Memory Lane

Zadie's first birthday is quickly approaching and I'm feeling a bit reflective about how much she has changed in this last year. I started this blog when Zadie was about three and a half months old, so I never really posted any early baby photos. I plan on turning the first year of this blog into a baby book for Zadie through a service Kim told me about called Blog2Print, so I want to add a few photos from the early days.

The top photo is one that I really like because it's great of Tori and I love that Zadie is just completely asleep throughout the photo shoot. It's funny to think of how newborns can just sleep under any conditions.

The next photo is one with Grandma Linda when Zadie was only one week old. You can get a glimpse of her very calm nature in this photo (Zadie's, not Grandma Linda's!).

The next photo was taken at about two months, so you can really see much more of Zadie in this one. I think she looks beautiful. Her eyes look blue here -- I think this is right about when they started to change color. They were hazel for a few months, but right now they are light brown and I think that's what it is going to be for life. I love her brown eyes!

The final photo isn't very flattering of me, but I like the scene. This was taken when Zadie was three months old and when she was still sleeping in her co-sleeper (like a playpen that raises up to the level of our bed so that we can reach over and grab her from bed). We loved our co-sleeper because we got to sleep "with" Zadie, but we never had to worry about smushing her. Zadie is wrapped up in one of Tori's famous swaddles. I could do a decent swaddle, but Tori's were always works of art and Zadie couldn't get out of them. I also like this photo because it shows us taking a nap in the middle of the day and it reminds me of how exhausted I was during this period of being in grad school, having a newborn, and working full-time. It's so odd that I was sleeping on my back and with my hands like that -- I never sleep on my back and I must have been really zonked to be able to sleep like that. I'm really glad those days are over!