She has been asleep every time I’ve seen her, but in the car seat heading home, she looks fully alert. It’s a pretty exciting day.
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sweet potato salad
I just ate lunch. Sweet potato salad on a bed of baby spinach leaves. Wonderful. I boiled the diced sweet potatoes in heavily salted and vinegared water. The vinegar helps to keep fully cooked potatoes firm and it worked on sweet potatoes, too. Acid slows the breakdown of pectin. Anyway, I ran some of the …
Tube free
The last of the tubes was removed. If she continues to do as well as she has, they may spring her this weekend. (Thanks to my daughter for all of these baby photos.)
redhead?
close up
Her lungs seem good now. Digestive track still in process, though, and requiring this tube that looks very much like a lollipop stick….
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new arrival
At 4:18 AM after 35 weeks. Four pounds, nine ounces, eighteen and a half inches long, she was induced on the second trip to Geisinger with the addition through the cervix of two clementine sized water balloons. My daughter and her husband did really well, my granddaughter was a bit of a tough cookie. Understandable. …
sharing pain
A twitter friend posted: “I find myself sending prayers to [snip] as he and his family go through that which is hardest.” I had no idea what she referred to. Her feed had no more information than that, and I’m pretty much out of everybody’s loop. I followed her link back to the other fellow’s …
stereoscopic
A few days ago there was an old stereoscopic image posted in the Smithsonian’s Bigger Picture blog. I love old images for lots of reasons, and I have real fondness for early stereoscope images. I had a stereoscope and shoebox of cardboard photos when I was a kid, and when I had a daughter I …
helpful librarians
I’ve been spending too much time reading books and watching movies. I try to pick the best stuff so my brain doesn’t completely atrophy, but still. I waste too much time. Movies bring on the guilts far worse than books, and lately I’ve been watching far too many. Recently I had a friendly prod, though. …