Summer fun despite the weather

Hadley is 6 weeks old already! Our days together, Tuesdays through Thursdays, while Miles is at school, consist of reading books together, doing tummy time, taking naps and walks. We also went garage sale-ing (it's amazing what you can get for $1 - like 14 matchbox cars which Miles will love), went to ECFE (we're taking a 0-5 month class and meeting many other moms and young babies), and baby yoga. We did our first baby yoga class today and Hadley was awake and cooing the entire time. I love yoga bonding with my baby. Here's Hadley relaxing while I took a shower.
Mike thinks she looks like the children's book character, Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon.

I think she looks like my little, pretty princess. She is cooing and smiling more and more each day. She makes sounds like "ahhh," and "coo," and what sounds like "ay-buck."

We are very happy to say that we were able to publicly bank Hadley's cord blood after her birth. Umbilical cord blood is rich with blood-forming cells, cells that are no longer needed after delivery. But these cells may be needed by someone with a life threatening disease like leukemia or lymphoma who needs a transplant to survive. We donated Hadley's cells to the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, part of Duke University. It's nice to know that her umbilical cord blood which normally would just be disposed of as medical waste, is banked and may give hope to a family who's loved one needs a transplant. For more information on cord blood donation go to bethematch.org.

Miles is such a big boy he's wearing a helmet when bike riding. (This amazes me since just a year ago he was my baby!) He resisted the helmet at first so I had to put mine on to convince him to wear his. I'm sure I looked ridiculous sitting on our patio, with Hadley in the Baby Bjorn, wearing a helmet watching Miles bike around the driveway in his helmet.

He loves watering the flowers and sitting in the big chairs. He's a very good helper.
Yesterday we went to Mike's company's family picnic and despite the rain had a good time and also trekked to the park using our new double stroller. Today we visited the Arboretum. It's nice to take a little time to smell the roses.
Mike and I love the fun times we spend with our two little movie stars.