Babies of Oct-Dec /04

[NKmommy]

Jill - Just saw your signing post.  We have been signing with Nathan for a while now.   He fully understands the signs, but hasn't yet signed back.  Here is a good website with a video for each sign. 

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

    

[pdb]

jill-I've signed with Susana for a while too, but she doesn't really sign back.  She does her own version of done, but that's about it.  She also gets very frustrated and is pitching a lot of temper tantrums.  The signing hasn't seemed to help at all.  She just screaches or grunts or screams for what she wants.  I think since that since I have the female version of your child ... we are in for it with the tantrums.  I always frowned on parents who gae in to their children's tantrums, and while I'm still determined to not become one of them I can totally understand how it happens.

Lindsey - I hope you're feeling better. 

MomtoRee - Hope Reegan is all better soon, but the sleep sure sounds nice. :wink:

[MomtoRee]

So I just wanted to post some of the cute/cool things that Reegan has started doing or does on a regular basis.  Can't really brag to friends about it but I feel like I can post it here! 
She is now playing peek- a- boo and says "boo" when she takes her hands away from her eyes. 
She claps or hold her hands together when we pray at dinner and says "Amen" after prayers. 
She walks behind her walker for a few steps and then drops to her knees and goes as she can go faster on her knees. 
She turns her cd player off after her nap, she knows what button it is.
She knows that she can only have her pacis in the crib so she wants in and then takes it out and hands it to me when she is ready to get out. 
She sits on her riding toy and pushes herself around and falls off a lot! 
She blows kisses to every person she sees, very loudly in church too.
She can point the duckie, dog, and cow out in all her animal books!  Still working on the others. 
She "woofs" when she sees a dog and moos at cows, plus she moos and woofs at all other animals. 
She is starting to say more and more words! 

Thanks for letting me do my run down here.  I don't think that my friends want to hear all the things that she is doing.  So what are the cute things that your lo is doing?

[MorganLeigh]

Im alive! between Morgan being sick all the time, she is ok now nothing serious and me in my first tri mester I barley have time to tie my shoes. Hopefully after the holidays I can relax and ejoy this time more. Hope all are doing well, I havent had time to go back too many pages. Happy Holidays!

[hannah'smom]

hello ladies...
DH, Hannah and I just did a tour of ontario stopping in various locations to host birthday parties for her. Three in total...let me tell you this is not going to happen every year. It was fun but way too stressful.  We started is Sault Ste Marie which is 8 hours north of toronto then we went to Midland which is 2 hours north of toronto and one at our place.

Everyone is healthy here.  I am sure that will change once hannah is in daycare full time.

Hannah runs everywhere now. She loves to kick the soccer ball around the house and play catch. She actually catches the ball by jumping on it and then she picks it up and then rolls it back to you. Then she claps for herself after the task is completed. I don't think she is going to have a problem with self confidence. She is always clapping for herself HAHAHA

She doesn't talk too much. She can say mom, dad, up and all done.

jill-thanks for the receipes I am going to try some next week. How is connor doing at daycare?
Lindsey-Hope you are feeling better soon.
Momtoree-How is Reegan feeling? I agree with you 100% there is nothing like a baby that will snuggle up to you and sleep. Most of the time when i try and put hannah in the bed with us she won't stay still. However once in a while she does fall asleep and snuggle with me.

Well I better go and complete some domestic duties around the house (vaccuum, dust) while she is a sleep because I can't do it when she is awake anymore, anyone else have this problem?

Ange

[Gigismom]

momtoree-wow, i hope reegan is feeling better soon, but enjoy your snuggle time while you can!  gianna is doing SOOOO well with not having me pick her up.  i feel so bad, now she doesn't even try anymore.      she just crawls over to whoever is helping me for the day (dh, my mom or my sister), and reaches up for them.  i'm glad because it makes it easier on me, but still sad!  reegan sounds like she is doing tons of stuff, wow!

jodi-glad you are still alive.  you're almost out of the first trimester right?  woohoo!

ange-i do all my housecleaning when gigi is asleep too.  it goes so much faster that way.

well, gianna isn't as advanced as some of the other lo's, but here's some of what she does:
*crawls, cruises, stands alone, pulls up on everything
*makes various animal sounds when asked (and even not when asked!)
*gives high 5's
*waves hi and bye
*gives hugs and kisses when asked
*dances to music
*asks for things by pointing to them
*plays peek a boo
*says mama and papa (for grandpa)
*tries to imitate hand motions from "the wiggles" videos
*follows many commands like "give that to me", "don't touch", "put the toys away", etc.
*claps for herself ALOT
that's all i can think of for now...

[hannah'smom]

Hi forgot I wanted to post a picture of Hannah in her snow suit. We seem to be getting a lot of use out of it. Right now I am jealous of all of you that live in the warm southern states.

Ange

[MorganLeigh]

Real quick b4 yet another Dr. appt.

   

[Gigismom]

ange-love the picture of hannah...i LOVE those cheeks!  and her snowman hat is adorable.

jodi-very cute pics also!  gianna would absolutely freak if she sat anywhere near a santa claus.

[hannah'smom]

Jodi-how was morgan with Santa? She doesn't look too sure of him in the picture. You have a beautiful family.

Spoke too soon...Hannah has caught something and she has the runs (too much info I know) but she won't drink anything..anyone have any suggestions?

[MomtoRee]

Very cute pictures!  Love seeing the babies change. 

Ange - When Reegan was just sick she wouldn't drink anything, eat anything, or nurse.  I would just offer something every few minutes and pray that she would take something.  I tried sippy cups, regular cups, straw cups, and bottles.  Just try different ones and offered it all the time.  They can get dehydrated so easy.  Reegan had 3 barely wet diapers in 24 hours and any less and we had to take her to the er  :shock: Also I made juice pops and she did take a little off of that.  Also I tried different juices, milk, and water.  Good luck!

[Gigismom]

ange-have you tried giving her small pieces of frozen fruit or juice?  when gianna was sick, she wouldn't eat or drink much, but i got out some of her frozen fruit cubes and broke them up. she loved it.  i thought of it because when i am sick i don't want to eat either, but a popsicle always sounds good.  i think they even make pedialyte popsicles.

[pdb]

All the pictures are so cute!!

Well we had pictures with Santa today.  What a nightmare!!  Actually we tried to get them yesterday.  We got Susana all dressed up in her little smocked dress, waited in line for half an hour and only moved about 2 ft.  We decided to give up since I didn't want to miss a nap for pictures.  We went again today and stood in line for about an hour.  We finally got up to the front and the girls taking the pictures did a good job of distacting Susana.  We managed to get her in Santa's lap without her noticing and they snapped some pictures where she even kind of half smiled.  Problem was they forgot to turn on the flash.  By that time she was starting to realize that she was sitting on some strange guy's lap and who were all of these crazy people waving things in her face anyway?  The pictures were awful.  There were like two decent ones where she's looking at a book in Santa's lap.  We got the cheapest package which was $30 for 1 5x7 and 4 wallets!  I was so mad because the ones with no flash would have actually been very cute.  I felt like they should have paid me!  Hope everyone else has better luck!

Well as for what Susana is doing....She is walking everywhere!  She rarely crawls anymore.  She has also started trying to climb things when she wants something up high. :shock:   She points when she wants something or when she wants to know what something is, which is constantly.  She also makes a noise that sounds like "Huh?"  when she points to things.  She dances a lot.  She can point to the nose on her stuffed bears.  She can wave bye-bye and sometimes will say it.  She can make the shh sound if you start shushing.  She "throws" a ball.  She tries to feed me now and can drink out of a regular cup by herself.  She seems to be attempting to say a lot of things although nothing is very clear yet.  She makes a"gi" sound when she sees our dog Griffin and sometimes says"keyca" when she sees a kitty cat.

[MomtoRee]

Reegan didn't like Santa either.  We had to wiat 30 minutes because we went during a break.  When he came back from the break he walked down the line and Ree freaked when he touched her hand!  She was fine standing beside him when I was holding her but when I sat her down she screamed.  Our picture is with her mouth wide open.  It is actually rather funny.  She was fine the minute I picked her up.  I felt kind of mean putting her on his lap but I really wanted a picture.  Guess that it is just the age that they are.  I can't believe Morgan sat in his lap! 

Are you all down to one nap?  We have only taken one nap the past 3 days.  I tried to put her down for her morning nap today because she was so tired and she just screamed.  Looks like we might be down to one nap.  I will miss the time I had with two naps.

[Gigismom]

momtoree-we are on 2 naps still.  she really needs them both, but she is taking longer to fall asleep each time.  yesterday it was 30 mins to fall asleep at the last nap.   :?

well, i am a mess.  my incision became infected and the dr had to "drain" it.     i won't go into any details, but that was the worst pain ihave ever felt in my life....worse than after my csection when i laid there for hours with no pain meds because the nurses forgot to connect the morphine.  i have to have help now whenever dh is not home.  it's ok, but i like to do things myself.  it is hard for me to give up control of certain things, mainly because i feel like gianna is going to form bad habits with all these other caregivers around...(like when mil laughs and encourages her to throw her food off the tray to the dog... :evil: ).  but what can i do?  anyway, hope things are going better for all of you!