12 days!

I meant to post this last Tuesday, when Emi Lou was actually 12 days old.  Unfortunately, I've never been too good at time management and I've gotten even worse as I've had kids.  Maybe I need a shift in priorities... I suppose I could have put off the laundry and the dishes to make time for blogging.  After all, preserving memories is more important than a clean house, right?  (Just remember that if you come over and my house is a wreck!)  But as I've mentioned before, I have a hard time functioning in a messy house.  I'm going to make it a goal this week to be a little more relaxed about messiness!

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of Gigi that I took when she was 12 days old next to some pictures of Emi Lou at the same age.  Sometimes I think they look a lot a like...

aside from the hair color and skin tone... what do you think?

They have a lot of the same mannerisms and both love to sleep with their hands up by their faces...

One thing is for sure... they both love each other! 

Whenever Emi Lou cries, Gigi immediately comes over and hugs her and consoles her, and Emi Lou almost always stops crying when she hears her sister's voice.

And as a random final note, can I just say how happy I am that we invested in a decent camera and a couple lenses last year?!  I'm really embarrassed how bad the pictures of Gigi as a baby are.  I know I still have a lot to learn about how to use a digital SLR camera, but just using the SLR on "auto" rather than using my point and shoot is giving me such better pictures!  I was a little hesitant to spend a lot of money on a camera, but I'm so glad Marco convinced me it was worth it!!