Bambina

Thursday morning at 3am Mila gave birth to a beautiful 6-and-change-pound baby girl. I stopped by the house on Friday evening about 5 minutes after they'd gotten home themselves. They both looked tired but happy. Feeling a need to be useful (you can't just decend on the home of people with a newborn and not make yourself useful) I helped Eli assemble the crib, a complicated adjustable co-sleeper dealie.

The baby, whose name we will learn in a couple of weeks at a naming ceremony called a Brit Bat, is lovely and sweet-tempered, with a full head of black hair. Who does she resemble most? If you'll forgive the unsentimental response, I think newborn babies more closely resemble each other than anyone else. But she's still a cutie.

However I think I'll make up for an unsentimental response with this rather sentimental picture. Is the composition a little trite? Let's just say that there's something about a day-old baby that makes you think of the classics. On the other hand, I have no good excuse for why the people in the drawing only passingly resemble Mila and Eli. I really wanted this to be a better picture than it is. But things don't always go the way that I plan.

Labels: drawings, journal, personal

posted by Tony at 9:23 PM