Pictures of Alice

Here are two pictures of Alice.

Sleeping yesterday...

Ready to go to the clinic today...

Portrait time

Jeni and I tried to get the kids (feels weird to type that) to sit for a picture. The results were so-so. We'll try again tomorrow.

I think that they became bored.

Christmas

Jeni's family came down for Christmas. We had a good time doing the usual Christmas things, and Jeni and I enjoyed spending the holiday at our house.

Here are some pictures of the fun.

Mason was happy to get socks and a stroller for his doll, Pea Soup.

He was happiest, though, to open various "Thomas the Tank Engine" tracks, cars, etc. They are taking over the house.

Jeni's favorite gift may have been Utz Cheese Balls. She is a simple woman with simple tastes.

Alice update

Alice saw a nurse practitioner today and checked out very well. Her weight was down to 8lbs 10 oz, but is now up to 9 lbs 7 oz. She eats a ton and has slept for 4 hours at a time the last few nights.

She is still not awake very much, but when her eyes are open she is starting to look around a bit. I haven't noticed her fixating on a face yet.

So far, so good!

Meet Alice Josephine

Alice Josephine was born December 23 at 10:38am. She weighed 9 lbs, 1.2 oz and was 20-3/4" long.

Alice and Jeni are doing very well. Feeding is going great and Alice slept for at least 2 hours at a time last night. So there's hope for us all yet.

Pictures are here:
Flickr

More will follow, I'm sure.

Time to start thinking about renovating the blog....

Reporting that there is nothing to report

We all wish that the reason you haven't heard from us lately is that we have some news to report on the baby front. Unfortunately, it is not so. Jeni is still very pregnant and is having some strong, occasional, contractions that are not birth-related.

Last weekend we had 1/2 inch of snow, so Mason and I went out to make a snowman in the front yard. Mason was excited to wear his new boots and snowpants.

I pulled Mason in a little sled around the yard. Then he got out and we put snow into the sled to take back to our snowman. In the end, it ended up more as a snowlump but it did have a carrot nose, twig arms, and sunglasses.

The warmer weather this week melted him and Mason and I got sick after being outside, so it wasn't a completely successful outing. I did tell him that the next time in snows more, we'll have another go at building a big snowman.