Thank you so much, everyone, for all of your sweet comments and notes! We feel so lucky.

I can’t believe our little baby is already one week old–the days flew by. He is doing great and keeps us

smiling at (literally) all hours.

We’ve asked a few friends and fellow-bloggers to drop-in and share while we take some time to get to know this amazing little person, Hudson. I hope you’ll enjoy reading their posts–on topics of travel and babies and family and food–as much as we have. We’ll no doubt be dropping in here and on babymine.net from time to time, but we’re so grateful for these wonderful guest posts.

Aron and I are so happy and proud to introduce Hudson Paxtyn, born late Sunday night.
Our beautiful little boy has us wrapped around his teeny, tiny little fingers and toes–ten each!–already, and we just can’t believe they really let us leave the hospital with such a precious package. We’re in love.

We’ll be taking some time to get to know this incredible little boy, so we have some wonderful friends and fellow bloggers lined up to guest post (here and on baby mine) while we do. We’ll also no doubt pop in from time-to-time, in both spots, with updates. 

I have a new photo app and I’m loving it! It’s called Photosynth. It lets you take 360-degree collages with your smart phone and is wonderfully intuitive. And it’s free! A friend introduced me while we were up on the roof of the Met the other week and I’ve been hooked ever since. The photo above is here where they have more (particularly perfect) examples. 

Also in heavy rotation around here? Our new Flip camera. Ashley and I both wanted a simple way to take video of the baby–and of course I love new tech toys–so despite having multiple recording devices capable of video (an iphone, a Canon Powershot and a Rebel), I decided to get us a Flip UltraHD Video Camera. I tested it by holding both it and the other devices side-by-side and saying silly things while I moved between our kitchen and our nursery nook, and then outdoors. The Flip camera clearly won out–it just had better color balance and faster focusing, and it could more quickly adjust to new lighting conditions. It’s simple to use and we’re happy with its zoom and microphone, too. The only thing it couldn’t compete with was the sharpness of the dSLR, but that video has way too steep  a learning curve for it to serve any real value once our kid becomes mobile. It’s too bad the Flip is being discontinued; it’s such a great concept!