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| Orange in honor of Thanksgiving of course! |
The week after Kevin's mom left was the week of Thanksgiving. I didn't feel up to cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner, but I did want to celebrate the holiday, so we just did a laid back dinner--I cooked a turkey breast and Stovetop stuffing, and we had mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie (Kevin cooked the pies!) We could have gone to a potluck Thanksgiving at church, but it seemed more of a hassle to try to coordinate the baby's needs away from home with the timing of the potluck.
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| Is it wrong of me to think a picture of my baby screaming is funny and cute? |
Earlier in the week, I ventured out back to my lab for the first time since Abby was born. Kevin came with me and we took Abby in to meet my advisor and labmates. My advisor *loves* babies. It was pretty funny--he actually offered to babysit sometime! The main reason for the visit, though, was to have a meeting with my advisor and one labmate about my paper manuscript. (We were working on submitting the stuff I did on my thesis to Science magazine, and one of our collaborators was being VERY picky about things, so we had to do lots and lots of revising before submitting.) Kevin took Abby back home and I stayed for a couple of hours. I think that was the first time I had been away from her that long! But Kevin did great with her and I came home just in time to feed her, so it all worked out great.
We also took Abby in for her 1 month doctor's appointment the week of Thanksgiving. Her collarbone was officially pronounced completely healed, and we were given the go-ahead to treat her normally (pick her up under the arms, etc.) She was gaining weight well too, now that we were supplementing with formula. Everything looked great!
A couple of things I want to record about Abby during this timeframe: she almost always had her arms tightly tucked into her sides, with her hands clasped at the chest. She had very strong arm muscles and it was tough to get her to move her arms any other way! (Especially hard to try to wash her under there!) Here's a couple of examples:
Another funny thing she often did was what we liked to call the zombie pose. Sometimes when she was asleep she would stick her arms straight out in front of her, with her wrists flopping downwards--just like a zombie. Aww, our little waking dead princess. I don't think I have any really good pictures of this, unfortunately, Here's one that kind of shows it, but not really--her arms were usually sticking out more.
4 comments:
Oh man, I LOVE the cute stripey dress! Her pose with her hands clasped is super cute, and the zombie-pose sounds funny. And I think the crying picture is cute, too -- everybody needs a good crying-picture and have even scrapbooked one or two of them. ;-)
And I'm also glad you had a nice laid-back Thanksgiving. I think it's a good plan with a baby, especially one so young!
Oh! And I forgot to say that the orange outfit is SO CUTE. Totally love it.
CUTE crocheted orange hat! Did you make it? Did someone you know make it? I also love the "shoe" socks. Next time I have a girl (????!) I'll have to get some--I'm terrible about putting shoes on my babies.
I'm glad Abby healed up well.
Her two arm positions sound funny. I love that you got at least one of them on camera. I can imagine how funny the zombie pose must look. Oh, and the crying picture is funny. I like to take pics like that as a reality check for when I'm baby hungry. Abby does look awfully cute in it despite her unhappiness though!
No, I didn't make the orange hat, Amers. I wish I were that talented! It was actually given to us along with bunch of used clothes from a lady that I bought our swing from (off craigslist). She asked if we wanted a big box of clothes and we said yes!
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