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7-12-58 Wed.
Dear Daddy,
This is being written on borrowed time, as Eileen is awake & fussing, & will soon begin to howl for her private dairy herd me. Mooo!
Thought you might like a couple of snapshots to go with the 5x7 first-day shot we sent you. Eileen is up to a weighty 9lb. 1oz as of Mon. on the doctor's scale, & is getting more photogenic all the time. We've got a pile of 35 mm. film that I got when I was working for Kodak, that is so sensitive that it takes the best pictures in the dark. The only catch is that I had it wound up on 36 exposure rolls, so it takes a while to get it out of the camera.
Elsa mentioned that mother has already left for Chicago. It doesn't look much like you two will get up here together. If you get tired of batching it, & if business allows, come on up and take a peek at your #1 grandaughter. Yesterday she howled & fussed all day, & started to chew on her hand. On investigation, I found two suspicious little bumps
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on her upper gum thus. Could these be eye-teeth? At five and a half weeks!? As soon as she wakes up I'm going to call my sister-in-law, whose 4th baby was born 2 months to the day before Eileen, & find out a little about teething. All I know is that rubbing whiskey on the gums relieves them, but at 5 1/2 weeks, maybe she just has a couple of cleverly placed canker-sores. Anyway, no booze until we're sure.
Marie Murphy & Mike were here the other day, & brought a darling little sunsuit for Eileen. We've been intending to invite Mike over for dinner some night, as soon as my cooking gets a little fancier. At the moment, it's a race to get dinner ready & eaten before Eileen requires attention. I'm developing a nice repetoire of hamburger, one course dinner recipes. He's gone down to spend a month with Denny, so we should be past this little chaos by then. Oh well, it's a good thing Jim can cook!
Give our love to Kevin & Cookie.
Love, Marcia
P.S. I think the pictures on the next roll are better, as we have become more expert with that film.
