Many of the baby books and other resources have lists of ways to calm your crying baby.  Things like:

1. Try feeding her
2. Change her diaper
3. Hold or rock her
4. Walk around with her
5. She's too cold or too warm
6. Something is causing her pain--find it
7. Burp her
8. Overstimulation -- go somewhere quiet
9. Boredom -- she wants something different
10. Play some white noise, water running, etc.

A useful list.  But what they don't tell you is that the list repeats!  You could work your way to the bottom of the list, and she's still crying 20 minutes later.  Great!  Now start from the top again. 

So the list should end as:

11. Goto 1.

Allrighty, I've resurrected the blog.  We'll see how long it lasts.  Hopefully I'll be more inclined to post stuff about Elissa!

Pics will be at Flickr, available to "Friends and Family" only.  Let me know what your Flickr login is and I'll add you as a contact, and you'll be able to see family pictures.

Still tweaking the theme...got some weird problem with the footer.  Also trying to make Flickr blog posting play well with dasBlog.

Elissa's first bookstore, originally uploaded by TimScott.

Elissa made her first trip to the bookstore last week. One of Andi's authors was speaking, so I kept Elissa entertained.