My parents — Nana and Poppa to the girls — wrapped up a fun nine-day visit last week. Poppa took Claire for lots of walks around the neighborhood and to the swings at our local park, while Nana was both soother-in-chief for Juliet (cuddling and cooing non-stop) and chef-in-residence for the rest of us, making countless tasty meals. It was particularly kind of them to stay for a few extra days and help Katherine after I had to leave town on a Wikipedia trip. They also had the chance to catch up with our friends John, Deanna and little Marlow who came by for a quick visit. Click on the photo below for a slideshow.
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Juliet's 2-month checkup
We took Juliet for her 2-month checkup on Friday. She passed her exam with flying colors. At 23″, she is at the 70th percentile in height (compared to 56th percentile at 1-month). At 11 lbs, 11 oz, she’s in the 67th percentile in weight up from 63rd a month ago.
Juliet Announcement
Aunt Mona visit
Aunt Mona just spent a great week with us, helping out in many ways including getting Claire dressed each morning, feeding her breakfast, shuttling to daycare, bringing Katherine the all-important lattes, cooking some great meals, taking Claire to her Saturday morning KinderGym class, and making daily trips to Trader Joe’s for groceries. Click on the photo below for a slideshow which starts off with Claire’s first haircut just before Mona arrived and finishes with a some modeling shots of the girls in their matching pajamas, Claire in her “big sister” shirt, and Claire napping during a hike last weekend.
Grandma Judy visit
Grandma Judy left yesterday after two-and-a-half weeks of visiting with Juliet and Claire. She was an incredible help, changing endless diapers, singing, strollering, chauffeuring Claire to daycare, delivering highly nutritious lattes to the nursing mother, helping introduce Juliet to our local shopping mall, stickering with Claire, and doing dishes every few minutes.
Click on the photo below for a slideshow which includes Claire in her Valentine’s Day sweater at her Saturday morning KinderGym class, lots of pictures from around the house (including a rare artistic/linguistic shot of alphabet pasta), and finally Juliet’s first bath which was an impressive team effort involving three generations of bathing beauties: Judy, Katherine and Claire.
Happy Valentine's Day
Claire and Juliet want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day. To celebrate, we’ve got some pictures of the past few days including Juliet’s arrival home, Claire opening the kid-sized guitar Juliet gave her as a thank you for being such a great big sister, Grandma Judy entertaining Claire, Juliet the lap baby with Grandma and me, and the girls’ first photoshoot together. Also this week Juliet had her first pediatrician appointment. She’s 20 3/4 inches (83rd percentile), 8 lbs, 1 oz (58th percentile), with a 36.5cm head (78th percentile). Click on the picture of the two of them in their heart-covered pajamas for a slideshow.
Home from hospital
Katherine and Juliet came home yesterday afternoon. Everything went smoothly in the hospital, as Juliet ate and slept well while Katherine speedily recovered from the c-section. Like her big sister, Juliet had some jaundice and as a result spent time getting blue light phototherapy in an incubator in the corner of our room. With her velcro sunglasses on, stretched out on her back napping in the light, she looked like a comic book superhero having a day at the beach.
Claire came to visit Sunday. She met her little sister and then took Katherine on a walk, including visiting a model train set down the hall in the Children’s Hospital. Other highlights included Stu bringing Peet’s lattes and pastries each morning (and once getting a small piece of the very outer layer of a cinnamon roll for his effort), and sharing a bottle of champagne on the last night to celebrate Juliet and an early Valentine’s Day. Grandma Judy helped out in many ways, entertaining Claire throughout the day, serving as chauffeur in both the car and stroller, and helping Stu with dinner each night. Click on the picture of Katherine and Juliet for a slideshow of pictures from the hospital.
Juliet Laura West
It's a girl!
Stubborn
It looks like we’re going to have a stubborn baby, as neither the eastern medicine approach (moxibustion) nor the western medicine approach (external cephalic version) succeeded in coaxing her out of the breech position. So we’re hoping for spontaneous rotation over the next week, but planning on a c-section next Thursday morning.







