I haven’t been blogging much lately… things have been hectic. I had an ear infection and was keeping mom & dad up all night everynight (screaming 3-5 times every night!). But I’m feeling a lot better since they got me some penecilin.
I’ve been developing pretty quickly.
I can sit up straight now, without any trouble.
I can pass things back and forth from hand to hand easily, and I’m interested in pretty much everything I can see.
I have a few teeth trying to poke through. You can feel at least one of them really well.
I like to say “DA-DA-DA-DA” and “-Ah-Da!” and “Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah” over and over. Sometimes I whisper them to myself, and sometimes I yell them really loudly.
And the doctor said I weigh 17 pounds and 7 ounces! I’m huge!
I’ve been eating Peas, Green Beans, Mangos, Oatmeal, Rice Cereal, Sweat Potatoes, Bananas, Apple Sauce. I’m really starting to like these “solid” foods. (I say “solid” because they sure don’t seem as solid as the chicken wraps and stuff I see mom & dad making. I try to get those from them, or at least knock them on the floor for Lilly, but they usually stop me.)
I laugh now, not just occasionally, but all of the time. I guess I’ve decided the world is a really funny place. I really laugh when my mom pretends to eat my belly, and when Lily does her tricks. I also laugh at my dad when he wakes up and has his “grumpy” face on. I know that when I laugh it makes him smile, even if he is kind of cranky. It works on my mom too. When I wake her up in the morning and she stumbles into my room with her crazy hair and crabby face on I smile really big, and give her a laugh and she picks me up, gives me a big kiss and we go into the kitchen to make her some coffee. Then she really cheers up.
I overheard my parents saying if I get much cuter, or my laugh gets much better they’ll never be able to put me in a “time-out” when I get big. I’m going to just keep practicing and I’ll be irresistable befote they know it.
In other news I nearly have a mullet so a haircut may be in order- the parents are still in discussion.
This is me yesterday. Look at my cute hungry face!
Hey y’all. Just another update here from Durham. The forumula that mom & dad have been giving me (Enfamil w/ Lipil) has been upsetting my stomach the last week or so. They switched day before yesterday to giving me 1/2 regular formula, and 1/2 partially digested formula. That helped for a little while, but I’m still having some trouble with it. I guess I just can’t wait to move on to cheesecake, cous cous, pad thai, chicken tikka masala, and all the other good foods I see mom & dad eating every day. It’s not fair that I don’t have teeth yet to eat them!
In other news, I’ve developed a new appreciation for my Elephant friends. They’re the ones that hang from my play gym, they’re good packaderms for sure. The one that rotates (blue I think is what they call him) is the best. Very tasty.
That’s it from me, hope things are good in your part of the world.
So I’ve gone on apants strike. They are too long, tooshort, too wide, too narrow, too uncomfortable…
The overalls get in my face. The jeans leave marks on my belly, and the stretch ones get soaked from my diaper, they bunch up, pull, and just feel all wrong. It’s starting to be a real problem everybody. Now, as much as I’d love to go bare-legged, my legs get cold! It’s warm here, but not that warm.
Yesterday I was a playgroup and my friend gave me the perfect solution! She was wearing her onesie with these leg warmers called “baby legs”! They came in a million and one different patterns, colors, and designs. My legs can stay warm without the discomfort of pants. I can be fashionable and comfortable- what every baby dreams of.
I invite you to visitbabylegs.com . I’ll even include some pictures so you can see how amazing these things really are!
My Dad has been reading me this book lately called The First Three Minutes by some nobel-prize somthing or another guy. Basically, it’s about the first three minutes of the universe and how all this stuff around us came to be here.
I guess he thought that the Buddhist literature and other metaphysical stuff he was reading me last week was too advanced for my age. That’s why I think he decided to switch to the comparativley simple field of astrophysics instead.
Cosmology or Cosmogony or Cosmetology… I don’t care much what he reads. I just like the steady sound of his voice, and especially the parts where he gets excited. Don’t tell him that though, I think he wants me to be a scientist or something.
Anyway, while he was reading to me last night (the orgin of the universe book) I was actually really getting into it. I let him know I was enjoying the book by smiling a lot, giggling, and waving my arms during the good parts. I think he got the message.
And then, just when we were getting to the really exciting, the good stuff about the big bang–
–I had a big bang of my own, in my diaper. I guess I got too excited.
That was the end of the reading for the night, but I’m hoping we’ll read some more tomorrow.
Well, goodnight blog, I plan on dreaming all night long about moons and stars and galaxies.
That is, until three am. At 3 I’m planning to wake mom and dad up to feed me, and then I’ll probably cry once every 45 minutes until the sun comes up to make sure they don’t forget about me.
So Uncle Chris made Annabelle a video. It’s pretty funny! She enjoyed watching it- she wouldn’t take her eyes off the computer screen. Here’s the link…
So today I had a doctor’s appointment- they are not my favorite thing in the world by any means. First they made my mom and dad undress me so they could put me on the scale to see how much I weigh. I decided not to cry at all this time. (Last time I really gave them an earful.) As it turns out, since my last appointment, I’ve gained over a pound. I went from 7 pounds eleven ounces to 8 pounds 14 ounces! Since birth, I have grown an inch and a quarter. The doctor said I look healthy, beautiful and that my parents are doing a great job.
Today while I was at work with my mom she took me out of my sling and some of the kids gathered around to look at me. I flashed them my biggest smile yet! My favorite was starting at the upside down face right above my head. I am really starting to enjoy smiling at people, I think it’s because they give me so much focus when I do it.
Yesterday my dad put me in a Cornhusker outfit. I’m going to post a picture, especially for my Nebraska family.
I just thought I’d give a couple of updates on my latest developments…
-Yesterday my dad told me a zen koan, and explained what zen was. I think I’m on my why to becoming Buddhist.
-Today I lifted my head up off of my mother’s shoulder and looked from side to side! My neck muscles are getting super strong!
-While I had tummy time with my dad, and then my mom I smiled in amusement! I’m really starting to figure out this expression thing.
-My mom told me about all of the family and friends I’m going to meet during the holidays in Omaha. Tomorrow she told me she’d tell me all about airplanes.
-I watched my mom and dad make a Thanksgiving dinner a couple of days late. I keep them up most of the night so it got postponed. I found it pretty funny watching them carve a turkey.
My mom and dad took me with them to vote, and my favorite aunt Johanna filmed the whole thing. I guess my dad works at this place that tries to get Gen-X & Gen-Y (young & young-ish people) more involved in politics. They thought a video about voting would be worthwhile.
