. . . her adorable milk- face

We aren't sure what we'd describe as the cutest thing baby-adorable does, as everything she does is the cutest thing. But . . .

Her milky-face has to be top 5 in that list.

Standard operating procedure for meal and snack times has Averie concluding her dinner, breakfast, lunch, second lunch, etc. with the absolutely adorable grand, milky-face finale. Said grandiose conclusion to mealtimes proceeds as follows:

First, a quick toss of the head so that baby-I'm-so-full ends up with her head tilted back and her nose pointed to the sky, eyes closed. "I'm done", her expression seems to say. Next, she throws her arms out (if she's not rocking her swaddle) and spreads out her tiny fingers, exposing whatever gunk mama & daddy missed at last bath time. Finally, she opens that tiny, rosebud mouth to sigh softly. It's at this point that the milk she hasn't yet swallowed begins to drip down her cheeks.

So cute. Never mind the sticky mess pooling under her chin in the little wrinkles of her neck while mama & daddy sit and stare at the sweet little spectacle. This is top 5 cute - actually, it's probably top 3.