Bloggy Catch Up

Woah. Once again time slides by, a sly wriggling earthworm who doesn't seem like he should be able to move that fast but when I look away and then look back, is suddenly in a whole new place. How did it get to be Friday already?

Let's see, highlights of the last few days include:

-Isaac continues to eat, sleep, poop, and occasionally, open his eyes in order to look around and charm us into fulfilling his every desire (luckily his desires are still pretty simple or we'd be in trouble). He is even starting to hold his head up, which we take as a clear sign of his developmental superiority. His skin is peeling like crazy all over and he looks like he's spent way too much time in the sun (when actually it's more that he's spent way too much time in amniotic fluid and now that he's outside, he's all dried out.) On Wednesday, he had his first bath (sponge bath, but still). Picture below.

-Bert came by on Wednesday evening and made us dinner (shepherd's pie, a new and improved version on his classic) and kept us company and did the dishes and played with Eli and was generally the considerate, wonderful friend. He even brought me some bath goodies and some gripewater for the baby and gave me a wonderful back rub. Whatta guy. I was really tired and not up to much witty banter (or cribbage, sadly) but it was lovely to spend time with him.

-After mystifying my doctors with my symptoms, yesterday I discovered that I have a uterine infection, for which I will be taking alarmingly pink pills 4x a day for the next 10 days. Ah, the hubris of me saying "yeah my recovery has been remarkably easy this time around!" I should know better than to taunt the universe in that manner. It always leads to NADM.

-I have ankles again! I'm finally losing the edema I've lived with for the last 3 or 4 months. I can't express how much this pleases me. And on a related note, I can almost fit back into some of my normal clothes. Now, if I could only stop stuffing my face with cookies and Easter candy and all kinds of delicious fatty take out food, I might even be able to wear my jeans one of these days. Those last 15 lbs are always the hardest....

-Yesterday I finally got Isaac's basic website up and running, complete with birth story (in all its minute detail) and pictures from the birth and Isaac's first week. Go take a look. (There is also now a link to Isaac's page at the bottom of my links section.) Josh did the design, I finished up the content and the coding and set up the picture gallery (though I have yet to finish adding captions to the "week 1" photos). I am proud of myself for finally figuring out how to use yet another picture processing program: Gallery--the same one Dri uses. I'm liking it lots so far, and the learning curve hasn't been too bad. (So much for iPhoto.)

So today's cute pix are posted below, but remember to start checking the photo gallery for even yet more pix. (My goal is to update weekly at first and then monthly...we'll see how that goes.)

^ Isaac's first bath. He's not so into it.

^ But once it's over, he's happy.

^ Clean, cute and alert, hanging out on the couch with Daddy.

^ Hanging out on Mama's shoulder. Which one looks more awake, baby or Mama? Hard to say.