Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Frist trip to the park
We need a good photo for an announcement card so off to the park we went, we liked these but ultimately chose another for the card. I did play with the sheet and leaves a little Anne Geddes style.
Finding the perfect photo
We started taking photos to try to get a good one for an announcement card. These one's didn't make the cut!
Boppy, Jackets, Car Shows
Sleeping on the boppy
Yawning on the boppy, she really likes to sleep and dislikes waking up
This jacket doesn't quite fit yet but we couldn't resist putting it on anyways
Aelis' first classic car show in downtown Fullerton, next to a Chevy Coupe like her Great Uncle Deans
First car ride, first bath, first doctor
Coming home from the hospital
After her first sponge bath
At her first doctors appointment
You can tell she enjoyed the doctors very much, this has "take me home and feed me" all over it.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
From whence this name came
Laura found a Gaelic name, Ailis, online. We liked the pronunciation "A-lis", but later found out in Gaelic its pronounced "Eye-Leash", which is fine, just not for our baby girl. So we looked n' looked, and got lots of suggestions, and thought about family names, and pretentious baby names, and read books, and searched online, and searched the scriptures. In the end we still liked Ailis the best, so we decided to change the spelling a little to get the pronunciation how we liked it, hence "Aelis".
A Google search revealed that Aelis is a French form of Alice used mostly in the 13th-15th centuries, which means Noble or Exalted. The Hebrew origin for Ailis means "consecrated to God" and is the same origin for Elizabeth, which is Great-grandma's middle name, Grandma's middle name, and mom's middle name (all on mom's side). Our first nurse in the mother-baby unit was Greek and told us in Greek Aelis means transparent or transcendent. So in the end, we've got a beautiful baby girl with a beautiful name with so much meaning its exhausting! Jewel is the name of my Grandmother who passed away last year. She was very close to me and a dear sister in the Lord. It is an honor to give her name to my daughter.
As a follow-up, my first post on this blog was "Baby name dropping". Laura and I both ran the name Aelis by two friends who we knew would give us their honest opinion. Both found it feminine, pretty, simple, and easy to pronounce. We thank them and henceforth copywright the "baby name drop" process so we can pay for Aelis to go to college.
More baby photos!
Proud Grandmother Joan
Our little Nanuk baby
In the bassinett, sucking on a finger
Sleeping well. So far, Aelis is a great eater but her sleeping schedule is well, not. She mostly just wants to eat all the time, then when she does go to sleep she wants to sleep for 6 straight hours! But she needs to eat every 2 or 3, so, deliberations are in progress, concessions will be made, bi-partisanship will prevail.
Bloggin' with a Baby in the lap
Yes, my baby is on my knees and I'm reaching to type on the keyboard, definite first time for this!
Laura and Aelis in our private recovery room 2hrs after the birth.
Amazingly this wasn't posed, I simply caught a moment between mother and baby.
The view from our room
Now the fun begins
Our First Baby Blog
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