Recently...

Mostly Miette from the past week.

Today she is 3 weeks old.

(it's also Frankie & my one year anniversary)

some other randoms thrown in here.

what goes on?

this is Miette at one week old! She's too adorable for words. That dirty look expression that she sometimes makes, I swear she got from me. Many people have agreed that I am a champion shitty eye giver. One of my many talents. I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing, but it makes for some humorous conversation.


Here she is yesterday morning, at 16 days old. She is so cherubic looking. Those gargantuan blue eyes just make me melt. I hope they stay blue. She'll look beautiful either way though. Frankie has pretty blue eyes with a yellow sun going around his pupil, I hope she gets that.
She's perfect.
Sometimes it's so hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that we made such a beautiful baby. And she's such a pleasure, too. She only cries when she's hungry. She sleeps very well. She already likes to cuddle. (I hope I'm not jinxing myself. watch, tomorrow she won't sleep a wink and not eat well and scream all day.)

I love her so.

life as i now know it

you don't know what true love is until you have a child.
i cannot express that enough.
you say that you would literally die for this tiny person, and you actually mean it.
i have never felt anything close to this.
if there was no Miette Aleksi, there would be no reason to live anymore.
my sunmoonstars.
<3

might I be a total softy now?

still in the hospital.
i just brought my daughter to the nursery (only down the hall) for 10 o'clock checkup and decided to have her sleep there for a few hours so i can be rid of this sleep deprivation. and i've been crying my eyes out not having her here with me.
i am so exhausted, but i miss her already.
how am i ever going to leave her?
she is the most magnificent being on the planet.
i never knew i could love someone like this.
it actually hurts.
Mimi has made my life heaven on earth.
<3

meet Miette Aleksi

here are a few pictures of my baby girl, Miette aka Mimi.

She is beautiful.

I'll write my whole birth story on here when I get a chance and I'm not in the hospital, but she had us worried at first. She had a lot of fluid in her lungs, which caused her to have a little trouble breathing on her own.  it's not uncommon, but you still don't want to see your child struggling.  i was a wreck at first.  they are taking wonderful care of her though and she's doing so much better.  she won't need to stay for a longer amount of time or anything.  thanking god for this one. 

the first pictures are right before and after she is born yesterday and the last few are from this morning.

she is so amazing and looks so much like her dad. i see some of me, but she's only a day old! it might take awhile.