Halloween continues

Happy Halloween

We've got rollover

And I'm not talking about cell phones or your 401k.

Yesterday, about 5pm, our little Elizabeth got all growed up and rolled over! She almost did it going from her back to her front, but a silly elbow kept getting in the way. Steph picked her up and put Lizzie on her tummy. With a quick flick of her stomach muscles and there you have it, Lizzie's first roll over. Steph and I shouted, hooted and hollered in excitement, proceeding to scare the living daylights out of our daughter. Munchkin quickly recovered however and simply looked at us with a face that said "What? What's the big deal? You people are weird."

We'll try to capture it on some digital film next time... :-)

Catching everybody up

Alrighty, didn't win the Cutest Baby Contest. Whatta ya gonna do? I guess the winner was cute. :-)

The "winner"

Moving on, Elizabeth had her four month check up today with her regular pediatrician, Dr. Liu. Munchkin is in the 25th percentile on her weight and height, which is fantastic. Dr Liu is very pleased. And apparently Elizabeth has a small head and that's all there is to it. Elizabeth's noggin is in the 5th percentile.

For those keeping score:

10/24/05 - 12 lbs. 9 oz. 23.75 inches long.

Oh! And perhaps the biggest news of this post, Elizabeth is teething! Yes, you read right folks. Our cute little four month old is working on her first official tooth. Down on the bottom gum, smack dab in the middle, there is a tiny pink outline of a tooth wanting to push thru. Right now it's at the point where the pressure it is putting on the gum makes the top of her gum turn the slightest bit white. I would post a picture of it, but you try getting a four month old who is drooling-like-a-fountain, finger-grabbing, and sucking-and-chewing-on-anything-you-put-remotely-close-to-her-face, to keep her mouth open, with tongue in mouth, long enough to snap a picture.

Back to our regularly scheduled program

We Need Your Vote!

We are going to submit a picture of Elizabeth for a local radio station's "Cutest Baby Contest," but we can't come to an agreement on which to submit! We won't say who likes which one, but it's down to these two pictures, each of us having our own preference. Let us know in the comments which one you would send in. We need your vote by tomorrow (Friday, 10/21) by 5:00pm. The contest deadline is 7:00pm, but we want to have a little time to submit it.

So which is it, left or right?

Sweet, sweet slumber

So, we got On Becoming Babywise from the library this week. A gal from church highly recommended it. After one full day of it, we're fans too. Why?

Elizabeth got 8 hours of sleep last night. That's right folks, 8 hours. From 9:30pm to 5:30 am. That is a thing of beauty right there.

She's mobile... sorta

Got this email from Steph ten minutes ago:

"She started off on the diaper ready to be changed!"

The PANDA Team

Great article in the Oregonian today about the team that transported Elizabeth from Southwest to Doernbecher and then a week later transported her from the NICU to the operating room. And yes, we still have the Panda bear.

Thank you Rick, former Honululu fire-fighter, now member of the PANDA Team, for taking such good care of us. We will never forget you nor what you have done for our family.

Forgot to mention

Yesterday at the cardiologist's, Elizabeth weighed 11 pounds 14 ounces. And she is nearly 22 and a half inches long!