2 Week Update

Ginny turned 2 weeks old yesterday. Her second week of life included more visitors, Daddy going back to work (and hence leaving me and Ginny on our own during the day) and a 2 week checkup with the doctor. Ginny and I are adapting pretty well to our daytime alone-although on the first day, we had changed outfits 3 times before lunch (out of necessity, not because I was being obsessive about her outfits).

Ginny has also been eating well-at her checkup yesterday, she weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces! She has gained back her birth weight and put on an additional 9 ounces! The doctor once again declared her to be perfect...we couldn't agree more. Here are some pics from the last week.
Ginny's first dress-her daddy bought this for her.



































Unkie Dex, Auntie Jess and Cousin Elliott came to meet Ginny!











Uncle Phil and Aunt Bonnie came too (but at her request, we have intentionally omitted any photos of Aunt Bonnie).










Ginny got decked out in her first Halloween outfit.


















We love pink!












Tummy time!












She loves her fists.

So You Want to Learn How to Swaddle a Baby.

Whenever Ginny gets fussy part of our relaxation routine is to try swaddling her and using our 5 "S'es". For your reference Mickey, Mulan and I have posted below our own pictorial for those looking to swaddle a baby, dog.

Remember the 5 "S'es": Dodge, Dive, Dip, Duck, Dodge. Oops, wrong instructional blog, here are the right ones: Swaddle, place the baby on her Side, Shake (but gently), Shush, and Suckle.

War and Poop

Every half an hour (okay maybe not that often) the eternal battle for the supremacy of a poop free diaper rages between Ginny and me. Here is a photo documentary of one of our epic struggles......

More Ginny Pix!

Here are a few more snap shots of Virginia.

Muchos Kudos to the Winners of Our Baby Gender & More Pool!

A week ago today numerous questions were answered about Virginia. We posed a number of these questions to our friends and family by way of a gender guessing game. You might recall that we asked you to guess the birth weight of the baby, the time and date of the birth, and whether our baby was a boy or a girl. Here are our winners (best guessers) and some honorable mentions!

Virginia's actual weight was 7 pounds 5 ounces:
7 lbs 5 oz by Gayle M. Gayle is our winner in this category!!!

7 lbs 4 oz by (tie) Heidi H., Melissa C. and Phil H.
7 lbs 6 oz by (tie) Lauren W. and Sharon G.

Virginia was born on October 8th, we had another spot on winner here:
Oct. 8 - by Lolly J. She wasn't fooled by our estimated due dates.

Oct. 6 - by Sharon G.
Oct. 4 - by (tie) Lindsay B. and Mike T.

Virginia was born at 2:44 a.m., the closest guesses were:
3 a.m. by Gayle M.
2 a.m. by Olivia G.
3:41 a.m. by Melissa C.
1:43 a.m. by Adrienne C.

Gender (50/50 shot here):
And, as you were told before or as you ascertained from this blog Virginia is our beautiful girl and many of you were able to use empirical prescience to predict that fact. So more kudos, which is basically our "thank you for participating" kudos, go out to: Unkie Dex, Pappy Ken, Granni Laura, Sharon G. Sheona B., Mike & Brandi M., Andria A., Carol P., Shirley U., Vangie T., Alan C., Auntie Jess, Ana N., Heidi H., Lolly J., Dani T., Grammie Joyce, Bonnie H., Lauren W., and Christy M.

To everyone else who provided guesses but didn't get any kudos, better luck next time! And no we don't have a time table for when we'll host this game again. ;)

Virginia's First Week!

As promised here are more pictures of Ginny! Virginia's first week has gone very well. She has had two doctor's appointments where she was declared by the doc to be "perfect" (we knew that already but its good to get another doctor's opinion). She dropped a few ounces after the birth but has quickly began to get it back. Her mommy is doing great and so am I. We'll be sure to post more pictures soon.

Virginia Rylee!!!

Here are a few pictures of our new baby girl Virginia. Ginny was born on October 8, 2008, at 2:44 in the morning. She weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches at birth.
We'll post more pix soon!