Happy 3 week birthday, Elinor!
In honor of Elinor turning 3 weeks old today, her parents have FINALLY put some new pictures into an album to share with all of you. We are trying out different photo sharing tools so today the pictures are on flickr. Click here to access our favorite photos from the past two weeks.
Elinor has had a busy two weeks! She:
- went birdwatching
- had her first bath
- smiled
- started talking more
- watched a historic inauguration
- met lots of new people
- got a library card
- went to her first lunch at a restaurant
- regained her birth weight plus plus!
- slept for an hour in Stefan’s swing by herself
- grew out of some clothes
- saw her first snow
- spent some quality time with grandparents
- went on her first walk (and second and third and fourth!)
- visited her mommy’s office
Burke and I are doing well and are so enjoying this time as a family. I was pretty sick for several days with mastitis…not fun. But I am on the mend. We are starting to get just a little stir crazy so have planned at least one outing per day for the next several days…to GrandJan and GrandChuck’s house, to breakfast, to dinner with the Dusty Doggers, to Super Bowl parties! The more we get out, the less overwhelming it seems.
Until we post again!
Love,
Julia, Burke and Elinor
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Here are some of our favorite shots from the past few days.
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Elinor’s first walk!
Today we went on our first walk! It was a gorgeous, sunny day in Portland so we wanted to take advantage of it. Sarah and Stefan (born 8/18/08) and Jen and Clare (born 11/30/08) came over and we walked in the neighborhood. The daffodils are coming up and the winter daphne is about to bloom. I love this time of year when there is such promise that spring will indeed come! Elinor loved being in the Moby Wrap and slept the entire walk. I’m very much looking forward to many more walks, especially in the next few days of nice weather.
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We are having problems with the blog design at www.elinorstoll.com so we will keep posting here until we figure that out.
We can’t believe that Elinor will be a week old tomorrow! We finally uploaded some pics from the hospital and from her first week of life. Please check out this link. We tried to document all of her visitors but some were in and out so quickly we couldn’t get their pictures. There are still lots of people for her to meet…and we can’t wait for that.
The first week has been challenging but we made it through! Today I turned a corner in how I am feeling both physically and emotionally. It might be that good old sunshine shining in our windows, but whatever the case, it’s nice.
Elinor came home from the hospital with some neonatal jaundice due to a bit of head trauma during her birth. We have had a couple of doctor’s appointments and we found out today that she will not need treatment. Yay!
I am staying up with Elinor during the night and Burke is sleeping, so that during the day he can be more functional and do more of the household chores and I can nap. So far this is working well but do notice all the pictures of Burke sleeping! 🙂 My lack of sleep might catch up with me at some point.
We are loving being parents to this beautiful little girl. It’s hard to put into words all the emotions we’ve felt. Such intense happiness and joy….
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Elinor Jordan Stoll
Born: January 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Weight: 7 pounds, 8 oz
Length: 20″
New blog: www.elinorstoll.com (but give her mommy & daddy a good while to get it started!)
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One more week! We wake up every day wondering if this could be the day!
The nursery is ready although we are using Jubu’s crib as a staging area for packing for the hospital. We still need curtains but that can come later. What a group effort the nursery has been! In addition to Bonnie’s mural, Aunt Jennifer got Jubu the precious owl mobile hanging in the corner, and Hugh and Jack were so kind to give us their great mobile hanging over the crib. GrandJan gave Jubu the alphabet caterpillar hanging over the window, and our friend Michelle made the most beautiful quilt that is hanging over the rocking chair. Burke painted the lamp and the bedside table, my mom spent hours with me looking at rugs, and my dad vacuumed every spot of dust from the room (before he fell on the icy front steps and cut his hand open, but that is another story!). We think the room is coming together…and we can’t wait to show it to Jubu! We will update the blog as soon as we can after Jubu’s arrival!
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