Uniquely Mariele

When Mariele was born, she looked alarmingly like Analese. So much so that I thought I had given birth to identical twins 32.5 months apart. As Mariele is growing, she is developing her own unique features and expressions and personality. She is such a good and easygoing baby (more so than Analese was, not that Analese was bad, she was just not quite as easy as Mariele). Mariele only cries when she wants a little help going to sleep. For her daytime naps sometimes she likes to swing while she listens to her ipod playlist. That makes her very happy and contented. She never cries in the middle of the night. She makes little hunger grunts and I pick her up and nurse her. She is an extremely happy baby. She smiles and grins at us all the time! Just this morning she was majorly flirting with her Daddy at breakfast. I cannot imagine life without this miraculous gift that God has blessed me with. She just fits right into our family as if she has always been with us. Here are some pics I took this morning while we were watching Analese's dance class. Although they are camera phone pics, they do show a true representation of Mariele's expression and features. She does bear a sisterly resemblance to Analese, but she is very uniquely Mariele and she is beautiful and gorgeous and I love her so much that my heart goes pitter pat just looking at her: