Crazy Hair

This was taken an hour or so after Luella's bath. Her hair always looks crazy just after being shampooed. It doesn't stay that way for long - the top of her head gets kissed a million times a day, and the fluff gets tamed very quickly.

Her eyes are starting to lighten up, and it looks like she's going to have Allen's blue eyes. They're beautiful!

Little Big

She may not fit in our living room chairs yet, but Luella is growing up fast! We had our one-month doctor's appointment today, and she now weighs 7 pounds and is 18 and 3/4 inches long!

For those of you who don't like to do math, she's just over 50% heavier than she was four weeks ago! Woohoo!!

Music and Milk

Luella's music appreciation lessons have officially begun! While we play recorded music for her all the time (her favorite musician is currently Ben Sollee, and we're working on getting posters for the walls of her bassinet) today Allen finally picked up the mandolin for the first time since she joined the outside world. She LOVED it! She sat there, eyes open and totally alert, listening until he finally had to put the mando away and head to work.




Also, she's still eating and sleeping well. In fact, she usually eats so well that nursing sends her into a stupor. She's been making us laugh by pulling away from the breast and falling back onto the pillow to pass out, limbs akimbo. I think she's a bit melodramatic, but the effect is impressive. Note the growing double chin - we hope to have a chubby baby on our hands very soon!

Where's Luella???

Can anyone find the little bitty in the photo? Don't look too long - might cause seizures.