4 Weeks is almost 1 Month

hi.

molly here. yesterday was my 4 week birthday and in 2 more days, i will be one month old! things are pretty good around here. pretty much, my mom and i just hang out all the time. my mom says i'm a good baby. sometimes i get kind of mad during the day or before my bedtime, but my mom says as long as i sleep really good at night that she doesn't mind if i get mad during the day. she loves me and likes to bounce me!

last night i didn't want to go to bed, so my mom and i stayed up really late watching episodes of the office on hulu. i like to watch tv because otherwise my house is really quiet. i also really like to listen to music. i like the classical music on the piano. i like the weird stuff on my mom's ipod. i even kind of like the crappy country music that sometimes i have to listen to in the car, but my mom told me not to tell anyone about that.

i've gotten to go to my grandma petersen's house a lot this week and even great grandma huber's house. my mom even took me to shopko, but she whispered to me, "don't tell your dad." my dad thinks there are too many germs there. he's probably right, but i'm tough and i promise i didn't touch anything. my mom had to go to the grocery store last night, but she left me with grandma and willie. grandpa went with her. grandma got me to sleep when i'm usually getting mad. that's probably why i got to stay up late watching the office.

i weigh 11.5 pounds. i've grown out of a couple of outfits already. my cheeks are getting chubby. my hair is still sort of curly, but it's getting kind of straighter. i like to take baths. i snort and sound like a horse when i'm sleeping. i am starting to smile more. i'm getting good at holding my head a little more and i can grab anyone's finger and hold on really tight.

i miss my dad. i love him. he'll be home soon.

France!

My cousin Peter is in France! He posted this picture. Can you read it? It says "Peter Stoker 05." Do you see underneath it? It says "HQP." That's me!

Peter and I went to France a few years ago. It was in 2005. I was still at Tooele Junior High and hadn't even met James yet. It was a good trip.

Something about a having a child has done a doozy on my brain, though, and I can only vaguely remember doing this, but Peter has been talking about it ever since he got accepted into this study abroad experience. He's told me that he was going to go back to the chateau - Chenanceau - where a bunch of us carved our names into something. I don't even remember what that something is that we defaced. Sorry. He wondered if our names would still be there. Lo and behold . . . photographic proof.

Chenanceau was probably the most elegant chateau that we visited. It was built over a river and is surrounded by a beautiful garden. There may have been lizards running along all of the walls here. Also, there may have been a little french girl using the facility (the lawn) here. I do remember that this particular chateau was used as a hospital during both world wars.

Somewhere at my mom's house is a fairly detailed journal of the trip we took. I need to find it and jog my sketchy memory.

Does she look like me?

I think Molly resembles James, or at least resembles characteristics of his family and his mom's family. What about me? Does she look like me? I'm pretty much sure she's mine, but does she look like me? I don't really care if she does or not, I just wonder if she does. What do you think?