baby moments.

i hate to mislead you... 

by the sound of the title of this post, you'd think i was about to get sentimental.

not so.

but first, another picture.

mm. i could take a bite out of her.

a few funny things have gone down in the first 24 hours of navy baby's life... or, rather, bestie jen's first 24 hours of motherhood.

1.  rules of aubry's world state a hair tie must be on my person at all times. it's either in my hair or around my wrist like a 1993 scrunchie. if i was stranded on a desert island with just one wish, i'd wish for a hair tie. so when i walked in the door to jen's hospital room, i saw glitter in that freshly birthed woman's eyes when she spied the hair tie around my wrist. completely exhausted and totally desperate, she asked for it - maybe in a stranded-on-a-desert-island kind of way. i paused, my jaw fell a little bit, and said, "this is the only circumstance i'd give this up to you. it's my precious jewel."

i began to pull my hair up 14 times that night... only to reach for my wrist and come up empty handed. 

we call this a "bestie test" and i passed. are you wondering what it's like to be so generous and giving? i'll write a book someday.

2.  nurse calli, or becky, or marie or something like that came in to check on jen - you know, like 3 hours post c-section. the conversation started like, "how are you feeling?  how's the morphine treating you?" and if you know why this is important, then you've been a very good blog listener. she went on - "if the morphine isn't working, we can give you something stronger. there's another drug called dilaudid..." 

and that's when we laughed. like, please woman. we know our pain meds. besides, haven't you seen the brittany episode of intervention? 

3.  i held navy baby for the first time within a couple hours of birth-dom. the nurse was trying to pry her away from all of us visitors in order to get her all washed up and clean. i must not have connect the no-bath dots right away... because at the same time as i was lifting her to my face to kiss her cheek, i commented on "new baby smell" and maybe in an act of preservation, jen said "uh.... wait..... don't.... she smells like my uterus." 

sure enough.  bestie test: passed. 

she is a girl of a thousand expressions and ten times more wonderful today than yesterday. i can't wait for tomorrow.