"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"... or Gray?

Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith, let it be done for you!" (Matthew 9:29)

Naomi got her first set of immunizations this past Monday and I almost cried! :( She of course shed a few tears, but not nearly as many as I had anticipated. She was asleep when the nurse came and gave her the first medication to drink. She woke up because of the taste in her mouth. Then I was instructed to hold her upper body as she lay down while the nurse proceeded to prick her twice in her left leg and then a third time in her right leg. Naomi let out the loudest cry I have ever heard come out of her! My poor baby! Just as my eyes were watering because I was feeling her pain, she stopped crying and closed her eyes and went back to sleep. AMAZING! No short sobbing or whimpering or muted cries... it was like she said, "OW! THAT REALLY HURTS! Okay, I'm over it, now can I go back to bed?" I was warned that she might be cranky at night if the pain persists. Not Mimi. She cried out a few times upon waking up during the day, but as soon as I picked her up, she was fine. Then at night instead of not being able to sleep, she actually slept the longest she's ever had - from 7PM until 3:30AM - a whole 8 hours! What a trooper :)
Other highlights of her doctor appointment: she now weighs 10 lbs 5 oz (45th percentile) and is 23 inches long (75th percentile). (Side note: Richie caught a fish that was longer than her!) Basically, she's slightly more slender than average and well on her way to being quite tall :) Dr. Tracy said that she has great skin - no baby acne, no cradle cap and no rashes (diaper or otherwise). Also, Dr. Tracy isn't the first to notice, but she was admiring the color and the shape of Mimi's eyes. They are slate gray and almond shaped. I kinda went picture crazy again and took a bunch of close ups trying to capture the color of her eyes. My sister told me that it's quite likely that they will get darker and turn brown, but I think it would be so cool if they stayed just as they are.

This past weekend some other people were adoring her eyes as well when we were at a 4th of July party with some friends from college. It was the first time many of them were meeting her, including her birthday twin Auntie Elisha who was also born on May 10th. Here's Naomi in her cute Gap denim skirt :)



We've been told that Naomi has a nice combination of features from both Richie and myself. Most people say that for the most part she looks like Daddy but has Mommy's eyes. Although her eyes are an almond shape, they are definitely bigger than mine were at her age. Here is a collage of photos that I took of her the day she got her shots... all in less than three minutes. Who do you think she looks like? Smile!