Playing in an Exersaucer Activity Play Center Thingie

After Kelly and Kyle's Party

 

Fae and Karen

 

Kelly & Kyle's Party

 

23.5 inches long and 12 lbs. 13 ounces!

Fae is 3 days shy of 18 weeks and is now 23.5" and almost 13 pounds! (Her head has a circumference of 16" if anyone was interested in that....) She is in the 30th percentile for weight and head circumference and 25th percentile for length.

Wow, our baby is nearly double her birth weight!

Moving up to mediums

Fae has graduated to medium size fuzzi buns diapers. What are Fuzzi Bunz? Well they are new aged cloth diapers. We have some old style cotton diapers too but these are the easiest to use. Yes, we launder them ourselves. It's really not that hard.


They come in all kinds of colors too

Fae's first vacation

Fae's first real vacation was in Tahoe this past weekend. We spent 4 nights on the north shore of Lake Tahoe with Cousin's Yen, Axel, and Kevin. We also visited with our friends Melissa, Aaron, and Anya, who took us all on snowshoe hike! We even got to do some snowboaring at Diamond Peak and Sugarbowl, Fae hung out in the lodges while mommy and daddy took turns on the slopes.

Great-Grandma Lackowitz's Pink Bonnet

 
 

Fae's Pink Elephant

 
 

Dim Sum and the SF Conservatory of Flowers

Today Fae went to Dim Sum and the SF Conservatory of Flowers with Cousins Alice, Hank , and Sarah. The conservatory had an orchid exibit, The Modern Art of Orchids, which was really great for Fae (and Daddy's hobbie in photography - enjoy the orchids). She really enjoyed the entire day even though it was cold and wet outside.

Teething??

Fae has been crying inconsolably today and all this behavior over the last few weeks is leading us to believe she is teething!

• Unable to sleep through the night -- gets up every 1-2 hours for the past few weeks!
• Urge to chew on anything placed in her mouth (fingers, bibs, blanket)
• Chewing/sucking on fists
• Excessive drooling/salivating

Last night I woke up to catch her hitting herself in the head with her hand! And just today, I felt her gumline and do feel evidence of her top incisors coming in.

I sent an email message the her Pediatrician, but I'm not sure I need his confirmation. As soon as Yoel gets home, we will head to the drugstore to (hopefully) find some Hyland's Teething Tablets. I'll try that with some infant Tylenol tonight.

Mr. Spider, Fae's new friend!

And some photos of our visit with Grandma & Grandpa in Sunnyvale

Fae sneezes

Brunch @ Chouchou (Mat's Bday)

The drool is on

Fae's "new thing" is to drool. She's at that stage where she's making more saliva than what she knows to do with, her shirts are constantly soaked. In this series of photos she's also grunting and squeezing something out. The bumbo is like an instant laxative.

Fae goes on the TOILET!!

Just kidding. She in her bumbo watching mommy get ready

Sushi Hunter

Fae and Mommy at Sushi Hunter in North Beach.

(photo from cellphone camera)

Family Appreciation Day

Today was San Francisco Family Appreciation Day. The Mayor and the City of San Francisco treated all San francisco families with FREE admittance to attractions inside the city. Lydia, Ben, and Amelia joined us to the California Academy of Sciences and the San Francisco Zoo. Fae and Amelia got to see lots of fish up close at the Academy, a little too close at times. The girls were pooped and the parents were hungry so we headed to Mel's Drive-In for some lunch. The girls were kind enough to sleep through most of lunch.

Off to the zoo, where the girls slept for most of the time while we cruised the park and ate kettle corn.


The day ended with dinner at our place. Today we a tremendous success with how the girls did), we all had a great time.


PS - We forgot our camera, but maybe Ben and Lydia may have some that we could post.

Tina and Fae At Mel's Drive-In

Mobile Blogging* is now setup. This is our first post via Tina's cell phone.

(photo from cellphone camera)
*mobile blogging for the uninitiated is posting entries to your blog from your mobile phone, whether it be just text, a picture, video, or audio.

Save Daniel Webster

Fae and Yoel attended today's meeting with Board of Education member Sarah Lipson. It was meeting for us, the parents and community of Potrero Hill, to talk to Sarah about our concerns over the closure of Daniel Webster Elementary.

A packed house, lots of kids. Lots of energy from the parents. It's really great to have this community. I went with my next door neighbor anad his daughter Lily.

Read about it here, here, and here

Save Daniel Webster