Sleep, where have you gone? and other updates

First, my apologies to anyone who doesn't like babies. I have a feeling that our blog is going to become a baby blog for the next little while.

My precious baby girl is 9 days old today. Every day I think "this is the only day the rest of her life that she is going to be (fill in the blank) days old", and I have to say, it makes me sad that days go by so quickly. This time next year she will be a year old! In only one year! I try to cherish every moment with her. I take that back. I don't really cherish the times when she is fussy at night instead of letting us sleep. And there is definitely a steep learning curve to being a new mom. But in general, I am so grateful to have a sweet little daughter as part of our family and I am so grateful to be her mother. My mother-in-law made the observation that the day my daughter was born, all of a sudden my life and identity changed for the rest of eternity. In a way, I was born to a new life as a mother.

I want to share my birth story, but that will have to wait for another time. Honestly, I am still processing the whole thing myself.

Here are a few pictures of my sweet little girl. It is amazing how much she has changed already.

This is from day 3 I believe. Looking at this picture, I think she has already changed a lot since then. 

Please note the long fingers. One of the first things we noticed about her. 

She likes to snuggle.

In other news, Alex matched to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston! It was his first choice and we feel very blessed and a little overwhelmed at the changes that will be coming with selling our home and trying to find a place to live in Boston.

 Cely and I decided to come to match day. A one week old only lasts so long though, so we did leave a little early.

I am loving my Moby wrap to have Cely close to me and still have hands to do things with.

A couple other things I want to point out. Both the oven and the dryer were broken when we came home from the hospital. Alex figured out the problems with both and the oven is back online and the dryer part should get here any day. Alex is thinking of opening his own appliance repair shop on the side.