Sophie and Tristan

Last Friday Kindra and I went to her friend Jana's house. Jana just gave birth to her son Tristan 9 days ago. Sophie has met one other baby before (Molly and Gregg's son Gus), but she was asleep the whole time...kind of like Tristan this time. Kindra and Jana's friend Helen was also there. Helen is expecting her first baby two weeks from now, so soon we won't have any friends without kids.



Although Tristan is much younger, seeing Sophie next to another baby makes her look massive...







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A Family Visit

Last Sunday Nick (Henne's Brother), Lisbet, Brit, Lizzie, Donnie, Rick and Jeffrey came to visit. Sophie was in good form and we had a great time hanging out with the family.



Sophie's also starting to chub up a bit. Nice and healthy...



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Katie's Visit and Footprints

It was great having Kate here to help with Sophie. She was the ultimate doting Aunt and spent a ton of time with her new niece. One thing we decided to do while she was here was to get Sophie's footprints. It was a dirty affair but Sophie didn't seem to mind and in the end we got some good ones.





Kindra pointed out the large size of her feet. It would appear that young Sophie has inherited the curse of large Norwegian extremities. She is above the curve in height and weight but really above the curve in head size. Kindra attributes this to my massive cranium as her's is rather small. Interesting as she is very smart.

Despite our confidence after successfully capturing the feet, we gave up on the handprints after a couple attempts. Sophie just wasn't having it so this alien looking one is the best that we got. Probably just as well as baby handprints remind me of the Blaire Witch Project and scare me.


We also made it out with some friends of mine from work and a couple of their friends that were visiting from Spain. This is us with Jab, Ferran and Marcos. Unfortunately, Jose is not featured.

Visits and the One Month Mark

We had Sophie's one month check up with the GGD on November 1st. The GGD is a government agency that monitors the growth of all babies in the Netherlands and makes sure that they are growing at a good pace and getting their vaccinations, etc. The first visit is just weight and height. No needles till next time when I'm sure Sophie won't have as much of a good time.

The vital stats from this visit were as follows...

Weight: 4.33 Kg or 9.5 Lbs

Height: 56 cm or 22 in

Outside of that the visits have begun. Starting with Jan who came for a couple weeks shortly after Sophie was born. We weren't the liveliest bunch but it was great having Jan here. She helped a ton with keeping us in more food than we could eat...



In other news we've had three visitors in the last week and a half. My mom Glenda and her friend Kate were here for about a week before heading back to California. They got some good Sophie time in and managed to take in a few tours as well.

The day after they left Sophie's aunt Kate arrived. She said she didn't want to put Sophie down while she was here and we are doing our best to hold her to it.


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