Hanging with Miss Leyba

Walk
Taking a walk around our neighborhood with our Moby Wrap.

We’re really digging the babywearing thing. It’s so nice having our hands free while we cruise around. And while we love our Moby Wrap, we’ve added the ERGObaby Carrier (and infant insert) to our gift wishlist we’re ordering an organic Mei Tai; it would be nice to have a carrier that is quick, quick, quick to put on.

This weekend we are resolved to finally take a walk in the park…

Tummy Time

Tummy Time
is just so exhausting.

(For a while there she was looking at David and I and smiling. Of course, I didn’t have my camera in hand for those precious moments. Gotta work on that…)

David tries to give me some “alone time” every day. Usually I spend it twittering about motherhood, moving over baby pictures, updating this blog, trying to get caught up in email (HA!), or updating Miss Leyba’s wish lists. See, it’s not really alone time (and it usually lasts for about 15 minutes until I decide I need to unload the dishwasher). My entire life is focused on my daughter right now and that’s how it should be. And I love it. Totally love it.

My mom comes into town today! Hooray for extra hands! Hopefully that means I’ll have a free moment to update this journal… We have lots of photos and stories to share.

She may become blond and brainy

Hair at two weeks
Miss Leyba’s baby hair when she was two weeks old (five weeks ago — she’s seven weeks old today!)

While my daughter’s acne is going away (those baby white heads on her nose and cheeks were actually quite adorable), mine is coming back. One of the great perks of pregnancy: having flawless skin and thick, shiny hair. And though Miss Leyba does enjoy pulling out my hair (she was holding a handful… er, several hairs… this morning when we woke up), it appears we’re both losing our hairs together. There are long, brownish-red hairs and short, dark brown hairs all over the house.

Only one of us, however, is growing in blond hairs to replace the lost ones and it’s not me. Wouldn’t that have been a nice treat?! Ah, to give birth and then become a blond. Could have been fun.

(Of course, there has been some debate in our house if the hairs growing in are actually blond. Are they more strawberry blond or platinum blond or maybe light brown? They are so short right now, it’s hard to tell. We do know that the new hairs completely disappear when they are wet, like Uncle Lee’s cellophane hair when he was a baby… Ah, genetics!)