We're back!

After a long pause primarily due to technical difficulties with our internet service at home, we're back with some great new material.

First the details: Eva continues to grow and is truly growing like a weed. She's putting on at least an ounce a day and so is changing rapidly. As of last week, she weighed over 4 kilo, something over 9 lbs. I noticed just yesterday that her wrists have officially disappeared: there is now only a crease in the baby fat where her hand joins her wrist. To top it off, her fingers and elbows are appropriately dimpled and new rolls are appearing. Looking at our glowing, growing, healthy girl, it's already hard for me to remember and believe how small she used to be.

All the medical news is good news too. We had lots of follow-up appointments of various kinds at the hospital during February, all with the same result: Eva is well and healthy and right on track for a baby of almost 2 months (her "corrected age" based on her due date.)

Eva loves to be held--by us and by others--so much so that for a while it was difficult to ever put her down if she was awake. This picture is us using the wonderful sling from my friend Salia that does just the trick when we're at home and Eva needs to be held while I do something that occupies my hands.

Amazing how quickly things change, though: that was only a couple of weeks ago, but already Eva is becoming much more self-entertaining. Especially in the morning, she can kick around and talk and stretch contentedly by herself for long stretches of time. More of that as we get caught up to the present in photos...