Asher enjoys laying on his belly and pulling his arms up off the floor while arching his back and kicking his heals up behind himself, in a sort of skydiver position.
We’ve been in San Francisco staying with Uncle Harold and Aunt Genella.
Cousin Guy has been a play companion and afforded Asher time on his play apparatuses.
We have had a great trip and enjoyed sharing Asher’s moments with the Williamson clan.
As I sat across the room, Asher started and continued to make a lot of commotion.
Today Asher turned 2 weeks old! We celebrated with a Sweet and Salty cookie, mom had a water, and dad ordered an espresso con panna at Ristretto Roasters. I’m glad we had our iPhones because everyone in there was on an Apple device, mostly Mac Book Pros. We were out of place, toting around a new born among the coffee shop dweller hipsters, but we stuck around to represent aging, reproducing Portlanders.
We had just come from Asher’s two week checkup with the Pediatrician, Chrissy Ott. She measured and weighed Asher to check his growth, looked in his ears, eyes and nose. He’s grown to 8 lbs 12 oz which is 14 oz more than he was 10 days ago, so he’s growing faster than the typical 1 oz per day rate they hope for. He is now 21.5 inches long, so a 1/2 inch there and his head circumfence is now 14.25 inches, up 1/4 inch. The doctor was very pleased! She checked the growth charts and he’s at 75% in height, and 50% in weight.
At the end of the day Kathleen was greeted by a self-soothing Asher, who has figured out how to pacify himself with his own fingers!
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When Asher wakes up for a diaper change, or to nurse, or for any reason has his clothes taken off, he stretches just like you and I do when we wake up. We’re stretching to alert our nervous system it’s time to get ready for action. It’s a practical move, by a pragmatic new born. When Asher does it I have to say it is amazingly cute. Check him out here when his mom was getting ready to change his diaper.
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