Alert & Easygoing

For those of you who have not yet had the chance to meet Penelope in person, I thought I would give you a sense of her burgeoning personality. The two words we hear most often to describe her are alert and easygoing (or some variation on that word) . Since she was two months old, and maybe even younger, various people (from her pediatrician Dr. Hamburger to strangers at restaurants and her caregivers at daycare) have described her as alert or "tuned-in." The other thing we hear a lot is that she is very easy going, chill, or content. [I am quite sure that she does not get that later trait from me. I am a lot of things, but easy going or chill is rarely my natural state. I think of myself as much more high strung or Type A than that.]

So far these two traits seem to be combining for a near perfect baby. (Am I ridiculously, over-the-top in love with her or what?) She is learning things all of the time and interested in the things going on around her, but is relatively low maintenance (relatively at least - I do realize that the one thing babies in general are not is low maintenance), not much seems to bother her really. I am sure that by articulating all of this I am probably dooming myself to a sharp personality shift any day now, but for now I will take it.