Another Smiler

Here she is again...What a cutie!! 

Smiling Baby

So Here's Marcella with Jason, Kanien's youngest brother. She was having a heyday smiling and laughing a ton while he was holding her. It was pretty funny...she seems to smile more when she's being held by boys....I don't think this bodes well for Kanien and I...We don't think our first child should be a boy chaser. Although, I guess if she takes after Kanien, then that's her distiny.

 

Mom tries to do Marcella in

So Mom asked if she could burp Marcella on Thanksgiving, and we said, "Sure, that's fine." Little did we know that she'd try and do her in!!! Luckily for us we noticed and immediately confiscated her Marcella Privelages card. It's snowing right now....probably about an inch down on the ground. Pretty cool, eh?

 

Lizzie the Model

Well...Lizzie had this picture taken by a professional photographer for her Glamour Shots portfolio....the photographer? Kristin Wallin. She took time off from her New York Fashion Show tour to come to Thanksgiving...and while she was here she decided to take a few pics. 

Marcella

We just found out this morning that Marcella will be going to Primary Children's Hospital on Monday morning. They're admitting her to see if they can find out why she's not gaining any weight. It's apparent that she's getting enough food now, but they found fat and sugar in her stool, so they need to know why she's not digesting any food. Your prayers are much appreciated!! We love you all!

 
 

"It's an older code, sir, but it checks out."

That's a "Star Wars" Quote...I'm hoping Greg will break out his Star Wars DVDs come Thanksgiving and give us all something to do when we're up partying and having a HUGE feast at Mom and Dad's. I know...I know...it's cruel to post something like that when there are some of you who live out of state, but I'm getting extremely geeked out for this year's Festival of Gluttony. It's one thing to be thankful for stuff, it's another to be gluttonous...for Me Thanksgiving really ushers in the season of gluttony, to which Halloween is just a sweet prelude. There is no other time of year that you can go to the store and buy ice cream, chocolate, potato chips, popcorn, caramel popcorn, cheese popcorn, York Peppermint Snowflakes (A Hershey's product), Reese's Christmas Trees (also made by Caroline and Jeff), Milky Way Reindeer (sorry, this delicacy can't be attributed to Good ol' Milt), Cranberry Soda, hot chocolate...bring it home, eat it all, and not feel the least bit guilty? Only during the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas....It's fast approaching, so prepare yourself!!!

Here's the Man of the Day...Greg. I took this picture umm....October 02, 2005.













So.....Here are some other pictures. Kanien made a comment about how much Elizabeth has changed in one year....See for yourself. And please....NO COMMENTS ABOUT HER IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!!! She's so cute it'll just get filled up with things like "OMG....Elizabeth is such a babe!!" or "I can't believe how cute Lizzie is!!!"

This is the picture that's a year old....You can check out Kristin in it too...she's been much embiggened as well.
Then Here's Lizzie at the Hospital holding Marcella....I won't tell you which one I think is Cuter.
And Here's Lizzie striking a pose...this picture was taken August 27th, it must have been at one of Kanien's Baby Showers.


So....here are some other pictures you guys will enjoy. First one of THE OWENATOR....who just had a birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORANGE JUICE!!! (Get it? Owen Jeffrey=Orange Juice).



And now here's one of Marcella...UMMMMMMMMM...I mean Little Kanien...



This is a picture of a Dragon Fly that Kristin took. It's the best picture she's ever taken, in my opinion at least. It's resolution is set so it'll make a great desktop Backgound at 1280x1024...it's the same aspect ratio as your screen, so it fits just right.



And now we have the great Matriarch and Patriarch of the Hanson family...I think they look really nice here:



Well...That's all for today. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. I know we all miss Laurissa and Caroline and their respective families (but just between you and me, I think we miss them the most because we used to fight so much with them and now there's this empty spot where all of that fighting once was (if you object to that comment, please substitute "hang out" or "do massive group hugs" with fighting), and now we really miss them...but we miss their families too), and want them to come home.

Please leave your comments in the comments box below...especially if I put up a picture of you. If you don't comment and you have a picture of you up here, then you're not going to be on Jon's Glutton All Stars list...and as such you won't be invited to POST-GLUTTON-CON 2006.

In The Spirit of

It being Rivalry week, Marcella just wanted to say GO UTES!

Is She going to Do it?

We have been feeding Marcella some formula and as most of you know, she sometimes has a hard time keeping it down. Here is how Jon has solved this problem of always having to change his clothes and everything else around him.

Luckily she kept it all down.

Marcella Sneaks a Snack

Tonight when I came home from work, I saw Marcella trying to sneak a snack. All I can say is she's sure got Grandpa's genes, and good taste as well.



When Mom got the skinny and realized what was going on, she promptly removed the contraband from Marcella's reach. We really want her to gain weight, but don't think she should do it by eating chocolate.

This weekend Jon and I found the Joys of trying to get a cute family picture taken. Not only was it a bad location, just because it was outside, but it was about 20 degrees tooo cold. That coupled with a little girl who doesn't like to be woken up made for some pretty fun pictures, none of which are worthy for "the Christmas card" But I thought that you would like them just the same.

The following are links to videos of Marcella. Most of you guys have broadband, so it shouldn't be a problem to download these. There are three versions of most of them, a small version, a large version, and an MPEG-1 version. The small and large versions are WMV-9 files, so you'll need at least Windows Media Player 9 to watch them. Get it here if you don't have it. If you don't want to get it, that's why I included the MPEG-1 videos...they're not too great quality-wise, but they'll work on any computer. The large videos are full screen, the small ones are...um...smaller. You can either click on the link directly, or right-click them, and select "Save Target as..." or "Save link as..." depending on your browser.

Jon


Marcella gets her hair washed

Small-3.5MB

Large-20MB

MPEG-1-9MB

Marcella on the floor

Large-23.5MB

Small-4MB

MPEG-1-10.5MB

Marcella rolls to her side-2MB

Marcella gets dressed

Large-67.5MB

Small-11MB

MPEG-1-30MB

Kanien's working really hard getting Marcella to eat. She nurses her every two hours, and gives her formula in between nursing episodes. When we started giving her formula, she didn't really like it. We started with two ounces, which she ate fine, but promptly let us know it wasn't agreeing with her by putting the entire two ounces onto her blanket. I couldn't believe she had that much room in her stomach!! So a few hours later we gave her one ounce, thinking the two ounces were just too many, and with a smaller dose she'd be alright. Well...same thing happened. We figured she was getting too much formula too fast. So now we let her eat for 30 seconds, then burp her for five minutes. It takes about half an hour for her to eat two ounces, but at least she's keeping it down. Here are some more pictures.

These are some pictures Kanien took last night. They're pretty cute. Marcella is eating a lot more now. We're giving her formula, too, to try and fatten her up for Thanksgiving. Dad want her birth weight to be doubled by Christmas or else we've got to give him 12 giant toblerones.

One of Kanien's friends gave us this cool towel...if you put the eyes over your real eyes, it makes you look really scary.

Marcella is growing

Here are a couple of pictures I wanted to show you all, to let the mothers and others know that Marcella is indeed getting bigger. The first one was taken when we were still in the hospital. first (three day) picture: She's practically swimming in her bunting.



















And here is the other picture:

She fills it out a lot better, don't you think? She was being really cute last night...well she's basically cute 24/7, but last night was awesome.

The Bath

Marcella is usually pretty good during her baths. She doesn't like lotion, but she looooves it when we wash her hair. She gets all content and would probably let us wash it for hours on end. I usually scrub it for about five minutes....helps reduce cradle cap.

Here's a smile!! We love you guys and wish you could be here.

Curled Up

Check out the flexibility!!! I always get a kick out of how flexible babies are. When you hold Marcella upright, she usually starts all spread out, but slowly works her legs underneath herself, and really snuggles her head in tight. Those socks are the smallest they sell at Target, and they still go halfway up her leg!


New Hat

Kanien's mom made this hat for Marcella. When we first put it on her, she kept trying to look at it and going cross-eyed. As you can see, the hat is red. Terry's really got her allegiances right! She's a great Ute fan, thanks in no small part to my rhetoric.

Wiggle Worm

Marcella wiggles a lot. On Tuesday morning I got up and brought her into our bed so Kanien could feed her. We noticed she had almost wiggled out of the top of her bunting. It doesn't help that she's really small and can fit through the openings of all her clothes, but we thought this was funny.



She always falls asleep right when Kanien goes to feed her.


Here's another shot of her sleeping.

Our Walk

We went for a walk on Saturday, and took some pictures. This one was before we left the house. Caroline made that blanket for Marcella. It even has a little "To Marcella, from Caroline" on it. Probably my favorite blanket of Marcella's.








Here we are on the actual walk. It was a little nippy, but felt pretty good. We've had a really warm November, which is nice because of the increase in natural gas prices.






I took this picture because I know Caroline likes pictures of houses. This was a cute on on Keller Lane. It's a bit overexposed in the highlights, and a bit underexposed in the shadows, but you can see it's a nice house. It's amazing how none of the new houses are full brick houses anymore. They've all got about six pounds of brick on the front, then cheap siding on the rest of the house. I guess that's one reason to buy an old house!

Here is a picture of our family. It was sort of "spur of the moment" and that's why I look scruffy and don't have my hair combed. Kanien and Marcella sure showed of for it, though!



I hope you're all doing well, and thanks for taking time to check this stuff out. Pretty soon a blog will be like and email address...everyone will have one...then more than one...and we'll spend so much time blogging and reading others blogs that we'll enter another depression!!

Kanien took this one of Marcella and I. Another black and white special...I think I'm always more handsome in black and white....no one can tell how white I really am.












This is an older one of Marcella...probably at one week. I can tell because she doesn't have many baby spots on her face, and she's more yellow than she is now. She looooves sucking on her fist....she doesn't do it very long, but any time it gets close to her face, she'll try grabbing onto it, then moves it away after a couple of seconds. I'm surprised how much grunting and whistling and squeaking she does. I guess that's something you don't really notice until you have one of your own.













This was one Kanien took of me giving her a bath. She's really good during bath time, especially when we scrub her head. She really hates the lotion, though. I even warm it up for her...but it still makes her cry.












This is a Marcella and Trenton. We took this a little over a week ago. She's not quite this yellow anymore. Trenton is a lot bigger than she is, even though he was only a few ounces bigger when he was born. I guess being a week older has its advantages. In case you don't know, Trenton is Layne and Jami Caldwell's baby.