Today Melody is 6 days old today! She's been such a great baby and such a little angel. I'm not sure who she looks like more, Eric or me. With Tyler I thought he definitely looked like me more. Melody has Eric's head shape- more oval and longer. She also has dark grey/blue eyes. Tyler clearly had dark brown eyes like his momma. She doesn't have much eyebrows either just like Tyler when he was born. I don't think his eyebrows came in for a while. Melody is usually pretty mellow and sleeps alot like most newborns. I still haven't introduced a pacifier so use my pinky finger if she needs to suckle to fall asleep after a feeding. That usually does the trick. She occasionally smiles- though I think it's really gas. Nevertheless, it completely warms me up. And when she does smile, she has a cute dimple on her left side by her mouth- yet another trait from her daddy. She also has a double chin- which Tyler didn't have. And of course, she has that oh so dominant Filipino nose. Melody doesn't have any mongolian spots either- not even on her butt. Tyler still has his and I wonder if they will ever go away. Before she was born it didn't occur to me to ponder about who or what she would look like. I suppose I was more worried about going too much past my due date and if she'd be a huge baby. At 7lbs, 8.5 ozs she was about on target from what the nurse said at Dr. Lescale's. A week and half before she was born they estimated she was about 6 lbs, 4 oz then. That relieved some of my anxiety quite a bit.
Eric is out now taking Tyler to the park while my mom, Melody and I hang out at home. Tyler is feeling really out of sorts and has many tantrums and outbursts. He insists on being picked up often and really does not like it when he hears Melody crying. He's been really attached to his daddy since Melody came home. He doesn't understand why mommy always has Melody on her lap.
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