The Milky Way, Good Bye Grandma Lucy & Baby's 1st Bath

I am pleased to announce that the Anna Dairy is now open for business! I have eschewed my teaching job in order to go into the milk production and distribution industry full time. What can I say--it's a great experience but I think I'll have to have a talk with my supervisor, Nayeli, about the crazy hours and lack of vacation time! As you can see from the picture above, she really likes to delegate the work and then lays around with her arms crossed on MY chest--I mean talk about taking advantage of the situation!

"Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever."
On another note, my mom (a.k.a. Grandma Lucy) left to go back to Chicago on Wednesday. She had stayed with us for one week and I was very sad to see her go. Not only was she great company but she was tons of help as well. It's funny to think about how much I needed my mom as I was learning to become a mom. I'm really grateful and blessed to have her love and support, especially during the past week--she wasn't able to have her mom, or any help besides my dad, around after my sister was born and I can't even imagine how hard that must have been for her! It was awesome to see my mom doting & loving on her first grand-daughter. It's so exciting to envision their future relationship together because my mom will have so many great things to share and pass onto Nayeli, lessons that I learned as well thru her that will be better appreciated a second time around. Anyway, thanks mom for all your help and your love. We love you very much and miss you already!

Last but not least we'd like to share pictures of Nayeli's first bath. We held off for a while bathing her as part of the hazing ritual that comes with being a member of our hippie family. Really we were just waiting for her umbilical cord to fall off which happened yesterday night. BTW: Does anyone know how to store an umbilical cord? We'd like to keep it to use as a humiliation tactic for when she become a teenager! Nayeli's first bath was definitely a team effort between Joe and I. Who knew we'd need so much coordination and strategy when dealing with a tiny newborn? As it turns out babies are slippery when wet and new parents are quite awkward when dealing with wet, slippery newborns that wail like an ambulance during their first bath! To our surprise, Nayeli did not become the dolphin we expected her to be during her bath. I'm sure that her father is not going to stop trying to convince her that she must LOVE the water--after all she does have a pink kayak waiting for her to grow into and kayaks are NOT used on dry land. She did smell like baby heaven afterwards (thanks Burt's Bees) and then passed out for a long time due to the exhaustion from such a traumatic event. Needless to say, we look forward to further traumatizing our daughter with water until she grows gills (or so says her papa!)

Here are just some other adorable pictures we'd like to share with you:

(Papa doing a good job burping me--no sailor has anything on my burps!)

(Mom and I singing a duet: We're practicing to take our show to Vegas.)

(Grandma Lucy made this headband for me and now I'm too sassy for this blog!)