Eight Weeks! 56 Days 1 hour 58 seconds

Hi,

so today is 8 weeks for baby eleanor. That makes her approximately 2 months old. Totally amazing.

You know, not to put pressure on her, but i was thinking what if she doesnt do something new today? I mean she makes new sounds, and new movements with her hands and arms, but what if on this day.. she doesnt show up?

Well... i was wrong.
We were able to capture in a photo a totally new expression.
This is the smile without teeth smile. Still happy and still very cute...



I was able to clip most of her overgrown toenails and fingernails today. Usually she is quite fidgety, but today she was calm. Like she knew not to fear. Last time i drew blood from one of her fingers, but she seemed to forget all about that little incident. We needed to clip her nails because we were taking her out in a short sleeved shirt today.


Today was a good day off for us.

I read about this place called arnold's go karts in oaks pa. It was rated as a top place to go in Philadelphia Magazine. It is a 1/3 mile indoor go kart track. The Karts are electric instead of gas. Pretty fast.

One race costs 15 bucks mon-thu, fri sat sun 20 bucks. There was a special buy 2 races get a 5 dollar discount. So, we bought 2 races per person.

for 30 dollars 2 races was pretty worth it. Each race last for 10 minutes. I found that rather than just a race down a straight away, the key was driving the right lines on the course and wait for your chance to pass. No power steering so doing some muscular activity before may help with the driving.

Here are some pics of the place.

Brian and Bryce



My uncle and cousin


Then we went to minado sushi buffet for lunch. Very very good indeed. about 16.95 per person lunch, 25 for dinner. I think it is close to quality of Todai. When we were at the buffet we met a family with twin girls. Double trouble man. They had a double stroller. Like the F14 Fighter pilot setup.

Then i came home to watch another nailbiter between the phillies and the astros. In the end Chase Utley came thru with a walk off homer in the 11th. Ryan howard also had another homer today taking his total to 53 HRs. That leads all the majors. Thanks to other players dropping off and even david ortiz going into the hospital for irregular heartbeat, Ryan howard has stepped up.

They are still not out of the woods in terms of the wild card. Florida who will be in for a 4 game set this weekend is playing fast and furious also.

So, i can say that the baby has really grown.
She makes new noises, not just crying, but high pitched screams, little whines, cool noises.
She is on the verge of moving up to the next size in diaper too.

Here are some more photos of Eleanor on her 56th day
Arms up

Arms down

a good close up


ttyl
Sam