First Few Weeks

The past few weeks have been pretty surreal - we really couldn't have ordered a sweeter, funnier more mellow little girl than our little Goose.  I don't know if its because we know what its like to not have her home that we really are enjoying every second with her and find even the most mundane things so enjoyable - Projectile vomit?... Hilarious! Toxic diaper change?... So cute! - but we love getting to know her and introducing her to our silly world.  We were even lucky enough to have her Nonna come stay with us for a week to hang out.

"So tell me more about this library..."

As you can imagine she doesn't do all that much just yet, but she definitely has her likes and dislikes, many of which were things she was vicariously exposed to while on the inside.  For instance, in a tribute to her Auntie Island Anna she LOVES reggae music, especially my Slightly Stoopid Pandora station that I listened to during work.  I also used to sit on a yoga ball all day at my desk and now a couple seconds on this thing and she's out like a light. Putting the two together now is a blissful combination. She also loves her under the sea activity gym and has a love/hate relationship with the killer whale. She is intrigued by his majestic whalish beauty but shows her affection by giving him quick jabs to the fin over, and over and over again.

Reggae + Ball + Window = Baby Whispering Trifecta!

Do you speak whale?

Just hanging out with her friend

See the resemblance?

For being new she is a pretty popular little person as she's gotten her fair share of visitors over the past couple weeks.  Kevin and Jamie came by for a sneak peek of the sleeping hedgehog/goose in her natural element (the swing in the living room) and K1 and Vince stopped by on their way to Coronado to shower us with food and flowers, even though it was Katie's birthday. Mark's friend Darren got some quality time as the boys watched her for an hour while his wife Emily and I went out for a nice (couples - surprise!)  massage.  Dana and Christina also came by with some much appreciated food just before their little nugget made his appearance on Mark's bday a couple weeks later.  Throughout all these visits and countless drop ins from the neighbors she's been her calm, cute, cuddly little self.  But right on cue when John and Egg dropped in for a quick visit she did all the things you expect babies to do at this age - poo (x4), cry and burp, in no particular order.  But the prize for greatest distance traveled has to go to Mark's good college friend Jarrod (J-rod) who was out from Virginia on a business trip and drove up from the airport to see her.

First comes love, then comes marriage . . .

Darren and Emily

Just days before Ryland made his debut

Old Santa Clara buds

Becky also flew in for a quick 24-hour trip and spoiled us with meals, gifts and entertainment (her little rental car was like a clown car minus the clowns) and then proceeded to send US a thank you note once she got home - silly Becko . She also snuck in some good snuggles with the goose and experienced her first trip to the beach with us!

Acai anyone?

She's in there - I swear