Baby's first bath

The icky umbilical cord stub fell off today and I made grand plans for baby's first bath.
I was so excited, however, I don't think that the feeling was mutual. In order to keep the peace I gave him his binky and kept chasing it back into his mouth.

This picture makes me laugh because he looks so small and far away.

"To be or not to be, that is the question". Yes, he was having a Shakespearean bath. Smart boy.
He survived the bath with flying colors. However, getting out of the bath is another story alltogether. He doesn't much care for being wet and cold. But then again, who does? He actually peed in the direction of Brittany (who was behind the camera) as this picture was taken, but luckily he had bad aim.

All warm and snuggly after his big adventure, just chilling in the swing (which he hates).

Sollie's first photo shoot!

When Solomon was a week old my friend Malina came over to conduct his first photo shoot! She's so talented and artsy that when she came to visit us in the hospital I weaseled her into doing this for me! I'm so glad that I did!

First we put a blanket over the couch (and before that, a garbage bag in case of emergency) and sprawled Solomon out on it in only his birthday suit. We cranked up the heat first so he'd be comfortable. The thing about most of these pictures is that somehow there's a funny camera angle, almost like a fishbowl angle and it distorts how his body. So I'll just post the one I like the most. Also she took lots of pictures of his little body parts: feet, hands, lips, eyes, etc. The idea is that I'll get around to bookbinding a special book for this and have it forever. We'll see if it really happens!

Malina insisted we take some pics of mom and baby. I wasn't thrilled about this, but after scurrying off to throw on some makeup I agreed to it. I'm so glad she talked me into it, as they yielded some wonderful pictures.

This is the one I ended up using for my birth announcement.

This one should be cuter than it is. I'm not sure what that means exactly. Probably something to the affect that I"m a new mom and I just can't decide on 'one' picture because every one is precious to me. What a dork!

Finally, Sollie ended his first photo shoot with his binky and blanket

He found the whole thing rather blase', and drifted off for a nap!

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Back to the hospital!?

After being home from the hospital for two days, I came down with a high fever. My midwife instructed me to go the E.R. to get checked out. I was so freaked out that I called my co-worker Katie (an RN) to go with me. They ended up admitting me, deciding that I had a uterine infection and needed to stay in the hospital to be on I.V. antibiotics.

So I had to be hospitalized for four days and spend time away from little Solomon, who was just five days old! Auntie Lynnea was happy to take him but I was so irrational and hormonal that I just sat there bawling in the hospital that first night I was admitted. Luckily Godmother Kara saved the day and roomed in with me the entire time I was at the hospital! Solomon came to visit in the middle of my stay.

I had another stretch of just hanging out
with my best friend! I can *almost* say that getting a uterine infection was worth it to be afforded the chance to get more time to have Kara all to myself! On that note, Kara was kind enough to give me a pedicure during this hospital stay and it often crosses my mind and makes me laugh! The weird thing is that Kara and I have spent exorbitant amounts of time together, holed up in some crummy room in some pretty stressful situations in Kenya over the years. So comparatively, this was nothing! At least we had food to eat and nobody was trying to kill/harm us!




I think Kara was happy to have some more time one on one with little S!

Poor Emily had been dying to see little S. She and Heidi left for California for Thanksgiving and they missed the whole excitement! By the time they got back I had been home and since been readmitted, so Emily was able to see him while he stopped by to visit.

Glynis, Christopher and Avery also came to visit. Avery did a good job of helping to burp him!