Stork'd This is what happens if you go Skinny Dipping during Adult Swim at the Gene Pool.

Egads, I didn't even update for Finn's 4 month check up. Well, I can do so now, since I have the follow-up news.

The kid is growing well. 15 pounds 5 oz at his check up, 24.5 inches long and looking healthy and more happy than when I saw her at the 2 month check up. Alas, he had a small heart murmur that we had to go see a cardiologist for.

Going out of town immediately after you get that kind of news is no fun. I sort of shut down from the intarwebs both because I knew I'd try to research it to death and I was super busy packing for 4 people for a week long trip. It took a lot of self restraint to keep myself from overreacting about the need for a cardiologist appointment and it was on my mind a lot. Almost three weeks later we had the appointment, today. The prognosis is good. They think it is merely a functional murmur and everything looks great with his heart..

I actually had an internal conversation with Finn where I had him tell me nothing was wrong and that there was nothing to worry about. I know it sounds silly, but it helped. I think the ultrasound gal looked at me a bit strangewhen I talked  to Finn about it while she was working.

I'm continuing to lose weight, but VERY slowly. I haven't kept up with weight watchers, but when I am mindful I can make it with the loss for the week. I have lost 20 pounds since I started almost 3 months ago. I am having more energy these days, which is good, without having to take a nap every afternoon, too!

One of the downsides of taking pictures of your kids with a mobile phone camera is that between the fact that your kids are never sitting still or rarely take direction well, and that most mobile phone cameras suck as taking pictures in lower light or when the subjects is moving, wiggling, running, flailing or generally inable to hold still, you get a lot of blurry or not very good pictures as a result.

So if you are going to be stuck taking grainy or blurry shots, why not capitalize on it and give them an artsy/retro look at the same time. Between the iPhone and Android, there are a whole slew of camera apps that "antique" your pictures to make them look like they came from an old Polaroid, or a pinhole camera, or an old disposable instamatic.  So with the new phones we found ourselves with, it was time to try on the "hip" filter and see how our kids looked.  And the verdict? We won't win any Pulitzers, but they are fun little pictures then you see them in a new light.