Day two and three pics and a new cousin

Day two and three pictures are here Slowly things are stabilizing.

She has hair, a nice belgie style mullet:

She will be rolling cobbles in flanders in no time.

We stayed at the hospital for a few extra days to get Aida's jaundice dissapated by the using the party lights.

I think we can look at this picture without getting upset now, it was not all that cool when the nurses strapped her to the light table. mean mean nurses.


Finally big congrats to Elena's Brother Hayden and sister-in-law gretchen for bypassing weeks 38-39-40 and bonus week 41 to produce little Tristen Telesforo Perez, more over at Perez Happenings.

Day one photos

Big photo dump from the first 24 hours here

Due to a bit of jaundice we did not get home from the hospital until sunday afternoon. But all is well now. More photos tomorrow...

Presenting Aida Mae Saleh

Aka babynog:



Weighing in at 8 pounds 11 oz and 21.75" in lenghth our little girl was born yesterday. She is great!

Elena did such a great job, I am so so so so so proud of her. Much respect. Birth is an odd thing.



I already can change diapers, up to 4 in my life, from zero last week. Mad skilz.



No internet at the hospital, but I believe we will have photos on saturday when we return home.

Things are afoot for real

Things have begun.



What started as a doctors appointment at 41 weeks and three days:


Led to a check in the maternity ward. Baby nog shall soon be presented and named!

Belly and Baseball

Nothing going on but the playoffs. I think that puts at 40 weeks and 6 days.

The Saleh Ear

No baby yet, but another ultrasound, we got confirmation that the baby, indeed, seems to have the Saleh ear.


We are at 40 weeks 4 days and settling in for another weekend of waiting and watching of the TV

Tardy Baby

The baby is due today, still have 6 hours, but I think she is going to be late


We did get a great gift of hand made blankets and diapers from young Lucca:


thanks tiny buddy.

Week 39 ultrasound

But no pics to share. The baby is fine, heart beating, kicking, practice breathing, there is enough water for the baby to be happy, but not quite enough water to get a good view of the baby's face, so we got some pretty skeletal looking headshots that are not quite worthy of sharing. The ultrasound doctor is an older british feller with a very austin poweresque accent. He said that the "fetal portraiture" was "rather grim" at this stage. Due date is monday 10/13, seems like little baby nog is holding on for a bit longer.

Elena is pretty much spending 80% of the day in the rocker recliner and we are enjoying the baseball playoffs as well as getting a huge dose of cable movies (How good a movie is Underworld? You cannot quantify it, that's how good it is!). On the baseball front Elena especially enjoys the antics of Jonathan Paplebon, while I am unamused by the prospect of the Redsox in the series, so go Rays. Elena's top three playoff people to watch are Paplebon, big papi and "predator" (manny ramirez). She likes the absurdity of Big Papi running and is also amused by the submariner Justin Masterson.

Week 39

Elena chilling with the Cats. She is ready. Is Babynog?

Bellys across the ages

Week 38, 10/2



8/26



8/24



Elena, Osmium and the life saving rocker recliner, 8/8




Elena, wink256 and lots of bikes, 7/25




Nelwyn explains the mechanics of the alien to Elena, 6/20





Elena beating me handily in the belly competition, 5/25




Pink for girl, 5/25


5/20

Welcome to the Baby Nog Blog

Baby nog is about to drop. So we started this blog to inform the cognoscenti.
making the "loser" sign while sucking her thumb



Baby nog, due about 10/13/2008, Girl flavored baby! We have a name, but we ain't telling.