Across the Universe

Yesterday, at 6:29 PM, we welcomed Nathaniel Smith Mitton into our family. He was 10 days late, but when he decided it was time, he came fast: just 30 minutes in the hospital before he was born. Everyone is doing great. Eli came to meet his little brother this morning, and he was very excited to be here, albeit because of all the buttons on the hospital bed and not so much his brother. They'll be friends soon enough.




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Good Night

When Susie was working, she always wanted to maximize her time with Eli between work and bed. This meant that she nearly always gave Eli his bottle. As Susie's pregnancy progressed, it became harder for her to get Eli into position, so it became habit for Susie to sit down, I'd hand her Eli, hand Eli his dragon, and then Susie the milk. Then Eli would drink.

A couple nights ago, I was busy in the kitchen. Susie pulled Eli onto her lap on her own, but Eli wouldn't take it; he just fought her. Finally, she says "Do you want daddy to put you in my arms?" He said yes (for him, "yes" is a grunt). She let him down, he trotted to the kitchen and held his arms out for me to pick him up. Then I put him in Susie's arms, and he drank happily.



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The Word

No, still no baby. Yes, there's a million folk remedies to get labor started, but I'm too much of a statistician to believe any of them.

Eli's starting a word explosion. His pronunciation isn't great, but he's getting words down. New ones today were "squirr" and "showa". And recently we've had "door", "lif", "kitt-kitt", and "ray". Can you guess what words those are? He's now decided what a dog says, "nnn...nnn...nnn". Yes, he loves Sandra Boynton.

He's also started singing along to music. Whether it's the Beatles or one of his toys, he rhythmically hums or "aaahhh"s. He even recognizes words in the Beatles songs. He says "doc" in Doctor Robert (a word he learned from monkeys jumping on the bed). There's a couple songs that we dance to, and when they come on, he smiles to be picked up.




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Got to Get You into my Life

Susie's due date was yesterday, and still no baby. She's been having contractions off and on, but too much off and too little on to call it labor. So it's time for a hike in Tennessee Valley!




Eli still likes playing chase. Susie will get on all fours to chase him, but as you can imagine, she isn't very fast. So Eli takes off running, sees that he's left his mom behind, turns around, and runs back to her, as if to say, "Sorry, mom, let me know when you're ready."




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It Won't Be Long

T-minus five days to the due date. Any day now, we're going to sit down and think about some names. Eli is still super clingy to his daddy, which will be a lot of fun when #2 comes. Susie's off work now, yet I'm actually working. Hmm.



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