Thursday 11 October--I didn't get to write the last two days; there wasn't much to report anyhow, apart from cleaning up the basement last night so you would have a better place to play down there, too.
Today was a pretty typical fall day--nice temps and sunshine, but windy like crazy! Today you got to go to the bank and a store with me. At the store, you were humming at me and I hummed back; I think we had a conversation this way, but no idea what it was about lol. You got mad when I wouldn't let you grab things off the shelves, so we didn't stay in the store long (I didn't need much anyhow). Tonight, I apologize, but I fed you the stinkiest baby food I have come across: broccoli and carrots with cheese. You ate it just fine and seemed ok with it, which mainly proves what a good eater you are. I will not be buying that food again, though, as I fear what the output from it will be like (plus I don't want to smell it again as input, either). I took a video of you playing with your blanket and squealing.
Friday 12 October--Today you got to go out twice; once in the late morning to the mall--mommy needed a haircut (had not had one since long before you were born!!) and just wanted to shop a bit, too. You and daddy had fun at the playland area while I was getting my haircut. I got a foot cut off and it's still long, which I'm sure you will know from pictures. After that, it was time to come back home for a bit so you could nap. Later on, after mommy got back home from working, you got to go out with us a second time for a trip to make a bank deposit, shop at Kmart and Target, and dinner at Steak N Shake. You enjoyed sharing some of our fries and my grilled cheese there :)
Saturday 13 October--Today you and daddy went to Toys R Us and came back with balls to make your pack n play into a ball pit! You weren't too sure about it at first, but as you got used to it, you seemed to like it. When I got home from tutoring, you did something a bit gross, though--you messed yourself while playing in the ball pit and thus mommy and daddy had quite the cleanup job. All this after daddy had just given you a bath, no less lol! Oh, well, that's just the way it goes sometimes :) For dinner, we had penne pasta with prego sauce--you loved this a lot, think you would have made yourself sick on it if we'd have let you. You seem to be fussing less when we put you down for bed now; hope this continues...
Sunday 14 October--Not too much to report today, as you spent the entire day at home with daddy. He took a cute short video of you having hiccups (which he of course posted to Facebook and received lots of "likes"). At dinner, you got to try Parmesan couscous, which you enjoyed, no surprise. You played really hard, fell asleep very quickly. I bought baby-proofing supplies at the store today.
Wednesday 17 October--It's the last two weeks of the school term, which means mommy and daddy are getting super busy; my apologies in advance for the more sporadic posts. Today's highlight was going out for dinner as a family. We went to one of our very favorite restaurants, Villa Verone in Geneva. They were offering a special and I got lucky enough to only have one lesson to do, so we decided to go out before conquering the end of our courses. There, we got lucky enough to have the entire upstairs to ourselves with two people waiting on us, plus other helpers--most excellent service! Mommy had the special, tortellacci (big tortellini stuffed with osso buco) in a brandy and sage cream sauce (majorly awesome) and daddy had chicken marsala with rigatoni; you got to have a lot of his pasta noodles (you love these). A guy playing music came up just for us and you seemed to like what he played, but you didn't smile, just stared him down lol. It was a great night out as a family.
Thursday 18 October--Today you stood up in the pack n play in the basement all on your own while daddy was watching you this evening :)
Sunday 21 October--Today you went to the park with dad while mom worked way too much (and too early!) In the evening, you managed to put a quarter in your bus bank without help after seeing dad do it (after several times of us telling you 'no' when you wanted to eat the quarter instead), plus just before bed you crawled up a step on your own for the first time. You are completely fascinated lately with balancing objects on top of one another.
Wednesday 24 October--Happy 13 months! You celebrated by crawling all the way up the stairs. You now want to do it all the time, like everything else you learn. Time to figure out how to block it with the baby gate...
Thursday 25 October--Mommy finished her final paper for class yesterday, so we got to actually have a more relaxing/fun day today. I took you to the gym with me, where you had fun as usual with the other kids there as I worked out. After we cleaned up at home, we went out shopping to Kohl's (got you some cute clothes), Target, and Ultra Foods. You napped in the car both ways. Then it was off to DeVry so I could teach math review; daddy kept you in his cubicle (or tried to do so anyway--you crawled off all over the place and made him chase after). After that was done, we went to dinner at Olive Garden, where we ordered a 'kids meal' for you for the first time--penne pasta with red sauce and mashed potatoes. You happy had a good amount of both, plus about 2/3 of a breadstick!
Friday, October 26, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Trop occupée
Yes, it has been what seems like forever now since I last blogged here. I apologize once again; it's not that I don't want to do so, it is simply that time management got more complicated because mommy decided to start her Master's degree in Education. It's not the ideal time to do so, but all factors considered, there really isn't going to be an 'ideal' time anyway, so best do it now. It's going well so far, just eats up nearly all my spare time. I'm going to do my best to squeeze in as much blogging as I can for you, though :)
Enough about me, let's talk about you, as that is far more interesting. You now have 8 teeth--yes, 8!! The last four came in a couple months ago within just a couple weeks of each other. This made you a bit on the fussy and sleepy side, as you might imagine. And last week you TURNED 1 YEAR OLD!!! We had your party at Grandma Judy's place with many relatives, including Uncle Kevin, Nana Linda and Pa-Pa Junior. I made you a Bubble Guppies themed cake, which you were not much in to destroying like most babies do. You were slow to dive in to it at all, and you seemed to like the frosting more than anything else.
This event came at the end of spending a week chez Grandma Judy without us, as mommy was spending 5 days at the sleep lab (as a paid medical 'guinea pig'), which left us in need of a babysitter, and of course Grandma was happy to take you :) While there, you finally got the hang of moving/walking forward in your walker (you had only gone backwards chez nous) and tried tons of foods. You still love to eat, even more so I would say since you got all those teeth.
You sleep through the night pretty much all the time now, with rare exceptions. In fact, it happened the first night when we came to join you at Grandma's. We figured out why, too: you are scared of being in a totally dark room! Makes sense, being that you have slept with a nightlight pretty much since you were born. Grandma had you in her room when we weren't there, which gets moonlight/is not pitch black. The bedroom where we stay is, however. Luckily, there is a nightlight in there, and as soon as we put it on for you the second night, you had no trouble sleeping. You don't like to go to sleep, though--you fight it every single time, sometimes quite a bit (like last night when we tried to have you nap prior to math review session--did not happen, but you drew the attention of several people in rooms nearby and dad had to take you off campus for a bit).
Let's jump up to today (Saturday 6 October) now. My new goal is to write at least one thing you do each day, even if it is just ordinary/usual stuff. You spent the morning with dad while I went to the gym and then taught a lesson. When I returned, it was nap time for you while dad ran out to check on the game jam at campus. Once he was back, we waited until you woke up and then it was time to head downtown to meet up with Dan and his friend Larry. They come here every year for a convention around this time and we try to get together (Dan is one of daddy's friends from St. Louis and was a groomsman at our wedding). We ate at Exchequer, sans surprise. This time, you got to snack on some fries and pizza crust, which you loved. We stopped by the grocery store on the way home, then Dan and Larry came over for a little bit to visit some more. Dan brought you gifts--a Fisher Price shovel (gotta gt you ready for winter, he said lol), a snowman ornament with your name engraved on it, and a set of Sesame Street board books. As we sat around chatting, you were playing with all of this and entertaining us all quite well. Mommy was putting her recipe pages she had constructed into page protectors; these were in a nice, neatly stacked pile until you spotted them and decided they should not be so neat, and certainly not organized. They ended up covering half the living room! In the middle of all this, you decided to hit a milestone--you crawled forward a few feet! Up until now, you have been mainly getting on your hands and knees, yet the moment you started to move forward, you let your knees give out and collapse out to the sides. This has not prevented you from getting around, though; you have been scooting and twisting about in very inefficient ways that have yielded some distance, just not a lot. Seems that now we have to get on top of that baby-proofing...
Sunday 7 October--Once again the day started for you with dad; I was already gone for tutoring appointments before you woke up (it was 8:30 when I left!!) When I returned in the afternoon, you were napping and dad had taken a video of you crawling for a few feet once again. I worked on the house and decorated (finally) for Halloween. When I had the big storage box in the living room, you started trying to pull yourself up on it. This prompted daddy and I to do that which we have been saying since the day we found you sitting up in your crib--lower the mattress setting. (BTW, you have only done that one time, despite being able to go from lying down to sitting up on your own for quite some time now.) It was a bit of work, but it's done! You took another nap, I went to the store, then it was dinner time for you when I got back. Post-dinner, I was cleaning up from making brownies when dad left you for just a moment--you decided to take advantage and pull his computer down on top of you (from the floor desk). This scared you more than anything else--made a tiny bump on your forehead, nothing to worry about. To calm you down, gave you a bath, which worked very well :) Then it was bedtime!
Monday 8 October--Today we all started the day together, gave you some breakfast, then let you play while I went to go workout, leaving daddy to watch you. When I returned, cleaned up and then daddy went to work and we went to shop at TJ Maxx for some stuff for you and my Secret Sister. You were pretty tired, so we hurried up and returned home; you napped without much fight at all until dad came back and then I left for work. He told me that you had a great time playing in the basement as he did work. When I came home, we all had dinner together; you particularly enjoyed having egg noodles lol.
Enough about me, let's talk about you, as that is far more interesting. You now have 8 teeth--yes, 8!! The last four came in a couple months ago within just a couple weeks of each other. This made you a bit on the fussy and sleepy side, as you might imagine. And last week you TURNED 1 YEAR OLD!!! We had your party at Grandma Judy's place with many relatives, including Uncle Kevin, Nana Linda and Pa-Pa Junior. I made you a Bubble Guppies themed cake, which you were not much in to destroying like most babies do. You were slow to dive in to it at all, and you seemed to like the frosting more than anything else.
This event came at the end of spending a week chez Grandma Judy without us, as mommy was spending 5 days at the sleep lab (as a paid medical 'guinea pig'), which left us in need of a babysitter, and of course Grandma was happy to take you :) While there, you finally got the hang of moving/walking forward in your walker (you had only gone backwards chez nous) and tried tons of foods. You still love to eat, even more so I would say since you got all those teeth.
You sleep through the night pretty much all the time now, with rare exceptions. In fact, it happened the first night when we came to join you at Grandma's. We figured out why, too: you are scared of being in a totally dark room! Makes sense, being that you have slept with a nightlight pretty much since you were born. Grandma had you in her room when we weren't there, which gets moonlight/is not pitch black. The bedroom where we stay is, however. Luckily, there is a nightlight in there, and as soon as we put it on for you the second night, you had no trouble sleeping. You don't like to go to sleep, though--you fight it every single time, sometimes quite a bit (like last night when we tried to have you nap prior to math review session--did not happen, but you drew the attention of several people in rooms nearby and dad had to take you off campus for a bit).
Let's jump up to today (Saturday 6 October) now. My new goal is to write at least one thing you do each day, even if it is just ordinary/usual stuff. You spent the morning with dad while I went to the gym and then taught a lesson. When I returned, it was nap time for you while dad ran out to check on the game jam at campus. Once he was back, we waited until you woke up and then it was time to head downtown to meet up with Dan and his friend Larry. They come here every year for a convention around this time and we try to get together (Dan is one of daddy's friends from St. Louis and was a groomsman at our wedding). We ate at Exchequer, sans surprise. This time, you got to snack on some fries and pizza crust, which you loved. We stopped by the grocery store on the way home, then Dan and Larry came over for a little bit to visit some more. Dan brought you gifts--a Fisher Price shovel (gotta gt you ready for winter, he said lol), a snowman ornament with your name engraved on it, and a set of Sesame Street board books. As we sat around chatting, you were playing with all of this and entertaining us all quite well. Mommy was putting her recipe pages she had constructed into page protectors; these were in a nice, neatly stacked pile until you spotted them and decided they should not be so neat, and certainly not organized. They ended up covering half the living room! In the middle of all this, you decided to hit a milestone--you crawled forward a few feet! Up until now, you have been mainly getting on your hands and knees, yet the moment you started to move forward, you let your knees give out and collapse out to the sides. This has not prevented you from getting around, though; you have been scooting and twisting about in very inefficient ways that have yielded some distance, just not a lot. Seems that now we have to get on top of that baby-proofing...
Sunday 7 October--Once again the day started for you with dad; I was already gone for tutoring appointments before you woke up (it was 8:30 when I left!!) When I returned in the afternoon, you were napping and dad had taken a video of you crawling for a few feet once again. I worked on the house and decorated (finally) for Halloween. When I had the big storage box in the living room, you started trying to pull yourself up on it. This prompted daddy and I to do that which we have been saying since the day we found you sitting up in your crib--lower the mattress setting. (BTW, you have only done that one time, despite being able to go from lying down to sitting up on your own for quite some time now.) It was a bit of work, but it's done! You took another nap, I went to the store, then it was dinner time for you when I got back. Post-dinner, I was cleaning up from making brownies when dad left you for just a moment--you decided to take advantage and pull his computer down on top of you (from the floor desk). This scared you more than anything else--made a tiny bump on your forehead, nothing to worry about. To calm you down, gave you a bath, which worked very well :) Then it was bedtime!
Monday 8 October--Today we all started the day together, gave you some breakfast, then let you play while I went to go workout, leaving daddy to watch you. When I returned, cleaned up and then daddy went to work and we went to shop at TJ Maxx for some stuff for you and my Secret Sister. You were pretty tired, so we hurried up and returned home; you napped without much fight at all until dad came back and then I left for work. He told me that you had a great time playing in the basement as he did work. When I came home, we all had dinner together; you particularly enjoyed having egg noodles lol.
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