Inside Outside Equilibrium Day

Tomorrow marks Hazel’s inside-outside equilibrium day. She will have been on the “outside” as long as she was on the inside, which is pretty crazy to think about it. We’re not talking about prison here, folks, we’re talking about gestation. Hazel is 9 months old now and tomorrow marks 40 weeks since her birthday- my pregnancy was about 40 weeks so all in all our little Uni/Hazel has been around for 80 weeks now!

We had a lovely visit with Grammy Jane last week and Hazel already misses her very much. We got a few really sweet pictures of Hazel trying to rob Grammy of her jewelry. Our daughter the jewel thief:

This is what happened when Grammy put up a fight for her earrings. I think Hazel won.

While Grammy was in town we went down to the river and enjoyed some unseasonably warm weather. Here is a rare shot of Hazel with me!

Hazel with her Papa, eating a pine cone.

Hazel discovers grass.

and by discover we mean eats…

She gets sweeter every day.

Hazel has really started “talking” a lot lately. She now says “Haaaaaa” whenever she waves, and BaBa when she waves goodbye. This morning when I went to get her out of her bed she waved at me when I walked in and said “Haaaaa.” Now that’s a surefire way to melt a Mama’s heart!

We got a package from Aunt Sarah on Monday afternoon and Hazel was thrilled to discover she has a new friend, Camelia, the pink camel. I’m not sure I have mentioned this on our blog, but my sister Sarah is deployed to Iraq right now and recently learned that she will be moving over to Afghanistan in the next month or so- we are very proud of her and extremely anxious for her to come home (she was deployed this February and will be gone a year). Sarah was so thoughtful in sending us a package- we thought it was supposed to work the other way around with us sending her all the care packages, but that’s just how Sarah is, always thoughtful, always generous, always putting others first. Here are a few shots of Hazel with her new best friend, all the way from the desert!

Thank you Aunt Sarah!

And finally, (this is getting to be quite the lengthy post!)- Jered and I just learned that we will be having our first “weekend” without Hazel tomorrow and Friday night. I was originally scheduled to attend a conference in Charlotte, but at the last minute my presentation was cancelled by the lead presenter and I decided not to make the trip- to make a long story short, our hotel reservations are non-refundable, so we decided to go afterall. This morning my mom generously volunteered to take Hazel for two days so that Jered and I could have a mini-vacation, just the two of us. We are both excited and very very nervous to leave our girl for more than a few hours, but we are so thankful to get some time for each other. Thanks mom, for letting us have a little holiday to mark our 10 year anniversary! We’ll post more about how that goes when we get back (wish us luck!).

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