Working the Camera

On Friday (after a long baby-filled, sleep-deprived night), I was perfectly content to have a slow, schedule-less morning. Rus was occupied tiling the laundry room and had enlisted an eager Beau to help him. Here are some before and after pics of his handiwork - done in two days. My man is amazing!

 



While Rus was working, my mom and I gave Marianne a bath and my mom rubbed her down with lotion and then we dressed her in one of my favorite outfits. She was just too adorable...we had to bust out the camera and do a little photo shoot. *Ah...sigh* I just love baby girl things like the abundance of the color pink and big flowery headbands.
Here is the most beautiful baby in the world: (I can claim that - so can you about yours)
I think her eyes look blue here...and her hand looks sort of purple...hmmm



This picture was actually taken today while she napped in the sun. She's looking a little yellow and today is the first day we've had sunlight to put her in. Jacob calls her Bug and she really looks like one in this picture.
















Marianne has this wonderful awake time during the day where she is perfectly content to just lay there and look around. She squirms and wiggles and sucks intermittently on her fingers, or she lays perfectly still and just looks around. It is incredibly fun to watch her, especially when she makes funny faces. She only falls shy of perfection in that she is really hard to get to settle down at night and so I wind up getting only four or five hours of sleep (and that's with Rus letting me sleep in while he gets the kids ready for school). But where the nights fall short, the days have been really nice and relaxed and that is a blessing.
I hope you're not getting sick of baby posts yet...I'm sure there are more to come!