New Orleans!

Well, we made it to New Orleans yesterday and have been having a blast ever since. Lilah was fantastic on both of our flights - even sleeping through the rough turbulence of the second one. The lady behind us on the first flight got up at the end and said "Oh my goodness, I didn't even realize there was a baby there". Not sure I could ask for much more (OK maybe I could ask for less turbulence next time).

While I have been attending the NTEN conference, Jason and Lilah have been exploring the city. Today they went to the Aquarium, Riverwalk and Jackson Square. Jason said he will blog all about it for everyone and he took lots of photos I would upload if I had remembered to bring our upload converter. The weather has been great and Lilah has been the hit of the after parties! She is a tremendous trooper and we can't believe how many people want to come over and talk to us just to meet her - she is the ultimate networking tool.

The conference itself has been working and I think that Jason and I found a solution to our - do we get a video camera or not debate. After hearing, seeing and researching in the past 24 hours about The Flip camcorder - I suspect we will get one when we get back home. It sounds simple and perfect for our needs and then soon you will be able to see Lilah video on this site.

All for now as everyone else has been sleeping for a while and I have to start bright and early at an 8:30 session. Good technology to all!

Quick Reminder

Just a quick reminder to all that the Boig family will be hanging in New Orleans this week so we will be back online with updates next week. (OK Jason and Lilah will be hanging and I will be at a kick butt conference!!)

Till then....

Fun and Food!

This past weekend Lilah celebrated her Daddy's bday for the first time. I must say she is much more generous than I have ever been and she (along with Mookie and Hunter) gave Jason a Nintendo DS for use on the metro to and from his new job. (for anyone who doesn't have his new cell, shoot me and email and I will send it to you).

Along with his birthday came the funtastic filled party which could not have been complete without a homemade Wii cake. If you are not familiar with the Wii (or for those of you who are from another planet with birthday cake) it is a tall thin video game unit that has been much fun for our family and friend. The cake consisted of five layers - including homemade buttercream and fondant. Lilah did her part but giggling and jumping around in her Exersaucer - keeping us completely entertained even as the cake threatened to fall over.




Lilah has had her own culinary fun the past few weeks trying avocado and then this week banana. So far she seems to like everything and LOVES feeding herself with her spoon. Next week starts sweet potatoes!

Next Wednesday Lilah (and Jason and I) embark on our first plane ride together to New Orleans. I will be there attending a conference and Jason and Lilah will be enjoying the sites of the city. Then on the weekend we will be getting a personal tour from my sister's friend Josh who has lived in the city for a few years. So if you don't hear from me next week - be assured there are good stories to come.

Now off to bed before I fall asleep on my keyboard....

One stick of butter and six cups of powered sugar!

Last night Jason and I did a test run for the birthday cake we are creating for this birthday party this weekend. Since Lilah is now five month old she actually went to bed at 9pm allowing us the time to get the cake layered together and in the fridge for step two tonight (yea Lilah).



Since there was no 30th of February we have been debating if Lilah actually got to turn five months old, but under the argument that she did - we took some bear pictures. Since we are starting to get quite a bit of these (and since it is really hard to manipulate photos in Blogger) below you will see Lilah at one, three and five months with her Bear. As you can see her face is becoming a lot more defined and she is doing her favorite thing ever - grabbing her feet! She grabs her feet every chance she gets and especially loves doing it with her diaper off where she has the flexibility to then put them in her mouth. More later this week on avocado eating.

Also, for those of you who we haven't talked to in the last week or so - Jason has a new job - whoo hoo. More to come on that as well.

MBB reaches 100 entries!

It's hard to believe that just over one year ago (2/18/07 to be exact) I launched this blog to keep in touch with friends and family near and far upon announcing the impending birth of MBB (aka. Lilah R. Boig). It has been a fantastic time and in hitting the one year and 100 entries milestone a look back at things learned:

Calling your baby a fruit or veggie is cute to help the weeks of pregnancy go by. Calling them an inanimate object can be just downright scary (remember the rubber duck and tissue box posts).

Different baby emails will tell you different weights and lengths for your little one, so read a few, but the midwife (or obgyn) really does know best on the health of your little one.

Pregnancy Sucks (and Pregnancy Sucks for Men) really are the BEST books a pregnant lady and her husband can have. Buy them, share them, read them.

Believe in your gut - both during pregnancy and afterwords - it is the best indicator you have.

Sometimes even with all the planning and research in the world your baby still want everyone to see her "Butt First" so go with the flow as it all works out in the end. (get it the "end").

Have fun with your baby - take her out - show her the world! But be prepared - a change of clothes for everyone including you.

And last but not least - A trip to the grocery store can be an adventure as long as your sister doesn't go skydiving the very same day.

On that note - more to come in post #101 - as Lilah is rolling over like crazy, grabbing her toes, almost sitting up and starting fruits next week.

PS. My esteemed co-workers talked me into joining Facebook so feel free to give me a yell there.

The photos are in!

Good evening out there in cyberland. The past two weeks have been insane to say the best. We have had sickness, craziness and happiness. I hope to post a full update by the end of the week, but to tide you over today I got the photos from my photographer friend who you may recall spend some time at our place a few weeks ago photographing Lilah. She handed me a CD of 298 color andn B/W photos today! Here are some for your viewing pleasure. More to come with subquent emails.

At least she hasn't discovered chocolate yet!

In addition to her four month shots and monthly measuring (13lb 15oz, 25inches) Lilah was given the green like to start eating rice cereal (and oatmeal and barley).

Jason and I weren't all that nervous about how she would like being spoon fed as she has been sitting with us at the table for a few weeks playing with her spoon and trying to feed herself. As you can see from the photos, we were right and she can't seem to get enough of the stuff!
Now that she realizes that good comes from other sources, she is trying out everything new by putting it in her mouth. The example below was sushi the other night - although we keep telling her she has to wait until she is at least two for raw fish!

















After the chopstick incident we decided Lilah to see how she would react to other new things so we put her in a bouncy seat that Beth and Darryl had and she LOVED IT! And she didnt't even try to eat it :)