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22.1.08

sixteen weeks

and to go along with the tiny-T-rex behaviours (that'd be standing up and munching on stuff) you have more: it's fun, now, to make VERY LOUD NOISES. Quite often. All in a row. So when you are in a good mood you like to have conversations that are a good bit larger than life, and also easily heard over the phone (seeing as how you kind of drown out any other spoken word). M is sick at the moment - so he hasn't had a good cuddle for at least thirty-six hours - but i don't know how he can sleep through you.

At the doctor's this morning you were six and a half kilograms and sixty-two centimeters. And they agreed that that's a birthmark on your back and i shouldn't worry about it. Especially since i have a big pink birthmark on my leg - mine has faded over the years, though. And yours is kinda fading already. So there we were and you got all the various shots and solutions (i think it's the rotavirus, the one you are supposed to be swallowing, and you hate the flavor of that one) and you screamed and screamed and screamed, and i don't know how we're ever going to get you to be not afraid of needles. They say the oral vaccines are supposed to taste sweet but it must not be sweet in a good way. But i think that after being poked and prodded and listened to with the cold cold stethoscope and, yesterday, being with the sitter for three whole hours, i think you are going to want nonstop cuddles all day, but i kind of want a shower.

Recently, though i couldn't really be bothered to figure out which day it was - something like the ninth of January? - you finished up your first hundred days. In that time one couldn't say that you got a lot done in any usual sense, and it was all very gradual, but by now you have learned your biological functions pretty well: you can eat, and pee, and poo, and fart, and burp, and sleep, and wake up. And grow, and grow, and grow. Quite a list of accomplishments for such a little person.

Labels: baby, milestones

scrawled @ 13:01