Baptism scheduled

Sunday, June 26^th

At Queen of Peace

Look who visited the office today

Straight from his weigh-in at 9 pounds and 7 ounces. Go team!
(btw, I'm back to normal hours now, after taking 2 weeks off)

Gaining like a champ

At the one and two week checkups, Vincent has been gaining weight right on schedule. On Friday, he surpassed his birthweight by an ounce.

Vincenzo

Vincent Edmund Zadzilka

8 lb 10 oz
21" length
apgar 9/9

Arrived at hospital midnight
Born 6:32am 4/30/11

Everybody's doing a-ok. More later...

Facebook

Just in case anyone's still following me here, facebook has been getting the attention. See ya there...

The elves are back

Check it out now, it's only available till 1/15/09.



The dancing Z elves!

A little life lesson

So, as the girls and I arrived at daycare one day, there was an interesting van in the parking lot. A window was being repaired at the school, and the van had that big apparatus on the side for holding big panes of glass. Evie was mystified and thought is was really cool. Just as we stopped gawking and turned back to the school, the repairman was passing by us. I explained that Evie thought his van was the coolest thing ever. He looked at Evie and gave her some career advice: "Stay in school".

Sleep study, pix and random stuff

Alert - new pictures are up on the family site.

Yesterday Gwen had a sleep study done. Basically that entailed trying to sleep in a strange crib with 30 wires attached her little body, plus a couple of straps around her chest and a tube under her nose to monitor breathing. As you can imagine, Gwen logged her objection to the whole setup, but finally fell back asleep. Sleep was a little uncomfortable, evidenced by a few brief crying spells during the night, but she did sleep through the night. Her final revenge was to spit up onto a bunch of the wires in the morning.

The sleep study is just precautionary, though. We do not suspect that Gwen has sleep apnea, or other sleep problems. However, her low muscle tone could result in problems that we wouldn't otherwise recognize, so the study was done.

By the way, if you only follow the zadblog and I haven't talked to you about Gwen's definitive diagnosis, you're lacking some info. I won't be posting any of that info, so give me a call for the scoop.

In other news, Evie has resumed swimming lessons. We dive into the pool once a week, and she hasn't missed a beat. Being a veteran of the shrimp/perch class, she shows the little ones how it's done. While the other kids contemplate the edge of the pool, Evie has already crawled out on her own and jumped into my arms. Gotta pay attention swimming with Evie!

Now for some random stuff.

• Science is cool


• A funny take on the movie The Ten Commandments


• You can take some college science courses for free


• 2008 Election through the eyes of a five-year-old

Funny of the day

So we had our young niece for part of this weekend. We went grocery shopping for dinner, and we arrived at the frozen food aisle to get some french fries. She pointed at a bag and said "well, we can't get THOSE". "Why not?" I asked. She very matter-of-factly replied, "because they're McCain".

Trickle down politics at work.

Just call me "stretch"

Haven't posted in a while, so thought I'd share this tidbit. Gwen remains on track weight-wise, as we're now in the "1/2 ounce gain per day" camp, as expected for her age. A little above average on the total weight, too. Height is where she's wrecking the curve for the other babies. Even without the (significant) boost from her "80s hair band" hair, she's at 20 1/2 inches, putting her in the 99th percentile.

You go, girl!

On a side note, here's the parental lesson of the day: If one child refuses to fall asleep at bedtime, causing her to sleep in, the other will necessarily wake up extra early and ready to start the day.
(be very quiet, and you can hear our multi-kid friends fiendishly giggling at us)