happy times

this smile lights up my world.

pudgy little baby bodies are the best.

see, i told you we take lots of self-portraits.

loralai with her daddy.

doing her little baby situps. and one, and two and three...

i haven't posted new pictures of the babe lately. so while she's napping, i thought i'd put a few up. she's such a happy little thing. but let's see, changes. she's started rolling over back to belly. but not belly to back. we lost a few night's of sleep over this. non-parents say, 'awwe', parents say, 'oooh, ouch.' lack of sleep is tough. but you power through. you have middle of the night disagreements. you wake up, ask for forgiveness, eat some oatmeal and keep on going.

yesterday loralai attempted to sit up by herself. she keeps doing these little half sit-ups. so i sat her up and don't you know it - she sat there for a good 5 seconds all by herself. i'm betting that her little baby ab muscles are sore today from that feat. all in all, life is good. and being a stay-at-home mom means that every day is photoshoot day. so forgive the self-taken pictures - sometimes it's all i've got: my two hands.