Our smiling, happy, observant, beautiful baby girl!

Miriam continues to grow and change, and we are thankful every day that 6 weeks ago, she entered our lives!  She is awake and alert for 1-2 hours at a time during the day, and loves to have play time on her play mat.  We do play time at least twice a day, and she also gets tummy time mixed in with her play time.  She loves to lie on her play mat and look at herself in the mirror, as well as look at the giraffe and elephant that hang from the top.  She also really likes music, and we listen to her piano, baby einstein toy and swing mobile many, many times each day. 

Miriam has changed from a sleeping newborn to a smiling, enthusiastic, happy, very observant baby!  She is a very happy baby and has started giving us genuine smiles and coos every day.  I usually get a lot of smiles at her 1 am feeding, which means she doesn't go back to bed as quickly as she should...I'm too entranced by her smiles!  She has been sleeping very well and usually only gets up 1-3 times a night to eat, and then goes right back to sleep.  She is a good eater and has outgrown almost all of her newborn clothes, with the exception of just a couple of pairs of pants.  I was sad to pack her newborn clothes away, but I'm excited about all the 0-3 month clothes she is starting to wear!

Mario has started studying for his 3rd CPA test.  Miriam "studies" with him sometimes downstairs, and he reads his study materials out loud to her.  She likes to hear our voices, and probably is more interested in hearing his accounting information than I am sometimes!  Work is going well for him, and Miriam's pictures and brief office visit earlier this week have made him very popular in his office. 

Miriam and I have started to get into more of a routine here at home.  We go on walks, run errands, have play time, sing songs, and of course, keep the household running.  She has a perfect sense of timing, and always seems to wake up right as I'm starting a new chore or when we leave on an errand.  I enjoy the time at home with her every day, and I know Mario loves to come home and spend time with us every night. 

Here are some recent pictures of Miriam.  She is getting big, and she is such a smiling, happy baby!  (We have a lot of photos of her and I couldn't decide, so you get a lot!)