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Friday, October 31, 2008

Faster than she Used to Be

Sweet Potato Spoon Party and a Nap Time Straggler

I let Bella try to feed herself with a spoon today. I'm not sure she got it.

Later today she brought a stow away when I got her out of the crib. The butterfly antlers got stuck to her diaper velcro--don't ask me how.

Needles and Numbers

Bella’s six month checkup snuck up on us. On Tuesday the doctor declared her tiny but thriving, and the nurse said she was about 1/3 the size of the other six month old she had just immunized. The nurse gave her a couple more holes in her legs and two purple band-aids. Here are the six month stats:

Height: 23.1 in 0 percentile
Weight 11 lbs 11 oz 0 percentile
Head Circ 16.25 in 15 percentile

She’s been quazi-crawling for the last few weeks. She gets around but it’s more of an army crawl than a real one. Just yesterday she got the hang of the real thing and doesn’t have to do the belly kick’n’wiggle between each scoot.

Baton Man

Why would KU choose a game against a top ten team to be their homecoming game? We kept up with them for the first quarter, but after that they just stomped on us.

The highlight of the game was during half time. They put together an alumni marching band and they played their instruments and lapped the stadium. The baton twirler, the one that marches in front, left the band a mile behind and had to march in place while he waited for them to catch up. I loved his white hair, it looked like he let a beauty college play with it.

Ryan’s favorite part was when I asked if they had “the down” yet, and when I suggested they do an “off-sides kick.” Just as I’ll never speak Spanish like a native speaker, I’ll never speak sports lingo without sounding like a girl who grew up with four sisters.

Besides that, even a terrible defeat can be fun to watch when you have a new camera!

KU Fans. The stadium was packed, even the little corners.