Mother's Day Weekend

This weekend we headed down to Maryland. We spent Friday night at the Sharp's new house in Rock Hall, and then Dave had a regatta with the ULYC on Saturday in Oxford, and then we headed back to Rock Hall on Sunday for Mother's Day. It was an absolutely beautiful weekend weather-wise and so nice to just relax with family.

Dave's boat came in 2nd at the regatta and he also presented the awards that evening at a party and awards ceremony. This year Sophie was also his helper.

Clapping for an award winner

An attentive listener to an acceptance speech 

The fam

And the very best part of the weekend was my Mother's Day present - a beach cruiser bike with an attachment for Sophie! We'll keep it down at the house in MD. We rode around for a while this afternoon and it was so much fun. So looking forward to this summer! 

School Work

Every week Sophie comes home with "work" that she's done at school; usually art work. This week she came home with her first story. And of course, Claire had a big role in it :) 

Lauren 4 Month Check-up

It's hard to believe, but Lauren is four months! She had her check-up last week and she's doing great.

She's 24.13" long, which puts her in the 57th percentile; 13 lbs 14 oz, which puts her in the 47th percentile; and head circumference is 16.5" which puts her in the 75th percentile.

She's also big enough for the bumbo seat! She can't quite reach the toys yet, but likes to sit in it and look around. We also started to give her some rice cereal. She'll take a bite or two from the spoon, but can't really keep much of it in her mouth at this point. But she has started to sleep a solid 10-11 hours at night. I'm not sure if we can attribute that to the cereal or not, but I'll take it, whatever the reason!

Lip Correction

About two weeks ago Sophie went back to CHOP to get her lip corrected. As you'll recall, back in August Sophie was jumping on the bed, fell off, landed on the bedside table, and knocked her two front teeth back up into her gums, and split her lip. They stitched the lip in the emergency room, but didn't do the best job, so we had it corrected by the plastic surgery department.

She was pretty nervous about the procedure because we had a lot of time to talk and think about it - as opposed to the last time when it was a mad dash to the ER. But she did great! She was put under and the surgery took about 30 minutes. When she woke up she had about a dozen stitches in her upper lip and it was pretty swollen.

She was a pretty sad girl when she first woke up...

But Dave took her for some ice cream right away! 

And now it's almost back to normal. You can see that one of her front teeth came back all the way, but the other one has only partly emerged. Now that her lip isn't so fat you can see the teeth better. But we have a few years before they both fall out and are replaced by (hopefully very straight) grown up teeth.