Thursday Baby Blogging 121108

Following last week's picture with Kate for scale, here's one with me holding SteelyKid and Appa:

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And, just for kicks, here's last week's picture again:

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This way, everybody can have a good laugh at the size mismatch between me and Kate...

This week's exciting development is that she had her four-month check-up, and we were given permission to start her on "solids." The scare quotes are there because what she's actually getting is a sort of thin gruel of "rice cereal." Still, she's getting food on a spoon now, and seems to enjoy the variety. And hopefully, the extra calories will help stretch out the time between "nobody has ever fed me, ever" crying jags...

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