Some pics of Nezzie

A few recent pics of the same old; eating, smiling, and charming her parents birkenstocks off! Note to the concerned, we do not own birkenstocks, we do however have a food mill! Hippy parents! If you look close you can even see her two new teeth in a couple of the photos.

Quick stats

Inez did great at her 6 month check-up (which was more like 6 1/2 months). She now weighs 17.3 pounds. Buuuut, she didn't eat very much at all the whole day and so probably weighs a little more. We like our babies fatty.

She is 26 inches long (that's like 5 inches more than 6 months ago) and her head is a whopping 4 inches larger in circumference. Big fat baby head. I think the hair must add at least an inch to that measurement.

She took her vaccines like a champ. This is a good time to point out that she loves her dad the best. Mom could not comfort her, but as soon as Nick held her after her shots she was happy as a clam. What a good dad.

First Teeth!

Inez has been keeping me up alllllll night for awhile and finally we have something to show for it- two teeth! Except we can't take pictures of them yet because they are too small still.

Her crawling is still holding steady at "up on all fours but can't move forward". She is scooting backwards and evidently scoots around daycare living room 3 or 4 times a day.

Inez LOVES to eat food. Everything so far has been great to her: bananas, oatmeal, rice cereal, avocado, green beans, apple/banana mix, prunes/oats, carrots, and watermelon. She especially loves playing with her food (she takes after mom). Here's a picture of her after she pulled her hair while her hands were covered in oatmeal (she looked like pippi longstocking!).



Here's a sideways picture of Inez and Nonni Nettie. Inez is eating her favorite royalty, prince harry. At least this is what we call the red headed finger puppet. She especially enjoys when prince harry talk to her in a brittish accent. Or maybe mom just really likes it. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Daddy's Girl

Okay, not a video of Inez, but a great song none the less!

Baby June and Baby Inez

The Dalton gang rode into town and came over for a barby yesterday. Lloyd and his wife Yuan and baby June, along with Tom and Joe Dalton stopped by to catch up on old times and for a good old fashion baby play date!

The initial meeting went well until Inez stuck her tongue out and offended baby June!





The swimming was tear free and Inez could no longer offend June by simply sticking her tongue out!




Baby June decided to bury the hatchet and show Inez how to crawl!

Wet behind the ears

The Who Hair returned after a siesta last week and Mom wasted no time in capturing moment.




Dad blew up and filled up the backyard pool for Inez's first skinny dip. She loved the
frigid water giving Dad hope for her swimming with him at the cabin in a few weeks!

A special thanks goes out to Sven who provided Nick with the tools to actually turn the Teapot video upright!(Please note Nick has yet to actual turn the video, but it will happen, he swears it!)

The photo speaks for itself!

Who's a Little Teapot?

Sorry, you have to turn your head to see this. Inez is enjoying being a teapot immensely.

Other interests: sitting, rocking on her hands and knees, banging kitchen utensils, singing and kicking her feet in time to music (I swear!).

Big Girl!

Caitie picked up Inez from daycare the other day and there she was sitting on the floor with the other kids like a big girl! She was so proud and immediately gave mom some Inez kisses (open mouth over mom's nose/cheeks/anything that gets near the mouth- turns out nick must have some french blood...). Apparently baby kisses actually mean she's hungry.

Our new favorite baby trick is to sing "I'm a little teapot" while one of us does the actions with her arms. If we can figure out how to add video, we will delight you all and hopefully knock off "Laughing Baby" or "Charlie bit me mommy" as fan favorite youtube videos. Inez will take the world by storm!

Even though Inez is 6 months old now (!!!!!) she won't be going to the doctor for another few weeks as dr. maren is out of town. We do have some concerns however about the size of her head. Last time she was perfectly proportional. Something has gone terribly wrong.

So, an informal attempt at weighing our little green "Hulk", broke the scales at the Coop. Check out the pictures (please think "Hulk" and not "Zombie Child").