Out Walking

She may not have gone too far since coming home, but Leila has done a little toodling about in the neighborhood, as we demonstrate below:



and here's a picture of mom and daughter:



By the way, for those less familiar with flickr, youtube, and blogger, you can click on any photo, and get access to all of our online photos, which can also be found at this link. Click on the videos anywhere except on top of the "play" button, and it will take you to youtube, where clicking on "jfaberuiuc" will take you to all our videos, which can also be found at this link. For any of the blog posts, clicking on the link at the bottom that says "0 comments" or "5 comments" or something like that will take you to a page where you can leave a comment. Unless you have some kind of google account, you'll likely want to click on "other" to leave your name/nickname along with the comment. Hope this helps.

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Now playing: Greg Brown - Walkin' Daddy
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L'Shanah Tovah!

Happy New Year to everyone, and may it be a year of happiness, health, and some much needed peace for everyone. Leila's first New Year has been a blast, and she's really enjoying spending time with Grandma Gail and Grandpa Bill, who have been allowing us to sleep occasionally and all sorts of other useful things (they even put her down every now and again and let us hold her...). We even had her first iChat with her mom's family, so she could meet everyone from her great-grandparents Papa and Mimi Cohen on down to Great-aunt Suzie and Great-uncle Ken, Aunt Lauren and Uncle David, and Uncle Jason (we're going to be slightly less than technical with exact genealogical relations). If anyone else wants to have a chat, either text or video, just let me know and I'll set it up.

We'll have some more videos tomorrow, but for now, Leila's first Rosh Hashanah:





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Now playing: Green Day - Holiday
via FoxyTunes

Bathtime/naptime

The first bath was a bit of an adventure, and we cut out most of the crying parts, leaving only the calm pre-bath baby and the angelic, clean, freshly scrubbed post-bath baby:



and here's naptime for everyone, and I do mean everyone:



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Now playing: The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
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Making movies

So, some more videos of our little superstar.

First, chillin' the hospital while watching her first football game:



and then the first homecoming:



If you want, you can go here and bookmark the page to keep up with her progress...

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Now playing: Bruce Springsteen - Bring 'Em Home
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Everybody's home!

Mother, baby, and dad all made it home safely and happily. There will be a bunch of pictures and videos coming up shortly, but here's a sample:





The rest of our hospital photos can be found here.

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Now playing: Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
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And, as promised, video of some of her first moments, in this case taking her weight.



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Now playing: The Band - The Weight
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Leila Dawn

At 12 minutes after midnight, we were proud to welcome Leila Dawn to the world, at 5lbs, 13. oz, and measuring 17.5 inches. Mother and baby are both doing great!






Note: Spelled with an "ei", but pronounced as if Layla, like the Eric Clapton song, though we named her that because we thought it was very pretty and it means "night" in Hebrew/Arabic, appropriate for an astronomer's daughter...

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Now playing: Eric Clapton - Layla
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And so it begins...

Labor has begun, I repeat, labor has begun.

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Now playing: Lucinda Williams - Fruits Of My Labor
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