Anna and Alexis

Babies love sucking things, sure. And Anna is no exception, except she tends to masticate with a certain amount of gusto. Earlier on when she didn’t have the coordination to relibably get her hand into her mouth, she would just gnaw at her forearm. We took to calling it the McRib. Then she discovered she had a tongue and started chewing that with regularity, and continues to do so. We didn’t manage to come up with a hilarious-but-copyright-infringing name for it. And most recently she has been sucking on her index and middle fingers (simultaneously). We’ve taken to calling these the McFries.

Please don’t sue me.

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Today we visited our good friends Kim and Paul at Fair Oaks Hospital. Their son Harry was born earlier today at 8 lbs. 2 oz., and 21 inches tall, very similar to our own Anna. Incidentally, Kim was also put up in the same room Leigha was when Anna was born. Congratulations to Kim and Paul on the birth of their son. Seeing little Harry and being back at the hospital where we had so much excitement was nostalgic at least. I didn’t get a chance to hold Harry (it actually didn’t even occur to me), but Leigha said he felt so light compared to our chunker, whose weight I can only estimate at about 16 lbs. When we got home we took our traditional “monthiversary” picture. The munchkin was a perfect model during the solo shoot but became uncooperative when she had to share the spotlight with us. So the only family picture is of Anna being uncooperative (we’ll reattempt tomorrow). The pictures are at the gallery.

Also of note (or not), I’ve failed to finish the video that I was planning to release this month, so I apologize. We also haven’t had any Anna shows lately. Maybe the grandparents are losing interest? Surely someone wants to see her 720×480 smiling/crying face at a glorious 15 frames per second. Anybody?