My First Baby Update

We haven't posted an update on the My First Baby project we're participating in, but we have been featured in a few of their webisodes!

Here we are in "First Time Out" and here we are in Sleep Tight.

Also - these took awhile to upload, but here are a few videos from June 1st (when he was just 3 weeks old!)

Here we are talking about packing the hospital bag (not sure why Michelle's mouth is on crooked?); preparing for the first doctor's appointment, talking about balancing work and baby; and my two favorites...

Danny dancing around with the baby; and

the two (well, three) of us talking about the Everything Borrowed concept a bit.

Make sure to "like" these on Facebook (especially this last one) to help spread the word about the Everything Borrowed concept.

We swear he's laughing his head off these days!

Although we can't seem to capture it on film - the EBB has quite a cute sense of humor and an adorable laugh. Alas - more out takes as we attempt to get it on camera. Appropriately, Michelle starts singing Why do Fools Falls in Love by the end of the day...we're so in love!

Tummy Time Torture

His Favorite Bouncy Seat

When Michelle's cooking or just needs a little break, the Everything Borrowed Baby loves spending time in his favorite used bouncy seat (he got three as gifts! two borrowed and this one from a garage sale). He was just looking so cute this day, we filmed it. Thanks, Grandma Arlene! Best garage sale purchase ever.

Practicing Teething at 3 1/2 months...

My thumb!

Over the past few weeks the EBB has found his fingers and thumbs and enjoys sucking on them very much! Go self-soothing mechanisms!!! Here's to hoping this means that more than 4 hours of consecutive night time sleeping is around the corner - we're exhausted!

Here he is on August 16 sucking and sleeping:


Here he is bragging about his new found skills on August 19:



And finally - here he is showing it all off - thumb sucking and cuddling stuffed animals also on the 19th:

The First Giggles!

On or around July 30, 2010 - the EBB made his first giggles. Cute little "he-he-he" like giggles that we have yet to be able to get on tape. Alas - here are some recent (unsuccessful) attempts to record all of this cuteness.

End of summer

We finished off the summer in Pittsburgh on the 8th, drove to Battle Creek Michigan, stayed for a few relaxing days, and then drove 16 hours in a car with no air-conditioning to the Berkshires. All that said, it actually was a great end to the summer. Thanks family! Here are some pics.

Date night to Kennywood

We decided to continue our love affair of wooden roller coasters with an extra long date night to Kennywood Amusement Park. As was expected - the Thunderbolt was the best! Here are some more pics.

Everything Borrowed Update

We imagined when we started this blog that raising our child on everything borrowed would be full of adventure and insights, things to share, stories of struggles and failures. It turns out - so far, so good, and not that much to write about.

(and little time to write!)

The first few weeks were filled with a near constant parade of people bringing things over (yeah friends and family) - so much so that we actually had too much stuff! Turns out the signing up for things worked for some folks (most folks, actually) but other folks just brought over big containers of (mostly great) stuff. Most people labeled what they wanted back, but a few folks didn't (Michelle is a bit anxious that she's already passed on to her sister-in-law a few tops that may not have been ours to pass on...but they weren't labeled!)

We struggled for awhile with baby furniture (almost spending $1000 for a used set from craigslist before realizing we could make do with what we had (an old bookshelf, a crib borrowed from a neighbor, and exchanging the borrowed card table/changing table we've been using for Danny's brother's old dresser).

A few nice surprises/potential resources:

Michelle's mom has made some great garage sale finds (including his favorite bouncy chair and a great umbrella stroller);

A family friend bought us some things from the uber cool Upcycled Designs - which takes old kids' clothes/gear and makes new ones out of it (we love our diaper bag made from old Smurf sheets and a towel!);

After messing up (twice!) buying used hospital grade pumps on eBay (warning: never bid postpartum!) a friend gave us a (never used, but given to her by the hospital where she birthed and therefore not "purchased") hand pump that's pretty good for now - but not ideal for when Michelle goes back to work...

And, we got a pretty cool used baby carrier from a Baby Wearing Swap Yahoo listserv.

Right now we're on the market for the following things (and we're happy to buy them):

- a used Symphony or Lactina Medela breastpump
- a used rear-facing carseat (ideally one that's compatible with the Graco travel system) for when he's over 22 pounds (he's now between 15 and 16!)
- a used cool joggling/off-roading stroller
- a used diaper changing pad (to use in the house)
- a used Ergo baby carrier (Michelle has ergo envy...)
- 4-6 used medium (for over 15 pounds) diaper covers (we've been using Bummis and Motherease and really like both)

Wish us luck!