Baby Likes Southern Home Cookin!

We know we're biased, but doesn't she have the most adorable laugh. She has stolen our hearts. Enjoy

I am one of a kind

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Palmyra

Palmyra Pictures

Liesel Grace 7/16 Pictures

New pictures from trips to NJ July 4th weekend (Brent's birthday & Fireworks near Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty), a visit with Danika's co-worker Jen , and from a trip to Wooden Soldier in North Conway New Hampshire, which felt like the Park City of the east. It was beautiful. A couple of videos included.

Enjoy

Liesel Pictures 6/30

Sorry, its been a busy time at work and with holidays, travel, etc., I have fallen behind on the picture posting.

New pictures from 6/30 here. Will post more soon

Night and Day

A couple of exciting events this past week have me thinking. We recently received the happy news our friends Blair and Katrina had a beautiful baby girl. Mazel Tov! Click http://kateandblair.blogspot.com/ for photos. Brent immediately commented that little Eleanor looks a lot like Katrina and I have to agree. We're SO excited for them and all the adventures they're going to have with this precious little one.

I also went back to work this week after a 14-week maternity leave. Walking away from my darling girl was kind of like having my heart ripped out and thrown into the darkest abyss. BUT it is what it is as they say. I have to admit I don't actually know what that means but repeating the phrase twice is kind of fun. Anyhoo, to ease the parting Brent took a week off of work to be the man nanny or "manny" as I like to call him. He was kind enough to bring Liesel into work on Thursday so I could introduce her to my curious coworkers. Brent did a fabulous job. She was fed, rested and clean... in a white eyelet cotton dress no less! I couldn't have been more excited to show off my little family and it was a nice reminder why I work so hard to bring home some bacon.

As we walked around the floor that houses my division I heard it. The SAME thing I've been hearing since she was born. The inevitable comment you're bound to get when you and your husband stand in any proximity to your progeny. Liesel looks nothing like me, she's ALL Brent. Comments about her likeness to Brent usually send me into a mild depression. After all, I carried her and experienced all the joys, pains and frustrations accompanying any pregnancy. I went through the labor and delivery and then the REAL hell-- the recovery, to bring her into this world. Like many women I was determined to figure out the ambiguous world of nursing which teeters between utter pain and the strict dogma of the nursing Nazis (also known as La Leche League). Leaving her every morning for work now feels like tearing part of my soul away. Not to mention she's a GIRL! Brent, for those of you who don't know, is a BOY. Aye de mi! Are my chromosomes in the Special Olympics of procreation or something? Am I made up of nothing but recessive genes?

Brent's aware of my feelings on the subject and he always defends my meager contribution to Liesel's appearance. "They have the SAME hands." Thank you honey, she does indeed have my hands. I know, I know... this is a little petty and I should build a bridge and get over it. After all, I'll always have a little piece of my true love when I look at my little girl. It's not a completely hopeless cause either as you can see from our baby photos. Perhaps she'll grow to look like me... a little... more... than she does...now. But please, someone out there throw me a bone! Isn't there ANY resemblance? Any at all?!?