I arrived at Tina's house just in time to witness the bath of Rayna, who really wasn't quite nuts about the whole routine. Tina and Keith are both on materinity leave to take care of the new baby, born on December 31. Their older daughter, Maya, aged 2, is at childcare during the day which allows them sufficient time to take care of this new baby without the over-enthusiastic help of Maya. Rayna was a big baby, nearly 9 pounds at birth, but failed to flourish with the breast feeding, ending up dehydrated and having a couple trips to the ER already. She is now doing well using fortified formula, much to Tina's dismay as well as relief, knowing the baby is going to be okay and will re-gain the lost weight.
Just look at the little bird face Rayna is making! Tina washed her hair/head at the kitchen sink and that was not the baby's favorite part of the bath at all. Getting all wrapped up in blankets with a fresh diaper in place makes all the difference in the world. The noise she makes can hardly be described as crying and to the non-parent, it was musical! Once swaddled, Rayna was ready to have a bottle of yukky looking formula and snuggle into her great-aunt's bosom for the remainder of the afternoon.
Tina, Christina as she prefers now as an adult, took this photo of me holding Rayna, declaring it was good picture of me........I disagree and won't show it. Maybe it was because I was holding a newborn or something, but I looked rather old. Can't have that! Thanks to the cropping ability of my computer, I can show the lovely sleeping baby in her great-aunt's arms. Tina also showed me the picture she has of herself as an infant and the resemblance between mom and baby girl is absolutely incredible! I encouraged her to scan the baby picture of herself into the computer and put a photo of Rayna alongside, just for interest sake. It was uncanny, but then, I don't know why we are surprised when the babies look like their parents! The best news was that Rayna was baptized while still in the hospital, as was Maya. It was a non-denominational pastor who administered the washing with water and the Word. That was the finest baby gift Rayna got, her re-birth in God's promises of salvation! *
About that resembling their parents: Justin was looking at the photos I printed off the Prange's website and was amazed at how much Baby Grace looks like her mama! And Lucas looks like his father! Go figure!
*
Kathy B. was looking at photos of Justin and me in one of my scrapbooks as well as my facebook pages and remarked that he looks so much like me, especially the smile. I do not think he would be overly excited to hear he looks like me, but I think he already knows it!
4 comments:
What a beautiful baby. I can smell her sitting here. Freshly bathed and squeaky clean. Yes the cat is away again till Feb. He is actually down in Florida right now.
Hi Jill,
Funny that you say that because it seemed like all evening and on the way home from their house, I could smell her! Not on my clothes or anywhere else, must have been in my nose hairs or something!
You should tell you boss to look me up as long as he is down here!
Have a good day celebrating Danny's birthday! I sent him a birthday greeting to your e-mail for him.
Love,
Kim
I got your greeting and forwarded it to him so to speak. Miss Alayna texted me at 10:30 last night with a b-day greeting for him also. He has now be given instructions on things he has to do to help out more and he started last night. I suppose I should get to work now. I beleive my boss is in Port Charlotte so IO know that is quite a bit away from you. Love Me
Hi Me!
Thanks for forwarding the birthday greeting. I forgot where and when the party is, though. A sweet 16 party???!!!
Port Charlotte is quite a distance from here, not exactly a hop,skip, or jump! I hope it warms up some while they are here! We had 37 this a.m. when I left for Bible study. Brrrr!
Hugs and blessings,
Kim
Post a Comment