Dr. Update & photo shoot today...

Rachel is getting to be a little porker. She is 17lbs and 25 3/4" in length. The nurse figures she weighs a little more than that but Rachel wouldn't stay still while she was on the scale so she had to estimate. She is in the 75 percentile for both height & weight...pretty good considering at one point she was in the 10 percentile for height. Looks like we won't have a short little girl after all :)

Of course she still isn't fond of needles but as soon as we picked her up after she had them, she stopped crying and was fine the rest of the night. She was even in her jolly jumper last night and she was going crazy in there so I guess her legs are just fine (probably because she has 'thunder thighs' ha ha)

Our big adventure today is going to be drinking water out of a sippy cup. That should be cute & funny to watch. I love how in the books they recommend you just give them a cup (no lid on it) and expect a few messes. YA THINK? I'm not that brave so we'll stick with a sippy cup my Aunt bought her when she was born. It has two handles on it so I think it will be perfect! I will probably wait until Ron is home before I give her the water so that we can catch it on video. Now that I said that, it will probably be uneventful! :)

I thought I would try out some of the settings on our camera today. It's actually pretty cool - it can do a lot more than I thought it could :) I just went a little overboard though and ended up taking 47 pictures...don't worry, I won't post them all here! Here are a few...

I just love her eyes in this picture.

She has always loved sitting on the couch but now she's starting to slide herself around.
Proof that we do 'tummy' time! ha ha
This is what happens 2 seconds after we put Rachel on her tummy *sigh*
I know she's my daughter so therefore I am biased but she really does have pretty eyes (people tell that all the time but now I'm just realizing it! ha ha)
Sucking her thumb....thankfully she doesn't do this a lot - I don't think she understands that it can be used as a pacifier as well. That's ok though, one less habit to break down the road!
I love this picture - where she is looking at herself in the mirror. It's supposed to be a 'tummy time' toy but...well, you know! :)
I think this is one of the funniest pictures from today only because of the story behind it. The picture isn't the best quality because I was vacuuming while I took it. She was just in 'awe' - not sure if she thought the machine itself was cool or if she was just in awe that I was actually using it! It's probably only the third or fourth time I've used it since we've been in this house - it's Ron's job. What can I say - he loves to vacuum! Do you think I'm going to take that away from him??? (just this one time)