First time out and about in the stroller...

Lest we be accused of not documenting EVERY thing the EVERYthing Borrowed Baby does (ahhh - such a first child!)....

First Sponge Bath

Notice how things start of calm and exciting (like birth) and then spiral out of control and in tears (like birth)

Feeling a sense of community

One of the motivations for trying this experiment was creating a sense of community - possibly a virtual community around this website - but more importantly a real community of friends and family, coming together, and literally providing for our child for a year. It seemed romantic and idealistic and the ultimate continuation of our relationship as a couple.

We met through mutual friends, we had a potluck picnic wedding, we host Friday night dinners at our home almost every week. And, as we met a little later in life, we both know the importance of and have relied on a larger community as an important source of support and love.

All that said, nothing could have prepared us for the gratefulness we have felt to our friends and family over the last week. It's awe-inspiring the love that has come via care packages and visits.

We're not sure if it would have felt the same to get all of these items as gifts vs. loaners/used-items, but we sense that this is different.

In a way this experiment connects us physically to our friends and their babies. In a way it feels like they're lending us - passing on - a piece of their happiness as a family. In a way, by being a bit more of a pain in the neck, our friends and family are going the extra mile and showing they love us and our little guy - despite of or maybe because of - our craziness.

We feel so blessed, humbled and thankful to all of you for welcoming our child into the world with so much love.

THANK YOU to everyone!

Day 4 - Waking up is hard to do

The everything borrowed baby continues to amaze us even though all he really does is sleep, nurse, poop, pee and burp - and then do them all again...and again, and again, and again.

Here's a little video we took this morning.

Day 2 - We didn't borrow this baby

Introducing the Everything Borrowed Baby!

Born 5/10/10 at 11:57pm, 7 pounds 3 ounces, 19.5 inches. Mexico Mother's Day in honor of Michelle's 3 years living in Mexico.

Mommy and Daddy and Baby are happy, healthy and madly in love.

Here are some pictures from his birthing day and here's a little video taken from the hospital, 30 hours old.

My First Baby

Amazingly enough, a few weeks ago we were selected - along with a group of other new parents/families across the country - to be a part of a little reality tv/internet program called "My First Baby," which will be aired weekly starting in June! It's pretty exciting stuff - and we're hoping to be able to talk a lot about our little experiment during the filming. We just submitted our first video to the project - a 30 second intro to us - and thought you might enjoy these outtakes. Stay tuned!