The Ballad of Geagen and Woolamina

Geagen and Woolamina at 5 weeks

Geagen and Woolamina at 11 weeks

Geagen in her cap and booties from Great-Grandma Wood

Hanging out in the vibrating chair

Today I took long overdue pictures of Geagen and Woolamina. Woolamina is a life-sized Merino lamb from the Pendleton Wool Company- she is made of wool and for this reason we have to hide her from Badgley (he REALLY likes wool....) for her own safety. She lives in the nursery where she fits in with the other barnyard animals and also serves the purpose of picture-taking prop. I think it's really neat to take pictures of her Geagen together and compare how much she's grown. For the record Geagen was 11 lbs. 8 oz. and 23" long at her checkup on September 10. I'm sure she's bigger already. There will be more pictures and I'm sure that with time Geagen will dwarf Woolamina.

To Grandma's House We Go!

Geagen and her Great-Grandma Wood

As you can tell, it has been a somewhat eventful week around here. In fact, we’ve been so busy that I’m just getting around to posting for yesterday. We went to go see Jon’s Grandma Wood out in Adrian, Oregon (even further out into the middle of nowhere- approximately 13 miles south of Nyssa). Geagen and I went with Jon’s mom Jeanne to go and visit Grandma Wood. We were going to pick up some peaches that she had picked for us but apparently we had gotten there too late- she had given the peaches away to neighbor in fear that they would spoil before we could come and pick them up. We did have a nice visit in spite of the whole peach debacle. I brought the camera and figured it would be a good time for little Geagen to get to know her Great-Grandma Wood who still loves babies. I got some cute pictures of the two of them together. Geagen made sure she turned on the charm and the two of them visited- Geagen cooed and smiled and studied Great-Grandma’s face intently. I also made sure Grandma had some pictures of the baby to put on her fridge and that they were properly labeled with her name and birthday to avoid any confusion- I guess it comes with the territory when you’re 96!