The Happenings

Much of the same is going on in our house - we sit around watching the baby and remarking on how cute she is when she's in a good mood.  When she's in a bad mood we take turns soothing her with the pacifier or rocking her to sleep (we stop talking about how cute she is at that point, though).

Mostly she's in a good mood, and we are too.

John's mom arrived into town and we're back to have a three to one ratio of adults to baby, so that makes life even easier.

Orelia started receiving her first bottles (which means I've had the fun experience of pumping).  She didn't hesitate to take the bottle and has gone back to breastfeeding fine too.

We left O with her first babysitter (not counting my mom), and it went well.  It's really a professional nanny that we can hire for short term use, so it's not very scary to leave her with someone so experienced. Next weekend we are leaving O for eight hours or so when we go to a nearby wedding, so it was good to meet the nanny and get used to the idea of leaving our girl with her for so long.

Orelia is allowed to go out in public nowadays, so she has had the pleasure of going to the farmers market and the AT&T store with John the past couple of mornings.  I took her into my office last week to meet all my former coworkers and they fawned over her appropriately.  It was great to see my friends again, but even better to be able to leave the office and not look back.