Sylvia is 2 weeks old!!

I am unabashadedly ripping off our good friend Jayne, who blogged pictures of her son Kurt in a particular chair each month over the course of his first year, usually with a little update about how he was doing. So far, we've been taking pictures of Sylvia in the rocking chair that her grandparents and a few of her great (and great great) aunts and uncles bought for us every day since the day after we got home from the hospital. I figure we'll post a monthly update like Jayne did for a while, but that the first 2 weeks were momentous enough to warrant their very own post...

Sylvia is 2 weeks old today! She still sleeps most of the time when she's not eating (and most of the time when she is eating, too). Watching the little faces she makes when she's sleeping, you'd think she was having very intense dreams. When she's awake, she's usually either crying (apparently with a tummy ache) or looking around the world with wide eyes. She loves to snuggle and does NOT like to be put down. She's ambivalent about the outdoors and the car, but so far she has a perfect track record of good behavior in stores and supermarkets.

Sylvia's parents were VERY happy today when her little belly button stump finally fell off because the 3 of us were all feeling pretty traumatized by the experience of having to wash it multiple times a day, and soon we'll be able to give her a bath without worrying about getting water on it!

She's still exclusively wearing her "Newborn" clothes and is not yet fitting in the "0-3 month" outfits, but her legs are filling out enough and spending enough time uncurled from the fetal position that we can finally put pants on her, which is good because she seems to prefer a slightly warmer temperature than her parents, who always seem to want the house to be about 10 degrees lower than anybody else would.

It's been a great 2 weeks! Max & I are both exhausted and totally feeble-minded, but we're mostly just deliriously happy with our precious little girl!!

And here are a few more pictures: