Hooray for Poop!

I have been getting emails throughout my pregnancy from BabyCenter.com and I got this list in one a few days ago. I'd read it before Gracie came and now that she's here I see how true it is.

1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.

2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.

3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.

4. You respect your body ... finally.

5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way.

6. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.

7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.

8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.

9. Your heart breaks much more easily.

10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.

11. Every day is a surprise.

12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)

13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.

14. You become a morning person.

15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.

Gracie is home and doing absolutely wonderful. She is beautiful, amazing, tiny, sweet, precious...this list could go on and on really. Right now she has her days and nights mixed up a little bit but she'll get it figured out eventually. One thing I really worried about before she came was the sleep deprivation that would be inevitable. I really enjoy my sleep and tend to get sick if I don't get enough of it. I'm definitely sleep deprived but there is just something about Gracie that makes me not even realize it most of the time. She could keep me up for weeks and I would still look at her and melt.

She is peacefully sleeping in her cradle right now so I better take advantage of the time to catch up on that lost sleep. I'll keep posting as often as possible. She's changing daily and I'm trying to capture it on camera so keep checking our flickr page for Gracie's life in pictures.

Sidenote: #12 on the list is my favorite because I was holding Gracie in the hospital and felt/heard her poop and exclaimed, "She's so cute even when she poops!"