Too Fast

Everyone said the first months of being a parent go by SO fast.  I knew they were right, but I had no idea how right.  Each day Blakely gets a little bigger, but it is so hard to appreciate just HOW MUCH babies change in such a short amount of time.  She is almost 6 weeks old, and as I look at pictures of her first days of life I am almost sad because I feel like I missed it!  Stephen reminded me that we didn't miss it, we were there.  :)  But seriously!  We were so busy just trying to survive those first couple of weeks that we didn't even realize how much she was growing.  When we went in for her two week appointment we literally did not believe the scale was right when she had gained a whole pound.  I am so thankful that she isn't little bitty anymore, but I really wish we had taken thousands more pictures and videos of her doing anything and everything (sleep, eat, look around for a brief moment, sleep again.)
Here is her very first picture in life.  I actually saw this for the first time just a couple of days ago.  I will never forget when they laid her on my belly right after she was born, but I think I did forget just how small she was.  I can hardly believe she is the same baby.

I decided I need to sit down and write some stuff out including the whole detailed story of how long we tried to get pregnant, the pregnancy itself, and of course labor and delivery, before I forget! 
Let me just show you how much this girl has changed:

5 days old

5 1/2 weeks old

And just for a laugh:

We were normal people for a night and went over to some new friends' house for coffee and desert.  (By normal I mean I put real clothes and makeup on.) Five minutes in to wearing my new Jcrew (dry clean only) shirt she spit up on me.  So this is me back to my regular old t-shirt with my hair back on top of my head where it belongs.  I don't even change when she spits up on this shirt.