Update (Personal)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

Hi all --

Just a quick note to let you know that Elizabeth is home from the
hospital at last and my life has taken on a bit more normalcy ... well
as much normalcy as it can have with a 9 day old baby anyway!  She's
beautiful ... I hope you'll all agree (I just uploaded a picture of her
to the Files area of the main group).  But, she is (like all newborns)
trying the patience of inexperienced mommy & daddy.  Thank goodness for
the patient grandmother (my mom) who is on hand to cook, clean, rock the
baby when mom & dad can't take it anymore & tell us that her behavior is
perfectly normal & will pass with time.

Thanks so very much to everyone who posted congrats notes on the list
(Carole bundled them up & sent them to me) and those who sent me
off-list notes & e-cards!!!  You guys are great!  I especially liked
Neil's card -- "Pointed hats are being thrown into the air!"

I will be checking in with the main group more in the next few weeks
when I get my feet on the ground.  Things are a bit hectic right now
though ... any advice on colic/gas in young infants would be much
appreciated (that is: advice that is more than what our pediatrician has
said, which is: "She'll outgrow it.  It stinks but you'll have to just
live with it.").  That would be truly OT though ... so feel free to
email me privately.  :--)

Take care --

Penny