Two months and getting chubby!

We discovered some interesting things about our daughter when we went to get her two month innoculations. First, she doesn't like shots. Or rather she doesn't like being held down and given a needle. I know what that's like, and I don't mean getting baby shots, but I could definitely understand her discontent when she started wailing! I held her before, during, and after the shots, so Caitlin was very grateful that I was able to do a split shift and be there for the shots. Made for a long day, but it worked out in the end.

This picture I took a couple of minutes before she was pumped up with dead viruses. She is not our exactly our teeny-weeny-Rini any more, but she's still small on the average scale. For her age, she's in the tenth percentile for weight with a bulk of 10lbs 3oz or 4.61kg. Also she measures 21.5" or 55cm long, which puts her in the fifteenth percentile for length. Oddly enough, her overall size was just under the fiftieth percentile. Yeah, I don't get it either. The plots kind of had a logarithm look to them, but other than that, I don't know when the chart was made or where the data was gathered from.

I almost thought that they gave her a tranquilizer since she dropped off so fast, but babies don't get tranqued and the nurse gave her a DPTP (diptheria-tetanus-pertussis(whooping cough)-polio) shot, menigingococcal shot and pneumococal shot. That last one stung but good.

Little did I know she was just checking her eyelids for holes. There wasn't any fussing, and the only time she seemed to have any reaction was when she was screaming after the shots, and her whole body was red. I think the vein on her forehead was standing out too, so the nurse didn't consider it an allergic reaction.

In case you're wondering, yes, the smiley face has devil tips on the ends of his smile. The caption is "Lead me not to temptation, I can find it myself." There is a reason the company that makes the shirt is called Walking Time Bomb. :P

Generation growth

Jess and Chris came by and brought their 10.5 month old toddler. Ok, Ben's just big for his age, but still!
This is where Ben gets his size from. I don't think I'll ever get used to how big Chris is, because I think his son may very well out grow him!
Even though Jess and I are about the same height, our children aren't! Then again, Ben has nine months on Rini.

A few things Caitlin and I realized about our daughter. First off, is the fact that she gets a lot of gas. Oddly enough, I've been using the term "Riding the fuss bus" whenever she acts fussy. Riding the fuss bus to snoozetown, or foodsville, or just until it runs out of gas are the usual destinations for our daughter.

We also inadvertently discovered a calming technique. Walking around with her in our arms. Most all babies enjoy movement, but we figured it was because Caitlin was working up until a week before Rini was born, and at her job, Caitlin did a lot of walking.

Could just be coincidence.

Digital Cuteness

Some pics to show how cute, and big, Erini is right now! She weighs approximately 9lbs as of Sunday. We weighed Caitlin first, then Caitlin held Rini, and we subtracted off Caitlin's weight. Not the most accurate thing in the world, but we don't have a baby scale on hand.





And now you're thinking, who the heck is that bald weirdo cuddling up with the cute baby? Well, that would be me. I shaved my head, rather Caitlin shaved my head at my request, because we were done with the play, and I have been looking for an excuse to shave my head for months now. I thought that we were going to do it for the play, but instead we just dyed it. I'm thinking about keeping it short for the summer, and then growing it back over the winter. We'll see though.


I'm so lucky to have a couple of beautiful babes to greet me when I get home. :)