Cara's Beautiful Sweater!

Merry Christmas

Who Controls the Remote?

Playing with Flickr

Anyone using Flickr for photo sharing? I had been using snapfish to share photos with family, but they can't download files from that site - it's only for ordering prints and viewing a slide show. Flickr seems pretty easy to use and I know Jennifer uses it so it must be cool! I'm playing around with a new account so let me know if you are on it and I can add you as a friend :)
www.flickr.com/photos/alcott-colombe

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Vikings Fans

Ben with his cousin Aaron and their little girls. Baby girl Grace was born 9 days after Eleanor and Gavin is our godson. Go Vikings :)

Thanksgiving

So much to be thankful for...

Moving Day for Tyler & Kevin

O-H-I-O

Sisters Visit

Baby Holding

Halloween

4 weeks

Eleanor is my entire life right now so there won't be any posts about books, news, work or anything intellectual for a while. Four weeks have gone by so fast. My mom leaves next week. We've been a great team and have a good system going so I'm very sad to see her go. I'm sure Ben & I will be able to figure it out without her but it won't be as easy and I'll certainly be more sleep deprived, eating more take-out and have a messy house! At least Mom & Dad will be back in January for 2 months.

Ben & I have been out on a few dates & had a few beers. I even got to use my breast milk test strips to test the milk to alcohol content :) Mom & I have been out for lunch and shopping a few times while Ben watched Eleanor. I love how confident he is with her.

The baby was 6 lb 7 oz when she was born and we had her weighed yesterday at 4 weeks and she is 7 lb 11 oz already! She loves to eat like me. To celebrate her 4 week birthday we took her on her first shopping trip - to Target of course. I told her all about how shopping is in her blood!

I've been dragging my feet on researching daycare. I wish an affordable nanny would just knock on my front door. I packed up my maternity clothes - what a great feeling to be rid if those outfits.

More Photos

Click here to see more photos of Eleanor on snapfish

Eleanor Rae

Eleanor Rae Colombe was born Tuesday, Oct 13th at 1:26pm. We came home from the hospital on Saturday. She is precious and we love her so much. She smells so good and has to most perfect little ears and lips. Ben and I can't figure out which one of us she looks like.

I am feeling pretty good. My incision is still hurting and it's a bit hard to sit up but things are starting to heal. I cry every day, mostly for no reason, but that's nothing new for anyone who has been around me the last few months :)

My mom has been here staying with us and an absolute life saver. Ben said last night that she's never allowed to leave. She cooks dinner for us, does the laundry, and even helps us maximize sleep time! Here are a few photos from her 1st week in Cara's cute onesie and adorable hat.