Happy 7th, Camille!

Camille enjoyed a very happy 7th birthday. It started off with her mouth giving her the first present--her front tooth. It had been hanging by a thread for days, and popped out first thing in the morning. What a great start!

Her horsey birthday party was lots of fun with coloring of backpacks, feeding-the-horse-a-carrot, cupcake decorating, hobby horse racing, and pinata destroying to top it off.

Madeline, of course, loved the cupcakes!

Sophia--you are 4 weeks old!

Sophia, at 4 weeks you have grown in many ways:

• You have definitely figured out when you are being held and how to make your preference know when you are not.
  
• You have mastered the art of voluminous spit up after mom eats chocolate (I had to test if a few times).
• You are beginning to figure out how to release your post-feeding burp in less than 15 minutes, and, without spitting up.
• You have developed the ability to heal from the nastiest diaper rash your mom has seen on an infant. Apparently commercial baby wipes don't agree with your skin at this age.
• You have mastered good eating and good growth--you went from 7 lbs 3 oz at birth to over 9 lbs in 3 weeks.
• You have succumbed to Pachelbel's Canon in D--it puts you out every time. (This worked like a charm on Camille as an infant.)
  
• You have figured out how to stay awake for 90 minutes at one time.
• You occasionally sleep for 4+ hours at night.
• You have stolen all of our hearts! The most common phrase in our house these days is "I want to be by Sophia!!!"

Happy 4 weeks, Sophia!

Thank you to the Price Lab

Thank you to the Price Lab.

Sophia loves and is already using her new towel and washcloths. She also loves the links, but was more interested in her sleeve for the picture. The chocolate is already gone and the bath supplies are coming in handy.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness!
Sophia and her mom and dad

The garden--thanks grandpa!

Grandpa Dan started our garden while he was visiting--
it's looking good, Grandpa!

And, of course, Sophia says hi!

Madeline's shocking quote. . .

Today Madeline told me that she "likes to hear Sophia cry"--definitely not the thing you want to hear coming from your 3-year-old about your infant. But, all is well. As far as we can tell, Madeline was only expressing her love of seeing Sophia's eyes open (since she sleeps so much). Crying is one of the only sounds Sophia makes and it means that she is awake and looking around. At least, I'm hoping that is what she meant. . . (She really is sweet with Sophia and loves to give her gentle hugs and kisses.)

Happy second week, Sophia!

At 2 weeks (but only 2 days after her due date), Sophia is doing well. She is a very content baby, as long as mom does not eat any chocolate. Despite the fussy post-chocolate days, she has still gained over a pound in the last 10 days--she weighs in at 8.5 lbs, according to our bathroom scale. She has a tendency to get a case of the hiccups every time she eats--which usually lasts about as long as the time she took for eating. And, she still sleeps almost all of the non-eating, non-burping, and non-hiccuping minutes of the day. Camille and Madeline love trying to get her to look at them, and they can't wait for her to start playing with them more.

Happy first week, Sophia!

Sophia is doing well as she turns one week old. We were lucky enough to catch her awake for a picture or two--she seems to only eat and sleep. :)

Madeline had a great time helping me take the pictures. Ellie (the elephant) had to be in several of the pictures, of course.