my first costume!

lu lu as a punkin'....

Trick or Treat!

hello there. it's gdawg. i'm almost 4 months old now! to any of you that have been waiting for a new post here on my blog, i apologize for taking so long. i've been pretty busy these last few weeks. my new nickname: lu lu. momdawg was calling me gracielu for awhile, and then just lu lu. sometimes she says it's short for lucifer...i'm over 12 pounds now. i sleep about 10-12 hours at night, passing out after my nightly bath and bottle with cereal around 9pm. i've been practicing eating some fruits and veggies at lunch with momdawg, making a mess on my face and bib but boy am i cute! i've tried carrots, peaches, bananas and today green beans! grandmadawg says carrots in the PM make for an orange BM. this week i started working on grabbing objects and directing them to my mouth...my dress, my blanket, momdawgs hand, my toys. i'm getting so big that momdawg says i am graduating into my size 2 diapers this week! more room for peeps and poops...well, i'm getting tired of my musical swing now and i must go for a stroller ride around the block. holla back, ya'll. -GDawg

Two Months, 11 pounds, 10 ounces...

GDawg here. Today I celebrate my two month birthday. Thanks to the bottles, packed with formula and some rice cereal, I'm up to over 11 pounds. (Barry Bonds tried to get me to try some 'roids, but I said no). Last night I downed a whopping 10 and a half ounces for my night time feeding. I passed out for 5 hours, filled my diaper with a huge growler, and asked for more! I've graduated out of my newborn diapers and I'm into the size 1. Still not potty trained, but that's ok. I'm looking around and cooing alot, still trying to learn to laugh and grasp objects. MomDawg started back to work last week on the ambulance. She works day shift now, so GrandmaDawg Smyth usually hangs with me when she's gone. I spent my first night with my dad, AdamDawg, and he survived my nighttime shenanigans of waking up constantly...So that's the news from GDawg's crib. Love to all you readers out there! -Grace Lillian Smyth

So what's in the future for me?

I've been spending a lot of my spare time lately (when not eating or pooing) thinking about just what I'm getting into here. So I was doing a little Googling on Momdawg's computer and I came up with this cool video. It's from the FischBowl run by Karl Fisch. It's another blog just like mine!
Check it out!

See the new poll!!

Vote early, vote often!!

One Month Old

4 weeks ago the world changed forever...the amazing GDawg was pulled from momdawg's uterus and arrived in the world. In some ways the days have flown by and I can't believe I'm already one month old, 1/12 of a year. Had I arrived on my due date, July 21st, I would only be two weeks old now. But from the start I had to break the rules and do things the hard way. Mom just doesn't know that this is only a glimpse of the next 18+ years...Ha ha ha ha! I've graduated from preemie clothes and diapers, and at a whopping 7.8 pounds at the last doctor's visit this week. Mom is trying to switch me to formula, and though I do ok with the bottle (artificial nipple) I have been having a few problems with growlers (pooping). Seems formula backs GDawg up a little bit and we are trying new tactics to fight this (warm water, sugar water or Karo syrup in the formula, sitting in the squatting position, etc). I'm still running the house, and love the late night/early morning. Momdawg has found that when changing my diaper (I fill it to the brim with pee after over 4 ounces per bottle feeding!) drying my unmentionables with a hairdryer is GDawg's favorite. I stop mid cry and love the warm air and whirring noise of the dryer. Ha! I'm keeping them guessing everyday. Love to you all. -GDawg the Great

Happy Birthday to Me!

Ok kids, at 2016 hours tonight, I will officially be 3 weeks old. That's 21 days, 504 hours, or 30240 minutes old. (I'm already learning some simple math from grandma and grandpdawg smyth). I'm learning to sleep more at night, to ride in my car seat without hollering and crying like it's torture, to fill a diaper to the point of almost overflow, and I'm at least 7 pounds now thanks to my hearty appetite. Mom is still maintaining sanity with the help of grandmadawg smyth, but I'm getting better at entertaining myself when I'm all juiced up on milk and awake. (Oh yeah, mom learned that you can't drink caffine while you are breastfeeding, cause then it gets me all hot in the diaper and ready to rumble. So it's strictly decaf coffee and tea and cola from here on out). Yesterday I took a road trip to see mom's co-workers at EMS headquarters, and I got passed around the office and the EMS and Sheriff's Department Dispatch centers. They all knew me as Cletus the Fetus before I made my grand entrance 3 weeks ago, so I had to drop by the tell everyone 'what up.' Well, that's the news here from my HQ on Bellwood Road. More later. -GDawg

Cankle Update

In case you were wondering, MomDawg's cankles are no longer! Yay! You can actually see her ankles now. I thinks it's all the walking I make her do when I'm up crying in the early morning hours. Tee hee hee. Later, GDawg

Uncle Bubba and Carl Jr. visit

Well, my mom's big brother Matthew, Uncle BubbaDawg, made the trip from Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend to come meet me. We celebrated GrandpaDawg Smyth's birthday this Saturday and I joined the gang for dinner at the local hang out Buffalo South. I had milk for dinner...On Sunday my mom's friends Carl and Amanda FehrDawg stopped by with their 4 month old Carl Jr. Carl Jr. is holding his head up on his own, and recently slept through the night! Mom thinks this is a great plan for me, but that's just no fun. I currently enjoy crying and staying up between the hours of 11pm and 8am.
So I'm 17 days old and so far filling diapers like a champ, starting to look around and follow the lights and sights with my little baby blue eyes. I'm still feeding like a bottomless pit, even having to get a little formula to supplement mom's milk factories. Hello to everyone out there following my blog. I've got to go so I can catch the YouTube CNN Democratic Presidential Debate. I'm hoping they will use the questions I submitted online! Later...

Saving Grace - a Gdawg challenge

So Momdawg's favorite movie is Saving Grace (she claims that's not where my name came from). So how many movies can you name with Grace in the title? Send your list with a Comment.

Yo - Uncle Bubba gets engaged

Well it has happened. Uncle BubbaDawg, MomDawg's brother has found a woman. Her name is Kim Mayrose (aka Kim Thomas) and he gave her a ring and she said yes. Woo hoo!. I don't have a picture yet, so I found this for now. Momdawg says it reminds her of someone Bubba used to date. I can't wait to here the stories when I meet him this weekend.
Here are some pictures from the engagement trip!

10 days old

Well, I'm still teaching momdawg lots of new things (sleep deprivation, how to use a breast pump - scary stuff, how fast a diaper pail can stink up a room...) I've found my thumb to suck it, found my nostril with my fingers to start picking it. I'm opening my eyes a lot more and looking around at all the sights. Today I put on my pretty pink dress that MandyDawg and MelissaDawg brought me, in preemie size of course, to go out visiting my Aunt JoanDawg, who just had surgery on her foot. So momdawg and i chilled there while grandmadawg smyth went on a walmart mission. I needed some preemie diapers...Check out some photos. Momdawg is trying to figure out the pump, and the other is of me working on my tan in the front yard. Well, it's time to change my poopy diaper and get some more milk. Yum yum. Later.

It's Bastille Day!!

Gdawg wants you to know it's my first Bastille Day! I'm so happy, I could just sing the

La Marseillaise

And for those who don't know the words and music, just click on the link above. Come on, Clarice.

I've got eamil!

Yo. Heah is my email address: glsmyth@bellsouth.net. I expect to heah from you guys! You feel me, yo?
Speaking of cankles - these are not my mom's cankles! Hers are getting better!

MomDawg has cankles

For those of you who aren't savvy, that's "calf ankles." Look at those puppies... I think I've kept Becky busy these first few days home. By day I am pretty much an angel, visiting with my father AdamDawg and my GrandmaDawg Thayer, who flew in from Las Vegas shortly after my arrival. At midnight, however, that's all out the window. I like to practice my crying endurance. Becky can't walk around rocking me yet until her cankles go down some and the incision heals more, so I get hours of good talking and singing from GrandmaDawg Smyth.
So, it's been 5 days since my emergence from the womb, and three nights that I have been home. I have to say a lot is different out here in the big world. But it's been amazing seeing all the people (well, I can't really see well yet, still kinda fuzzy) who have come by to the hospital and the house to see me. I really do feel loved! So to all of you who have sent good wishes and kept up with my blog, thank you from GDawg!
More tomorrow...

Another day at home - another day in paradise

So I met my pediatrician. She is hot! I've gained back some of the weight I lost - back up to 5 lbs 7 oz now. Got good ratings on everything else. When I got home I found a new way of sleeping - face down, butt up. Pretty cool. Impresses the troops. So I hope you notice the poll on the right. You get to vote for my name - what people can call me. If you choose "other" you gotta add a comment to this post and tell me your suggestion.
More later. Go to go do some more meet and greet.

First Day Home

guess what i found out? i can keep becky up ALL night while i sleep during the day. this rocks. woo hoo! i think i had over 7 bowel movements, and my new nickname is GM (green machine) cause that's the color of my liquid poops now. i also successfully fooled becky into changing my diaper as i peed on her bedroom chair. grace 1, mom 0. i'm teaching the kitties to do this too. more later, i'm getting all wound up and gassy.

More pictures today - and I might go home

So here are some more photos. I know it's not everyone who has come by - I'll get to all those later. So much to do now.
You can see some of the pictures at flickr.com.

It's Day Two already

So this has been an exciting day so far. I met Carl, aka Big Carl.. He'sort of young for me, so I guess I might as well start my social life now. So here goes:

Wanted: single male (or other - I'm adventurous) for a short term "buddy" who can teach me some things. Must be financially secure, fit, likes the beach and short walks and understands globilization and nanotechnology. Also can changge diapers.

Let's see how that goes.

More pictures soon

My first photoshoot

Okay. Here they are. No drooling! Better still, try this link to photos on flickr

Gdawg arrives

So. Let me introduce myself. I go by Gdawg, Grace Lillian, or I'll even answer to Cletus. I'm really Grace Lillian Smyth and I was born on July 6, 2007 at East Cooper Hospital. I weighed 5 lb 9.z ounces and was 18 inches long. Eat your heart out John Kennedy. I'll tell you more later about my parents. And other DNA donors. Right now, my mom, that's Becky, is learning to feed me. Woo hoo! Other guys can eat their hearts out. And the pink team, If they want to. Carl's kid. too. I haven't met him, but I heard he hasn't decided on a team. I might have some nice dresses for him to help him decide.
Meanwhile, I want to send a big HELLO out there to Chompers, Zion, and Clarice. Hi, guys. I can't wait for us to chow down together.
Anyway, I'm here. More inside stuff later.