Call Marvel; we have new superheroes. Well, since Hellboy is already on the roster and Toothless Girl’s superpower skillset sounds rather dubious, I guess we’ll just have to keep these two for ourselves.

Henry is doing great. He does do one funny thing though. When he starts crying, he turns this color:

Happily he’s lacking the sawed-off horns and whatever that is on Hellboy’s arm. You see, I’ve never actually seen Hellboy, despite the fact that my father, husband, and son (the old one, not the new one) all claim that it’s a great movie. All the snippets that I’ve accidentally seen have seemed worthy of a good eyerolling to me, so maybe the Y chromosome is coloring their perception. Plus, my son thinks that Ghost Rider is a good movie, which automatically disqualifies his opinion. I suppose one day I’ll have to see it and then who knows? It may actually turn out to be watchable, but I’m planning to delay this for as long as possible.

Last Henry has his first shower with me and he wasn’t too impressed with the whole idea (he has since had two more, which he seemed to like very much). He wailed away the entire time and turned an unbelievably bright color of red. I’d never seen a baby turn that color, and it’s not exactly like I haven’t had kids before! The midwife says it’s fine and it’s starting to wear off. In keeping with our general theory of why wait to screw your kids up until they’re older, I immediately started calling him Mr. Tomato Head while George opted for Hellboy.

In other news, Anika (a.k.a. “Toothless Girl”) lost her very first tooth last week. She’s six and since all the other kids lost their first ones at five, she’s been impatiently waiting for quite awhile. She’d been showing me all week how it has been getting progressive looser, and then at dinner the other day I looked at her and it was gone. When I asked her where her tooth went, she started sticking her fingers in her mouth looking for it and decided it must have fallen out in her orange juice. Orange juice?? Who loses a tooth in OJ? This seemed unlikely to me, but she spent the rest of dinner swishing around her cup and she was right. It was in her juice! And here is a picture of our lovely Toothless Girl:

Georgie had been sick for a couple days when Henry was born, so he couldn’t hold him until the following day. What a couple of handsome boys.

That’s all the news for now, I think! I now feel satisfied that our life for the last week has been adequately documented.

Rachel

Sounds like you’re having fun! I thought Hellboy was entertaining. Worth one watch anyway!