long time no post.

well it's been a while, hasn't it??? we've been going through a phase here. that phase is called "i don't sleep unless mommy is holding me." the difficult thing about that phase is that it coincides with another phase called "i want to be held when i'm awake." so basically, we have to hold her all the time. which doesn't make typing very easy. or anything else. but we're working through these phases. we've learned that when she falls asleep in our arms, if we try to put her down somewhere on her back, she just wakes up because she doesn't want to be on her back. so we've learned to lay her down on her side and that seems to be doing the trick the past couple days. so i'm actually getting some baby-free time, which is great.

a lot has happened since our last post. at the pediatrician last thursday, she measured 21 1/4 inches (a 1 1/8 inch gain from a week prior) and 8lb10oz (a 12oz gain from a week prior!). everything checked out well in general, so our next appt with the pediatrician is when she's two months.

my checkup went ok. my blood pressure was a tad low, but obviously better than when i was in the hospital. the dr. ordered some blood work to check my hemoglobin and see how i'm recovering. he also ordered a test for a thing called von willebrand's disease. it's a form of hemophelia and may explain what happened to me after the birth. we're waiting for the results, but if i do have it, it just means i'll get some medication in my iv during the next birth to prevent excessive blood loss.

last monday, my cousin holly came down from columbus to visit and meet the baby. turns out, charis ended up being born on holly's birthday! here's a pic of the two of them...



on tuesday, we managed to give her a "happy" bath:



and here's charis helping daddy with his final project:



apparently, this is me and charis taking a nap together. i, uh, didn't know this photo was being taken :)



and here are a couple other naptime photos:





i can't think of much else to say. mostly we spend our days feeding her and calming her down to get her to sleep. she's sleeping in about 4 hour segments at night...once in a while we get 5 or 6 at a time. so she's doing fairly well in that department we think.

this is an important week around here...derek has his end of quarter show tomorrow night at UC...then his final critique on wednesday...then graduation saturday...then father's day sunday. whew! it will be a busy week for us.