16 Things I Love About Callie After Two Months

Something I have come to realize about myself is that I love making lists.  To-do lists are an obvious favorite, but I also love making "thankful lists" in my journal and I've been known to fill whole birthday cards just with lists of things I love about a person (just ask Gregg about that last one).  When I saw this book on Amazon a few months ago, it made me realize that maybe I'm not too weird - that there are other people out there making random lists, and lots of them.  I sometimes feel overwhelmed about blogging or journaling because there is just too much to say and I never know how to begin, so I don't write at all and my list of stories or events I'd like to record just grows.  I can certainly embrace creating a quick, tidy list that can be as detailed (or not) as I need/want it to be that tells the story instead.  And I love the idea of these lists becoming a sort of biography for me and my baby.  So, inspired by the "listography" idea, and in the spirit of all those "Some Random Number of Things About Something" type posts that are flooding the internet these days, I give you my 16 Things I Love About Callie After Two Months list:

1) Her "Thumper"-like leg kicking when she's especially excited or mad.

2) Her huge, gummy smiles.

3) The cooing conversations we have every morning.  (That seems to be when she is the chattiest).

4) When she kind of flails or thrashes about, trying to get comfy as she's falling asleep - we call this action "turtle-ing".  It's especially cute when it happens in your arms.

5) Sleepy smiles that happen just as she falls asleep.

6) The Z-Shape stretch. (She can contort her body in quite a number of letter shapes, but this one is her - and my - favorite.)

7) The Power-Fist stretch.

8) The Spring-Loaded-Arms stretch.  (We see this one every time we unwrap her swaddle as her arms automatically pop up from their pinned position at her sides up over her head.)

9) This face:

10) The feel of her oh-so-soft little head nuzzling into my neck after she burps.

11) The contented part purr, part sigh, part grunt sounds she makes while eating.

12) When her cheek squishes up against my bicep while she sleeps.

13) The pitiful sad face she makes while tired crying.  (There's definitely a difference between tired crying and mad crying.)

14) Her open mouth while sleeping.

15) The tiny little O-face she makes that is a dead giveaway for what is happening at that moment in her diaper.

16) Her scrunched forehead wrinkles.

Watch Callie grow: birth