10.10.11 - Demonstration

Today was Tommy's six month checkup. I believe the question from Dr. Green was, "Is he rolling over?" right about the time Tommy decided to show him ... while lying on the exam table! I swear, some days I'm not sure what to think about having two boys.


19.5 lbs or 74 percentile
27.75 inches tall or 80 percentile
17 inches circumference or 24 percentile

08.10.11 - Inside the doctor's office

Want to know what it looks like taking three kids to the doctor at the same time? Well, here ya go! That's Nate eating spilled Goldfish crackers off the floor and Maddie tossing her Snuggly Bunny in the air while Dr. Green examines Tommy. We're lucky that Dr. Green allows us to combine as many appointments as possible to cut down on the number of trips we make to his Andover office. Still, this photo makes my head spin and I have no idea how he manages three patients - two of them toddlers - at the same time. Maybe he's just that good!

At his four-month checkup, Tommy weighed 18 pounds and measured 27 inches, both about the 90th percentile. His head circumference measured 16 inches, which is in the sixth percentile. Yup, a fat guy with a tiny head!

05.24.11 - Bath

We try to bathe him.

Total inside joke.

05.18.11 - Over on your left

To avoid developing a bad case of torticollis, we're encouraging Tommy to look more to his left as he has a strong tendency to look to his right, both when he's awake and when he's asleep.

03.24.11 - Pre-op

The truth is, I find fault in nearly all of the images I publish to any of the kids' blogs. Distracting background. Messy hair. Awkward composition. Stained shirt. Poor lighting or poor exposure or both. In this frame, I love, love, love the look on Angie's face but I keep getting drawn to that darned binkers in Tommy's mouth. We're not ones to get caught up with the notion of nipple confusion and he needed the soothing while stripped down in preparation for his circumcision at Dr. Green's office today. And, had I pulled the binkers from his mouth I likely would have ruined this moment. So, I'll look at this frame and know what a wonderful mother our kids have and I'll try not to pay too much attention to the binkers.