Ella is 2 weeks old today. She’s healthy, happy, and occasionally lets us sleep. Amazingly, we’ve already taken her out to dinner 3 times (Slings are awesome), she’s accompanied us on errands, and she seems to travel quite well as long as she’s eaten and been changed. The first two weeks have gone like a dream and its sad to think about having to go back to work in only 2 more weeks.
Kathy, Michelle’s mom, stayed with us for most of the two weeks and was an incredible help in finding routine, keeping peace and keeping things clean. We’ve been blessed to have an incredible support mechanism in our friends and family both in active assistance and in space. As it turns out, not sleeping doesn’t help with getting things done and being healthy.
For Ella’s birthday, Michelle and I planted a trident maple in the back yard. It will be named Ella, of course. Barley’s 5th birthday is also less than a month away, so we got him a crimson oak tree. What better way to attract the squirrels?
Your baby sling photos really remind me of those football movies where the fumble-proned running back has to carry a football with him all day at school without dropping or losing it to teach him to hang onto the ball. In other words: I like!
so what are you planting for your birthday?
How did she already have a birthday? That’s one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard (the planting a tree thing). I’d like to plant one every birthday I have from now on, and do that for my kids too.
I want a birthday every two weeks.
It was for her birth-day, not birthday- you know?
I’m planting a street tree – but probably not yet. Maybe February. Need to plan.
Tom – Slings are the best. They turn your child into a beergut. A beergut that people ask about.