It's twenty-five minutes until 2008 arrives. Thom is at work, Ela sound asleep and I'm blogging. There will be no drinking, laughing or kissing at midnight. Instead I've decided to look through my pictures of the last year and remember. Here's my journey to the past in pictures. Oddly enough, I don't really have any pictures for January, February and March. It's like my life began when Ela's did. Well, at least that's when I started taking pictures like crazy. So here's last year starting with April.
April
I'm about to burst. That's all I remember about that general time. I was very ready for baby to be born.
May
Sweet Gabriela Madeline Stark is born on May 19th at 11:47am. She checks in at 7 lbs 2.1 oz and 20.5 inches long. I won't go into the whole story of her birth, you can read it
here if you don't already know it. She came into this world and changed our lives and our outlook on life. She's amazing.
June
She turns one month, although in the picture below with all three of us she's only two weeks old and had only been home for a week. She's precious, a wonderful gift.
July
Two months old. Ela's first roadtrip to Iowa for my cousin's wedding. She had a great time and got to meet a lot of new people.
August
Three months old. Second trip to Iowa, this time to visit Logan and Aanna as well as James, Lacey and Norah.
September
Four months old. Ela moves into her own room with her own big crib. She adjusts just fine, I experience separation anxiety and have to check on her every ten minutes.
October
She turns five months old and learns to sit up all by herself. She also thinks she's a big girl and gives crawling a really big try. It was a big enough try to last her for a while.
November
Ela is six months old. She meets her Poppy (Thom's dad) for the first time and has a wonderful time with him. Eats solid food (cereal) for the first time.
December
Ela turns seven months and starts eating foods like avocado, squash and banana. She is very serious about her play time and I suspect she will be crawling any day now.
As you can see, my days are now counted in Ela time. From now on, I suspect, I will remember when events happened by recalling how old Ela was at the time or what she was up to. Life changes when you become a parent, but it's good. Thanks to Ela I would call 2007 the grandest year in my life so far.
2 Comments:
hey!
so happy new year.
i love your last post. she has grown so much! soo soo much!
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love !
Awww... what an adorable baby! I'm so excited to have my second! I love that stage when they are so little, like the pic of you holding her all cuddled in your arm... MMMMMM!
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