Shortly after Alyssa was born Kelly announced "I think we'll call her Bunky!" The nickname has stuck. Gradually, "Baby Sister" is being phased out (though it's still around), and "Bunky" is taking it's place. We try to throw "Alyssa" in too so it stays in the mix. With no further ado, here are some recent pictures of Bunky.
Alyssa got to hang out with Uncle Joe for a bit last weekend. They chilled out and watched some football together for a while.
Yesterday I took Alyssa in for her 1 month pediatrician's visit and was shocked to find that she weighed 10 pounds 4 ounces fully clothed. The nurse agreed that means she's at least 10 pounds. I suspected a faulty scale until I realized that she weighed in at 7 pounds 5 ounces on the exact same scale at her 2-week checkup. Hence she has gained over two and a half pounds in just over two weeks. Wow! That means she's moved up from 42nd percentile at birth to 77th percentile. I'm just happy that she's thriving!
In other news, Alyssa has lost almost all of the hair in the front on top of her head. Think Frank from "Everybody Loves Raymond." I think it's adorable, but I'm a little biased. It will be interesting to see what the hair that grows in its place will look like. We'll take and post pictures demonstrating this phenomenon soon.
Alyssa was hanging out on the ottoman on the blanket that Ryan's grandmother made her so James grabbed his camera and snapped some pics.
I think this is the first picture of the girls together since the day they met at the hospital. Kelly was "hugging" Alyssa.
Last night Lisa and Ryan stopped by to bring us dinner and presents and Kelly got to show Ryan our new hummingbird feeder.
Kelly: "Look, Ryan, it's our new bird feeder!"
Kelly loves to help out in the kitchen. Yesterday she got to help me (normally she's helping Daddy) bake brownies and enjoy licking the spoon when we were done.
I can't get over how fast Alyssa is changing. She weighed 8 lbs even on our home scale on Friday, up quite a bit from the 7 lbs 5 oz that she weighed at her two-week checkup on Tuesday.
Thirteen days old (Monday):
We went out to Gramma and Grampa's house yesterday to celebrate Gram's 96th birthday.
Alyssa and Gramma
