Congrats to Andrew! (and more baby stuff)

So before I post more baby pictures I thought I'd let Andrew have a second in the spotlight. He got accepted into the business school so now he'll be working on a J.D./MBA degree! I'm so proud of him for working so hard. I'm pretty sure he was one of the first people to turn in his application for next fall. He'll finish his first year of law school and then start incorporating business classes next fall. It will only add one extra year on to the originally planned three years of law school. The joint law/business program is something that he has really been looking forward to doing, so we're really excited and happy for him!

Here he is posing with his acceptance letter. He probably could have done without me taking this picture, but I thought it would be fun to have :)

Way to go Andrew!

Now for a baby update...
Little Eleanor will be 2 weeks old tomorrow! I can't believe how fast time has flown by (although most nights when she wants to eat every two hours it seems to go a little slower). We went to the pediatrician yesterday and the doctor was a little confused after weighing her. He looked at his chart and then at the scale and back at his chart and asked, "is this her 2-week check-up or her 4-week check-up?" I assured him that yes, it was just her 2-week check-up. She's up to 9 pounds and 8.5 ounces! When we left the hospital she was down from her birth weight of 9 pounds, 4 ounces to "just" 8 pounds 12 ounces. The doctor said they like newborns to gain about 30 grams a day, and apparently Eleanor has gained a little over 40 grams a day! I asked if maybe I'm feeding her too much, but he said she is doing just fine. She never spits up and I feed her when she seems to be hungry. So we'll see if her appetite will change in the next few weeks. I'm hoping she'll get better at eating more, less often so I can get a little more sleep.

Over the weekend we dressed her up for game day...
I'm not really sure what she's doing with her hands, but she sure is cute!


Here she is on her blanket that Aunt Emily made for her and a cute little fleur de lis bib my mom got for her. She also really likes being on her belly. Maybe it helps her digest all the food she's eaten, who knows :)


Our friends, Jared and Miranda, came by to visit on Sunday and brought little Ellie Belly a cute little hat that Miranda crocheted...


The last bit of exciting news is that yesterday the rest of her umbilical cord fell off so tonight we got to give her a bath! She didn't cry or freak out at all.

At first she wasn't really sure about it...

But I think she finally warmed up to it (haha no pun intended) and had a fun time...

All done, and nice and clean!

I used a special bedtime baby lotion that is supposed to be soothing. Apparently it has ingredients shown to have calming and relaxing properties. (I'm kind of a sucker for hygiene products, especially ones that are marketed well.) She seemed to go to sleep pretty easily after her bath. We'll see how she does the rest of the night :)