Penelope & Nate Spend Some Quality Time

Penelope seems to be taking pretty well to her baby brother. She hugs him, kisses him, has held him, says good night to him and says she loves him. I think that seems like a pretty good start! She also likes to look in on him sleeping and show him things, like the colored buttons on her toy phone.

More Nate!

P is for Penelope

Penelope officially recognizes at least one letter, the letter P of course. She also knows that "P is for Penelope." She actually does pretty well with other letters in her name also. She can pretty reliably bring us the letters "o" and "e" upon request from two puzzles she has that spell her name, and some of the other letters as well!

Interrogatories

Penelope is fully into what her Nana calls "interrogatories." She is all questions: "Where is so and so?" "What's he doing?" "What's that noise?" It seems she is officially into some sort of new phase of language development!

First Family Portrait

Here are some pix of the new & improved Champa Family:

Look Alikes?

Today we snapped a shot of Nathan that reminded me so strongly of a picture we have of Penelope from the hospital, that I am compelled to post them both and see what others think:

Here is Nate at less than 2 days old:

And here is Penelope at less than 4 days old:

Welcome Nathan David Champa

As our loyal blog followers no doubt already know, Baby Boy Champa has arrived. Late Saturday evening / early Sunday morning we welcomed Nathan David into the world. He weighed in at 7 lbs and 8 ozs and measured 20 inches. This means that his big sister has him beat in the newborn stats departments. Having tied him on height and head size (35 cm), weight was the tie breaker and she beat him out on that one by 6 ozs! Below is one of the first pictures we have of him: