Has it been 6 weeks?

I can't believe that it has been six weeks since Miranda was born. For me, six weeks is the magic number. I start feeling much better by six weeks and that seems to be true for this baby as well. In some ways it seems like she has been around longer than that but mostly I can't believe how fast time has gone. When she was just about two weeks old and I was still feeling really uncomfortable and sick and not doing very well I remember saying, "If I can just make it to six weeks, I know that everything will be better." At the time, it truly seemed like six weeks would never come. Now I look back and it seems like it went so fast.

I am enjoying my time off work. Miranda is starting to smile quite a bit and she isn't scowling quite so much. Many people have told me that she looks like my dad. Len thinks she looks like my brother, Paul. I think that it is because of her eyes. She has dark eyes and she can do some funky things with her eyebrows (like my dad!) --notice the picture to the right. I truly think that she has a bit more Fuller in her than FitzSimmons but who knows. I don't really think that she looks like my other kids, although she has some qualities that Kanyon had as well. She is starting to get better at holding her head up. Her eyes are getting brighter and she seems to see more around her. She smiles at the kids and they laugh! It is music to my ears. She is starting to talk and coo at us as well and the kids think this is hysterical. She is a great blessing in our lives. I feel much calmer with this baby than I have with any other. I don't stress about other things. I have really taken time to just ENJOY her and love her. I love to just sit and hold her after I feed her. Sometimes I realize that I have held her so long that it is time to feed her again. She melts my heart when she smiles at me. She also melts my heart when she smiles at Leonard. There is somthing about seeing two people that you love more than anything forming a bond that will last forever. It nearly brings me to tears when I see Len talking to her and her responding to him. I feel so blessed that we can be an eternal family. I am so blessed that my husband still loves me and that he still wants to share eternity with me. And for the record, I love him too and I want to be with him forever as well. We are blessed with three beautiful children and I am grateful for the time we have together to form bonds that will last through eternity. I love my family!