anna had her first bath, yesterday, while new gramma was here to help out. after the initial shock of being immersed in water for the first time, she rather enjoyed herself… naked and ready: getting scrubbed down: pondering: drying off:
anna
retraction
a few posts back, i made anna out to be a complete opposite to our sweet boy isaac. well, here it is a few days (weeks, even?) later and i’d like to retract some of that information… isaac and anna are very very very similar. the main difference is that isaac cried all the time […]
just the three of us…
this morning, we put new gramma on a plane headed back to buffalo, ny (via newark, nj)and returned to our “normal” life. we haven’t settled in enough to call it normal, but it is our new normal, i suppose. huh? anyhooo…while she was here, my battery in my laptop was mostly dead, because she’s an […]
first park trip
yesterday, we met the mielke’s at the park for anna’s first trip. she slept through most of it. isaac and luke played in some imaginary land that only they have access to. it was good to get out of the house… here’s a shot of anna hanging with abigail…
kristin boone does it again…
kristin boone came over to take some pics of the girl last week. of course, she did a marvelous job.
on our own.
derek went back to work today. surprisingly, it was much much MUCH easier to manage the two kids on my own than it was the first time around with the one kid. the girl is just so chill. it’s awesome. isaac is really great with her. he talks to her and entertains her when i’ve […]
about the girl
well, the girl is one week old today. it has been the fastest week of my life. of course, it could be relative, since the previous 2 or 3 weeks of pregnancy dragged on forever… one week ago, we were kicking off the pitocin party in the hospital and contractions were just showing up on […]