Mark & Mandy

Robin and Duncan sent elsie a kiwi wearing an All Blacks outfit. As you can see the bird has a large beak … That is perfect for … CHEWING!! Don’t worry Robin and Duncan, she just got a little taste.

Elsie had her four month old check up today (two weeks late).  She was right on target for growth: Weight: 12lbs 13.5 oz (25th%) Height: 24″ (25th%) Head Circ.: 16 3/8″ (60th%) We had 4 vaccinations which seemed to be harder for me than Elsie. She wasn’t posing much for me today – instead she [...]

Elsie is finally taking a bottle (of breastmilk) – this is a huge step (although right now everything goes into the mouth). Here is grammie giving elsie a meal – with Elsie’s help of course.

Mandy and I consider ourselves moderately environmentally conscious and would like to be more so. We recycle all containers and papers (Mandy occasionally throws around the word nazi when I chide her for putting recyclables in the trash). We started composting – though Lola has decided that compost is the most intriguing thing ever and [...]

When grammie was here she had lots of tummy time with elsie – she doesn’t like tummy time and so she quickly learned to roll to her back. I will post a video but here are some quick photos of the bean on her tummy … Posing for the camera A little smile Time for [...]

Some photos of Elsie in her jumperoo – she is pretty excited to have her feet touch my improvised booster on the floor and of course loves to chew on the bee.

turns out the play mat that I have been having elsie play with is finally interesting to her – she played so much the other day that she fell asleep. She has her little sidekick with her in case the animals try anything funny.

Elsie has mastered the “grab and shove in my mouth” technique. Of course fingers are always yummy: Putting stuff in your mouth  is soooo funny!

Donna was in town for some HP leadership training and was able to come down and meet miss elsie lane!

for the last two weeks Grammie Pammy was playing Grammie Nanny. We spent one week in Montana and one week in Colorado before we had to (sadly) put grammie back on the plane yesterday. My parents are completely set up with baby stuff – all of her friends gave her a “Grandma shower” for her [...]