My 6 week old

Here are a few things Natalie is up to these days:

• Smiling! She's been smiling for a while, but in the past few days it has begun to happen pretty regularly. If you smile at her, she will likely smile back. It's absolutely beautiful!
• She likes looking at things, especially things with great contrast. Aunt Mindy and Uncle Steve have a giant close-up zebra painting at their house that she liked looking at. She also likes looking at Joanna's Valentine (red and white) giraffes.
• She likes hearing things like rattles and white noise and her noisy sister.
• She coos and gurgles some now.
• She's not much of a spitter-upper (yea!) although she does spit up more than her sister. She also seems to eat more than her sister.
• My estimate for her weight these days is 10-10.5 pounds. I don't expect I'll venture anywhere with a baby scale soon, so we'll get an "official" measurement at the 2 month check up. She'll actually be going in at about 7 1/2 weeks due to our pediatrician heading to Africa for a mission trip!
• She still likes sleeping on people a lot and not so much in beds and stuff. Oh, well. She is asleep in her bouncer right now though! I definitely never type this much one-handed.