What Comes after the Journey? A Trek?

I suppose the journey to creating a family is over, huh? Accomplished. If that was a journey, what's the next stage? A trek? I imagine mothers out there will have various answers for me!

As I mentioned early on, I decided to create the blog to help keep friends and family up-to-date during the last months of the wait and to share our experience in China. This will be the last entry.

Thank you to everyone who took interest in our journey and shared their thoughts and good wishes along the way. The keepsake book that will come of these posts and comments will be an invaluable gift for Phoebe throughout her entire life.

Here's what's been happening, now home for one month. Enjoy the pictures below as well.

By all accounts Phoebe is doing very well. She is gaining weight, she sleeps 10-11 hours overnight and takes two short naps. She eats well, -- formula/rice cereal concoction (by spoon), baby food and people food.  We skipped the whole bottle step; she has recently mastered the sippy cup. She crawls well, pulls herself up easily, has developed a liking to cats and dogs... etc, etc, etc.

We get out a lot -- walks, parks, pet stores, small gatherings at the synagogue, play dates (that is, adult conversation dates) with other children ...

Friends have been visitors or visitees and have been an invaluable part of managing the beginnings of motherhood for me. I am grateful, comforted, relieved, fulfilled to have built relationships with some wonderful people over the years, and to be able to have these friends in our lives for years to come.