Home again

I'm in only a slightly better mood this evening, so this won't be long.

The flight home wasn't terrible; Alex and I occupied a row of two by ourselves, while Mommy was in the window seat in the row directly in front of Alex's window seat.  Alex only kicked Mommy's seat back a few times, only shrieked a few times, and only engaged in sociopathic behavior a few times.  Most of the flight, however, she was engaged with a cup of ice water, a paper napkin, and a strange, spa-attendant-like fixation on mopping my cheeks, brow, ears, and fingernails with a wet napkin full of ice water.  Anything for a quiet hour and a half flight.

More vitals for Ella-Anne, now that I have the pediatrician report in front of me:  21 inches long (7th percentile); 8 lbs., 6.4 oz. (5th percentile); head circumference 14-1/8 inches (below 5th percentile).  She's a little behind where Alex was at this point, because the deep archives on the old blog tell me that Alex reached 8 lbs., 8 oz. on September 5 (when she was 48 days old); Ella-Anne is about 1.6 oz. behind that level at 57 days.  Yet it seems like Ella-Anne is a bigger eater (and has chubbier legs at this point) than I remember Alex being.

Congratulations to:  Our friends Doug Brunt and Megyn Kelly on the birth of their first child, a son named Edward Yates Brunt, who arrived last week at a strapping 7 lbs. and 10 ounces (decidedly above the 5th percentile) and will go by the name "Yates."

Another of my Jones Day colleagues who shares Ella-Anne's July 28 birthday:  My Chicago colleague Irene (Savanis) Fiorentinos, who wished us "NA SAS ZEESEE" -- and who (with her husband) is also an adoptive parent -- of Lia, who turns 3 in October.  (In case you want a translation, "NA SAS ZEESEE" means something along the lines of "May she have a long life.")

May she.