I'm four months old!

What a way to spend my four month birthday! First of all, Mommy takes me to the doctor, who pokes and wiggles me everywhere, even in my privates! Then - horrors - she sticks me in the legs four times (FOUR shots!) The final indignity: on the way home Mommy makes us stop at the optometrist to pick up her new glasses (something about not being able to see without contacts when she wakes up in the middle of the night to feed or change me), and while we're there she asks them about sunglasses for babies. So this is what they found, and the worst part is that I was asleep and couldn't protest.

So on Sunday she & Daddy pulled a Steve Irwin and took me to see the elephant seals at Ano Nuevo (of course I slept through that whole thing too.) Here's a pic of me & Mommy (well, the top of my hood - I'm sleeping in the Bjorn and Daddy cut me off) standing in front of some of the smaller male seals. That's the guide's red arm, probably pointing out the 2.5 ton alpha male in the background. She also told us that elephant seal mothers nurse their pups for only a month or so before heading back to sea, leaving the babies alone on the beach to take care of themselves. I'm sure I overheard Mommy & Daddy discussing this as a potential parenting technique. I would just like to point out that elephant seal moms don't leave until after they have fattened up their pups by about 200 pounds, by effectively transferring that much of their own body weight to the baby. So Mommy still has a long way to go, since according to the doctor, I only weigh 14 pounds so far.

Well since none of these shots give you a good look at me, here I am yesterday in my crib - I'm always in a great mood after waking up from a nap. Ignore what the shirt says (thanks Auntie Allison); I'm a little angel!