Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Rach Gets Pierced


As most of you know, my sweet little doe eyed, though slightly hairless, baby girl often gets mistaken for a boy. As we were standing in line to go through security on the last leg of our flight over to the States, a women looked down at little Rach sitting in her stroller, dressed in a pink jump suit, pink shoes and a clip in what hair she does have and said, "your little boy is about fall asleep." Despite that fact that that women lacked any common sense, that was the last straw. I woke up first thing the next morning, completely jet lagged, went to the mall and had Rachel's ears pierced. She only screamed until we got a sucker in her mouth and hasn't complained about them since. I think they look adorable! It's a good thing I like them so much because they're not really doing their job. She has been call a boy on three different occasions since she had them pierced. In order to avoid making this same mistake yourself, practice this in the mirror, "Your BABY is so cute." How hard is that?!

Home for the Holidays!


After spending the last 2 years in Switzerland for the holidays, it was so nice to finally be home for Christmas! Matt took the entire month of December off plus some (you can't beat European vacation time) and we headed to the States. We spent 2 and 1/2 weeks in Utah before we flew to my parent's house in California for Christmas. My sister and her husband drove out for Christmas as well. It was a full house, but we had a fabulous day filled with a lot of fun and a LOT of presents. We spent almost 5 hours unwrapping gifts! It will be interesting trying to get all the new toys back to Switzerland.
Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and best wishes for the new year.













Saturday, December 22, 2007

Time flies!

Today we were able to go to Berkeley and visit Rachel's old "cell mate" from the Alta Bates NICU. Abby and Rach are only 4 days apart and spent most of their stay at the NICU in the same room. After 5 weeks we got to know little Abby and her parents really well and continue to keep in touch with one another. It was so great to see them today! We were completely in awe of how much the kids have grown. Here are some pictures of the girls shortly after they left the hospital...

...and here they are today!