Gangster Jane

Jane is just beginning to get some control over her limbs. This means that when her hand gets caught in her binky and pulls it out, she actually makes effort to move it back toward her mouth. We are incredibly impressed and think that our baby is incredibly smart. This sort of feat from a person would only impress brand new parents and the Schiavo family. But since we are new parents, we are allowed to shout how amazing our child is from the rooftops. Rooftops being the cyber world in which our blog lives. of course.

Anyhow, Jane likes to move her legs. Like a lot. We will lay her down on a blanket and she will just kick and kick. The trouble is that our baby (like her mama) has no hips so her pants will slowly slide off until they are hanging mid-thigh. While this is actually the style in our Milwaukee neighborhood, Jane isn't too crazy about it. She will fuss until we pull her pants back up because her legs are cold.

But she's not so scrawny, check out this picture Hanna took of Jane.

Our Baby Is a Genius

Our baby is a genius.

So don't worry, if your baby has this expression a good portion of the time, don't worry. Our baby is a genius and she does it, too.

The other day Jane fell asleep on her hand. Then she had to face the world with obvious proof of how awesome she is.

Yeah... we gave her pretty amazing genetics. Just check out her mom.

Jane Meets her Mama's BFFFAEAEAEAEAE

Once upon a time there was a finnish girl. Just before her eleventh birthday she met an american girl. Soon they embarked on a journey of kittens, pop rock, girl bands, incense, succeeding in business, danish airports, and rogue whales...

anyhow, at some point in the journey the american girl met an american boy and they chose to procreate. The finnish girl was somewhat interested in meeting the offspring of the american folk so she used her air miles and came to narnia to meet their little bundle of american-ness.

The visit went something like this:

There was Ians, a baby bath, lots of talk of organic food, and cookies had. (yes. this is a proper sentence. maybe.)

We put a lot of effort into getting a picture of us. Too much effort one might say.

umm... yeah.

by the way: BFFFAEAEAEAEAE means "best friend for forever and ever and ever and ever and ever..." obviously.

The Many Faces of Janie

Jane and I often have quickie photo shoots. They last a maximum of two or three minutes and yield a huge variety of facial expressions. Here are my favorites from the other day (5-6 weeks old):

Oh yeah, and she smiles like a pro now. We absolutely eat it up.

Moby Love

Due to fussiness lately, Jane spends a lot of time in the Moby. She loves it because she can stay snuggled up with her mama for hours on end. Her mama loves it because she still has arms to do things. Win-Win-Win.

Usually the moby works great because I can do things without having to hold her. The other day, however, Janie decided that she wanted to watch her mama intently instead of sitting nice and close so I wouldn't need to have one arm supporting her neck. While kind of went against the purpose of the moby wrap it sure was cute. My view the whole evening looked like this:
Shout out to my sister who sent me her moby wrap :) Thanks, Crystal!

Baby Jane and Daddy

Jane likes to help her Dad study. She was quite a happy camper, but I picked this picture because her expression was priceless.

Also this:
"Aww... quit studying, Dad. Doctors don't need to know stuff."

Pictures of Baby Jane

Last Friday (12/9) we had some pictures taken of little Janie.
Pictures by Jenn Reese

Statistics & Notes

I keep meaning to post these and thus far I have forgotten.

Today that is rectified. Also I don't expect anyone to read this as it is exceptionally boring but things that I want to be able to remember.

So without further ado:

Janie's Stats and Random Medical Notes

Born:

6 lb 13 oz

18.5" long

—— diagnosed with tongue tie

Leaving the hospital (2 Days old):

6 lb 10 oz

—— frenulectomy by Dr. Chun to correct tongue tie

Four Days old:

6 lb 6 oz

19" long

30.8 cm (head circumference)

One Week:

6 lb 9 oz

Three Weeks:

Stopped breast feeding (or trying to— I couldn't produce more than 10 ml of milk and Jane couldn't correctly latch making it impossible to breast feed [This could be a result of her tongue tie])

One Month, 5 Days:

8 lb 12 oz

21" long

—— diagnosed with a small umbelical hernia (should heal itself in the first year)

I hope you throughly enjoyed this awesome look at Janie's incredibly short medical history.

I was going to include a picture, but that might spice up this post and we just can't have that.