Pics from the babysitter

Just a few pics today:

Overdue

I was given homework by my sister to make a post, but it's a few days late. But at least I'm posting!

Gwen went to the doctor yesterday for her 9 month check up. Everything continues to do well, though she continues to be in the <3% for weight and height. Head circumference is still 25%. She has a big 'noggin, in comparison to the rest of her.

Little info bits: We're continuing to add formula as a supplement to her bottles. She's taking an iron supplement, but everyone hates it. She sits on her own very well. There's a sudden hatred of baths now. She is sleeping through the night completely and does well. We have a pretty good baby and count ourselves lucky!

Here are some recent pictures, what everyone who reads this wants, anyway:

Rocking Out

Now that Gwen has obtained some ability holding herself up and grasping small objects, I decided to try to find another way to entertain her while I'm in the kitchen.  I'm sure to regret it, but it keeps her happy for now...

Gwen now has a plastic spatula, a wooden spoon, and a metal mixing bowl.  After some effort she discovered that she could use these items together to make noise.

And while this is something that I would certainly do, I actually didn't.  Jenni did it all on her own.  We have ARMY BABY!

We also discovered another fun kitchen toy.  I was baking cookies and had prepped some cookie sheets with parchment paper.  Gwen managed to snag one of them and this is the result:

It's a girl!

Yes, sometimes I forget this fact.  Jenni says that starting now, I'm going to have to accept it and dress Gwen in some actual cute clothes.  This makes very little sense to me, but I stopped being the ruling factor in this household about 11 years ago or so.

So we have Gwen in a spring dress.

The Curse of the Tiny Baby

Gwen's tiny.  Really tiny.  At least as far as I'm concerned.  This becomes most apparent when we have a toy that is just too large for her.  In this case, we borrowed a bouncy swing from Davina:

She couldn't get her feet down straight no matter what we did, so mostly she ended up rotating instead of bouncing.  Not such a big hit.  And no, she's not in it backwards - we tried it both ways.

Her Father's Daughter

I think this little person is taking an uncanny resemblance to her father.  Grammer's computer died and I put a new one together.  Gwen took quite a bit of interest in the proceedings.  She even got a memento out of it:

Yes, The Luke is still an AMD fanboy.  The child will be raised to be as well.

She seems confused as to what to do with it.  She almost has the manual dexterity to install a CPU on her own, but I still had to help her this time.

NOM NOM SILICON!

Those with good eyes will have noticed in the previous pictures that she has my last bag of valentine's hearts.  It's crinkly, and safer than a potato chip bag.  I love these chalky hearts of goodness, and I'll have to take these from her at some point.  I'll have to boil the bag or something though...

NOM NOM PLASTIC!

Random cuteness ahead:

The Catch-Up Post

Not much activity on the blog recently; I've got lots of work stuff to keep me busy right now.  But since my in-laws will filet me with dull knives if I don't get something up, here's the massive picture post.

Mysterious shadow baby

In the bath

Jedi baby finds your lack of faith disturbing

Go go gadget baby arms!

 We attempted to feed Gwen her first solid(ish) food.  Lemme tell ya, rice cereal looks tasty!  Just like soggy cardboard, my favorite!  The feeding did not go well, we decided that she just wasn't quite ready yet.

This pretty much sums it up

It must be a bad dream

Apparently sometime between 4:30 AM and 7:30 AM I woke up and decided she must be cold.  At least, this is the best we can surmise from how she's dressed since I have no memory of this and Jenn insists she didn't put the sleepsack on her.... 

Easter outfit time!

Playing in the exersaucer

Nom nom telephone!