This afternoon I managed to get this shot of Bailey holding her bottle during her mid-afternoon feeding. She's been putting her hands up to it and trying to hold it I guess for a few weeks (having a baby has caused me to lose all sense of time) and she's really getting good at it. Usually it's too heavy but this afternoon she was laying down to eat so that wasn't an issue.

After she finished eating, she was wide awake, and I thought I'd try something new. I still had the digital camera handy, so I held it up where Bailey could see the LCD on the back and started scrolling through the pictures I'd taken. She was mesmerized. Her eyes got so big when she first started looking at it, and it surprised her every time I pulled up a new picture. By the end, she started cooing at a couple pictures of herself smiling. It was adorable!

I would really love to know what goes on inside her little mind. Can you imagine what it must be like to see and hear and experience everything like for the first time? A couple weeks ago I showed her my color-screen cell phone and she was pretty fascinated by it. She also gets big-eyed when I hold the phone up to her ear so Genia can talk to her when she calls from work. Was she thinking "Why does this little silver thing sound like my mommy?" If I could read her mind, would her thoughts be in English or some sort of unintelligible baby language? I'm as fascinated by her as she must be by all the new things she experiences.