Visiting Wrigley Field

Cubs locker room!

On Friday, June 13 Aviva enjoyed her first visit to Wrigley Field.

Sure, she slept through the entire thing, but we have photographic evidence that she was there.

In August we'll take Aviva to her first actual game, but attending family day was the perfect start.

Cubs dugout

Aviva was able to see the Cubs locker room and visitor's locker room, sit in the dugout and see the press box. And all this happened while she was squished into her Daddy in a Moby wrap.

She finally woke up
on the way home...

Thanks to Katie and Max for inviting us to attend family day at Wrigley Field! Other than getting to take Aviva to see the ballpark, the best part for me might have been that the free meal included veggie dogs. Yum!

Perhaps next year Aviva will be able to walk out onto the field and catch a ball or two, or maybe the year after that...

Aviva's first bath

Belly button!

The latest scoop about bathing newborns is that they can't have a bath until their cord stumpy thingy falls off. No big deal, because that thing is supposed to follow off in 1 to 2 weeks.

Whelp, not for our stubborn gal--her cord held on tight for 4 weeks! We were getting sort of worried, until I went to change her diaper on Monday and found that little stump in her clothes.

It was exciting to finally have it fall off, and to see that cute belly button underneath. Looks like we've got an inny!

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to bathe her Monday because we had plans in the evening, so we waited one more day for the bath. 

On Tuesday, we set up our new infant bath tub and infant soap (thank you Suzie and Mickey!) We also got out our froggy hooded towel (thank you Stephanie!) and some washcloths (thank you

Eww the stump...

Zhen!). 

We plunked Aviva into the bathtub and anticipated tears and anger, but thankfully we were just greeted to confused grunts. I can imagine every day is a new adventure for Aviva, and having water poured on top of her head probably seemed weird. Though she wasn't angry, she was certainly cold, so we bathed her as quickly as possible. 

About one minute into our bathing session, little miss Aviva decided to let out a big poop. Luckily, our fancy bathtub made it easy to simply drain the poop into the sink and start with fresh water! The most exciting part was probably washing her hair, which was starting to get a bit greasy. 

After the bath ended, we got to wrap our munchkin in a big soft froggy towel. Once she got warm she was pretty satisfied with being clean. And, we discovered that her hair is super curly when washed. 

Froggy towel

Can almost see those curls...

Holy cow Aviva is four weeks old!

Where does the time go? Soon she'll be applying for college and we can say "I remember when you were just a little snuggly peanut..."

Aviva has her own room

Currently, Aviva sleeps in a nifty Pack N' Play in our room, but in a few weeks she'll graduate to sleeping in her own room. Therefore, we had to actually get her room together so that she'd have a place to call her own.

We started putting the room together about a month before she arrived, but there were always a few more things to do. While there are still a few tiny things still left (ahem Jeff I really want a shelf in the closet!!) and one more decoration to go up (Melissa is going to paint her Hebrew name for us!), for the most part I'm ready to call the nursery ready to go.

This weekend, Meghan and Mike were kind enough to come help us put together the crib, which was the last piece of the puzzle. Thank you to Auntie Devvie for sending us the crib! And thank you to Kelli for the mattress, and everyone else who sent us fabulous pieces to get this room looking amazing.

AND! Thank you to all the friends that helped us put it all together. Melissa, Jon, Michael, Angela and Julie helped us with the tree decal, Karen provided us with the base for the chair, Meghan and Mike helped with the crib and Anni provided us with the gorgeous growth chart and the pictures on the wall. Oh, and Laura will be bringing us the rug as soon as she makes it up to Chicago for a visit (rumor has it this Thursday!) Thank you all!!

Here are some pics!

The changing station! And also the tree decal. You'll also notice a lovely picture of Wrigley Field. We have to make sure she goes the right sports direction early on.

Here is Aviva's bookshelf, and the three beautiful pictures above it are Anni Betts originals!

Close up of the prints!

The crib is finally together! Aviva will sleep in it one day.

The entrance and growth chart.

Aviva is 3 weeks old!

Alright, I'm falling behind. This will be a lot easier when we're just logging months... which will happen soon!

Aviva is already 3 weeks old! In fact she's WAY past 3 weeks.

She loves to stick her tongue out--especially in photos!