A happy thanksgiving, with WEIGHT GAIN as the theme!

The aftermath of thanksgiving dinner- it was all just too much to take a picture before the meal, by the time we got it all together and assembled, babies and all, we needed to _eat_! We had a great thanksgiving dinner, with Turkey and all the traditional Steffens trimmings. Suzanne was executive chef (in theory, but in practice she also did everything else in addition to the planning) and put together the full deal, around the needs of a 4-week old, which is nothing short of miraculous. All in attendance were duly impressed. Speaking of which, it's (L-R) Betsey and William, Michael, Joanne (our neighbor), and Suzanne and Olivia.


Here, Olivia demonstrates the proper ettiquite post thanksgiving meal, showing the full food-coma, as Dad tries to achieve the same state with pie (and fantastic pie at that!!!)

But the real news here is not about our respective weight gain over the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but Olivia's very impressive gain over the last week; The community Neonatal Nurse stopped by today and weighed Olivia at 6 pounds 1 1/2 ounces! She's truly a Brick House baby. All of a sudden she feels heavier in our arms... For those of you who are statistically inclined, she gained about 1 1/2 ounces per day from the last weighing to this one- normal weight gain in this stage is about 1 ounce. Only half an ounce better, you say- but it's 150% of the norm! We expect that come her due date in december, she'll have outgrown her preemie clothes and be in standard newborn clothes!

Ok, enough enthusing about weight gain for this post- time to get back to the aftermath of thanksgiving- it's very cold and we're getting snow flurries! Makes me think of holiday walks in the woods through the snow. Not that any of this snow will stay very long, but it's very holiday-like.