Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Swim date

Declan got an invite from his friend Owen Cole to come swimming. We captured some action shots at the event...

Owen Cole, host of the event. Here he's taking our drink orders.



Libba explains to Declan that he should not go swimming for an hour after he eats. He laughs at her cautionary ways.



Declan and Daddy have their weekly "white-off," a competition to see who has the pastiest skin. Little D ekes out another win, but is clearly worried that Daddy is gaining on him.



Owen again. In the background, Owen's daddy Scott munches on some watermelon.



After we get home, Declan relaxes in his boppy.



Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Declan chows down...

After a whole lot of harassment - I mean encouragement - from our parents, friends and even Declan's day care people, we finally decided to test drive some rice cereal on the boy.

Verdict: Yuck

So we tried something a little different - mashed bananas mixed with milk. He loved it; he was actually reaching towards the bowl and leaning towards the spoon as it came at him.

We later added the rice cereal to the mix, and he was none the wiser.












Monday, September 12, 2005

Vanderbilt - 28, Arkansas - 24

Declan basks in the glory of Vanderbilt football after this weekend's big upset of Arkansas. He's picking the Dores as his darkhorse national title contender















Thursday, September 01, 2005

D's Six-Month Checkup

Today we went to see Declan's doctor, Dr. Wesley Glazner. We love Dr. G, mostly because he'll spend as much time with us as we need. His first question is always, "What questions do you have for me?"

This was Declan's six-month checkup. I was curious to see how much he weighed and how long he'd gotten. I try to measure with my handy-dandy tape measure from time to time, but I'm never sure if I get it just right. He's quite the squirmer, you know.

So here's what we discovered:

Length: 27.5 inches (75th percentile)
Weight: 16 lbs. 2 ozs (less than 50th percentile)
Head: 50th percentile (I didn't catch the measurement)

Shocking. The numbers indicate Declan is long and skinny. I'm stunned.