Saturday, August 25, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
so maybe he's not so weird
Nathan has been a pretty good eater so far. However, he had an odd aversion to what seems to be most kids' favorite food -- pizza. He had never had it, but refused to eat it, saying he didn't like it. About a month ago, he got to go to a party at a place called Monkey Joe's (an indoor playplace with blow-up slides, etc.) because he accomplished the requirements of a summer reading program at church. Lunch was served, and it was, of course, pizza. Jennifer convinced him to eat some, and he decided then that he did in fact like pizza. We've had it a few times since then and he keeps saying how much he likes it and how he didn't used to.
It's something of a relief for this "discovery" to have been made. Now he won't go hungry in his teenage/college years when pizza is the only thing being served.
It's something of a relief for this "discovery" to have been made. Now he won't go hungry in his teenage/college years when pizza is the only thing being served.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
once again
Caroline decided to prove me wrong once again. After posting about her crawling styles yesterday, she decided to do most of her crawling today in a very "normal" knee and hand style. It just figures! :)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
the teeth are coming
Today, for the first time, I felt Caroline's teeth coming through her gums. For a week or two I've been able to see where they were coming, but they actually broke through today. It seems funny to get excited about teeth, but it's a milestone met.
Another "milestone" of sorts happened a little over a week ago. I removed Caroline's bumper from her bed. It was really kinda sad. Since she has been crawling, she has been pulling her bumper down to look out while laying on her belly. I was afraid that she would get on top of it one day so I took it out. It was either that or move the mattress down even further. Since I figured that she would keep pulling on the bumper either way (and possibly break off another tie), I opted for the ease of a higher mattress.
She's getting too big too fast! Things are just flying by so much faster with her than they did with Nathan. Of course, there's good reason for that. I can't focus all my attention on her like I did with Nathan. In addition, we've been very busy with house-type things.
A non-rejoicing milestone also happened this week. Caroline is sick for the first time. She's got some congestion and a yucky little cough. She's been good, but you can tell that she's not feeling the best. I knew something was up when she woke up about 10:45 Sunday night. I can't remember the last time she did that. Normally, she goes to bed around 7:00 (8:00 on Sunday and Wednesday nights) and doesn't wake up until sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning. She also woke up last night about 1:45. I hope that she gets over this soon! It's no fun to have sick kids.
Oh...one more. I've been meaning to put a description of her crawling methods on here, but I haven't stopped to do it. She has two "crawls". One I would term the "inch worm crawl." This crawl is most like actual full-out crawling. She gets on all fours, moves her knees forward and then kinda plops down legs, belly, chest, head. Then, she starts again. The other is her preferred crawling method. I term this one the "military crawl." In this method, she reaches her right arm out in front of her and places her left elbow at a 90 degree angle propped on the ground. She then proceeds to pull herself along with her right hand and left elbow while pushing with her feet. If I remember correctly, she often bends her right leg in the process but not the left. It's funny to watch, but she is very good at it and can scoot right across the room.
Gosh...the more I write, the more I think of. I'll have to come back soon.
Another "milestone" of sorts happened a little over a week ago. I removed Caroline's bumper from her bed. It was really kinda sad. Since she has been crawling, she has been pulling her bumper down to look out while laying on her belly. I was afraid that she would get on top of it one day so I took it out. It was either that or move the mattress down even further. Since I figured that she would keep pulling on the bumper either way (and possibly break off another tie), I opted for the ease of a higher mattress.
She's getting too big too fast! Things are just flying by so much faster with her than they did with Nathan. Of course, there's good reason for that. I can't focus all my attention on her like I did with Nathan. In addition, we've been very busy with house-type things.
A non-rejoicing milestone also happened this week. Caroline is sick for the first time. She's got some congestion and a yucky little cough. She's been good, but you can tell that she's not feeling the best. I knew something was up when she woke up about 10:45 Sunday night. I can't remember the last time she did that. Normally, she goes to bed around 7:00 (8:00 on Sunday and Wednesday nights) and doesn't wake up until sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning. She also woke up last night about 1:45. I hope that she gets over this soon! It's no fun to have sick kids.
Oh...one more. I've been meaning to put a description of her crawling methods on here, but I haven't stopped to do it. She has two "crawls". One I would term the "inch worm crawl." This crawl is most like actual full-out crawling. She gets on all fours, moves her knees forward and then kinda plops down legs, belly, chest, head. Then, she starts again. The other is her preferred crawling method. I term this one the "military crawl." In this method, she reaches her right arm out in front of her and places her left elbow at a 90 degree angle propped on the ground. She then proceeds to pull herself along with her right hand and left elbow while pushing with her feet. If I remember correctly, she often bends her right leg in the process but not the left. It's funny to watch, but she is very good at it and can scoot right across the room.
Gosh...the more I write, the more I think of. I'll have to come back soon.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
point of comparison
As a point of comparison, Nathan didn't crawl until he was about 10 months.
(maybe in a week or two I will get back to "normal" blogging)
(maybe in a week or two I will get back to "normal" blogging)
Monday, July 30, 2007
crawling achieved
Carline started crawling this weekend. She's not a speed demon yet, but she's definitely on the move. She's still working on moving her legs and her arms together, but she's moving! We're in trouble now!!!!
Friday, July 27, 2007
quick update
Caroline is moving all over the place these days. She's not actually crawling, but there is no keeping her on top of a quilt. She scoots pretty well. I don't think it will be long before she is all out crawling.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
what insight
Our church has been without a pastor for 2.5 years. This coming Sunday, our prospective new pastor will be preaching and we will be voting on whether to "keep" him or not. Tonight I was explaining this to Nathan. I told him that most churches have a man that is in charge and that teaches the people about God and that man is called a "pastor" or "preacher." "Preacher," he said. I told him that for a long time our church had not had a preacher there all the time to teach us. To that, he responded "but God is there all the time and He can teach us." :) What insight! I told him that he was exactly right. The important thing is that God is with us. I'm a proud Mama!
another milestone met
This past weekend, I told at least three people that Caroline was working toward crawling but that she hadn't yet figured out how to get her belly up and her knees down at the same time. Well, Sunday afternoon, she pushed up on hands and knees. I guess she just wanted to show me that she COULD do it. :) She's done it quite a few times since. I managed to catch a picture just a little while ago.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
June pictures #3
Every time I get out my camera, Nathan wants to take pictures. He's getting pretty good at actually capturing what he wants in his picture. Here is a picture of Donald (that he took). This is his most recent train aquisition. He received it a few weeks back as a reward for staying dry 7 naps in a row. He is still doing very well with naps. Nights, on the other hand, are a little less successful. Matt has been getting him up in the vicinity of 6:00 a.m. and taking him (mostly asleep) to the bathroom. It seems to be working. He apparently goes sometime right before waking up otherwise. If he makes 7 nights in a row (yes, even with Matt's help), then he will get Donald's twin...Douglas.
Caroline likes playing with her big brother. He is quite interesting! This day, I had just finished feeding her and she laid back (headed upside-down) to watch him. She ended up looking at him under his "tent" and he liked that. So...she joined him. He liked having his little sister playing with him. I think she enjoyed it, too.
I think Caroline wants to be just like her cousin, Kate. She's been on her way to sitting up for a little while now, but she hasn't been steady enough to stay for any length of time. Well, after looking at Liz's blog this morning and seeing the picture of Kate sitting up, she decided to sit for a little while. Don't get me wrong, she's not going to be sitting for a long time, but she stayed long enough for me to snap off a few pictures.
...and then she rolled gracefully back onto her tummy. This is her prefered position as it allows her pretty good access to her toys. She has gotten really good at using her hands. She can scoop things and pull them to her. She can also grab on to the toys on the exersaucer and pull them to her mouth. If I remember correctly, it's a separate milestone when babies start using both hands simultaneously. Well, she's also doing that. She'll move both hands toward an object and grab on.
Nathan doesn't like to be left out of the picture taking, so he often jumps in when I'm taking pictures of Caroline. That's fine with me...I don't have to beg him to let me get pictures of the two of them. This isn't my most favorite picture, but you can really see the difference in their skin colors. Nathan's is like Matt's and is more yellow. Caroline ended up with very fair pinkish skin just like me...easy to burn. :(
Since Nathan was interested in taking pictures this morning (and because I often feel guilty for not taking more of him), we tried to capture some good ones this morning. This close-up shot is in the kitchen. I lightened it a little bit because the original may be just a little too dark for some of your monitors.
This one is a strange angle, but I thought it was interesting. Actually, the first couple like this were blurry, so we went back after looking at them and took more. This one is my favorite...at least for the moment.
Nathan wanted to play outside in his sandbox for a little while this morning so I thought I would try to get some more pictures. He was in full sun, so the pictures of all of him didn't make my favorites (though there were plenty that I liked). I did like this one, though. I love little feet!
And last but not least, here is my favorite of the bunch. I often have a hard time capturing a good smile. This one is at least close to natural. My favorite part, though, is the grass in his hands. When we went to take pictures of him laying down, he proceeded to pull up grass. He's a boy! Again, I also like to see his feet. (In case you're wondering, Matt hasn't been lax on cutting the grass...it's just that it didn't rain here for a while so the grass was all mostly dead. Now that it's finally rained, we've been letting the grass grow so that it will get back to looking decent.)
Ok. That's all for now. I hope that you have enjoyed the picture show. Since we are closing on the house tomorrow, things are about to get even more busy than they have been. I don't know if I'll do too much posting over the next month. I will at least try to get some beach pictures up, but otherwise, it may be August before much happens. We'll see. This is a sit and do something enjoyable outlet for me, so I might still be able to make time for it.
Caroline likes playing with her big brother. He is quite interesting! This day, I had just finished feeding her and she laid back (headed upside-down) to watch him. She ended up looking at him under his "tent" and he liked that. So...she joined him. He liked having his little sister playing with him. I think she enjoyed it, too.
I think Caroline wants to be just like her cousin, Kate. She's been on her way to sitting up for a little while now, but she hasn't been steady enough to stay for any length of time. Well, after looking at Liz's blog this morning and seeing the picture of Kate sitting up, she decided to sit for a little while. Don't get me wrong, she's not going to be sitting for a long time, but she stayed long enough for me to snap off a few pictures.
...and then she rolled gracefully back onto her tummy. This is her prefered position as it allows her pretty good access to her toys. She has gotten really good at using her hands. She can scoop things and pull them to her. She can also grab on to the toys on the exersaucer and pull them to her mouth. If I remember correctly, it's a separate milestone when babies start using both hands simultaneously. Well, she's also doing that. She'll move both hands toward an object and grab on.
Nathan doesn't like to be left out of the picture taking, so he often jumps in when I'm taking pictures of Caroline. That's fine with me...I don't have to beg him to let me get pictures of the two of them. This isn't my most favorite picture, but you can really see the difference in their skin colors. Nathan's is like Matt's and is more yellow. Caroline ended up with very fair pinkish skin just like me...easy to burn. :(
Since Nathan was interested in taking pictures this morning (and because I often feel guilty for not taking more of him), we tried to capture some good ones this morning. This close-up shot is in the kitchen. I lightened it a little bit because the original may be just a little too dark for some of your monitors.
This one is a strange angle, but I thought it was interesting. Actually, the first couple like this were blurry, so we went back after looking at them and took more. This one is my favorite...at least for the moment.
Nathan wanted to play outside in his sandbox for a little while this morning so I thought I would try to get some more pictures. He was in full sun, so the pictures of all of him didn't make my favorites (though there were plenty that I liked). I did like this one, though. I love little feet!
And last but not least, here is my favorite of the bunch. I often have a hard time capturing a good smile. This one is at least close to natural. My favorite part, though, is the grass in his hands. When we went to take pictures of him laying down, he proceeded to pull up grass. He's a boy! Again, I also like to see his feet. (In case you're wondering, Matt hasn't been lax on cutting the grass...it's just that it didn't rain here for a while so the grass was all mostly dead. Now that it's finally rained, we've been letting the grass grow so that it will get back to looking decent.)
Ok. That's all for now. I hope that you have enjoyed the picture show. Since we are closing on the house tomorrow, things are about to get even more busy than they have been. I don't know if I'll do too much posting over the next month. I will at least try to get some beach pictures up, but otherwise, it may be August before much happens. We'll see. This is a sit and do something enjoyable outlet for me, so I might still be able to make time for it.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
the oatmeal did it
For those of you who aren't educated in baby poop, let me give you a quick lesson. :) When a baby is breastfed, the poop doesn't stink. It has a smell...but it doesn't stink. Once the baby begins to eat "real" food, all that changes. Today, Caroline had her first stinky poop. The oatmeal did it. We started rice cereal last week, but the rice didn't do it. We started oatmeal a couple of days ago...and the oatmeal did it. I know it will only get worse...
On a nicer note, we haven't give Caroline her medicine since last Friday. I don't know if the cereal had anything to do with it or if the medicine just wasn't doing much any more. Whatever the case, I'm glad that it seems that we're done with medicating her...at least every day.
On a nicer note, we haven't give Caroline her medicine since last Friday. I don't know if the cereal had anything to do with it or if the medicine just wasn't doing much any more. Whatever the case, I'm glad that it seems that we're done with medicating her...at least every day.
Monday, June 11, 2007
June pictures #2
Just a smile...
This day, Nathan wanted to "read" to his sister. I hope he continues as he gets older!
Nathan and Daddy went swimming at Grandma and Granddad's pool for the first time of the summer. Hopefully, there will be many more of these adventures.
Here's Daddy helping him "swim."
We managed to convince Nathan to try to touch the bottom. Maybe by the end of the summer he'll be confident that he can do it.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Photographer Nathan
(there are also two other posts from today below)
Nathan has decided that he likes to take pictures so I am trying to give him opportunities when he is interested. Mostly, I'm just trying to help him learn the idea of looking at the things that you want to have a picture of before pushing the button. Here are a few of his masterpieces. :) Oh yeah...the last one is supposed to be a picture of the rain.
Nathan has decided that he likes to take pictures so I am trying to give him opportunities when he is interested. Mostly, I'm just trying to help him learn the idea of looking at the things that you want to have a picture of before pushing the button. Here are a few of his masterpieces. :) Oh yeah...the last one is supposed to be a picture of the rain.
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