Growth spurt

We got our first issue of Parents Magazine yesterday. I was reading it to Zoey this morning and I found an article about growth spurts. It said that during the first year of life, babies grow more than they do the rest of their lives. Furthermore, the growth comes in spurts rather than gradually. These spurts also usually come at predictable intervals. One of those is around 6 weeks, which is where Zoey is! The article agreed with her current situation as well...the baby can eat up to 16 times in a day (I wish I could do that), become agitated easily, etc. Zoey has been eating like a champ, and she has had some days of complete orneriness. Still she has been smiling like crazy, and loves to look around and learn about her environment many other times. She really likes things that give her motion, like her swing, her bouncy ball, the car, even the airplane.

It is incredible how quickly she is growing, and that you can actually see the change from day to day. As much as I can get frustrated from a long night without sleep, it is all worth it when I wake up early on a Sunday morning and spend some time alone with my daughter who then smiles at me on and off for ten minutes! At that point, there is no place on earth I would rather be.