Eliza is a Recluse

Our pediatricians have put the fear of H1N1 in us; we're told that if Eliza is exposed to a group of 5 or more strangers in a public area that she'll catch the plague and will suffer developmental consequences that will restrict her to a school like Vassar. The horror! Don't fret - soon enough we'll have some pictures of Eliza (and, maybe us) that aren't in our humble abode. In the meantime you will all just have to take the ones at good old Princess Drive.

"Sup."


Eliza knows how to get comfortable.


We did ask Leigh to sign a standard release so we could use her pic.


Not our Christmas card. But it could have been!


Some morning activity time with Mommy and Grammie...


...which Eliza finds hilarious!


Quite a stare and...


...quite a smile!


Busy day! Quality napping time!

Faces

Eliza will go through an entire 3 act play's worth of facial expressions in the time it takes for her to make a fresh diaper...not so fresh. That is, to say, rather quickly. Here are some of our favorites from the past couple of weeks!

Surprised:


Unhappy:


Pondering:


Approving:


Hysterically laughing at something we said:


And finally, one of our favorites - sleepy:

Update!

An update of sorts, because it will be mostly pictures. That seems to be what the people want, as opposed to the two of us going on and on about diapers, late-night discussions with Eliza about how we sleep at night, baby clothes, seriously considering buying stock in whoever makes baby wipes and keeping her sequestered from the omnipresent H1N1 virus.

So, on to what people care about: new(ish) pictures:

1st Bath and not happy about it.

Future Wildcat?

Future Mary Washington roommates?

Eliza needs a matching #12 jersey!

All ready for her 2nd Thanksgiving!

1st photo released from shoot!

Our friend Erik came earlier this week and shot nearly 600 photos of Eliza who, by the way, was quite into being photographed. She made nary a peep the entire shoot. There were a couple of shots that Erik wanted to get while she was sleeping but she was quiet and alert for the 3 or so hours that Erik was at the house. Even a mid-shoot snack didn’t get her to doze off. Thanks, Erik, for your time! Erik’s blog is linked on the right hand side and his professional website is http://www.erikmaziarz.com/. Look him up if you have anything you want photographed!

Home!

On Wednesday the two of us took a little car ride into New Haven. Today, three of us left for home. Yes, the nice people at Yale snipped off the baby anti-theft device/anklet and off we went. We still haven't been issued a baby license yet, so I'm not entirely sure this whole thing is totally legal, but we're going to lie low here until the heat wears off. Until then, here are some shots from the eventful past few days.

Erika needed double confirmation that Eliza was, in fact, a girl.

2 tired girls!

Eliza and Gramma.

2 guys and a girl.

3 generations.

Dana + Eliza.

Todd couldn't wait to hold Eliza! Seriously.

Shelly regaling Eliza with tales of Joe Pa.

Lauren is a pro.

All ready to go home!

First steps in the house as...a dad!

Almost time for sleeping. Or not.

Eliza is Here!

Here we are at Yale-New Haven hospital, just the three of us. Many more pictures to come - thousands, likely - but here's the first one of the newest Chapin family! This is literally minutes after Eliza arrived!

The Nursery

For whatever reason I've been procrastinating on doing this nursery blog. Maybe it's because I am awesome at procrastinating and do so whenever I can. You would think I'd have learned by now. Nope. Anyway, today is Erika's due date and so far the verdict is NO BABY. So we're going to go out to dinner, I'll slip a jalapeno into Erika's beet salad and we'll see what happens. In the meantime...check out where this kid is going to spend the first 65% or so of its first few months.

This kid better be a good reader! Many books courtesy of our friends at Hopkins and Watertown High School!

Erika's rocker - quite comfy, by the way. I see myself spending time there, you know, not breastfeeding.

That is one SHARP changing table!


Note the vintage old school Red Sox cap. That's mine!