Two weeks old

Our sweet Alma is two weeks old today.

This past week has been exciting with Joshua heading back to work (sure, this was supposed to be the week he worked from home, but in a relationship-focused occupation, he ended up in Camden most days), wrapping up last-minute preparations for Christmas since half of our gifts needed to be mailed cross-country, and the largest snowstorm since 1993 with 24 inches falling in Philadelphia.

Alma has been enjoying our daily walks with the dog. She isn't fond of the bundling process but then she immediately falls asleep as soon as we head out the door and sleeps soundly the entire trip.Yesterday since the snow was too deep to use the stroller, Joshua wrapped her in his jacket as we went to the grocery store for more baking supplies. It was fun to be out and see everyone shoveling. At our last doctor's visit, we learned that Alma is up to 8lbs 11 oz. This is up from her birth weight of 8 lbs 1 oz. Based on how hardily she eats, we are guessing that she is going to continue to grow quickly. They also told us that she is almost 19 inches, which surprised me because when she was born we were told that she was 21 inches. Ends up the hospital mis-measured and she was really 18 inches when born. Ha! Evidently, this happens often.

To make a birth announcement, Alma and I did our first photo shoot in her beautiful Christmas outfit, which was a gift from Alma's Nana Thompson. Not wanting to spoil the winning photo, here is one of the out-takes. She seems to enjoy saluting in photos, which I find endlessly humorous. She did the same thing in the hospital photos.

Here is a short video of our household that we took today. Enjoy!