It just occurred to Ian and me tonight that Harper's 2nd day of life was such a forteller of her personality and demeanor. Harper was only in her second day of life when she had been asleep for 13 hours. 13 hours! The nurses and I hung her upside down, tickled her feet, stripped off all her warm blankets and clothes, and tried to encourage her to wake up anyway we could. And all she would do was smile in her sleep and continue to snooze. All she wanted to do was sleep and avoid eating. Eating was just not important.
Flash nearly 3 years forward, Harper is just the same. I have to strip her blankets off of her and turn on the lights, open the window shades and sometimes even the windows, just to get her to wake up from nap. And when it comes to eating, she generally just doesn't want to. And yes, she will still give us one of those sly little sleepy smiles while we are waking her. And once awake, she likes to "wake up slow" by laying in bed, sucking her thumb and listening to what is going on in the house before she decides to get out of bed. And she'll always cuddle, just like when she was just a baby.
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