New pictures - Days 9-17

Here's a picture of the Everything Borrowed Baby chilling/ zoning out on his borrowed aquarium bouncy thingie (thank you Josh, Elissa and Lexy).

And here are a bunch of new pictures we thought you'd enjoy. We've also put up some videos (see below) from the past few weeks (are we already up to "a few weeks"?) - see below or on our Shutterfly account, where we'll try to also post all pictures and videos.

My First Baby Teaser

Looks like the reality tv/internet show that Danny and I (and the baby) are in premieres June 15th on Better TV. Meanwhile - here's a little teaser video with a clip of us on it! Enjoy!

Happy One-Week Old Birthday

Bringing Baby Home - Days 2-7

Here are a few more pictures from week one.

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!