Our little lollipop

Sam is the weirdest proportioned baby ever. He just went to the doctor yesterday and here is how he measures up:

• weight: 50th percentile (up from 25th!)


• height: 75th percentile


• head: literally off the charts. By quite a bit, it looked like to my untrained eye.

His head has been growing at an astronomical rate, making a practically vertical line on the growth chart. He's had 2 ultrasounds, though, and they both show that everything in there is completely normal. Here's hoping that his body catches up someday!

Just for kicks, I photoshopped Sam with a more proportional head:

Isn't it strange how it makes his whole body look smaller? I double checked a bazillion times, and that body is the same size.

People are always like "What a big boy you have!" But it's just his gargantuan cranium. A virtual planetoid! Has its own weather system. (say that last part with a Scottish accent :) )

We choose to think that he's just going to be a genius. Like his father.

Leaps and Bounds

This is not an illusion. But I kind of wish it were. Sammy is sitting up! Well, for a few seconds at a time. And I just can't get over how handsome he is :) How can he possibly be so old already?
Viv is reaching some milestones of her own--opening the fridge, opening the cupboard where the garbage is and throwing stuff in, barking like a dog. She can say "uh-oh" instead of "uh-uh". She has her own names for all of us: I am Mama (of course!), Rob is also Mama. Grace is Nee-nee, and Sam is Dee-dee.
Watching the kids grow up is so bittersweet!

Miracle

I believe in miracles. I have experienced a lot of them, both big and small. Today I realized what might seem like a small one. Vivian went to nursery for the first time. That's not the miracle, though it is a huge relief.
Before Sam was born, I would say Rob made it to church probably 1 or 2 weeks out of 4. So one of my biggest questions was how I would get through church by myself, since I would have 2 babies through Sunday School and Relief Society. Today I realized that I have only been to church by myself with the kids once in the last 5 months. I consider that a miracle.

Vacation week

Rob had a week of vacation this last week. It was so wonderful to have him home!

Here's a quick overview of what we did. We took a little roadtrip to Pittsburgh to hang out with our good friends from medical school, who we miss terribly. It was so fun to hang out with them! Huge thanks to the Ringgers for housing and feeding us! We were so busy talking and eating delicious Super Bowl food, we couldn't be interupted to take pictures. But I really wish I had one of the boys playing rock band. Instead, here's an old picture from our most incredibly fun trip to Hawaii, right after med school.

Then we went with the Reynolds to an indoor water park, and spent the night, which was great fun for the kids.

When we got home, we got right to work on the bathroom. I cannot tell you how happy the "new" bathroom makes me! As Rob said, and I have to agree, the old bathroom was so ugly, I had just stopped looking at it. In addition to how ugly it was just on its own, I decided to start the project a year or so ago and started ripping down wallpaper, but then never got back to it, so there was a swath of missing wallpaper down the main wall. Classy. I don't know if you can tell from these pics just how bad the wallpaper was.

Here's the new look. The pictures aren't very good, but oh well. I am so glad I decided to spring for the new shower curtain, even though we didn't technically need it. I feel like the green is minimized, since we are just not going to tackle it.