"Party Pooper"
"Treat me like you would treat the QUEEN"
PS: New pics on Flickr!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bad News, People
Just as I went to go snap an exceptionally cute picture of Haddy while she was sleeping, the camera crapped out on me. It takes several hours to charge the battery up, so you'll have to wait for more pictures...
As for the good news, Had is growing so fast! She's already losing her newborn look, gaining a lot of weight and getting cute and chubby. As of her last pediatrician's appointment, she had gained a full pound. She's now taking 4 whole ounces of formula at each feeding, and her fussy periods are slowing down.
She is so adorable. I can't look at her enough.
As for the good news, Had is growing so fast! She's already losing her newborn look, gaining a lot of weight and getting cute and chubby. As of her last pediatrician's appointment, she had gained a full pound. She's now taking 4 whole ounces of formula at each feeding, and her fussy periods are slowing down.
She is so adorable. I can't look at her enough.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Picture Update
Well, I realized you could either follow my convoluted instructions, OR I could just provide you with a link. Sorry! Never occurred to me.
Follow the link to our family Flickr account...tallyho!
http://flickr.com/photos/heinlfamily/
More pictures coming soon...Had is growing like crazy! She's starting to get adorable chubby little arms and legs, and she's getting bigger every day.
Follow the link to our family Flickr account...tallyho!
http://flickr.com/photos/heinlfamily/
More pictures coming soon...Had is growing like crazy! She's starting to get adorable chubby little arms and legs, and she's getting bigger every day.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Picture-palooza!
The Heinl family is a paranoid family, and we always worry about all our junk burning down...we have tons of pictures and they're just sitting on our computer or in boxes. If you get an online database like the one we just chose, Flickr, it's on the Internet so it'll probably be pretty hard to lose that.
Plus with Hadley here, all our relatives want to see pictures of Hadley! And all you in Blog Land can look at our entire collection of family pictures (Haddy included) because we have virtually no shame.
Flickr is an easy site to use...to find the Heinl Family account just:
1. Go to www.flickr.com.
2. You'll see a search tab. Don't enter anything and click 'Search'.
3. It'll take you to a different search page...click the 'People' tab and type in 'Heinl Family'.
4. Enjoy! On the right you can find the individual albums of photos, or just peruse the giant mess of pictures one by one. I'm not sure if you can comment without an account or not, but oh well.
Happy snooping!
Plus with Hadley here, all our relatives want to see pictures of Hadley! And all you in Blog Land can look at our entire collection of family pictures (Haddy included) because we have virtually no shame.
Flickr is an easy site to use...to find the Heinl Family account just:
1. Go to www.flickr.com.
2. You'll see a search tab. Don't enter anything and click 'Search'.
3. It'll take you to a different search page...click the 'People' tab and type in 'Heinl Family'.
4. Enjoy! On the right you can find the individual albums of photos, or just peruse the giant mess of pictures one by one. I'm not sure if you can comment without an account or not, but oh well.
Happy snooping!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Birth Announcement Update
I hope no one is offended or left out! Summer is the only one who got an announcement, I think; the Browns were the first I addressed, and now we're waiting for Mom to get to a picture place to copy some pictures we can put on the announcements.
So hang in there! They'll be coming soon...
So hang in there! They'll be coming soon...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Got Those Puppies Out
Expect some birth announcements this week! Putting 'em together right now...
Hadley and Harrison, who waited for her for 9 months
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
And Now, Here We Are.
So, do you like the new look? The old one looked a little generic, and since we have little Had, we should probably start injecting some pink into our lives.
I find myself here, writing on the blog, at 5:40 in the morning, and I haven't been to sleep yet; if there's one baby cliche that you know is right, it's the hectic schedule. You'd think since there's 4 of us and 1 of her, we'd have the advantage: you'd be wrong.
I'd stake about 25 onesies on it that Hadley is now firmly in control of our family. And she's only been here 10 days!
Well, anyway: onto the post.
5 Things I Wasn't Expecting
1. I worry about her. I'm not her mom, but I am her sister; even so, I didn't think that I would still suffer the New Mom Syndrome: staring at the baby, unable to sleep, fearing SIDS and choking and her punching herself in the face with her flailing baby arms (which, incidentally, she's done).
2. She has two colors: red and redder. She turns positively tomato-like when she is displeased!
3. This kid farts. I'm not even kidding. Sounds like a truck driver after a Grande Nacho Plate.
4. The whole World of Parents is suddenly pretty clear. Before, it was hard to identify with stories of baby antics, but I literally could talk for an hour about trying to change a diaper while she's kicking and squirming so hard. Or spit-up, or rooting, or the varieties of bottles--it's weird! It's like I've sort of left the teenage me behind.
5. She had jaundice, TWO clogged tear ducts, and a yeast infection in her mouth, all in the same week. Poor kid!
5 Cliches
1. Chubbiness. Those cheeks! Those arms! Those legs! I told Mom (rather sappily, I might add) that kissing her cheeks was "like kissing a little gossamer cloud."
2. Burping her. Virtually every movie I've watched that has a newborn in it, especially the yuppie-era ones, they always have a scene where one of the parents leans the baby over their shoulder, gives them a couple of pats, and--gaack!--a waterfall of chunky spit up flows down their back. She does burp, but not like a big old beer-and-chips belch (love ya, Dad!), and plus it's cute.
3. I give you two words: Diaper Genie.
4. Her smell. The first time Mom and I were away from Hadley, we were shopping and kept smelling her all over our shirts and hair. It's powerful stuff: the delicate scent her little skin gives off is just another thing to love about her.
5. Being afraid to break her. It's funny: one minute I'm all smug about having this baby stuff down, the next minute she rears up her head in a fit of neck-muscle-exercise-ity and you have to hang on to that kid!
5 Things That are Different...and Not So Different
1. Sure, babies are pretty much synonymous with "change" in every language, but that doesn't make it easier. When she's my age, I'll be 36. As my uncle put it, she's in a way an only child. Kevin and I can't stay here forever.
2. Meals will never be the same. Sure, now it's just keeping an eye on her in her little bouncy seat on the counter behind us, but soon we'll be entering the Land of High Chair: we already joke about a certain someone throwing Cheerios or little pieces of chopped-up spaghetti at us.
3. At least our viewing options during TV time aren't limited. You can watch Rambo, with guns blazing, or horror movies, with screaming and sudden music changes, and this little baby will not budge an inch.
4. We have 8 animals, 6 of which have the mobility to cause harm to Hadley--my dog, Corky, has quickly fallen in love with her and all her smells, particularly her diapers, but the cats seem out of sorts. And we all know how diabolical cats can be.
5. I've discovered that somewhere, deep inside him, my dad has been harboring a baby voice with which to coo at Hadley. First it was disturbing, and now it's cute.
At this point, you're probably thinking, "Yeah yeah, 5 Seconds Until I Exit Out of This and Start Playing Solitaire" but thanks for reading.
Pictures coming later today!
I find myself here, writing on the blog, at 5:40 in the morning, and I haven't been to sleep yet; if there's one baby cliche that you know is right, it's the hectic schedule. You'd think since there's 4 of us and 1 of her, we'd have the advantage: you'd be wrong.
I'd stake about 25 onesies on it that Hadley is now firmly in control of our family. And she's only been here 10 days!
Well, anyway: onto the post.
5 Things I Wasn't Expecting
1. I worry about her. I'm not her mom, but I am her sister; even so, I didn't think that I would still suffer the New Mom Syndrome: staring at the baby, unable to sleep, fearing SIDS and choking and her punching herself in the face with her flailing baby arms (which, incidentally, she's done).
2. She has two colors: red and redder. She turns positively tomato-like when she is displeased!
3. This kid farts. I'm not even kidding. Sounds like a truck driver after a Grande Nacho Plate.
4. The whole World of Parents is suddenly pretty clear. Before, it was hard to identify with stories of baby antics, but I literally could talk for an hour about trying to change a diaper while she's kicking and squirming so hard. Or spit-up, or rooting, or the varieties of bottles--it's weird! It's like I've sort of left the teenage me behind.
5. She had jaundice, TWO clogged tear ducts, and a yeast infection in her mouth, all in the same week. Poor kid!
5 Cliches
1. Chubbiness. Those cheeks! Those arms! Those legs! I told Mom (rather sappily, I might add) that kissing her cheeks was "like kissing a little gossamer cloud."
2. Burping her. Virtually every movie I've watched that has a newborn in it, especially the yuppie-era ones, they always have a scene where one of the parents leans the baby over their shoulder, gives them a couple of pats, and--gaack!--a waterfall of chunky spit up flows down their back. She does burp, but not like a big old beer-and-chips belch (love ya, Dad!), and plus it's cute.
3. I give you two words: Diaper Genie.
4. Her smell. The first time Mom and I were away from Hadley, we were shopping and kept smelling her all over our shirts and hair. It's powerful stuff: the delicate scent her little skin gives off is just another thing to love about her.
5. Being afraid to break her. It's funny: one minute I'm all smug about having this baby stuff down, the next minute she rears up her head in a fit of neck-muscle-exercise-ity and you have to hang on to that kid!
5 Things That are Different...and Not So Different
1. Sure, babies are pretty much synonymous with "change" in every language, but that doesn't make it easier. When she's my age, I'll be 36. As my uncle put it, she's in a way an only child. Kevin and I can't stay here forever.
2. Meals will never be the same. Sure, now it's just keeping an eye on her in her little bouncy seat on the counter behind us, but soon we'll be entering the Land of High Chair: we already joke about a certain someone throwing Cheerios or little pieces of chopped-up spaghetti at us.
3. At least our viewing options during TV time aren't limited. You can watch Rambo, with guns blazing, or horror movies, with screaming and sudden music changes, and this little baby will not budge an inch.
4. We have 8 animals, 6 of which have the mobility to cause harm to Hadley--my dog, Corky, has quickly fallen in love with her and all her smells, particularly her diapers, but the cats seem out of sorts. And we all know how diabolical cats can be.
5. I've discovered that somewhere, deep inside him, my dad has been harboring a baby voice with which to coo at Hadley. First it was disturbing, and now it's cute.
At this point, you're probably thinking, "Yeah yeah, 5 Seconds Until I Exit Out of This and Start Playing Solitaire" but thanks for reading.
Pictures coming later today!
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