Today is our 14th anniversary! Peanut is 12 weeks old today.




I know I wasn't making them public before, but I have made some of them public now. My channel on YouTube has a bunch more videos.

I guess people want to know what the Peanut is up to.

• Smiling. A great big happy smile, it feels like genuine happiness when he smiles. It is somewhat fleeting, but it is the highlight of any day.


• Reaching out. He will reach out to bat at things with his hand.


• Grasping. Watch out if he gets his hand on something. The grip he has can rip flesh from your body, we bare the scar to prove it.


• Standing. He has no balance, but he can support his weight on his legs.


• Hold his head up. He can support his head for longer and longer periods of time.


• Roll over. I know this isn't new, but the doctor say he doesn't do it on purpose. I wholeheartedly disagree with the good doctor, and it is on YouTube to prove it. He will tuck one hand under his side, lift his legs up, kick sideways, while arching his back. He does it regularly so it isn't like luck that I caught it on tape.


• Vocalizing. Yesterday Kim read that we should be encouraging him by saying simple syllables repeatedly. So I was practicing "Aaahh" with him. A couple of times he did it with me. Mostly he'd move his jaw with me when I did it. He really liked to play.


• Locomotion. He is a ways away from crawling yet, but during "Tummy Time" I was moving his legs underneath his body. After I stopped he was still pulling his legs under further than before. He managed to push himself a little bit. I think a major problem is the diapers don't allow his legs to bend all the way forward under him. When he is a little bit larger he'll get there.


• Sitting by himself. After being fed and changed he might sit alone for up to 1/2 hour. Sometimes a pacifier will help, he also enjoys the swing.


• Height. He is still underweight 1-2% for his age, but he is 16% for height. His feedings are going better for the most part, he is still slow at eating though.


• Going for a ride. He love to go places, walks around the block, in the stroller, in the car seat. Anywhere but home.


• Looking around. He seems to made it past the intently staring at one thing for a while. Now that he has some head control he will move his head to look at things.

Actually I only saw the Great Salt Lake from the air. Salt Lake City reminds me of El Paso, with the mountains a bit closer on all other sides. And a little bit greener.

I went out to Utah for training on doing an Oracle E-Business Suites upgrade from 11i to r12. Along with the database upgrade from 9i to 11gr2. It was a week long class, and we barely got to the r12 upgrade on the last day. I won't lie, the class was difficult. On the other hand, I think I exceeded other people's expectations of me. You see I am a long time developer with some basic DBA training, but this is the hardcore DBA thing.

My sister flew into town the day after I left. She stayed with Kim and Peanut, and then we had the weekend together. When Kim went to drop me off at the airport she was a little sad. I asked her what is wrong, and she said "You are going to get some sleep!". Actually I did get some sleep, and I renewed my hatred of airplanes and airlines.

Peanut is 7 weeks old and last night he celebrated by sharing with us his first vomit. I can't tell you how honored I was sharing in that.

Kim took him to the doctor's for a weight check last Thursday (I know that's a week ago) his weight was up to 7 pounds 7 ounces (3.37kg). He made it onto the growth chart! He is in the 2nd percentile, which means 2% of children his age weigh less than him, take that 2% of the countries smallest children! On the chart he was moving up faster than the curve, he had a little catching up to do.

He seems a little harder to sooth in the last couple of days, much like the day after grandma left. Some of the stuff I have been reading says the amount of time a baby spends crying peaks at two months, so perhaps he is just starting to ramp up. I've been doing tummy time with him for the last couple of days. At first he hated it and worked to turn himself over (videos of that on YouTube). Now he seems to not mind it nearly as much, although if he is hungry he starts to chew on whatever is in front of him. He'll still get tired of tummy time and turn himself over. It is interesting to seem him move his arms and legs in what will eventually be crawling motions. Just as soon as his arms are strong enough to hold himself up on it will be crawling motions. When he starts kicking a lot I put him up on his feet so that he is standing there holding himself up (with absolutely no balance of his own), every time he seems like he is shocked to be standing like that. His eyes get wide, like, woah, that's what you all have been doing this entire time. I think he is holding his head up for longer periods of time, which I am looking forward to, I don't like it when he suddenly let's his head wobble over.

When we have been giving him baths he doesn't seem to enjoy the actually bathing part, but getting dry again really seems to make him happy. After drying off he'll do the cooing thing.

People have been asking when the dedication is...

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