Peyton Bellair Reeves!!!
It's about time for an official announcement! On Tuesday, June 24th, at 2:06 p.m., Peyton Bellair Reeves was born!!! She was 20 ½ inches and 7 lbs 7 oz. Healthy as can be!
Obviously, she's amazing. She's beautiful. She's the most laid back baby ever. As long as she's fed, burped (which I have found is the key to her happiness : ), and changed, she's happy as a lark! She's already smiling and looking around. She's definitely going to get spoiled by her daddy.
And I'm learning that she's going to teach me more than I could ever teach her. Right now, her biggest joy is to just be held!
I can't remember the last time I was settled down enough to just be still and "be held." I have to run myself into the ground before I go running to be held, with tattered clothes and dirt on my face. If everything seems to be going fine, then I try to do it on my own.
For her, this is her favorite thing in the world! I'm always busy pushing and producing. I'm driven by my goals and dreams. I don't think it's bad to be driven, but being driven with no time to rest is bad. I always have to be the strong one. People talk about how hard I work, and it makes me work even harder to keep up that image.
She wants to held even when nothing is wrong. She just wants to be held.
I'm starting to learn that I need to quit being consumed with busyness and allow myself to be held every now and then. Or every day!
This is already a lop-sided relationship. I burp her/she shows me how I should look at God and life.
She's sleeping next to me as I write this. This is amazing.