“Oh Noes! Get him, Harry!”
Category: Brand_New_World
Formerly the blog for my daughter Eliza, where we posted from her birth until she began Kindergarten, now all the old posts are integrated into Pattern Recognition.
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Eliza and her book
She especially liked the picture of the zebra.
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Another great smile
Each smile is better than the next! Today I got Eliza interested in a book with large, colorful pictures of animals. She thought they were pretty funny. If she’s anything like her dad and mom, she’ll be quite the reader when she grows up.
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Cutie Pie
She’s really starting to like getting a bath. She smiled through the whole process this time around.
FYI: The yellow thing I’m holding is a spray shower head covered with a washcloth to diffuse the flow and keep it from spraying all over the place. Hey, it works!
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Growth spurt #2
Eliza has had three fussy days/nights in a row, which is highly unusual for her. She’s usually a very peaceful, calm baby who is rather routine-oriented already. But for the last few days, she has been grumpy, refusing to nap, and crying as soon as we put her in her crib at night. After doing some reading, it seems like this might be a classic growth spurt. Apparently, they often happen around 3 weeks and again at 6 weeks. I remember the last one, and she was similarly fussy. It has been a rough few nights, but she should pass through it soon and hopefully return to her “old” self. On the positive side, she is smiling and cooing a lot more now. This is supposedly a big couple of weeks in terms of development; I can’t wait to see what each day brings. I just wish the nights would go back to normal!
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Best smile ever
This picture doesn’t need words. Pure happiness. And a curious puppy. Life is wonderful right now!
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Growing!
Eliza is starting to wear some outfits that are sized 0-3 months. Finally starting to outgrow the newborn sized things! She’s also starting to smile just a little bit. It’s the best thing I’ve ever seen. Her eyes simply light up when she’s happy. What makes her happy? Playing with her dad, listening to mom whistle, her Baby Einstein crib toy, staring at the ceiling fan in her room.
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Visitors
A nice visit from Nana, Pop, Aunt Jenna, and cousin Parker today. Eliza slept most of the time and when she wasn’t asleep, she was eating. But Nana got to help give her a bath, and that was quite fun. Nana is like a sedative for the babies. She touches them, and they’re out. Too bad she can’t be here at midnight.
In other news, my first week of school went pretty well. I still have a hard time focusing, though. When I’m away from her, I think about her. I miss her. I wonder how things are going. It’ll get easier, won’t it?
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Wish we were in Japan
…so that I could order a few of these.
To celebrate the birth of a baby in a way that makes it feel like the kid’s right there in your arms, a rice shop in the southwestern Japanese city of Kita-Kyushu will send out a customized dakigokochi, a roughly baby-shaped bag of high-grade rice to everyone on your birth announcement list. The bag will be printed with the kid’s picture, stats, and a greeting–and it will weigh the same as the kid did at birth.
One of the million reasons that I love Japanese culture. Wish I had a rice bag o’ Eliza!
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Hi ho, hi ho
It’s off to work mom goes. (Yes, new parents tend to talk about themselves in the third person.)
Do I have to go?? Yes. Do I want to? No. Eliza will be exactly one month old the same day I go back to work. It doesn’t seem fair. Why are maternity leave policies in this country so horrible (or non-existent)? I could have had the semester off, sure, UNPAID. That didn’t make sense with diapers, wipes, and formula to buy. Oh well. I guess going back to work will make me treasure spending time with her even more than I do already.