bonnie & jason

“There’s a lot more to life than being really, really good looking.”

We’re getting closer to capturing a full on smile and also managed to capture one of Alissa’s Zoolander moments.  This one is “Blue Steel” but she has a good “Magnum” and a hilarious “Le Tigre” as well.

Daddy’s baby

Most people think Alissa looks more like me than Bonnie.  Bonnie herself says that Alissa has certain “looks” when she looks just like me.  I dug up some of my baby pictures to further illustrate the resemblence.  To my eye, I think her nose and mouth are most similar.  And even though I was a pretty darn cute baby, I think Alissa has me beat hands down!    It’ll be interesting to see how her look changes as she gets older.

Baby Bjorn

Alissa really likes her Baby Bjorn.  She just kinda puts her hands in front of her and goes to sleep.  I think it probably feels a little bit like it did when she was still in the womb.  I like it too since she acts like a big heating pad.  Not sure I’ll like it as much when the weather gets warmer though.

Got milk?

Alissa woke up today with dried up milk all over her face.  She must have spit up a little in the morning before we picked her up.  But we got her cleaned up and took a few pictures while she was in a good mood.

She’s not always an angel

Alissa is a pretty good baby for the most part.  As you may have noticed, most of the pictures I post are of her being all cute and happy.  But Alissa does cry and get fussy like all babies do.  Here are a couple pictures of her frowny face.  I think even her frowny face is pretty cute actually.  Her mouth goes all upside down and her eyes get all sad. 

 

 

 

Grrr!!!

We walked to Albertson’s today with the Alissa in the Baby Bjorn and bundled her up in her scary bear outfit to keep her warm.  Isn’t she frightening?  You should see her with her scary face.

BFF

 

  

We went to visit Megan Elizabeth Yau today!  She was born on Feb 13, less than 2 months after Alissa.  It will be interesting to watch her, Alissa, and Abigail grow up together as they’re so close in age.  It was funny… yesterday, we visited Abigail and after holding her, Alissa seemed tiny.  Then today, after seeing Megan, Alissa seemed huge!

The sky is falling!

  

We had a little earthquake today.  It was a 3.4 centered in Berkeley.  We felt a couple shudders and that was it.  Not a big deal, but it’s always a funny feeling when it happens.

I also forgot to report that Alissa had her 2 month checkup this week.  The doc was happy with her progress although she still is on the lower end of the curve at 9 lbs 15 oz. and 21.75″.  Not unexpected, however, as neither Bonnie nor I are on the high end of the curve ourselves.  She also got a shot in each leg and cried a little but the drama was over rather quickly.  Thankfully, she didn’t seem to have any side effects later on in the day with fussiness or feeding or anything.  Actually, she slept about 7 hours straight that night.  What a good baby!

As I mentioned previously, Alissa has been smiling more and more but we still haven’t captured a full on smile.  The one above is as close as we’ve gotten and it’s kinda lopsided.

In other news, I went to the doctor myself the other day to get a stubborn stomach flu/food poisoning thing checked out.  I had to provide a stool sample… eww.  (Hmm… corn?  When did I eat corn?)  Also, since I hadn’t had a full blood workup recently, the doc suggested I go ahead and get that taken care of too.  In any case, it turns out I had some Campylobacter bug that a short course of Cipro will take care of.  Also, my cholesterol and other bloodwork came back fine.  The only thing he suggested is that I exercise more to get my HDL levels up.  Now that I’m feeling better, hopefully I can make that happen as I start running for the marathon and hopefully, play tennis a little more.

Finally, for those of you who know my brother, Mike, he’s engaged!  I think they’re thinking about a Fall wedding in Vegas (where they live).  I wonder if that means the bachelor party would be there too?

 

 

 

Sleeping Beauty

Alissa smiling… sort of