Where are we now?


View Where are we now? in a larger map Jo, Annie, Miles and I are living in Northport, Alabama and working at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. We've been glad to be in one place for a bit after what appeared to be semi-permanently traveling (in actuality for a period of 2.5 years).We started this blog to catalogue some of the adventures when Jo and I were sequentially conducting our dissertation research in India and Brazil. While we've fallen off the blogging bandwagon somewhat during recent trips to Brazil, we're trying to pick it up again now that we're back in India!


Saturday, August 27, 2011

Sweet times



We've already written here about how fortunate we are to have not only an incredible support system in the United States, but here in India as well (It's great to have friends post linked here). Our network of friends who study in India is really strong, and we are incredibly lucky that Sarah's research has fortuitously brought her back through India right around the time of Annie's birth. To give Sarah the appropriate credit, this wasn't fortuitous, but something she planned around when she stayed with us in Delhi in February/March. Sarah arrived yesterday, and I think these pictures document that she is having a blast, and is quite smitten with our little potato (or any of the 100 other pet names we refer to her with). They also document that her new camera (Canon Rebel G3I) is absolutely amazing, and I am plotting how I can acquire one...

From Annabelle Winifred Meek
Snuggly times with Sarah (Annie in her DIY miracle blanket)





An amazing innovation, the  padala, which looks like a open-faced oil lamp, is a glorified spoon that is used to feed newborns expressed milk here in India. It's great because bottles at this stage are supposed to cause "nipple confusion"; well, we're not confused, the padala is awesome.



Even Annie thinks so!






Happy baby!

One of Annie's first pseudo-smiles!


This last picture is particularly funny, as Sarah jokingly tries to convince a friend over Skype that this beautiful baby is hers.....

Once again, how great is it to have great friends?

3 comments:

charrow said...

Im dying!! What a cute newnie. And that spoon funnel is awesome. That will be next craze here...nipple confusion...maybe that is the root of americans problems

herding tapeworms said...

i'm so jealous! can't wait to meet the muffin face.

KateC said...

Ah! The smile! I don't care what people say. It's not gas! It's a smile. Beautiful!