That's a lot of baby

Tyler currently clocks in at 15 pounds, 12 oz, and 27 inches long. That puts him in the 75% for weight and greater than 95% for height. That's rather a lot of baby. I knew he was getting big, but I didn't think he was quite that big. Guess he has been putting all that formula to good use, even though he does return a lot of it to sender.

Tyler's well-baby check went just fine today. We asked a few questions of the doctor and she gave him a clean bill of health. She gave us the go-ahead to start solid foods if we wanted, but we'll probably wait until 5 months. He's less likely to have food allergies that way. He got a few more shots (frowny face) and cried quite loudly until dad broke out his phone and started playing electronic music on it. Seriously, he really likes music with a beat. He calmed right down, tear running down his cheek and everything, just starting at the phone. I'm glad I got a new one, it's paid for itself already in calm-baby dividends.

Tyler discovered he can scream yesterday. It's a little weird, until you see his face and realize he's not actually hurting, and it's really good exercise for him. He scrunches down and does this little death-metal yell. I'm surprised he doesn't have a sore throat this morning. He's actually asleep right now, and has been for quite a while. Either the vaccines are tiring him out or the 12 hours of sleep he gets at night isn't quite enough to recover from all the exercise he's doing. Between pushups, superman flexes and crunches, he's turning into quite the little body-builder.

Grandparent swap #1 happened this weekend. We dropped grandma Swanson off at the airport and picked up grandpa Preecs, who will be covering the next two weeks of Tyler-time. He's picked up on the basics so far, and I'm staying at home today to critique his technique, but he's raised a baby before, so I'm sure he knows how the basics work.

In non-baby news, I've decided on my next musical project. I've decided to try and cover a song from an old video game I played on the Super Nintendo called Actraiser. There's some seriously great music in that game, and it frees me from having to decide on a lot of the aspect of the music, allowing me to focus on 'production', if you will. Picking instruments, adding interesting twiddly bits, that sort of thing. The downside is that's it's only 12 measures long, and it loops, so it's not likely to be a particularly large project, but I'm determined to make myself create things. I'm not going to get any better if I just sit around wishing I could create something good as opposed to actually creating something.

Hey, Tyler is awake. Good 1.5 hour nap, there. Also on the plus side, the doctor told us we were feeding Tyler a bit too often, and the long nap means we successfully stretched out the time between his feedings. The next one will probably be a little trickier, though.

Jess started, and has nearly finished, a project of her own, too. We swiped a good storage box full of old family albums and school pictures, and Jess has managed to scan quite a lot of them. There's some fully adorable pictures of Jessie in her younger years. She looks a lot like she did back in high school, and even in middle school, but for some reason her grade-school self looks almost completely different to me. I'm sure you'll all be able to see them soon enough. I'll let you judge.

The North Judo school is closing. It's been sounding like the Gymnastic school has been wanting to get us out of there for a while, presumably because they have some clever plans for the space. They have already opened, however, another school to the south. It's maybe another 5 or 10 minutes drive for me, but nothing dramatic, and the space is a little bigger, I think. It's a nice little area to get thrown around. Jess, on the other hand, is in a bit of a free-fall, exercise-wise. Rec Roller derby finished a session and is trying to secure a space to have future classes. There's still hockey and plenty of derby girls are meeting up in various locales to skate around and be awesome, but nothing fully official yet.

-N