Three of Eight.

Dance, dance!

ho hum...

I can't wait 'til she starts flingin' it everywhere.



She kept pushing my hands away and fussing every time I tried to reposition her so she could be comfy when she fell asleep, just like her father.
Oh, and check Blanche in the background trying to get up on the counter. She is still up for grabs, you know.

Gangsta-style, silver dreams and TEETH.

SO we got this huge box and enormous bag of clothing from a friend who knows someone who was looking to unload all of their babygirl clothes on an unsuspecting couple, because they had no idea what to do with it (imagine that), and one of the awesome things we got was a sweatshirt with a bulldog or something on it. Its blue, with a red interior, not your average run of the mill girly style color scheme. Anyhow, so, we started joking about the colors and the fact that we live in Oakland and ooooohh crippy blood/bloody crip yaddah yaddah and then I decided that she needed to girly it up so I put a RED headband on her and then she just ended up looking like a tennis player or something and headbands are stupid anyway.
But secretly, I like them.



After she puked 3 times on her sweatshirt, I put her in her pope outfit, not really, but, after she fell asleep, the hat moved and thats what she looked like... but I don't think the pope has a silver moon rattle. At least, not in public.
She really did fall asleep with it in her hand like that.
She also has cut 2 teeth. Yikes.

Thanksgiving casualties and oh my god...

BEFOREMATH...


AFTERMATH.


She kept trying to eat his nose.


Then she finally took a break.


She pretty much sits up on her own now, and oh my god she weighs 17 pounds, 12 ounces!! she has gained 2 pounds since her 4 month check up a month ago.
Chunka-chunka.


I love my baby.

Bathysphere.

Clean, big-eyed baby.

Its been awhile, but pictures are coming...

I promise.

Eating some food and hanging out upsidedown.

Going in...


Mission impossible. She ate most of it. The second feeding she was 'diving' for the spoon. She is still confused by the whole food thing, though.


She likes to hang out upside down. Often.

STATS!!!!!!!!

She got her second round of shots this morning... handled it like a champ. Much better than I would if I had some 2 inch needles stuck into each one of my thighs. There were four needles total, so she got 2 in each leg. My gosh its heartbreaking. My husband said his heart wanted to jump out of his chest. He wasn't there for the first round, so this was harder for him.
However, she now weighs 15 pounds 9 ounces, and she is 26 inches long. When she was born she weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long.
My, she has grown.

Mt. Shasta is awesome.

We went to Shasta for the week. Technically, its Weed, but it was beautiful anyway, and the people are pretty nice.




Black Bart hid behind this waterfall after robbing a stagecoach in 1869 or 1865. It doesn't look like much but in the spring it flows a bit more.


Crazy eyes!









Good friends of ours have a house up in Shasta, so we stayed there. Can't wait to go up in the summer.





Sundial Bridge in Redding is awesome!!

messing around with the photo booth.

I live for this shit.

BFF.


my heart melts every day.

She has been sleeping really long these days. By long I mean 4-5 hours at a stretch. If she goes down to sleep at 830pm she will sleep to at least 130-2ish (am). Then she'll be up for an hour or so, then go back down until 4sh, eat a little, then back down until 730ish. Not too shabby, considering some of the other stories I hear.
I feel lucky that she likes to sleep.
Oh, and she's taken to 'yelling' for what she wants instead of crying. She never really cried anyway, unless I just wasn't getting what she was trying to communicate. Mostly hunger.

Hard to keep up...

She changes so much everyday. Here, she is not sure what is going on, trying to keep it cool...


...and here we see by the look on her face she is clearly not amused, no sense of humor about it AT ALL.


Maybe she will get the light-eyed half of the genes??


She is a genius.

this is my life... plastic fruit and baby fingers.

Our little grape.

Jackson, the Lion...


Piglet...


Blanch the cat, my husband, Lita Jo and the dog were all hanging out on the couch, but you can't see the dog. She was there...


Blanche, with her new 'do'...

We shaved the two larger cats because the hair was getting out of control. Also, they look so damn cute. All I do is pet them now instead of shooing them away. Its a bonus for everyone.