Gotta be a first time for everything

And today, it's an ear infection.  This is a very sad baby.

Family pics

First thing, Gwen had another milestone at Grammer's yesterday.  She can count to three with a little prompting.  When she feels like it.

We had a professional photoshoot in December and I snagged some of the images from the company's order page.  Very low quality and they have a giant "Proof" across them, but here they are anyway.

January pics

We've become so horrible at updating this blog.  Just too much going on in our lives I suppose.

Gwen just keeps changing all the time.  She's able to walk around holding onto furniture or pushing a little car, and we've seen her stand unaided for a few seconds at a time.  She's very chatty, and words are arriving with some frequency; we've had "up", "bye bye", "no", and "milk" for awhile now, but newer additions are "gaga" (cracker), "up ez" (up please), "coo" (thank you, we think), "night night", "house" (referring to her toy door in the pics below), and just today we got "pizza".  I was carrying her from the car after picking her up from daycare and she just spat out "pizzapizzapizza".  I just had to stop in my tracks, the cuteness was overwhelming.

Gwen had a surgery on her eye a few weeks ago.  She was born with a blocked tear duct and it just didn't go away.  Everything went fine, and we no longer have to hold a wet washcloth to her eye every morning to loosen up the gunk.  A win-win for all of us, really.

This child is still not gaining weight.  She's gotten a bit taller, but she's noticeably skinnier.  The chart, it is looking worse.  Up until recently, she's been at a very healthy height/weight ratio, right in the middle of the range.  Now she's right on the edge between OK and too skinny for her height.  A dietician came to look at her and has told us to put olive oil in her spaghetti sauce and heavy whipping cream in her milk.  Wish I could eat that way...