bonnie & jason

Alissa’s first foray into solid food

We went to Alissa’s 6-month doctor appointment yesterday and left with some shots, directions on starting solids, and overall, a clean bill of health. She’s now 14.5 lbs and 24.5 inches long. Still in the 25th percentile and 10th percentile respectively.  (We love Dr. Langston by the way.)

Here’s Alissa’s first try at eating some rice and milk. Not a big fan apparently. I think we made the mistake of trying something new when she was really hungry. She also was running a slight fever from the shots so she wasn’t feeling all that hot either.

Here’s try #2. This time we did it in between feedings. Also, her fever came down a bit since the last feeding after some baby tylenol.

This one went much better… even though more probably dribbled down the bib than down her tummy. But at least she didn’t flat out refuse it like the previous time. Here’s some video of it:

Alissa in the Jumperoo

So… I finally bit the bullet and bought a Mac Pro. Woohoo! The biggest driver, frankly, was my frustration with trying to edit video with my PC. It wasn’t even that it was slow, just that the software was really hard to use. So the switch to Mac was driven by the ease of iMovieHD more than anything. And it was super easy to use… just like I was hoping for. I still have a lot of video to go through from not only Alissa’s first six months but also from some VHS tapes that my parents want to have digitized. So more to come. For now, check out my hack job of Alissa in the Jumperoo.

Rainforest Jumperoo

We got this jumpy thing for Alissa as she really likes being on her feet.  Unfortunately, she’s so short that she can really only touch the floor with the tip of one toe.  We’ll put some of those foam letters under it and then maybe she’ll be able to do some jumping.  Otherwise, she really seems to like it.

Alissa the sumo wrestler

Happy Father’s Day

This is a slightly belated post, but here are some pictures from the dinner Bonnie made for me for father’s day.  Pretty fancy, huh?

Funny faces

We’ve captured a bunch of funny Alissa faces recently. She’s definitely entertaining. We’re not sure why she makes the faces… maybe it’s part of her developing personality. We also took some new bath time pictures.

Surprise!

We went to a surprise birthday party for Kathy’s mom this past weekend.

Alissa seems to be shopping for prom dates already:

She even has the socks/shoes to show off her cankles.

Alissa is sitting up

Alissa is now sitting up on her own… sort of.  She still tends to fall forward or sideways sometimes.  But hey, you would too if you had a head this big!

Ok, it’s not really that bad… the wide angle lens just makes it look that way.  Here are some more pics of her from pre to post face-plant.

She doesn’t seem to mind it.  After a little wiggling, she ends up like this:

To help her with some sitting up “training wheels” I propped her up against the couch.  I don’t think she really needs it, she seems strong enough to stay up.  I think maybe she’s just lazy… like her daddy!

Two big happy families

Funny how much can change in a year.  Last time we were at Vin and Denise’s, there was no Alissa.  Well, there was, but she was still in utero.  What will be different next year?!

Sunday with our east coast peeps

Vin and Denise were nice enough to host a get together for a whole bunch of our east coast friends.  Most of the pictures center around the kids in attendance.  Ellen and Mike’s baby, Natalie, is super cute.  She’s just a couple weeks older than Alissa.  They weren’t quite sure what to make of each other… more on that later.

Geoff and Asha’s son, Kiran, is also super cute despite the scab on his nose from taking a header down some stairs a couple days ago.  Apparently, he’s a big fan of trucks… and boogers.

As Natalie is a couple weeks older than Alissa, she’s just recently started eating solids.  As messy as it looks, if Alissa looks half as cute as Natalie does here, I think we’ll be able to get through it.

So, back to the Alissa-Natalie relationship.  When they first met in the picture above, Alissa seemed to try to hold Natalie’s hand.  Natalie wasn’t happy with that at all and started crying.  Then we tried having them sit on the couch for a picture.  Well, as you can see below, neither of them were happy about that.

And now here we are again, trying to force them to socialize with similar results.

Oh well, Natalie took everything in stride for the most part… especially when wearing her cool shades.

Now, as for the food, there was tons.  Chicken, burgers, salad, four-bean salad, etc.  Vin had ribs smoking for about six hours… mmm… smoky.

My only complaint about the day was that it ended so quickly.  It was great to see everyone but I feel like I didn’t get a chance to fully reconnect with folks.  Oh well, you all will just have to come visit us in SF soon!