97%?????

So Elizabeth had her 4 month check-up on Friday. She is officially a chuncker. She weighed in at 17 pounds 9 ounces, putting her in the 97th percentile for her age. That means that only 3 percent of children her age are bigger than her. It also means that she is as big if not bigger than other children older than her (proven by the fact that she is bigger than the other babies at church born last year, some as many as 5 months older than she is.) Good Golly! She is also 26 inches long, 95%, and her head is in the 75%. The head thing I am glad for, I don't want her to end up with a huge head, the fat she will get rid of, but there is no guarantee that she would grow into an overly large head.

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This weekend was beautiful! 85 degrees on Sat, and if it were not for my cold it would have been a perfect weekend. Although my coughing did make E laugh a lot. We went to the Tualatin Valley Nature Park, it is really cool. We also hung out with our friends Ben and Suzi, which is always a lot of fun. Anyways, now it is back to the grind stone for another week. At least the weather today isn't making me want to be elsewhere...too bad. =)

Hmmm...

I've decided I am not so good at this blogging thing. I don't think I have anything worth writing. Even what I do have to say, doesn't end up taking long to say. Oh, well.

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Elizabeth rolled over for the first time this last week. She was on her stomach, and rolled to her back, with much effort. She kept almost getting it, but would fall back to her stomach. This went on for such a while that I had time to get the video camera, so I have her first successful roll on video. That is pretty cool.

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She is getting really good at the laughter thing. More and more things are becoming funny. Jake took her to the park the other day, and while they were there they met a woman and her two children. One wanted to see the baby, so the woman picked her up to show her, then the other wanted to see too. So she picked him up too. Apparently a woman holding two small children is reason to have a belly laugh (her first real hearty laugh). She likes peek-a-boo, flying, raspberries (she is getting pretty good at those herself).

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She is also able to bear weight on her legs. She will stand against the couch for about 5 seconds before she buckles, but she is getting there on the standing thing too. When she is on her stomach, she is getting the motions for crawling, raising on her hands and knees. She just needs to get it all coordinated and she will go.

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She has her 4 month check up on Friday, exciting because we will get to see how much bigger our little hippo has gotten. She is in 6 month clothing currently. We took her to work today, and weighed her on a big scale there, and she weighed in at 18 pounds, ahhh! Friday will let us know whether that scale is off or not. If it is true, she will soon move out of 6 month clothing, which seems to be the case by the way she wears them now. My goodness she's doubled in size since she was born.

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Okay, I guess I had more to say than I thought. I should stop now. Tschuess. (Is that how you spell it?)