May 2007

I met Zoe yesterday. She is incredibly tiny. Tiny little fingers, fingernails, teeny ears, super soft hair. She’s six pounds right now, a little less than when she was born. Nate explained that it is normal for babies to initially lose a little weight before they start gaining. I held her for about 20 minutes, sound asleep in a little pink baby burrito wrapper. She began wiggling, then scrunched up her face and turned bright red, crying. She was hungry, so Yvonne fed her for the next 30 minutes or so. Right now she mostly eats, sleeps when she’s not eating, and sometimes is just awake and alert. She eats every 2-3 hours, so Yvonne’s not getting a whole lot of sleep. Her mom is there helping her and Nate for a few weeks. Last night our electricity went out about 12:30 a.m. The whole neighborhood was dark, and a white pickup truck was parked in front of our house with someone inside. A power company truck? But there was no logo of any kind on it. Periodically we’d hear the passenger door either open or shut, but when we looked out we never saw anyone. The electricity came back on about 20 minutes later, and later another pickup truck pulled up by the first one. A man and a woman got out, walked over to the first truck, opened the doors, and then walked back to their own truck and drove off. Doc went outside with a flashlight to check out the situation, and while he was walking around, they came back with gallon jugs of liquid and a siphon. I was very worried that he was outside with these possibly nefarious strangers, especially since I couldn’t see what they were doing from the bedroom window. I had the […]

Welcome to the world, Zoe! Your parents are pretty awesome people. You might find that their friends are a little odd, but don’t hold it against them 🙂 I’m looking forward to meeting you.