The Daily?

Okay, so now I'm no where near being daily with the Ada-Ruth Lorraine postings. Please forgive me. The past two weeks have been so fun-filled I haven't had the time.

First and foremost, Ada-Ruth continues to grow and change. This past week we took her in for her first pediatrician visit (with Dr. Fabio). She weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces and was at 21 inches in length. This puts her at the top end of the normal range of growth which is a relief. Going into the visit we already knew she wasn't in the same sort of low-growth danger our lactation consultant had expressed some concern about a couple weeks ago, so Fabio's info was reassuring more-so than surprising.

Other Ada-Ruth developments aren't as definitive. It seems as though she's becoming more expressive, but as with her earlier facial expressions nothing is particularly lasting or predictable. The other remarkable change since the last post has been her desire to move, thus creating a third reason for her to cry. The first two were hunger and dirty diaper. Now she'll start to fuss, refuse to eat and have a clean diaper. So I'll lift her upright and bounce her gently up and down, seemingly the only act which will calm her. And so I have become a Johnny Jump Up.

The other big news here has been the Thanksgiving week. As mentioned in an earlier post, Gramma and Grampa Weber came to visit for the whole week, joined later by the Grandparents Southern, David and Melissa, Paul and Anita, Jeffrey, Jeannie and Becky and ... well, that was it. At this time all the reports are in and all are favorable. Everyone managed to get home without incident in spite of some weather in the Midwest. We even got a few inches of snow a few days later. Somehow Judy even managed to get all of the leftovers into our refrigerator.

David, Melissa, Paul and Anita all spent their last night (in the area) at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park of which Anita got some excellent pictures.