7 weeks old

This week featured more cooing - including the beginnings of some 'b' sounds! - and a visit from Grandma!

Grandma came with some early gifts!


All bundled up and ready to go for a ride!


Here's Mommy


Here's Daddy


She's quite photogenic...

Pictures from Alyssa's younger days!

We don't want to miss out on posting pictures from Alyssa's earlier days! Here are some of the best pictures from the day she was born to her earliest attempts at smiling two and a half weeks later.

Here's Alyssa taking her first bath, about an hour after her birth:

In case anyone forgets which one the baby is, she's the one with the hat that says, "Baby".

Mommy and Alyssa:

Daddy and Alyssa:

Grandma and Alyssa:

Grandma, Daddy, and Alyssa (the 'and Alyssa' part is pretty self-evident, I imagine):

Papa and Alyssa:

Aunt Arielle and Alyssa:

Aunt Cheryl and Alyssa:

Opi and Alyssa:

In the full-size version of this picture, those eyes are really captivating!

One of Alyssa's earliest trips in the car seat. She's so little!

Danvers and David with their babies... August is 3 months old, Alyssa is 1 week:

At 4 days old, Alyssa already took interest in contrasting geometric shapes:
One of her first smiles! 2.5 weeks old.

The new family:

6 weeks old

This week's adventures included more smiling - and smiling for longer (but still too elusive for the camera), more tummy time fun, and a visit from Oma! She's been smiling at Mommy and Daddy when we wake up in the morning, when Daddy returns from work, and with Mommy during the day. The hair she was born with has been falling out, and her new hair is growing in - it looks like peach fuzz. And now she can roll over to both sides, not just to the right.

Spending time with Oma!

Here's Mommy!

She'll be crawling before we know it:

"Hello there. I'm just sitting in this rocking chair."

Sleepy Alyssa and her doll, Somebody: