Elizabeth at One Month

Elizabeth is one month old already. She had a doctor's appointment today and weighed 7 lbs 15 ounces. She's growing every day, sleeping better (sometimes as much as 7 hours at at time), and is more alert and interactive.

We have lots of pictures posted on our photo site: http://public.fotki.com/natemarvelle/ and will have more coming soon!

Happy Holidays

For the last few years, we have sent out a holiday card featuring a silly picture:

2008

2007

2006

In years past, Amanda has used Powerpoint to design a postcard, front and back, and had them printed at Kinkos. This year, we upped the ante. With a little help from the internet (thank you, pshero), we designed a holiday card/birth announcement using Photoshop which we uploaded to Costco's photo printing site and then picked up at the store.

2009

The toughest part was getting good pictures of our little girl. Now, I'm looking forward to finding another project that we can tackle with Photoshop.

Elizabeth in moving pictures

Here are two videos of our little girl:

Elizabeth Cora Marvelle from Nathan Marvelle on Vimeo.

Elizabeth's 1st Days from Nathan Marvelle on Vimeo.

Baby's first bottle

At 3 weeks and 2 days old, Nathan gave Elizabeth a bottle.  Both Elizabeth and I had finally gotten the hang of nursing, and it seemed like Elizabeth would suck on anything.  I went in the other room just in case, but as we had expected, she took it very well.  Even now she loves the bottle a little too much and tends to drink much more than her little stomach can take and then spits up.