Ellie had a great day exploring downtown Chattanooga today with Betsy’s family. Her brother, sister-in-law, and nieces all came to visit, so we spent the hottest day of the year running around downtown.
After visiting the aquarium and having some ribs, we went across the river to Coolidge Park, where Eliza loved the fountains and carousel. She even managed to get sprayed a little to cool down. Elze is quite the trooper when we’re running around, and seemingly loves everything and everyone.
I announced it on the Twitter, but thought I should record my latest questionable decision here for posterity: I’ve been named Chair of the LITA Program Planning Committee for 2008-2010.
Hopefully this blog won’t devolve into a bitchfest regarding this decision.
Eliza plays with her first toy from Uncle Kevin… a bubble machine.
Eliza made her first big trip to Kentucky over the weekend. She met more people in three days that she had met in her life so far. Great grandmother, great grandfather, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends. Everyone fell in love with her, of course, and she seemed to have a great time.
Here she is with cousins Drevin and Hannah, happy to be the newest member of the group.
Very quiet around Pattern Recognition these days, and I apologize. I’m still trying to find the balance between the microblogging I’m doing over on Twitter, and the longer form stuff I’m now writing over at TechSource…not to mention the family-oriented, Eliza-centered writing/photography over at Brand New World. I’ve fractured myself!
So, my goal is now to use Pattern Recognition as something between Twitter and longer-form, at least for now. There’s a lot of stuff percolating, as always, and I’m never quite sure where it will end up. Stay tuned, though. I promise it won’t be quiet forever.
Just wanted to give some perspective here. Look how much Eliza has grown. First picture = little E at 10 days old. Second picture = Eliza in same chair, 5 months old (22 weeks, to be precise). I can’t believe how much she has grown and changed in so little time.
Very soon, you too can own this very lovely book. Proofs are done, galleys are done, everything on our end is done, done, and done. We’re officially at the printers, folks!
Library Blogging is suitable as a gift for any occasion, and you can pre-order now (pre-order? No, just order, I think) at Amazon…go here and order! Or just wait until I have dozens of copies that I can’t possibly get rid of, and offer me a couple of bucks. Your choice.
Last week we got to hang out with my friend Bridgette and her daughter Amelia, just 2 months younger than Eliza. They drove from Atlanta to visit us at Nana’s house in LaFayette. It was great to see them! The girls were very interested in each other at first, with lots of smiles and reaching out. But then they needed feeding, naps, etc. I guess “play dates” won’t make any sense until they’re a little older! But more importantly, it was good for the mommies to reconnect.
Thanks to Nana for this awesome picture.
Eliza is 5 months old today. She can roll over, eats “real” food, tries very hard to sit up on her own, loves to stand up with support, and loves being sung/talked to. She’s a little attached to mom and dad right now, which means she gets a tad upset when we leave her sight. But in general, she is a happy baby. Still curious about everything and everyone she sees. She absolutely adores going all over the mountain: shopping, to lunch with friends, to get coffee, walking around campus, even department meetings are fun for her. 5 months old! The time is flying.
