Per your request

We've had some requests for more pics of our little princess. Today I actually have about 2 minutes to throw a few of them out there for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. I know WE sure do! . Even when she's mad, she's pretty sweet. It was a fun 1st Christmas.

Back by popular demand ...

... PHYSICAL ACTIVITY! Ah, exercise my old friend. I'm officially back in the gym and I'm not sure I have the words to express the complete joy I felt today as I set foot in and eventually back out of there. I cannot wait to go again tomorrow, and pretty much every day! I AM BACK ... well, still technically about 25 lbs. from being "back" but at least "back" in the sense that I've regained another piece of myself, ahhhhh. It's going to be a real hoot losing baby weight during the holidays, if the word "hoot" is a synonym for almost guaranteed failure. :) Wish me luck!

All we need is just a little patience

Hopefully the Guns-N-Roses fans out there appreciated the title of this post.

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Seriously though, a little patience is just what we needed. We've hit the 6 week mark & things are going much more smoothly. Hailey is getting into a routine, sleeping a little better and is generally more enjoyable when she is awake. Maybe it's the fact that I feel so much better or that we're sleeping a little more that makes her appear that much more pleasant to us during the waking hours. Maybe it's her beautiful social smile and general progress as a person. Who knows? We're just glad things are better. I don't know how long we could have existed in that whole first month environment.

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I am finally mailing her birth annoucements off, but for those of you that cannot wait ... more pictures for your viewing pleasure ... and our bragging pleasure.

A little scrapbook of Hailey's week

Okay, we know the reason most of you are checking the blog is for new pictures of her highness. Maybe not. Maybe you just really care a bunch about what's going on with us. But here are pictures of her anyhow since she is much more attractive and charming than we are. Plus we figure that since we like staring at her all day, there might be some other folks out there that would like to do the same. She changes so much everyday so we'll try to post pics more often. It's tough since she refuses to be set down for much longer than it takes for her mom to pee. In fact, she is physically attached to me as I type this. Thank heavens for the inventors of Hotslings and the Baby Bjorn! Once she reached 12 lbs., carrying her unassisted for hours on end was out of the question!

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We study her closely waiting for her to resemble one of us.

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This picture looks like she should belong to one of the Beastie Boys or something.

She almost always has this look of concern on her face. I think she figured out the bum deal she got when they were giving out parents & now she's contemplating how to deal with our complete ineptitude. Of all the qualities I desire for her, I think PATIENCE falls pretty high on the list.

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I don't know why I'm posting such a bad picture of her except to tell you that we call this look the "Fat, angry marionette." I'm going to try sleeping like this tonight. Looks fun!

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And now the moment we've all been waiting for (Aaron & Amy included) --

She's AWAKE and HAPPY! We just get very small glimpses of this each day but it keeps us plugging along.