Babies of Oct-Dec /04

[Gigismom]

momtoree- how did family pictures go?  i am glad gigi isn't the only one sporting the mullet...i can't believe reegan's hair is that long!!  you will have to put up a new picture so we can see for ourselves.

caroline-SOOO sorry about the loss of your great aunt.  pm me if you need to talk about it, ok?  i'm glad you had a good visit with your parents though.  and congrats on the first word!!!!  that is so exciting.

noelle-congrats on the "normal" crawling.  watch out...now she will be even faster!

gianna is doing well.  she seems to be getting smarter by the minute.  she is waving byebye, clapping, playing peek a boo, and can point to many items if we ask her to.  so exciting!!  she actually stood alone for a few seconds yesterday too.  if only she would say "happy"...

[pdb]

Happy 1st birthday Dorian!

jilly-Glad to hear Connor is on to finger foods.  Susana does well with finger foods, but she's still weird about texture.  I tried making her carrots a little chunkier instead of making them completely smooth - she wanted nothing to do with them.

Lindsey - I cracked up when I read your post.  Susana's hair isn't quite in the  mullet stage but we're getting there.  My sister got her lo's haircut right before she turned a year, just trimmed off the wacky pieces so everything was nice and even.

Wow Juliana already saying a word! How neat!  I can't wait until Susana can talk.  She's got the funniest little personality right now, but I'd like to know what she's thinking.

I'm trying to add an attachment.  I can't seem to make an avatar, because I can't get the pictures small enough on my computer.  I think I just don't have the right software.  I hope you all can view this picture.

[Gigismom]

i know i just posted, but OMG phoebe, gianna and susana are twins!!  i wish we could sit them side by side.  that is so weird (and cool)!

she is beautiful...

[pdb]

I know it's weird isn't it?  Maybe we're related and we don't know it.  :wink:  I do have family out west.

[Gigismom]

and i DO have family from back east...?!  maybe we should just pm and stop torturing everyone on this thread with our possible relation...

[Noelle]

Awww...she's beautiful!! Love those eyes!! 

[hannah'smom]

Happy First B-Day Dorian (Great name, I have never heard it before.)
Jill-Congrat's on the finger food and crawling, so many firsts. How is daycare going?
Lindsey-Your posts always make me laugh. I can't believe G has a mullet. 80's fashion is back in style maybe the mullet and the fish tail are coming back too. Then you could consider your daughter very fashion forward. My DH is the same ask him to do two thing at once like your DH and he looks at me like I am mental. I asked him to watch Hannah and fold some laundry and he got so stressed out.
Alli- Your boys are gorgeous, are you the only female in the house? How is it if you are?
MomtoRee-Sounds like you have a busy wedding season ahead of you. We have a long drive coming up (8hrs). I think I may copy you and invest in a portable dvd player and take it on the trip.
Caroline-welcome back, speaking already that is amazing. Your mom must have been happy to hear Juliana's first word. Has she repeated it since?
Noelle-Hannah still does the army style crawl I wonder if she will ever crawl normally.
Phoebe-Susana is beautiful. Her eyes and those cheeks...She could be the new gerber baby.

Well Hannah has four teeth and it looks like number 5,6 and 7 are all coming at once. She has been congested and coughing for the last month.ALso she hasn't had a solid poop in a good month too, anyone else have the same issues?
We have had some huge motor skill developments in the past few weeks. She is crusing everywhere and she will stop when she is pushing her little push toy and wave at the plant, the dog and her reflection. She will let go and stand for a few seconds before she realizes she isn't holding onto anything. And she can pull herself up in her crib from lying down. Before she only did it from the seated position. Well I hope everyone is having a good day

Ange

[jillybeansmith]

Well, we had our 2nd 1/2 day of daycare.  I almost pulled the plug on it, Connor was clinging to my sweater, and cried when I put him down...so I stayed, but I guess I stayed too long...anyways, they don't allow the babies to take their bottles to bed with them (choking hazard), so I thought, Oh my goodness, they will never get him to sleep without a bottle as it's his 'soother' (I hadn't been able to break him completely of it yet), he screamed, that was when I was advised to leave that he would settle quicker if I wasn't there..Anyways, he did fall asleep eventually without the bottle in a strange crib!!!...and he was all smiles when I picked him up.  He loves cars and trucks, so that was what he did all day.

Guess what?  Tonight he didn't need his bottle to fall asleep...I'll let you know how tonight goes, maybe he will discover that he doesn't need it anymore?

Tomorrow Connor has a big day getting an ultrasound down...he has to go every 4 months to follow up on a kidney problem that he had when he was 3 months old...I think it's fine, as he's had no more infections and he's as healthy as a horse, and has no pain...It will be funny trying to keep him on the table tomorrow though...Last time he thought they were tickling him...

Talk to you later,
Jill

[MomtoRee]

Cragrats on the crawling and the solids Jill!  I hope leaving him gets easier.  Good luck with the ultrasound. 
Congrats on teh first words!  What a great word to be first.  Reegan says "all done"  she says it almost everyday.  I guess it is because we have said and signed it after every meal everyday. 

The family pictures went great.  Reegan held on to a fence standing up for some individual ones and I think that they will be so cute.  She was all smiles since we did them outside.  Only thing is that her smile is more of a wierd face at this point where she squints her eyes and wrinkles her nose.  Hopefully we will get a good family one too!

I think that Reegan's schedule is off from the weekend.  She was up at 3 and then at 5:30 for good.  I am so tired today.  This is not a good sign for the rest of the month.  I just don't know what to do with her when she does this. 

On a good note my raise got approved    Now we can give the nanny a raise so she won't leave us.

[Jadynsmom]

Wow!! Hi everyone!!!

Congrats on the first step, first words (love happy ), cool hair or lack of (Jadyn has a mohawk just like daddy), pulling up, crawling regular, waving, first signing, eating finger food, all the teeth, standing alone.......  Hopefully I didn't miss anything.

Things are finally kinda sorta back to norm.  Lexi's leg is still sore & is still limping but all seems ok otherwise.  She's back in school & catching up with her 'best friends'.

Jadyn is doing well & happy.  She does have these tantrums where if she's not getting exactly what she wants, she slams her arms down and says "ah ah", like I'm supposed to give her everything her little heart desires. :wink:  She pretty much does get everything anyhow.  She's sooo cute at this stage.  She smiles & laughs & gurgles all the time.

She has been rocked to sleep during this crazy time and has been sleeping in our bed once in a while.  I left her to sleep on our bed last night and put pillows around her & went downstairs.  I heard this "thud" and I almost passed out!!  We ran upstairs and she was sitting in an upright position on the hardwood floor on her bottom just screaming.  Just to think what could have happened makes me shudder...

I think I am finally going to go ahead and drop her feeding from 4 to 3 bf a day.  She's eating solids so well and nursing well in the morning and night, but the day bf are very short (5mins).  Just recovering from when she scraped my nipple!! It took a week before it hurt like crazy when she nursed.  She is very good now and won't even bite down or clench.  Although she likes to nurse one side and twiddle the other with her fingers.  It's so sweet.  She also likes to lift my shirt to see where they are. :lol:

Is everyone still on 2 naps?  Jadyn pretty much did not sleep the second nap.  She slept 1.5 at 9:30am and then played & talked at 1:30pm nap til 2:40.  I think she might have dosed for 15mins.  Goodness!! I don't know what her deal was!

Hope I can catch up with everyone soon. 

Kathy

[jillybeansmith]

Connor slept horribly last night, I think he was over-tired from daycare.
He would wake up and be mad about waking up because he was so tired, then couldn't get back to sleep because he was so mad!!!!


Ultrasound was fine, he did very well, he was just mesmerized by the radiologist who sang the whole time..they had a very nice way around babies...

[Gigismom]

ange-sounds like hannah is moving around a lot!!  how old is she?

jill-glad the ultrasound went well..do you have to wait for the results or did they give them to you already?

kathy-glad you are all home and on the mend!  it must have been a stressful time.  we are still on 2 naps although i recently had to increase the awake time before each nap as she wasn't tired enough when i was putting her down.

momtoree-congrats on your raise!  that's great.  how cute that reegan says "all done".  does she sign anything else?  glad your family pictures went well.  we only got one family photo so far; and i was so nervous for gianna before we went.  well, turns out she was the cute, smiley one and dh and i are the ones who ruined it.  he looks drunk and i still look pregnant...with triplets.  needless to say, it is buried in a drawer somewhere.

well, gianna is pretty much on the new time and we don't even change the clocks for a couple more weeks.  she has been going to bed at 8:30 and waking around 7:00, although today i had to wake her up at 8:15!!  i don't think she has ever slept in that late.  i wish i could sleep in too, but i always wake at 6:00 waiting for her to wake...crazy, huh?  also, her sleep has been AWESOME for the last month or so.  when she goes down at night, we don't hear a peep til morning.  amazing!  and her naps have been good too, usually 1.5 hours each.  gee, if it were always this easy, i wouldn't mind having a few more...

[MomtoRee]

just a second to post but I wanted to post a picture of Reegan so you all could see how long her hair really is.  This was 2 months ago too and it has grown since.  I hope I did the attachment right. 

Kathy - glad things are getting back to normal for you. 
Jill - glad that the ultrasound went well.
Gianna's mom - that is too funny about your picture  :lol: .  I think that I am going to feel the same way about how I look in mine!

[jillybeansmith]

Wow...she does have a lot of hair..did she have a lot when she was born???

We will find out the results of the ultrasound when Connor goes to a followup appointment with the pediatric urologist in November.

He's just so contented and happy though, that I can't imagine that he still has problems...there was an inflamed spot on one of the kidneys 4 months ago which could have been the cause of a blockage that caused a kidney infection when he was 3 months old...so they just had to monitor this spot until it goes away...and he hasn't had any kidney infections since the one he had at 3 months old...so I'm sure all is well...

[Noelle]

Hey Lindsey....was Gianna waking early that you moved her bedtime back? These past two days Zoe has waken at 6:00...and she used to wake at 6:45-7:00?  When the time changes - eek that would make it 5