Sydney's Big Bath Day

Sydney got a bath today in her new bathtub (courtesy of Courtney and Kelly!) and she really had fun. She smells really good now! See the photo gallery here!

Children's Books

One of the best things about having a little girl to grow up with is the realization that I will again be able to collect children's books. I had a Master's Collection in college thanks to the Columbus City Library's $1 discard book shop, with two whole shelves in my bookcase filled with children's books featuring awesome illustration.

The bad thing was that college people like me at the time move quite a lot- and those two shelves of books added up to massive poundage and achy back! So little by little I gave or threw them all away save for the Stinky Cheese Man (Lane Smith is my hero) and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Now I am married and old and have pretty much a permanant residence, so shelves, get ready!
This weekend the Friends of the Library are having a book sale which we will SO be at. It's like, a grocery brown bag of books for two cents. I remember going as a kid and the smell of the books and the excitement of getting them would make me so excited my stomach would get upset. I was kind of a wierd kid that way.

A list of books I loved as a kid and want Sydney to experience:
*Anything Frog and Toad
*Anything Beatrix Potter
*Anything Marguerite Henry
*Little House on the Prarie
*Narnia Series
*Babar the Elephant
*George the Monkey

I'm not sure if I'm going to introduce her to Captain Underpants. I like the book, but if she has an imagination like I did, she will try to BE Captain Underpants at the grocery store or something.

Almost a Month Old!

Lookout! Cute Baby on the loose!
She is ONE MONTH old on Monday!










Sydney Desktop Wallpaper (1024 x 768)- right click and "Save as" to your desktop.














Mom trying on a baby wrap and Sydney almost falling out:




























Shawn and Sydney falling asleep on the couch:




























Great-Grandpa Eschner (well, his hands) holding Sydney:

Thanks Brenda!

These ducky slippers keep me nice and warm!

Dad, the burping master

More pics of Sydney!

Pumping Action

So we broke down and bought a pump so Shawn can have 'Sydney' duty during the night... I was really leery of using it.. all I could think of was the Napoleon Dynamite time machine bit. I had these premonitions of yelling in pain to Shawn, "Turn it off! turn it off!" while the Medela pump makers just laughed at another chump mom.

BUT it turned out fine, and I was able to have a full night of sleep last night thanks to my wonderful husband. My only recollection of the night was Shawn laying down next to me around two a.m. and Sydney starting to cry a few minutes later. Shawn just cried out, "Noooooooo!" like Superman trying to turn back time after Lois died.

First Bath

Here are pictures of Sydney's first bath!