These two were on the same day. I realized it too late that getting baby shots on Valentine's day was probably not the best of ideas. However, Bee did fine. She was pretty cheerful most of the day.
Here are my tiny baby's stats:
13 lbs 13.5 oz puts her at 15% for weight
26.5 inches put her at 85% for height
16 3/4 inches puts her at 50% for head
So her head is perfect, like we didn't already know that!?!?
Hold on - I gotta go get the other girls' stats to compare!
Gwen:
16lbs 7oz 58%
27 inches 87%
42.5 cm 47%
Naomi:
19 lbs 7oz 90%
26 inches 85%
Bee was all happy and smiley at the doctor. Very social! She loved the nurse who came in to give her her shots. Until the shot, when she did the stop breathing crying. As soon as I picked her up, she stopped crying to smile at the nurse. I think she is going to be a people pleaser.
A week ago Naomi had her Teacher conference. She is doing excellent. So she advanced to bringing home books to read. She is loving being a "reader". She will read each book about 7 times in a day. The only complaint from the teacher is that she doesn't get all of her work done because she stops to help other kids get their stuff done before doing her own work. How can we fault her for that?? I don't believe a nicer person has ever been born than Naomi. She makes her bed and gets Gwen to make her bed so she can come in to tell me they did it. One day while I was in the shower she came in to tell me that she had made MY bed! And she did a good job too! But, seriously, what 6 year old makes their parents bed???
Gwen has been having a troubling few weeks. She has quit potty training for the time being. Too much pressure! So we are taking a hiatus until she is a little more ready. She does not care if she gets put into a time out. She will choose to stay there rather than have to do what she needs to to get out of time out. Yesterday she pulled the curtain rod out of the wall in her room. She was at least sorry for this one because she likes her pretty room and was sad that she messed it up. She was crying forever about it. So she didn't receive a big punishment other than no playing in her room for that day. Since Bee was born Gwen was sleeping on her mattress in Naomi's room so she wouldn't be alone. She has now moved into her own room and is doing really well. I thought she would sleep bad when realizing that Naom isn't there, but she is doing better. (Maybe Gnomes' snoring woke her up??) Nay also has nightmares quite a bit. Grandmom has helped that recently because she brought out some worry dolls for her to put under her pillow. Every morning I find a few under her pillow that weren't there the night before.
Brian and I actually went on a date for Valentine's Day. We got babysitters and everything! Best babysitters ever too! They made Valentine's with the girls, and even got Bianca to sleep! We went to Caputos for an Artisan chocolate tasting which was fun because I have never been to a meeting before. I know founder of the Chocolate Society's wife has never been to a chocolate class! Oh and just in case you haven't read this: Brian is famous!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Happenings
This is what Bianca and Daddy do for fun!
Bee's Bee Headband
Naomi had 2 days off of school, so for fun she requested that we do her makeup and paint her nails. This was the final makeup product
Bianca in a box!
Any guesses on her eye color? We can't settle on a color. Sometimes I think they are green, but Brian always says they are stone or slate, deep grey. Sometimes they do look like maybe blue.
Learning to sit up.
Until she sees the remote.
Posing with a dinosaur
Tickle fest. Our friends David and Becky got her these cute outfits. This is one of them!
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Bee's Bee Headband
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Naomi had 2 days off of school, so for fun she requested that we do her makeup and paint her nails. This was the final makeup product
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Bianca in a box!
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Any guesses on her eye color? We can't settle on a color. Sometimes I think they are green, but Brian always says they are stone or slate, deep grey. Sometimes they do look like maybe blue.
Learning to sit up.
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Until she sees the remote.
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Posing with a dinosaur
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Tickle fest. Our friends David and Becky got her these cute outfits. This is one of them!
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Something I'd like to do
I really want to make this! But I don't know if I have it in me! There are a ton of projects I want to do that I am sure if I have it in me, but this one is at the top of my list of "things I don't know if I can do".
Anthropologie Inspired Bed Cover
Anthropologie Inspired Bed Cover
Friday, January 21, 2011
Ice Cream Trucks
You know how a lot of people are afraid of clowns? Well I definitely don't enjoy them! But I also do not like anyone who dresses up for a living. Halloween is a different story as everyone is dressing up, and I love it! The people who work at Disney - all of them are creeps, I know it! Its not so much the people. I am sure if I knew someone who dressed up everyday or was a clown I wouldn't hate them. However, when I see someone dressed up it freaks me out!! When Brian and I went to Disney for our honeymoon he did a great job of making sure I was walking as far away from them as possible. You know how they all like to come up and touch you or taunt you. I hate that crap! It is definitely worse if I can't see their faces. Disney princesses - not so bad. Mickey and Goofy - keep them away!
Today, I realized there is something that I dislike and distrust as much as people who dress up for a living! The ice cream truck! Its just creepy and ominous!! That tinkly sweet music that draws the children in. Makes me wanna hurl! They drive all slow down our street waiting for kids to run over to them. Its creepy I tell ya! And just plain wrong! This is odd considering how much I LOVE ice cream. Having someone deliver it to my doorstep should be wonderful! But its not! I gave the guy the eye as I drove past him today. You know he has ulterior motives! Perhaps I was just extra suspicious because he is driving the ice cream truck down our streets in January!!! For goodness sake!
It was just surprising to me how upset it made! I didn't realize I felt this way until today, but now I know, and I will be protesting ice cream trucks from now on. Just like people who leave their Christmas lights up and ON until February!! Ok I start yelling about it on January 2nd, but that is just me being crazy. I believe in a 10 day leeway to take them down.
Today, I realized there is something that I dislike and distrust as much as people who dress up for a living! The ice cream truck! Its just creepy and ominous!! That tinkly sweet music that draws the children in. Makes me wanna hurl! They drive all slow down our street waiting for kids to run over to them. Its creepy I tell ya! And just plain wrong! This is odd considering how much I LOVE ice cream. Having someone deliver it to my doorstep should be wonderful! But its not! I gave the guy the eye as I drove past him today. You know he has ulterior motives! Perhaps I was just extra suspicious because he is driving the ice cream truck down our streets in January!!! For goodness sake!
It was just surprising to me how upset it made! I didn't realize I felt this way until today, but now I know, and I will be protesting ice cream trucks from now on. Just like people who leave their Christmas lights up and ON until February!! Ok I start yelling about it on January 2nd, but that is just me being crazy. I believe in a 10 day leeway to take them down.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Now let's all say Awww!
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| From Christmas Presents 2010 |
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| From Christmas Presents 2010 |
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| From Christmas Presents 2010 |
Her favorite toy!
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Her legs are so long she can almost get her feet into her mouth!
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So this little Bee is super long! She was above 95% long and was 25% for weight. So you can imagine. She's like all legs! She would still be in 3-6 month clothes but I recently noticed that all of her buttons were popping! SO I moved her up to 6-9 months clothes, but she is swimming in them. She loves her exersaucer! Its been a lifesaver. She is a really calm baby but really just wants to be held all of the time. So the exersaucer gives me 5-10 minutes here or there to get stuff done without the yelilng. She tends to yell for me instead of crying. When she does get to the point of crying she starts choking. Poor baby! I do love how her lower lip sticks out and quivers when she cries!
Naomi is still loving school. She really wants to be a reader like some of her friends so she is working on that. She struggles with it because she is a math person. SHe can do all of her addition tables and they haven't learned those in Kindergarten yet. She has been emotional lately when she thinks of memories or other people who might be having problems so I can tell she is becoming more socially aware.
Gwen has decided she only wants to do what she wants to do. We get a lot more 'tude lately. She has started drawing people which I will scan (now that I got a scanner for Christmas from my mom! and Ian got it working for me). She likes to nurse her dolls so she does that whenever she gets a chance. I've got some awesome New Year's videos that I am going to try to post of her dancing after the ball dropped!
Hopefully soon I will get to play with my scanner and scan the cool drawings and then get to the Flip so I can download and upload the videos.
Christmas Day
The girls wanted a picture of every present they opened so here is a little montage of presents. My favorites will be individualized.
I don't know who that man is.
Best gift idea from my mom!
This is all of Gwen's booty, but its only about half of what she got overall. Grandmom and Mamu's presents hadn't arrived yet.
All of Naomi's booty from Mom and Dad, minus all of the grandparent stuff.
Cute bracelet is from great grandma Oppelt.
I don't know who that man is.
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| From Christmas Presents 2010 |
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| From 2010 |
Best gift idea from my mom!
This is all of Gwen's booty, but its only about half of what she got overall. Grandmom and Mamu's presents hadn't arrived yet.
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All of Naomi's booty from Mom and Dad, minus all of the grandparent stuff.
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Cute bracelet is from great grandma Oppelt.
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Christmas Decorations
It took forever for me to be able to get these pictures off of my camera. Pretty much everything I do lately is one handed so its always the short cut way to do it. So here is how we decorated our house for Christmas 2010.
The Girls and Brian decorated the tree this year. I just handed them ornaments. This is the first year I wasn't in complete control so I have so many little issues with where things are on the tree. Most branches have 3 ornaments on them and it looks a little sparse. But overall, I think they did a great job without any direction from me!!
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The Girls and Brian decorated the tree this year. I just handed them ornaments. This is the first year I wasn't in complete control so I have so many little issues with where things are on the tree. Most branches have 3 ornaments on them and it looks a little sparse. But overall, I think they did a great job without any direction from me!!
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| From 2010 |
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