Well...

If this is the only place you've been looking for stories about Valerie, you've probably long abandoned this site. Mostly, I'm putting updates at my regularly scheduled blog because I'm just too tired to do anything separate here right now.

Here's how she looked when she was a few days old.

Val is doing great, growing like a weed and sort of slowly working towards understanding the difference between night and day. Sort of. Sometimes. Most of the time (i.e. during the day) she's very good, eats, sleeps, poops, and now is starting to smile between the sleeping. Nights have been more of a challenge but we are figuring it out together.

I so don't miss being pregnant. I love it that Val is outside of me, that I can fit into a booth sideways and am starting to wear some of my clothes From Before. The best news is that I went ice skating last night and hadn't completely forgotten what I knew. I was just really really slow, and that's okay.

Being Val's mom is amazing. She changes every day, sometimes several times a day and I love that I get to watch that happen. I really can't wait to see what happens next.