Sweet Adelaide!

My Favorite Nap Spot is Dad's 6 Pack!

Very, Very, Very Distant Cousin of Little Foot.

T-Minus 3 Minutes Until I Scream My Head Off.

Why Am I Wearing This Ridiculous Bib?

Uncle B.J. Loves Addie!

Gma & Gpa Came to Visit!

Just In Time

Looks like I sold my gas guzzling SUV just in time. They are getting harder and harder to sell these days, due to skyrocketing gas prices. Apparently the 1997 Geo Metro is the car of choice! Up 25% in purchase price. Hot car! And it runs on 3 cylinders to boot! Get yours today before they are all gone!

Furry Foot Rest

1 Week Young.

Game 7 and Smiles.

Adelaide donned her Jordan gear as we watched the Celtics outlast the Cavaliers this afternoon. Her cousin BJ bought this for her before we even knew if we were having a girl or a boy. She looked like a straight thug.


She was pretty happy with Paul Pierce's 41 points as you can see by the smile here.


Now we are going to get Twisters from Foster's Freeze. This is how she feels about that.

Uncle Ronnie Is Here!

Uncle Ronnie flew up from Los Angeles today to see his beautiful niece, Adelaide. It was love at first sight. He will only be here for about 20 hours, but he says it was well worth the trip.

Rhettly is a College Graduate!

I am proud of my brother Rhett. He graduates from Colorado State today at 9AM. Check out his sweet crib! They live upstairs in this building. My mom, dad, and brother are all there to cheer him on. Good job, Rhett! Adelaide says go get 'em!

At the Pool...

We took Adelaide to the pool today. She is loving it. She doesn't get to put on her bikini and go swimming quite yet, but we'll get there. We stripped her down to her diaper and she is chilling in the shade. She slept for 3 and 4 hours last night. We were pretty happy about that. Life is good.

Oh, the little things...

Addie May Update

Adelaide Mayli Foster was born on Mother's Day (05/11/08) and she is perfect - a sweet little blessing from God. She was born 7lbs 3oz and 20 inches long. Her weight dropped to 6lbs 13oz (which is normal) and now she is at 7lbs 6oz, which is REALLY great. Typically babies don't pass their birth weight until around 2 weeks. I think she likes to eat A LOT just like her Mommy and Daddy. She is a bit jaundiced (yellow) so we are getting her into the indirect sunlight as much as possible. It is over 100 degrees here, so this is a bit of a challenge. We put her up in the kitchen pop-out window for a bit today. She was a little sunbather.



Melissa was incredible during the birth. I was and am SO PROUD OF HER. She is feeling really good all things considered. She is walking around and looking GREAT. You can't even tell she had a baby, and it has only been 4 days.



Thanks so much for all of your prayers and thoughts and help and advice. It is really a blessing to know that we are not doing this alone. Many of you have offered to bring a meal by our house. We might take you up on that in a couple of weeks after our out-of-town guests have left.

We love our little girl. Can't wait for all of you to meet her!

Best Buds.

A Family Video.

Introducing: Adelaide Mayli Foster

7 days? We shall see.

Foster's Freeze

Melissa has had a steady diet of small chocolate chip Twisters from Foster's Freeze over the last couple of weeks. Let's just say they know what she is going to order before she walks in the door. The lady says, "Does baby want ice cream again?"

This ice cream intake seems to be OK for 3 reasons.
1. She is pregnant.
2. The cup has our last name on it.
3. She is pregnant.

8 days is actually one day more than a week

OH, I NEED YOUR LOVE BABE
GUESS YOU KNOW IT´S TRUE
HOPE YOU NEED MY LOVE BABE
JUST LIKE I NEED YOU

HOLD ME, LOVE ME
HOLD ME, LOVE ME
I AIN´T GOT NOTHIN´BUT LOVE BABE
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK

LOVE YOU EVERYDAY GIRL
ALWAYS ON MY MIND
ONE THING I CAN SAY GIRL
LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME

HOLD ME, LOVE ME
HOLD ME, LOVE ME

I AINT GOT NOTHIN' BUT LOVE GIRL
8 DAYS A WEEK,8 DAYS A WEEK
I LOVE YOU
8 DAYS A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH TO SHOW I CARE

OH, I NEED YOUR LOVE BABE
YES YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE
HOPE YOU NEED MY LOVE BABE
JUST LIKE I NEED YOU

HOLD ME, LOVE ME
HOLD ME, LOVE ME

I AINT GOT NOTHING BUT LOVE BABE
8 DAYS A WEEK, 8 DAYS A WEEK
I LOVE YOU
8 DAYS A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH TO SHOW I CARE

LOVE YOU EVERYDAY GIRL
ALWAYS ON MY MIND
ONE THING I CAN SAY GIRL
LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME

HOLD ME, LOVE ME
HOLD ME, LOVE ME

I AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' BUT LOVE BABE
8 DAYS A WEEK, 8 DAYS A WEEK, 8 DAYS A WEEK

9 days. Learning How To Use Our Baby Carrier.

Oliver says the Ergo Carrier passes with flying colors. He was happy to sit in it for about 10 minutes. Typically, he won't let you hold him for more than 30 seconds. It was odd. But funny. Might have to take him to the Farmer's Market tomorrow in it!

A Chat With Mom.

one-zero

Baby.

eleven.

A Dozen Days (plus or minus)

The number of donuts that come in a box.

The number of eggs that come in a carton.

The number of months in a year.

The number of hours in the AM/PM.

Did you know?

The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. The dozen is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3 = 3 × 4 = 2 × 6, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (12² = 144, the duodecimal 100) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (12³ = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen (a dozen for each finger on both hands). A baker's dozen, also known as a long dozen, is thirteen.

The English word dozen [1] [2] [3] comes from the old form of the French word douzaine, meaning "a group of twelve" ("Assemblage de choses de même nature au nombre de douze" as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française). This French word [4] is a derivation from the cardinal number douze ("twelve", from Latin duodĕcim) and the collective suffix -aine (from Latin -ēna), a suffix also used to form other words with similar meanings such as quinzaine (a group of fifteen), vingtaine (a group of twenty), centaine (a group of one hundred), etc. These French words have synonymous cognates in Spanish: docena [5][6][7], quincena, veintena, centena, etc. English dozen, French douzaine and Spanish docena, are also used as indefinite quantifiers to mean "about twelve" or "many" (as in "a dozen times", "dozens of people").

Some historians believe that the base twelve was important because it counts things relating to the marks on the fingers on each hand aside the thumbs. Each finger except for the thumb is divided in three parts, four fingers makes twelve possibilities of counting, and two hands makes possible the accounting of twenty four objects. Using the decimal base for counting only allows ten possibilities with the both hands, one visual option for each finger. This method for accounting was introduced by the Babylonians and its still in use today.

Was today our last visit to the Dr.?

2. weeks. left.