Well, since it is halfway through February, I guess I need to FINALLY post these pictures from January. I decided to do a separate post of Jake and Mari pictures and then later I will post some pictures of them together. Mari is 12 weeks old now, although she technically won't be three months old until the 24th of February. She is a sweet baby. Having a little girl is so different! At her 2 month check-up she weighed 13 lbs and 6 oz and was 24 inches long, putting her at 95% on height and weight. Her head circumfrence is only in the 50-75%, but her head is longer and thinner, while Jake's huge noggin was and still is round! For comparison, at this age Jake was 18lbs, but then until he could crawl, all of his measurements were in the 95-105% range. After Jake became mobile, his weight didn't change much so his weight dropped down to the 50%, with his height and head circumfrence staying in the 97%. We are vaccinating Mari, but we are spreading the shots out instead of her getting them all at once. So far so good with the immunizations. She is a lot braver than her Mamma ever was with shots! She seems a lot more vocal than I remember Jake being. It isn't that she cries a lot, she likes to coo and talk to us which his great. She loves having her diaper changed and getting a bath. She smiles when she sees us and laughs at Jake's antics (she seems to think it is especially funny when he cries or gets punished). She hasn't really gotten much more hair since birth and her eyes are still blue!
When I came home for lunch Friday I told Jake that is might snow and he said, "Snow? Make Snowman?" I was impressed that he made the connection. I knew he knew what a snow man was because of the decorations our neighbor put out at Christmas (one of them was an inflatable snow man) but I didn't think he understood conceptually what a snow man was (or snow for that matter). He is one smart cookie!
