Happy Birthday Megan!!!

Wow!! Its hard to believe our baby is a month old already!! How time flies!!! The changes that have happened too since we've had her. She's so alert and cooing to us already. She's quite the noisy baby, takes after her sister I suppose. She's got really great head control and eating like a champ.

Both girls had a physical today and both had shots. Mia was a super big girl and had 2 shots but she never cried. She loves our new doctor. She was very shy with him, but they had great conversation and they laughed a lot together. Dr. Fox said that everything is going great with Mia and she's growing so fast. 3/4 of an inch since November's visit with Dr. Ripple. She's 40 1/4 inches tall. Yowza!! She's already tall enough for majority of the rides at Disneyland (hint hint daddy!!). Just trying to finish up her paperwork so she can go to kindergarten. Hooray for big girls!!

Megan is 9lbs and 1oz. (Ouch!! My arms), she's 21 1/2 inches long. Isn't it amazing how much she grew in just one month. She was also a champ when taking her shots, one shouting cry and I bounced her once and she went to sleep!! (Daddy's genes kicking in!!) Dr. Fox said she looks good. Unfortunately, she has a touch of thrush, poor baby!! So we were given some meds for her and she should be fine in couple of days.

Poor Shawn had a dentist appointment today too. Unfortunately for him, he had his baby incisors extracted. His adult teeth were coming in and pushing on the baby ones, causing him quite a bit of discomfort. He went in like a champ and came out with a mouth packed full of gauze. He told us it wasn't too sore for him and that he wasn't in much pain. (Of course, says the boy who took out his 2 front teeth 2 years ago). Oh yeah, and he had his first wrestling practice yesterday!! He loved it, he had a smile so big it looked like it went ear to ear! I'm just curious though what boy doesn't like to be able to push or slam their friend into a mat?? Gev would have been so proud to watch him in action. He was pretty good for someone who's never wrestled. I think only time and more acquired skills will help. But even if he never wins, he's having a good time and that's what counts at the end of the day.

Whew!! Quite an exhausting day for us, having to go back and forth to Kahului twice in one day, but very productive. Oh, I almost forgot, Happy St. Patty's Day everyone!! We had a baby luau to go to tonite, so we'll celebrate Megan's first month tomorrow with dinner with our family.

Happy Birthday Megan!! We love you so much!! You truly give your name the meaning we had hoped for!!! Akiko- bright light. Thank-you for brightening our lives everyday just by being you!!