Toads-in-the-Hole

During this first week of her life, many people have gone out of their way to compliment Adelaide's beauty. On some occasions, they've been so struck by it as to wander into the realm of hyperbole, like when my classmate enthused, “She’s the most beautiful baby in the world!” or when that crazy old lady grumbled, “She’s so gorgeous, she makes the dawn of spring look like crap.”

As new parents, we feel concern that Adelaide’s stunning visage may be overwhelming when grappled with all at once. Aimee’s parents, Don and Mary, have been able to spend quite a bit of time with Adelaide, and show no signs of developing a tolerance for it.

So here we have a web-experiment: Adelaide’s Bits provides small doses of Adelaide’s features that we hypothesize will allow viewers to develop some tolerance to her otherwise blinding perfection. Along the way, we’ll point out those few imperfections that enable the gods to keep from destroying our whole family out of jealousy.

Here we have her nose, which we suspect may share a common ancestor with Martin Luther King Jr.’s While it is a nose of generous proportion, it actually serves an important function: that of allowing Adelaide to breathe even while really crammed up against Aimee’s breast.

There's really nothing we can say about her eye. Just try to withstand it.

While at first, and even second, look her hands may seem like unbearably precious tiny fragments of shell-colored transcendence, when she's deeply asleep they actually look kind of puffy.

Do you see that tiny dot on her ear? There. She’s not perfect. Put away that thunderbolt, Zeus!

Her feet are actually pretty big for her size. We’re not sure if the same rule that applies to puppies’ feet works for humans, but if it does, she may grow up to be about the size of a brown bear.

Her leg has yet to achieve that pleasing Michelin-man sausageness that will come with additional feedings. When she snakes it unexpectedly out of her swaddle, it can alarmingly resemble a tentacle.

So, are you ready for the test? Look at this next picture and see if the rest of the world seems a drab grey in comparison.