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| January 2009 |
Snow/Inauguration day
Snow for the historic day! We dressed Jonas in some warm clothes and walked around the park and then came home to the welcome news of a new president!
growing well at 2 months
Jonas had his two month check up today with our very nice pediatrician Dr. Clark. Biff and I bet on his percentiles (I said 40th and Biff said 55th) and we were way off. He is still 50th percentile in length but is 75th in weight. Dr. Clark called him a "chunk" and said he was doing great. He got 3 shots and an oral vaccine. He cried for a second and then was just fine, although he spent the afternoon sleeping. Here he is waking up and fussing. Note the band aid. And, yes, his face does get THAT red.
Jonas visits Greatgrammy
Jonas took a trip to Charlotte with his Mama, Grandmama and Aunt Cecelia to visit his Greatgrammy. Greatgrammy is a very funny and stylish lady with a serious sweet tooth who very much enjoyed his visit, although she was not overly impressed by her Vosges bacon chocolate bar that her daughter (my mom) gave her. Although I haven't tried the bacon one, I'm pretty obsessed with Vosges chocolate. However, I was pleased to discover her Twix stash in the toaster oven. Jonas was his usually happy self, playing until he passed out on the couch and then slept the whole ride back. Here are some photos from the visit, including Greatgrammy's butt in her rhinestone bedecked silver jeans. Yes, no pictures of me, seriously bad hair day.
Jonas meets Santa
Biff and I aren't religious, but we enjoy the midwinter lights, food, and foliage of Christmas, although NOT the music. So, when Jonas and his baby friend Ryder were hanging out while the moms walked UMall instead of the trails due to some inclement weather, I had Jonas pose with Santa. Santa was always such a fun part of my childhood, plus I love the kitsch factor.
Baby friends
Our friends Leslie and Joe and Quinn and Galen came over to meet Jonas and introduce him to Ash, Q and G's 3 month old son. Ash has a lot of syllables and Jonas has a lot of coos. We are hoping they will be BBFFs-baby best friends forever. The good pictures were taken by Galen, Ash's dad, whose Flickr site is here. The not-so-good ones were taken by me ;).
Saturday outing to the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh
We've been trying to make lots of family outings on the weekends during the day since we can't go out much at night. This Saturday we went to the Natural Sciences Museum in Raleigh. It's free and has some really cool exhibits, like whale and dinosaur skeletons, meteorites and geology, and recreations of different regions of North Carolina. We didn't get to see everything (next time we will budget more time), but we did get Jonas to pose with an Archaeopteryx!!!
Jonas's first Thanksgiving
Since Jonas is only 6 weeks old, we weren't traveling for Thanksgiving. We had a nice, local, laidback celebration with my parents, Lee and Tara, Cecelia, and Susan, Shaw and Anderson where we had Tofurkey and vegetables before heading to Jenny and Les's. Ben, Marilyn and Michael where in town, as was, Aaron and Sukie, the famous returning cat.
Jonas's first protest-babies against H8
Today was the national day of protest against Proposition 8, the California ban which just passed making same sex marriage illegal. This is a very important issue to us, so we packed Jonas in the Baby Bjorn, braved the rain, and rallied and marched. It was very inspiring and a rainbow flag was raised over the Governor's mansion. Surely equality will come in Jonas's lifetime.
Hope and Change
It's no secret that we are a big Obama family. We resisted early voting to take part in the historic day. For the first time in a long time, North Carolina was a swing state, so it was really exciting to think that our votes would make a bigger difference. We took a walk in the rain to our precinct, a school across from the park and cast our ballots-numbers 386 and 387, I think. We then decided to go back out to Chapel Hill and watch the election returns at my parents' house with them and Lee. No one was more excited than Jonas when North Carolina finally turned blue!!
We look a bit bedraggled, but Jonas looks adorable!!!
Librarians are crafty
I'm in the right business. When you're a librarian and your wife is having a baby you're going to get some really amazing craft gifts. It just comes with the territory.
Here are two that have been given to us in the last few days. We are absolutely blown away by how great they are - creative, well-made, and beautiful.
The first is a baby winter hat with stockings that my co-worker Rachel made for Jonas. Look at those colors. And the photograph doesn't do justice to the small details.
Second, is a pair of baby booties that my friend Jessica made for Baby Boy. They're made to look like little furry monster feet. So freakin' cute!
Thanks ya'll. We love them and so will Jonas.
