Lizzie is 8 weeks

So our precious baby girl is now 8 weeks.  My how time flies.  I began work again on Monday and it's been good.  Hectic but good.  I found myself staring at Lizzie on the wall of my office today cause I put her picture up there.  I just love her chubby thighs.  Some days are better than others.  For some reason lately she has had a lot of trouble settling down for naps etc.  I am very worried that I am doing "accidental parenting" that's lingo from the Baby Whisperer for when you start rocking the baby to sleep and before you know it, it's ingrained in her and then you HAVE to rock her to sleep or she won't sleep.  Plus I am almost never able to get her to bed with her eyes open.  How do some babies do that?  Hard.  I think it's cause she's so little and still hasn't figured out how to self soothe.  Oh man when she gets real tears in her little eyes I just hate it and my heart breaks.  I feel like the worst mama. 

So, Paul and I have a lot to learn.  I am kind of a routine freak so I am really working hard on getting her on a routine and I hear that you actually do a disfavor to your baby if you don't help them with structure but I have a hard time when she doesn't "follow" the routine.  Lol.  : ) 

So, wah wah wah, enough complaining.  I want to list things I love about Lizzie here:

-I love when I finish feeding her and she gets the cutest sleep look on her face.  She raises her eyebrows and her cheeks get all puffy.  Love it! 
-I love her cheeks.  What in the world is in them?  It feels like pure fat.  So adorable
-Her thighs of course.  Pure rolls of some more fat. 
-Her soft skin.
-The little gurgles she makes in her sleep and the way she coos
-The way she rests on my shoulder like a little bunny and looks out at the world.  This is her favorite pose.
-The way it feels when she falls asleep on me
-The way she looks when she is sleeping.  She gets this ethereal glow about her.  It's truly indescribable.
-The way she stares for a long time at the picture of Jesus in our living room.  Yesterday I held her up to the picture and she smiled and waved.  I swear!  She really did wave.  And she is also not one to just pass out smiles right and left
-Her smiles!!  Heavenly.  Paul and I live for those.  Also, sometimes she kind of smile/laughs without the laugh sound

What can she do know, developmentally?  Well, she can grab stuff in her hand and lifts up her head really high in tummy time.  I need to do more of that with her.  Also, she follows me with her eyes when I walk around.  I think that's about it so far.  Well here are a few pics of her today.

She has such pretty, almond-shaped eyes.

 Yay!  She smiled!!

 See what I mean about the etheral look while she is sleeping??  Amazing!  So pure.