Auburn?

When I first saw Nadia I called her hair dark brown. Well that was partially due to the fact that they hadn't bathed her yet (which I didn't know at that time). Over the past couple of months I would say that every time we are out and about (shopping, church, etc) there is at least one person who comments about her hair being red. It partially depends on the lighting. In certain lighting her hair definitely has a reddish cast to it especially on the top. In the very back where it's the thickest and longest, it still looks brown to me. Yesterday it happened again (at church) of someone saying her hair looks red. Paul said to me that maybe her hair is auburn (reddish brown)? Time will tell once it fills in more. Those of you that only see blog pictures probably don't believe she even has hair since it doesn't show up in most photos as it doesn't come down on her forehead yet. Well I am open to suggestions as to what color you would say her hair is.
Speaking of hair, I gave up on the idea of going to a beauty salon this week and just trimmed my bangs myself on Saturday night. The sides really need trimmed also, but I am not skilled enough to do that so I have resorted to just pulling them up in a barrette. Hopefully a few weeks from now I can find a new salon and also work it out so Paul can watch her while I go get it cut. Maybe the week of Thanksgiving would work as he gets that whole week off (I have class Mon/Tues that week). The hair stylist I've gone to the last four years has been my favorite one - EVER. She charged a reasonable fee, was a really nice person to chat with, and she did a really great job cutting my hair. Well hopefully in time I'll have a new favorite beautician.

I pumped this morning before I left for work and thought she wouldn't need any formula as I left 5 ounces of milk for her, but that wasn't enough for my growing girl! She drank 3 ounces of formula on top of the 5 ounces I had pumped. One thing I don't like about leaving for work early in the morning is I miss seeing her smile when I come get her. That is often my favorite moment of the day. During the night if she wakes up she cries, but when she wakes up and is ready to get up for the day, she doesn't cry and when she sees me she just BEAMS. It is just the most precious thing to me!!!! I think part of the reason she was so hungry this morning was because she only got up once last night (4:15am). She slept almost 7 hours and 45 minutes the first stretch!! That was great since the previous two nights the longest stretch was only 5 hours and that is tougher on Mommy especially on nights like Friday night when I stayed up 90 minutes later than when I put her down so that meant the longest stretch for me was only 3 1/2 hours.

She and I just got back from running errands, and it's the first time we've gone a few places and she didn't cry At All! Usually me getting gasoline guarantees tears.  I took her in the car seat and put that in the shopping cart at Walmart, and it worked great! My left arm is so very grateful! While I was at Walmart I signed her up to have her pictures taken on Thursday. It will have been 11 weeks since we had them taken at Sears; I hope I can get her to smile when they're taking her picture on Thursday (which certainly wasn't possible the last time as she was only 5 weeks old then!).