Unlimited snuggle time

We went for another walk in the cold today. Here is Phoebe at the beginning of our walk, looking much more alert and alive than yesterday: 

And here she is at the end of our walk feeling much less alert and alive:

She was so close to falling asleep but did not want to lie down. When we got home, I asked her if she would try to take a nap. She refused. So I asked her if she wanted to sit in the big comfy chair and snuggle for seventy minutes. She did. I read her one story with pictures and then I read to her from a (different) paper I'm reading for one of my classes and, lo, she fell asleep again. 

I had a little bit of nap with her and then just held her while I finished reading the aforementioned paper. I think she appreciated that I can keep her more upright than she would be sleeping in her bed.

I've rather missed the days of holding sweet sleeping Phoebe, so in some ways this is a lovely little throwback to those times. 

See how this baby has grown?!