Linnea Ann Nielsen

Mommy and daddy took me to their favorite resturant in St Augustine.

In case you’re wondering why we haven’t posted any video of her earlier in life it’s because our camcorder had an ‘incident’. Just minutes after we got home from the hospital after she was born, after taking a few seconds of video, all of the videos on the disc we suddenly erased without provocation or warning. This included a video we made (addressed to her) while Steph was in labor, video of her in the minutes and hours after she was born, video of her leaving the hospital and of her coming into her home for the first time. Those are a lot of memories that we’ll have to be content to have in our memories and never on the screen. We’ve let go of the anger that ensued. After all what can you do? Still it will cause us to think twice before trusting Sony with our hard-earned money again, and I hope you all will do the same. 

Linnea started smiling recently and we’re thrilled to share her beautiful smiles with everyone. They are still somewhat rare but we love each and every one. Strangely enough she is most likely to smile when she’s naked. As her father this concerns me… a lot.     If you can’t see the above video, you can also watch it here. 

Here’s some video of Linnea’s first real bath. She didn’t like it too much but I edited out most of the screams     If you can’t see the video above, you can also watch it here.