Sam & Ingrid

Ingrid's cousins Sam & Lucy came to visit a couple months back. They got along splendidly. Sam was so gentle and sweet with Ingrid as you can see here.

The Aquarium

Sam & Lucy at the aquarium. They loved it. So did Ingrid.

A Bit of Earth

This post originally ran on the Sycamore blog. 

We took a quick trip last weekend to visit family in California. They have a spot in this community garden which had such a wild, wonderful beauty. Kirk said it reminded him of Russian dachas.

I love that places like this exist.

Do you have a garden?

California Cousins

Ingrid took her first road trip this summer to visit Sam, Lucy, Jenn, and Kris in La Jolla. She did a great job traveling and loved hanging out with her cousins.

p.s. Sorry for the blurry photos.

Christmas

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! We've been having a wonderful time with our family members from near and far. It's great seeing how they all love her (almost) as much as Kirk and I do.

At the same time, it's been stressful since we found out last week that Ingrid hadn't been gaining weight and (at five weeks old) still wasn't up to her birth weight. I'm going in this afternoon to see if all the pumping, more frequent and careful feedings, supplementing, prayers, herbal remedies, etc... have paid off. Everything else in my life has pretty much been on hold while we work to fatten up our sweet little girl.

Ingrid with her adoring 3 year old cousin (above) and her equally adoring great-granny and great-papa (below).