Friday, September 19, 2008

When She Smiles



The first few weeks of motherhood are weeks filled with hormones, exhaustion, intense emotions, pain, and a lot of figuring out what makes this particular newborn tick.

Nothing is more loveable than a newborn, especially your own, but after about five weeks of constant feeding, changing, rocking, and wondering why this baby is crying,

day in and out, it begins to feel like a thankless job. Then comes that first huge wide-open mouth social smile--melting your heart and making the last six weeks more than worth it, and then next 20 years, too. It is a little gem of motherhood, that smile.

Campbell has become a little more generous with her smile these last few days, but never when I get the camera out. She is adorable, nonetheless. Thank you for smiling for me, little Cam!

3 comments:

Nortorious said...

Jude just started smiling too. It rocks my world. But moreso, I love the cooing, the little sweet noises. She's adorable and I want to cuddle her.

tracie said...

It's amazing what those smiles can do. I was having a bad series of days when Brooke learned to smile and I totally agree that it just made everything better and all worth it.

pantypants said...

hahahaha i love cadence!! i have to meet this child. the new one might be making a kind of cadence face in the second to last pic. oh... what do i know.