quickly time passes when you have a young baby, while the hours and days seem to melt into each other and sometimes just drag the truth is that the newborn days are so short and gone so fast that you feel that if you blink you will miss them. Before we know it those newborn babies become infants that even early on have their own little personality's and as time continues to flow the infant becomes a toddler and then a small child and still the endless march forward continues. 

We are out of the newborn days now and into that amazing infant stage where every day you seem to notice more of what is around you, seem to grow bigger and stronger, seem to understand more of what is happening in the world around you. While I am sad to see that tiny little newborn phase vanish in the distance I look forward to the coming weeks and watching you develop as time passes. 

For the next few years you have more to learn then you will at any other point in your life and you learn so quickly. Now you smile when you see me, as i move around the room your eyes follow me, you turn your head towards sounds that are made around you and you babble away to yourself and to us. This week you have begun to reach for objects and bat at the toys on your baby activity mat. It is time for me to find a few more toys for you that aren't just the soft stuffed type toys that we currently own. 

The last ten weeks have not been easy, you have severe reflux which means I spend hour upon hour holding you, comforting you as you cry, our laundry is full of vomit stained clothes and baby wraps and I have fallen far behind in housework but at the end of the day it doesn't matter because I am doing what needs to be done to keep you healthy and as happy as I can. 

I fall more in love with you as each day passes and can barely remember what life was like before you joined us, with your birth the dream of having a family of my own was complete.