First official smile!!!

Her first official baby smile happened yesterday (Thursday, Feb. 19th). I know she's been smiling pretty much since her first week of birth, but they were all while she was asleep or at gassy times. I was changing her diaper yesterday morning and noticed she was watching me intensely while I was talking to her. I caught what looked like a "half-smile." Well, yesterday afternoon I went to visit my brother at his house. I had just changed her diaper and was holding her out in front of me talking to her. She was wide awake watching me and smiled a heart-melting smile at me. Those moments of her "firsts" just make me want to cry. I know I teared up. I wish I had a picture of her doing it for everyone to see. I definitely have that moment etched in my mind forever!!! She's been doing her baby talk more and more too. She had her first "coo" on Feb. 11th, but her baby talk is a longer sound than her "coo" was. I can't wait to catch more of her "first" moments as she grows. Then again, I don't want her to grow up. I want her to stay little, curled up on me, gazing at me with those big beautiful brown eyes forever.