Welcome aboard both.
Sandstorm,
You have to try to be as consistent as possible with your measurements (How to Measure Your Penis). Ignore other people’s pictures that show a penis inflated with fluid, they are useless. Ignore other people’s picture that don’t show a change over time. Take pictures yourself for your own records at least because you may well doubt your own growth, even with measurements to prove it. More information is better.
OpenSkeptic,
Try ignoring the extender. I know it’s a tool and you spent money on it, so it must be good, right? but extenders take 1,000s of hours to work, if they work, and you’ll need to wear it many hours a day. From what we see here, and that’s people posting about their success more often than their failure, the most consistently useful starting method appears to be manual. People normally resort to tools when manual exercises stop working very well for them and they feel they need more tension or pressure. Follow the Newbie Penis Enlargement Routine, the time required is minimal in comparison to an extender and hopefully that means you can stay the course long enough to achieve some gains. Then change your routine when your current routine stops working very well. Don’t fall into the trap of throwing the kitchen sink at the problem, it’s a delicate process that requires you to slowly increase the work done as your penis gets used to what it’s faced before.
Scepticism is good. Hopefully it means that you won’t fool yourself into thinking your are gaining when you aren’t and it will help you avoid the people who promise large gains if you just follow their method of doing things (which probably won’t work for you).