Yesterday Cara had her 6 month well visit, she weighs 16lbs 0.2oz, is 25 3/4long and her head is at 42cm. Dr. Wiley said that she was sitting up like a 9 month old, said that everything looks great with her and that she is right on track! However, she does think that she may have allergies, poor thing...
Then as I was feeding her dinner, I saw a tooth! She finally cut that stinker after a month of trying!!! I am so glad, maybe she can get some rest now, she has really had a time with it.
I also wanted to add that this weekend I did witness her a couple of time picking something up and bringing it to her mouth. I know it's bad that I have been trying to get her to put things in her mouth when soon I will be telling her not to! She also started singing herself to sleep Saturday night and has since then, it is super sweet!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Addie Mae
So my Addie is now 28 months old, in childless people years that would be almost 2 and a half. She is the smartest thing I have ever known. I don't think that I will be able to home school her when she becomes school age because she will have by that time surpassed my IQ level, though it isn't THAT high, I would like to think that I could at least make it to age 4.
This girl is the best big sister, always making sure that her little sister has everything she needs. She loves helping us take care of her. She helps me feed her dinner every night, helps me feed her a bottle, helps during bath time, and during her fussy times. When Cara is in the floor playing Addie stops everything she is doing to find all the toys she can find and lines them up all the way around Baby Cara so that she will have something to play with. It is really the sweetest!! She will hug her and say "I love my little sister", I am sad for you who have not heard her say this in person, it will melt you on the coldest day!
Addie is like a sponge, it just amazes me at how well she picks up on things and how receptive she is with the happenings around her. On many occasions she just starts speaking these words that nobody ever taught her, just words that she has heard us use, but she most always seems to get them in the correct context. She is still learning to flip persons around but when she does she does it correctly. For instance if I say "Addie will you please pick up YOUR books", she will say "pick up MY books?" I find that she is doing that a lot these days, but the cool thing is we didn't even teach her this, she just picked it up. She streams sentences, so much so that we don't even notice she is only 2 years old, for me it is like I am talking to an adult most of the time.
She has an impeccable memory, she and I can be in the den and I can ask her to go into a whole different room to get something that is in something else and with no other prompting she does. She is so polite about it too, "Addie could you please go get mommy's phone for me, it is in my purse." "Oh sure!" is usually the response as she hops up, runs into the other room and is back in a flash with my phone in hand. So many little things she keeps up with, promises, where things are, where things go, places. I was wearing an Allegacy shirt the other day when she was admiring the emblem on the front. I said "that's for mommy's work" she then jumps up and says "Oh! I see mommy's work!" As she runs over to the table where I had laid my debit card days before and picks it up, points to the same emblem and says "Look! I found mommy's work!" Speaking of work, Chris has been with Wachovia for a year in October and yesterday we rode by Borders in Thruway to see the sales they were having when we pulled in Addie immediately noticed the Sprint store and said "Look Daddy, I see your work!" How in the world could she remember that from a year ago?!?! But the thing is, is that she DOES know his work now, every time we are riding down the road and she sees a Wachovia sign she recognizes it as "Daddy's work". Her memory is way more intricate than just that of remembering where in my purse my phone is or where Mommy and Daddy work, but if I was to explain it all in depth it would just take up too much time.
All of this is never really understood unless you meet my sweet little genius in person.
She knows the differences between her left and right, up and down, backwards, forwards and sideways. She can show you near and far, small and big, in and out, over and under, upside down and right side up, high and low, bright and dark. She knows that sun comes up and the moon and stars go down in the morning, then at night the opposite happens. She is so inquisitive as to how and why things work.
Potty training is going well, she just started telling us when she needs to go and that really helps, because if you know me I just can't keep up with remembering to ask her if she needs to go. Diapers stay dry through night and nap, but we aren't quite ready to take them away yet. But she loves her princess and Minnie Mouse big girl panties and is so proud of them! Plus getting M&M s, well that never hurts! We have been talking about doing something other than the candy for rewards, but she is learning so fast that by the time we get something worked out she will already be trained, maybe we will be prepared for the up and coming...
So lets talk about reading...She is reading some words, on her time of course but nevertheless, she can pick out some sight words. She has really been into Word World a show that all the characters are words. Like the frog character looks like a frog but when he turns to the side his body spells out FROG as does everything else in the "Word World". The other day we were riding down the road and came to a stop, she looked up and exclaimed "STOP SIGN!" Really, nobody taught her that, I have no clue where she gets this stuff from! Who says TV can't be educational, I see no need in restricting her when she certainly is not behind. My mom has been reading this book that explains what a child needs to be able to do and know before they can start kindergarten. Well Addie is right there just about, I don't know exactly what she is lacking, I know she needs some work on her numbers, but we have had the discussion before that on the track she is on, she may have to skip just to be able to be on the same level. But we shall see there is still 3 yrs to go!
She is in the phase now where she loves to help me in the kitchen so if I am cooking(which I am sad to say is not very often) she is right beside me. She loves doing crafts with Grandma and is rather proud of her finished products. Her and Grandma have also been growing some cherry tomatoes (tamos in Addie language) and she just loves watering and checking on them. She is my little nurturer, she was sick last weekend so I slept with her one night and a few times during the night instead of me getting up to check on her, this sick little girl got up and checked on me! She made sure that I had one of her friends to cuddle with, I had a pillow to lay on and covers to keep me warm then to top everything off, she woke up a couple of times to rub my back and give me a kiss on my head. Yes she IS that sweet. She is a very organized individual (she has to get that from me, HELLO, OCD), she is really good at picking her stuff up and putting things away. Like with any toddler you are gonna have days where she doesn't, but for the most part she is good about that.
I think that the dress up phase in not far away, she loves wearing my shoes and is pretty good at walking in heels. Of course I like it best when she dresses Daddy up.
I am sure that I have mentioned before that we really think that she is going to be musical in some way, here is how we know... The piano, she frequently gives recitals in our living room. The drums, yep she drums just about anything. How about singing, well she sings, she keeps beat and she even changes her tone as she sings. Her current songs include but are not limited to, Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Row Row Row Your Boat, The ABC song, The Itsy Bitsy Spider and though I don't think she knows the song she did ask me the other day, as she was looking at a grandfather-esk clock at my parent's house, if the mouse ran up it. But then there is dancing...she is our little ballerina, she loves to dance, who knows what she will accomplish. Only our Creator who made her in His perfect image.
Like the previous post, I promise pictures to come soon!!
This girl is the best big sister, always making sure that her little sister has everything she needs. She loves helping us take care of her. She helps me feed her dinner every night, helps me feed her a bottle, helps during bath time, and during her fussy times. When Cara is in the floor playing Addie stops everything she is doing to find all the toys she can find and lines them up all the way around Baby Cara so that she will have something to play with. It is really the sweetest!! She will hug her and say "I love my little sister", I am sad for you who have not heard her say this in person, it will melt you on the coldest day!
Addie is like a sponge, it just amazes me at how well she picks up on things and how receptive she is with the happenings around her. On many occasions she just starts speaking these words that nobody ever taught her, just words that she has heard us use, but she most always seems to get them in the correct context. She is still learning to flip persons around but when she does she does it correctly. For instance if I say "Addie will you please pick up YOUR books", she will say "pick up MY books?" I find that she is doing that a lot these days, but the cool thing is we didn't even teach her this, she just picked it up. She streams sentences, so much so that we don't even notice she is only 2 years old, for me it is like I am talking to an adult most of the time.
She has an impeccable memory, she and I can be in the den and I can ask her to go into a whole different room to get something that is in something else and with no other prompting she does. She is so polite about it too, "Addie could you please go get mommy's phone for me, it is in my purse." "Oh sure!" is usually the response as she hops up, runs into the other room and is back in a flash with my phone in hand. So many little things she keeps up with, promises, where things are, where things go, places. I was wearing an Allegacy shirt the other day when she was admiring the emblem on the front. I said "that's for mommy's work" she then jumps up and says "Oh! I see mommy's work!" As she runs over to the table where I had laid my debit card days before and picks it up, points to the same emblem and says "Look! I found mommy's work!" Speaking of work, Chris has been with Wachovia for a year in October and yesterday we rode by Borders in Thruway to see the sales they were having when we pulled in Addie immediately noticed the Sprint store and said "Look Daddy, I see your work!" How in the world could she remember that from a year ago?!?! But the thing is, is that she DOES know his work now, every time we are riding down the road and she sees a Wachovia sign she recognizes it as "Daddy's work". Her memory is way more intricate than just that of remembering where in my purse my phone is or where Mommy and Daddy work, but if I was to explain it all in depth it would just take up too much time.
All of this is never really understood unless you meet my sweet little genius in person.
She knows the differences between her left and right, up and down, backwards, forwards and sideways. She can show you near and far, small and big, in and out, over and under, upside down and right side up, high and low, bright and dark. She knows that sun comes up and the moon and stars go down in the morning, then at night the opposite happens. She is so inquisitive as to how and why things work.
Potty training is going well, she just started telling us when she needs to go and that really helps, because if you know me I just can't keep up with remembering to ask her if she needs to go. Diapers stay dry through night and nap, but we aren't quite ready to take them away yet. But she loves her princess and Minnie Mouse big girl panties and is so proud of them! Plus getting M&M s, well that never hurts! We have been talking about doing something other than the candy for rewards, but she is learning so fast that by the time we get something worked out she will already be trained, maybe we will be prepared for the up and coming...
So lets talk about reading...She is reading some words, on her time of course but nevertheless, she can pick out some sight words. She has really been into Word World a show that all the characters are words. Like the frog character looks like a frog but when he turns to the side his body spells out FROG as does everything else in the "Word World". The other day we were riding down the road and came to a stop, she looked up and exclaimed "STOP SIGN!" Really, nobody taught her that, I have no clue where she gets this stuff from! Who says TV can't be educational, I see no need in restricting her when she certainly is not behind. My mom has been reading this book that explains what a child needs to be able to do and know before they can start kindergarten. Well Addie is right there just about, I don't know exactly what she is lacking, I know she needs some work on her numbers, but we have had the discussion before that on the track she is on, she may have to skip just to be able to be on the same level. But we shall see there is still 3 yrs to go!
She is in the phase now where she loves to help me in the kitchen so if I am cooking(which I am sad to say is not very often) she is right beside me. She loves doing crafts with Grandma and is rather proud of her finished products. Her and Grandma have also been growing some cherry tomatoes (tamos in Addie language) and she just loves watering and checking on them. She is my little nurturer, she was sick last weekend so I slept with her one night and a few times during the night instead of me getting up to check on her, this sick little girl got up and checked on me! She made sure that I had one of her friends to cuddle with, I had a pillow to lay on and covers to keep me warm then to top everything off, she woke up a couple of times to rub my back and give me a kiss on my head. Yes she IS that sweet. She is a very organized individual (she has to get that from me, HELLO, OCD), she is really good at picking her stuff up and putting things away. Like with any toddler you are gonna have days where she doesn't, but for the most part she is good about that.
I think that the dress up phase in not far away, she loves wearing my shoes and is pretty good at walking in heels. Of course I like it best when she dresses Daddy up.
I am sure that I have mentioned before that we really think that she is going to be musical in some way, here is how we know... The piano, she frequently gives recitals in our living room. The drums, yep she drums just about anything. How about singing, well she sings, she keeps beat and she even changes her tone as she sings. Her current songs include but are not limited to, Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Row Row Row Your Boat, The ABC song, The Itsy Bitsy Spider and though I don't think she knows the song she did ask me the other day, as she was looking at a grandfather-esk clock at my parent's house, if the mouse ran up it. But then there is dancing...she is our little ballerina, she loves to dance, who knows what she will accomplish. Only our Creator who made her in His perfect image.
Like the previous post, I promise pictures to come soon!!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
5 Months
So far Cara has already rolled over both ways, but has really mastered rolling from her back to her front. I have seen her make a few complete rolls(back, front, back), but have yet to be able to get it on video. She has found herself in the mirror, learned how to reach out and grab a toy and found her feet. She gets up on her knees and on her hands pretty well but never at the same time, I think though that she will be crawling sooner than Addie if not for anything else but than to be mobile like her sister. She knows her name well and snaps when she hears it. I was talking to her the other day and said something about Daddy and she turned her head and looked right at Chris! She also should have at least 2 teeth any day now! Lots of things happening all at once!! I forgot how exciting this stage was!!
This little one does not, however like to be laying down, she does little baby crunches every time we try and lay her flat. My mom thinks that she will be sitting up on her own in no time, she has actually almost done it on a few occasions. Now if I sit her up she can stay up on her own for a good bit(at minimum the length of the ABC song) without any support. She has gotten really good at stabilizing herself. I think that she would probably be father along than what she is now but she doesn't get much floor time because she has a 2 yr old big sister running around all over the place. But for what she is doing, she is doing well and I am one proud Mama.
She is a talker, more than I think her sister was, but that was a long time ago, it is so cute to watch Cara try and talk to Addie. She just adores her big sister, loves her like it is no body's business! She will strain as hard as she can to see her wherever she goes!! It is no use trying to get her to even eat a bottle if Addie is anywhere around, she is just way too interested in what she is doing. She has got this smile that just pierces you, her blue eyes just sparkle with each smile and that laugh, well there's nothing like it!
We have tried to get her on solids since I went back to work hoping that it would help her to sleep longer, failing at each try, but finally we have gotten on a schedule and I think that she is actually getting to the point where she somewhat likes dinner time. She still is no where near the eater that Addie was ( not that, that really seems to be affecting her) but we are getting there. She is sleeping through the night from about 8:30 to 5:30/45 which is great, we would like for it to be a little longer in the morning, but we will take what we get! This week we started sleep training, trying to teach her to sooth herself to sleep. We let Addie go too long being held and rocked to sleep every night and it was a huge thing trying to get her to sleep on her own and we want to try and avoid having bedtime being so hard again if we can.
I think those are all the updates that I have on Cara at the moment, or at least all that my poor damaged brain can put together, hopefully I will be able to get some more entries posted soon!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
UPDATING
Please forgive all of the delayed posts, I am trying to catch up here while I can! Lots of pictures to come, just waiting on Sprint to stop being stupid!
Mother's Day and Beach Wedding
Mother's Day weekend we had the honor of being a part of our best friends' wedding. Dustin and Sabrina are our very best friends and we are thrilled that they have finally tied the knot! They did so at Ocean Isle Beach on May 7, 2011 with our very own Christopher Hughes Officiating! Right after the news of their engagement Chris decided to get ordained in the hopes that they would allow him to officiate.
After months of planning and looking forward to all of the festivities the time came and we had a wedding! What a beautiful wedding it was! The weather couldn't have been more perfect, the guys and girls looked great, everything was put together so nicely (kinda made me wanna do it all over again). The bride, well what can I say, she was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen!!
Addie needed to make herself known (obviously) and wouldn't you believe it would be in the middle of the quietest part of the ceremony! While Sabrina and Dustin were pouring the sand (instead of lighting a unity candle) she runs down the middle of the isle crying "MOMMY". OMG, I couldn't believe it, but what can you do? Everyone has that "thing" that happens during their wedding that just cuts the nervous tension and our little girl just so happened to be that for the Allen's.
It was a great weekend for the wedding, lots of fun festivities! Mama and Daddy made the (cup)cake(s), YUM, so they came also which really helped out come time for the ceremony. Mama was able to watch the girls(well until Addie did her thing) so that I could take pictures it was a great help!
OH WAIT! Did I mention that Chris also played the ceremony music. He was a one man show!! So proud of my man!
During that weekend we also were able to take just Addie out to the beach so that she could have some Mommy/Daddy time. She had a blast, loved every minute of it, I thought that she would get upset over the sand or the waves, nope neither of them bothered her one bit. Now she is hooked constantly talking about going to the beach.
It was a great Mother's Day weekend being able not only to spend Mother's Day with my two beautiful little girls but also with my most wonderful mother. It is so great to be blessed with a mother that sacrifices so much for me and my family, I just don't know how to ever show her how much she really means to me. Not only do I have such a good role model I am working on modeling for two little bits of preciousness of my own! It is an honor to be called mother. It's like a beautiful song being played to just me when I hear "MOMMY" in that sweet little voice from the other room and even though the little one can't say my name yet, I know when she is calling me. It's a mommy thing...
After months of planning and looking forward to all of the festivities the time came and we had a wedding! What a beautiful wedding it was! The weather couldn't have been more perfect, the guys and girls looked great, everything was put together so nicely (kinda made me wanna do it all over again). The bride, well what can I say, she was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen!!
Addie needed to make herself known (obviously) and wouldn't you believe it would be in the middle of the quietest part of the ceremony! While Sabrina and Dustin were pouring the sand (instead of lighting a unity candle) she runs down the middle of the isle crying "MOMMY". OMG, I couldn't believe it, but what can you do? Everyone has that "thing" that happens during their wedding that just cuts the nervous tension and our little girl just so happened to be that for the Allen's.
OH WAIT! Did I mention that Chris also played the ceremony music. He was a one man show!! So proud of my man!
During that weekend we also were able to take just Addie out to the beach so that she could have some Mommy/Daddy time. She had a blast, loved every minute of it, I thought that she would get upset over the sand or the waves, nope neither of them bothered her one bit. Now she is hooked constantly talking about going to the beach.
It was a great Mother's Day weekend being able not only to spend Mother's Day with my two beautiful little girls but also with my most wonderful mother. It is so great to be blessed with a mother that sacrifices so much for me and my family, I just don't know how to ever show her how much she really means to me. Not only do I have such a good role model I am working on modeling for two little bits of preciousness of my own! It is an honor to be called mother. It's like a beautiful song being played to just me when I hear "MOMMY" in that sweet little voice from the other room and even though the little one can't say my name yet, I know when she is calling me. It's a mommy thing...
SeeSaw
As Chris was holding Addie on one knee and Cara on the other he was bouncing them up and down in alternating intervals...
Addie: "Up, Down, Up, Down, it's a seesaw!"
Where does she come up with this stuff!
Addie: "Up, Down, Up, Down, it's a seesaw!"
Where does she come up with this stuff!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Too smart for words.
Addie: "I need my stickers, I think there in the diaper bag."
~As she gets up and walks into the living room, where the diaper bag usually resides~
~She walks back into the den and with all seriousness states~
Addie: "Booskers says he hasn't seen the diaper bag is."
Grandma: "The diaper bag is over there on the chair"
Addie:"Oh, Yeah!"
~As she walks over to the diaper bag pulls her stickers out of it and walks back~
Addie: (holding her stickers up) "see!"
~As she gets up and walks into the living room, where the diaper bag usually resides~
~She walks back into the den and with all seriousness states~
Addie: "Booskers says he hasn't seen the diaper bag is."
Grandma: "The diaper bag is over there on the chair"
Addie:"Oh, Yeah!"
~As she walks over to the diaper bag pulls her stickers out of it and walks back~
Addie: (holding her stickers up) "see!"
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