Wednesday, September 29, 2004

2nd Time's the Charm and Frog Facedness

Roxi attended her second wedding last Saturday. You may recall that her first wedding was a rather quick and unsuccessful appearance. This time, however, she was a peach. Well, actually a pineapple - she wore a very cute pineapple dress ensemble from her Mimi. The bride was quite lovely, too, but Roxi was the most beautiful one there in my humble opinion. Anyway, we all had a great time. Roxi was having too much fun to nap, so we did have to leave to avoid a total exhaustion meltdown. But she was a party girl for more than 5 hours straight. Ya can't ask for more.

The latest trick in Roxi's playbook is making a very deliberate frog face when she's thinking. Her lips squish together and it almost looks like she's chewing. Her little brow furrows and she seems to be focusing so HARD. She's been doing this a lot when she "plays" with her blocks lately. She just stares and stares, face all froggy and hands getting ever more accurate with their aim.

Roxi will be 4 months old next week. I have mixed feelings about her doctor's appointment. On the one hand, I can't wait to find out how much she weighs, how long she is, where she falls on all the growth curves, etc. And as usual, we have a long list of questions to ask Dr. P. I'm most interested in hearing his opinion on when to start solid foods. But the bad part is ... she'll be getting shots again. So we're anticipating a few more days of crankiness and fever. Oh well, it's necessary and good in the long run. If only those needles weren't so dang huge.