Earrings and cereal

Today we took the babe into town and got her
ears pierced. It's been months of internal
debate for me as to whether or not we should
do it, and today I finally said to hell with it. I knew
that if I didn't, I'd be thinking about it all the time.
She did okay, cried for a minute, then was happy
again a few minutes later. Once again, I felt
horrible for purposely inflicting pain on my
child, but at least at this age she won't pull on
her ears and cause infections.

We also decided to try feeding her cereal. I
originally had wanted to wait another month
or so, but it's frustrating when she wants to nurse
every hour, so hopefully with cereal she can last
a little longer between feedings. She seemed to like
it okay, didn't spit it out. I tasted it, it wasn't too bad,
just a little bland.

Playing is hard work.

First cereal

Curly

I tried to take some more pictures, this time with her hair big and curly, but the batteries are low in the camera so they all turned out blurry. Guess we'll just have to try again later, as we just hate taking pictures of the princess.

Random FYI: If you pour water into an answering machine, it doesn't work so well afterwards.

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Picture Contest

I've decided to enter Paisley into a contest to win a magazine cover, and a trip to NYC to appear on Good Morning America. I know, I know, everyone thinks their own child is worthy of this prize, but I figure it wouldn't hurt to try. I need everyone's help in picking the picture to be entered. PLEASE let me know which one(s) of these posted you think is the best. Sorry the pics are out of order, I'm not sure why that happens, and I'm too lazy to go in and fix that.

4 months old

We went to the doctor for Paisley's 4 month check up and shots. She weighs 14 lb, 12 3/4 ounces, and is 26 inches. That puts her in the 97th percentile for height, and 75th for weight. I really thought that she would weigh more than that, but she's just tall and skinny. Most of her 3-6 month pants still fall off of her. I guess thats ANOTHER thing she got from daddy. I've been trying to upload a picture for 30 minutes now with no luck, so I'll try to get new pics on tomorrow.