Today is the first day of Paul's leave. He'll be off for two months and home with Sophia. I'll be working 2 days this week and 2 days next week and then I'll go back to work completely. Paul started the week off with a bang with some good playtime with Sophia under her new jungle-gym.I
am healing well. I still can't do all I'd like to do, but I am getting better each day. We were very lucky that so many kind people came the past few weeks to help us take care of Sophia. Thursday evening Christina and Miriam came and they stayed until Saturday afternoon. Miriam wasn't sure what she thought about her Mama taking care of another baby, but at the same time she was pretty fascinated by Sophia, whom she learned to call "Pia." It was lots of fun to have 
Christina and Miriam here, but Christina and I were pretty glad that both little girls took a long nap Friday afternoon because taking care of both of them was really wiping us out! Since my major limitation at this point is lifting and holding heavy things, I could actually do more for Miriam than for Sophia, since I could chase Miriam but I couldn't hold Sophia and I'm not sure that satisfied either girl. But we made it work and learned new respect for people who have children close together in age.We had a fairly quiet weekend after hurricane Miriam and Christina
left. Our good friend Brian came over. He's a busy guy so he hadn't met Sophia yet. He was best man at our wedding, and is very special to both of us, so we were glad to introduce him to our daughter.Tomorrow Sophia goes to the doctor for her 2-month check-up. She'll have 4 immunization shots. I'm really not looking forward to that! Poor baby girl. We'll also see just how much she weighs these days. We think she's over 15 pounds but we'll know exactly tomorrow.
