Ella Update

No pictures today, because while our baby is adorable, any possible square inch of our house that might appear in the background would be unsuitable for others to view.

There are so many little things that are so easy to forget when you don't have a little baby.  So, I'm making a list.  For those who remember some that I've forgotten, feel free to add on.

1: They tend to come out all mixed up between day and night.  So what few hours a day Ella does spend awake tend to be at 3am.

2: Somehow, they can tell the difference between walking and anything else.  I have never found any bouncing, swaying, rocking or swinging motion that is a successful imitation of walking.  So while Ella is awake at 3am, she wants me walking (stumbling), and simply won't stand for anything less.

3: Babies are so little.  They roughly triple their weight in the first year.  Even tiny little PJs are just so big on her.

4: Babies are yellow.  Well, at least my babies are.  As with Julia we were back doing another Bilirubin test.  Whereas Julia's was low enough that they were satisfied, for Ella we will be going back tomorrow so they can siphon yet more blood from her feet.  So, she is kinda yellow.  Of course, any pigment added to the naturally white pallet she inherited from her parents would be expected to show up pretty well.

5: Beware the post birth hormones.  (In mom, not the baby.)  I'll be ok posting this because Shannon recognizes that she's kinda all over the place the last few days, crying every time a hat drops.

All in all, things are going reasonably well though.  Julia is always super excited to do anything to help out baby Bing.  Yeah, she primarily calls her Bing still, and we aren't fighting that.  She at least doesn't object to us calling her Ella, and will sometimes call her Ella, too.  She said today that she was waiting for Ella to say "binkies, binkies, binkies" and then she would bring her binkies.  All day long she is fetching burp clothes, diapers, toys and blankets, whether we've asked her to or not.  And she loves to hold her little sister (though her attention span for that is only a minute or two).  It's all really quite adorable.