Monday, January 30, 2006

Cheap Toys and Tyler


The 2 aren't related. But I promised I would tell you about the great toys I got and then, we'll have a survey. After a couple trips to Andrea's, we learned that Silas likes to play in what we commonly call a "megasaucer". This was one of those things that I was sure that we would never get because they take up so much space. It's amazing how quickly we've changed our minds on so many things since becoming parents; our apartment gets smaller and smaller all the time. Anyway, I priced these saucery things at many places and for those of you in the market, they're about 80 bucks. BUT we found ours at a used kids stuff store for about half that price. That's mega.



The other photo is a great shot of the bald spot- our pediatrician-to-be, Kathleen Fung, is really proud of that because it shows her that Silas is sleeping on his back. Silas and I were contemplating the downpoor of rain that commenced when it was time for us to leave for our "second look" at UT Tyler. Hence begins the survey: should Joel go to
1. UT Tyler (Family Medicine)
2. UAMS in Little Rock (Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics)
3. Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics)

Please indicate your first choice and why. Results of the survey do not guarantee that they will be ranked accordingly or acceptance into the program.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Baby Vs. Cereal



the well baby check-up



We all went for the 4 month check up on Friday. I love Children's Hospital. They have a neat train and it's fun to be the only white family in the waiting room. This week a Vietnamese toddler offered us some milk from his bottle. Someone in their family was named "Nan". I know because the nurse yelled his name about 10 times while Mr. Dad talked on his cell phone.

Silas weighed 15.2 lbs, was measured 24+ inches and thus ranks in the 90th percentile for both and we got the OK to start rice cereal (that we had already started 3 days prior).

In other news, I got some great bargains on some baby toys. More on that later.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

because xanga is too hard

But now that I've started here, maybe all blogs are just too hard. How can I show pictures? How can I brag about MY child?