SIX WEEKS OLD?

Tomorrow Vanessa sees the pediatrician, so we should get official specs on her, but unofficially, she's 23 inches long and 11 pounds. She's a growing machine!

Auntie Susan and Auntie Anne have requested daily photos of their baby niece. I'm not to that point yet, but I am interested in pleasing them, so here are more. It's hard to be photogenic when you have a rash-like mask of pimples and a receding hairline, but Nessa pulls it off with the help of a girlie headband. I ordered a few more frilly jobbies from eBay, something I've just been itching to do anyway.

Van and I ran into our banker, who hadn't seen me in 9 months. He was floored to meet Vanessa, knowing my health history. He couldn't believe how "beautiful" she looks at such a young age; "Not like an alien at all," he said. His son was 6 lbs. something at birth and 22 inches long, so he was really long and skinny and took awhile to look soft and babyish.

We've discovered that bouncing on the exercise ball is magic to Vanessa, especially if someone simultaneously serenades her. See Daddio doing just that. Oh he knows he's good.