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Now relegated to Blogblivion...Wednesday, July 19, 2006
She’s got nowhere to go but up.
So Val decided, since she’s turning all of five months old on Friday, that now would be a good time to learn to sit up completely unsupported.
We are so in for it. The girl is way ahead of herself.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Yikes!
Sadie opened the refrigerator herself for the first time ever this evening.
She is overly fond of standing in the door, holding it open, pointing at stuff in the fridge, and possibly even attempting to communicate in an only partially ambiguous way that she would like something specific.
Speaking of which, her favorite fruit seems to be blueberries. When I took her to the farmstand, she was an angel, and the one thing she really asked for was a pint of blueberries. Which were on sale really cheap and looked great, so easy decision. She proceeded to prove that she knew exactly what she was asking for, including eating more than half of them in one day. With the colorful result you might imagine.
Anyway, now we’ll see if she can be trained, or if a refrigerator lock will be needed. Ugh. Then again, she can be surprisingly trainable when I whip out the “obey or die” voice I seem to do so well. It used to work on dogs, too.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Mmmm… Squash
Which Valerie liked as well as apples, but maybe not as much as pears, which as you may know are the Best Thing Ever.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Doctor Stuff Revisited
We have a birthday party to attend at noon or so, so I need to make this quick. Heck, I haven’t even selected which of the toys I recently bought for the purpose will go with us for the nephew in question.
I had my checkup yesterday. My blood pressure was awesome. My weight stayed the same. That is, inexplicably high after a suddent spike months ago, but at least not higher than last time. Apparently I need to lose weight so my BP can go up like Deb’s. Heh. I go back in four months, then in eight months for the second annual physical I will have had with my doctor since starting with him I think it was four years ago.
He was alarmed to hear about Sadie’s apparent hip injury that has mostly stopped evidencing itself since I attempted to get in to see him. She would probably have earned herself X-rays, based on my description. He was concerned he never got a message about it, and that is where the trick lies.
He has six official “sick visit” openings per day, and then piles freely on top of those, which is why he’s always running behind (case in point; my 10:30 appointment got me in there after 12:00).
He seems to consider Sadie a particular VIP, which made it worse.
So. The trick is to leave a message directed at him saying it’s me, Sadie’s father, and here’s what’s happening. Then he will call back and will make sure we get in if needed. Plus if it’s Jane, the regular receptionist, things should be easier.
The doctor also thinks I should write a book. About my life, and how it centers around computers and how we met because of that and have a happy marriage and two beautiful kids. I think the “happy marriage” part is what astonishes him. I think he’s become cynical about such things.
Anyway, next time it shouldn’t be a problem to get her in. Yay.
Friday, July 07, 2006
I suspect we have our athlete.
Much as we suspect that Sadie will be our geek child, it’s starting to look like Valerie may well be the athletic child. She’ll be five months old the 21st--2 weeks from now--and she’s just blasting right through the gross motor milestones. It’s getting a little ridiculous. Today’s tricks: sitting up propped on one hand, using the other one to play with something...and pushing herself up to that position in the first place. Startled the hell out of me when I laid her down on the floor on her back earlier and went to get a drink of water...walked back into the room and she was sitting up! Then she did it again, and again. The girl is determined to catch up with Sadie. Sister’s got a 16 month head start? No problem!
She also got her first ride in a stroller today, because Jay came home last night with this, which *woo-hoo!*, and she got a great big kick out of it. Can I just tell you how nice it is to take them for a walk without wearing one of them? It’s really, really nice. And the stroller is lighter and more manuverable than it looks. It’s awesome, just awesome.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Valerie Gallery - Deluxe Edition
This is the “I’ve been remiss about posting Valerie pictures so guess I’ll try to catch up and be thorough” edition. Heck, she’s started eating real food - beating Sadie to the “I’ll grab the spoon and put it into my mouth myself” by a huge margin. As soon as she started, in fact. Twice in the high chair and she doesn’t really need towels to prop her up, weeks early. But then, she’s verging on sitting up by herself on the floor. She’s downright alarming in her hurry to do things, and her sheer strength.
Anyway, these are in order from most to least recent. Some are going to be similar to others to show subtleties of expression or activity. I amnot sure it keeps them from loading, for those with dialup who might want to see the main page without them, but all but the first couple will be “below the fold,” so click to see them all. We’re talking about 40 pictures, taking us back to when I last did a roundup, but making no attempt to go find neglected sets of pictures prior to that. Enjoy!
Monday, July 03, 2006
Flowers and Berries
I don’t remember what the flowers in the second picture above are called, but their shade of purplish rose-red is one of my favorite colors. Once upon a time I had double impatiens in approximately the same shade and they were like Best Flowers Ever. My mother has to keep pulling up and tossing away some of the above plants because they spread like weeds. The lillies, in the top picture, are something we had in the yard the whole time I was growing up. Along with some tiger lillies.
Sadie tried a couple of these and seemed to like them. I ate a whole handful, but most of them were pretty sour, even when they appeared quite ripe. I was thinking they were thimbleberries, but apparently those are always red. Turns out they are black raspberries, which I always thought was a silly term people used for blackberries, which are different. At any rate, they were bearing impressively.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Call Me Any Any Time… Or Not?
When we go to our family doctor, we wait hours and hours to get in an see him, with the consolation being that when we have an emergency, we too will be able to get in and see him while other people wait.
And so it is that after 13 minutes on hold with not the normal nurse-receptionist or even the backup nurse-receptionist, we have an appointment at 2:15 for Sadie with not-our-doctor.
Total bullshit.
Absolute total bullshit.
And I didn’t think to ask if we could see him tomorrow instead. We’re sure she didn’t ask him if he’d fit us in. It’ll be all of a three minute visit, ending in either “looks like she buised her hipbone” or that kind of thing and “give her some ibuprofen and it’ll heal in a couple weeks,” or else “go see the specialist.”
Some random person filled in reception and didn’t know us. Or our doctor. Apparently it’s all well and good for him to have a policy of “call me!” It just goes completely astray in execution, especially when there are surrogate minions.
Anyway, after I made the appointment, and after I started typing this, we got sufficiently concerned and, well, angry, that I called back and canceled. Gave the reason of preferring to see our own doctor, and disconnected before the at least friendlier-this-time surrogate minion could verify he also has no openings tomorrow.
So what is wrong with Sadie anyway? Probably nothing that a little time and ibuprofen can’t cure. It’s borderline on whether to bother having it looked at; I just decided I ought to err on the side of caution, and it was worth spending yet another $25 for peace of mind and guidance. Of course, the tone of the reception drone initially was “have you been beating your kid?” Which was one of the factors weighed in deciding whether to take her. It’s obvious we haven’t, and our doctor would never dream of suspecting it or taking that tone. He’s the one who joked about seeing her for stitches under the chin when she manifested as an unstoppable climber.
The problem manifested itself in diaper changes. I lay her in the bassinet, unhook the diaper, and grab usually her right leg to lift her butt up to wipe her clean. She’s never been thrilled by the grab a leg thing, but it works.
Starting a few days ago, that made her scream in pain. She didn’t even seem to like to lay flat. Either leg, but more the right. If you lay her down flat now she cringes in anticipation, which makes us wonder if some of the reaction is not liking it because it used to hurt even if now not so much.
We’ve tried bending the leg and hip, prodding all over the place, trying to see if there was a locus of pain. Closest I came to a result prodding was one side of her lower back down near the hip.
Almost forgot; she seems to be pained by it if the diaper is fastened too tight, and the same few days ago she started fighting being put into the normal position and strapped into her car seat, almost as if it was hurting her. Not the agony of the grab leg and lift butt thing, but apparent discomfort that she gets over or tolerates enough to ride fine.
She had no obvious difficulties or changes to behavior. She can still walk, run, climb, stomp… but last night she was having clear difficulty climbing into and out of her chair at the kitchen table, even needing help. She falls in the tub and thinks nothing of it. She sits and bends her legs in the same ways that bother her if we have her on her back trying to identify the problem. I think I caught a slight limp earlier, and maybe there’s a little reversion to pointing her toes inward, but it’s hard to say. Mostly she’s fine. It’s very strange and subtle. Clearly not a broken bone, for instance. If it weren’t for the diaper changing hysteria, we’d suspect nothing. And the hysteria is clearly pain-induced. Or maybe “memory of pain” induced, in some part.
It’s probably a pulled muscle or deep bruise that doesn’t show on the surface, and will simply fade away. It’s the kind of thing that I wouldn’t take myself to a doctor for, but Sadie can’t really tell us what we’d like to know about it, and I decided to take advantage of the “family practice” pitch for once, to reassure us.
If it still bothers her when I have my appointment next week, I’ll bring it up then, maybe bring her with me for the day anyway. And I’ll chat with the doctor about what exactly the “call me” policy means and what I should expect from the minions guarding his gates.
Meanwhile, I do hope she stops falling and banging off of and into things so much.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Valerie Sightings
I need to respond to a server emergency (or not; it appears my instructions to them worked), but here’s a pair of quick Valerie pictures. The first is with her great-grandmother at the 90th birthday party Sunday. The second is her exploring the “cave” under my desk, which is her favorite place to go. It’s as if she’s seeking a den.
Milestone Time
There were no pubs involved, but Valerie clearly crawled in the official sense this morning. She’s gone beyond the previous level of scooting and rolling herself around, impressive as that is, and as big a component of her locomotion as it remains.
She seems intent on beating Sadie at everything. Probably because she wants to catch up and be able to play with Sadie properly.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Valerie the Valiant
She got three shots this morning! Poor little thing. She’s cranky as hell now, but the Tylenol is helping. Of course, she’s got those first four teeth that look like they’ll come in Any Minute Now which means they’ll take weeks more--they always do--so we’ve been having our share of random crankiness, too. Though that’s not all that random, is it? LOL.
Anyhow, I took her for her 4 month visit this morning and it’s not my imagination, the girl is getting long and skinny on me. She’s climbing the height chart and falling down the weight chart. 24 and 3/4 inches long and 12 pounds, 5 and 1/2 ounces. I don’t know why I’m surprised...Sadie was bigger at this age, but is built pretty much the same way. Both of our families have plenty of tall lean people, so it’s not like we can’t account for them without wondering about an alien invasion or something. Our doc isn’t bothered any by it, bless him.
I can’t wait to feed her “real food” though. She’s started grabbing for ours, so we gave her a bite or two of applesauce and she pushed it right back out. Give her a couple of weeks and she’ll no doubt be ready to go.
She scoots now like an old pro, and has taken to getting up on her knees and elbows and rocking. The girl wants to locomote yesterday. She’s the smiling-est baby I’ve ever seen, and she thoroughly charmed everybody she met today. Especially after the shots, when she had those big sad eyes to go with her smile.
Party Dress Sadie
Here’s some photographic Sadie overkill, but she, and the dress she wore to the birthday party, is so cute. I’m actually leaving some out.
And yeah, one of these days I’ll post some Valerie pictures too. Maybe not a full catch-up set, as that would be about 30 pictures, but some.
These two are before we left Sunday:
This picture is courtesy of Sharon, of Sadie sitting in the nursery/playroom after she’d (as you can tell) eaten:
Sadie and Julia in the nursery:
Sadie in the nursery with Julia, Alicia and Hunter:
Sadie after we got home, with the birthday balloon she captured and has not let go of except for baths and sleeping (which involves removing it from her after she falls asleep, so she won’t get tangled in the string):
Friday, June 23, 2006
Before and After: 99 Restaurant Edition
This is Sadie in her Florida shirt before we went to the 99 Restaurant near work, then afterward, showing what those modern stain removers are up against.
We all highly recommend the mango iced tea. It’s almost more of a mango juice pretending that maybe it was spiked with a little tea, in a huge glass. Sadie went crazy for it. We’d forgotten her sippy cup, so when we got ours, I gave her a taste dropper-style out of the bottom of my straw. That became my job, a steady stream of sips, until we asked for and got not only a little glass for her, but also one full of complementary mango tea.
Trouble is, she forgot how to drink out of a straw, and had the notion the straw had to be used dropper style, but without knowing to put her finger over the end. Before the meal was over, she figured out she could lift the glass and just drink out of the straw hole, which was perfect for both getting plenty and not spilling it to speak of.
That’s part of what’s on the shirt, along with bleu cheese dressing, sour cream, marinara for dipping these yummy baked cheese sticks that came with her meal, sweet and sour sauce for dipping her chicken fingers, and ketchup for her fries.
I got the new pulled pork sandwich, which was quite tasty, if a little drier than I expected. Deb got the new roast beef cheddar dip, which was absolutely amazing. We also order a sampler appetizer, which was part of our toddler management. She was fantastic, which is amazing considering her moods lately, but it also helps to make it easier for them to succeed. So we went when her mood was good, at a good time for the restaurant, to a kid friendly place, got good seating, and kept her occupied and not bored. It helps that even at her worst there are circumstances in which she seems to have an inherent sense of propriety. So being messy was the worst of it. Valerie was an angel too, and people were smitten with them.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
The Strange Case of Sadie and the Stroller
We’ve got one of those big travel system dealies, kindly donated to us by someone somewhere along the line (Jay would know who, no doubt) that’s been gathering dust for a while now. Sadie used the infant seat, which has since been retired since it was showing signs of strain in exactly the areas you wouldn’t want it to, and we used the stroller a few times back before we moved but it’s been in storage on the front landing ever since.
That’s all changed now.
The thing is, Sadie’s never been all that impressed by the idea of a stroller, and given how pissed off she gets at having to stay in the cart at the Wal-Mart, I didn’t figure it was worth trying out on her again. So I wasn’t expecting her reaction when I had the thing out to switch where I had it stored.
She lost her damned mind.
She had to sit in it. And she sat there in the living room rocking, trying to make it go go go. When I folded it up she cried and whined and knocked it over repeatedly until I just gave up and took her for a freaking walk.
I don’t know when I’ve seen her so happy.
All I could think is, WTF? This is quickly becoming a challenge for me, as walking for the forty-five minutes to an hour it’s been taking her to get bored with the idea is tough, especially with the baby strapped to my front. If she keeps her total stroller-mania up, I’ll have to break down and buy a double for sure. OTOH, I’m sure I could use the exercise. and it’s good to get her out of the house. I’m sure it’s improving her disposition, which is very...mmmm...TWO YEARS OLD at the moment, IYKWIM. LOL. Even with new shoes, though, my shins are complaining something fierce about all the walking.
Ah, well. Enduring pain for your children starts with the phantom cramps and never actually ends, yes? ROFL. I’m so terribly, terribly amused by all of this. I just never know what in hell the child is going to come up with next.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Four months.
So Valerie is right now in bed, celebrating the first day of summer by setting a new personal sleeping record. Nine hours and counting...yay!
She’s four months old today and the girl is just amazing. Her latest trick is scooting, drunken-inchworm style, across the floor. You can hardly hold her in your lap...way too restrictive for the baby who has just figured out that if she sees something she wants, she can manuver over and grab it. And yet she loves riding strapped to my chest in her carrier and will happily go for a long walk that way, outside or even through a store.
She’s teething up a storm and loves to chew on wads of cloth, like the corner of a blanket or a fistful of your shirt. She’s discovered her tongue, and will sit there and play with it, like “hey! I can stick this out! Cool!” which totally cracks me up. She’s started to look longingly at us while we eat, so I think we’ll be starting some food with her pretty soon.
I can’t believe how freaking amazingly fast she’s growing. Yikes! I feel like tomorrow she’ll be begging us for a car.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Firsts
Yesterday Valerie went in the shower for the first time. It’s was the Best Day Ever, and there’s weren’t even any Hill People or kidnappings involved. Sadie wasn’t as impressed with her first time in the shower.
Yesterday Sadie shot her first slug.
That is, we rehooked up her computer at the office, which is the same old 386 with DOS and a bunch of DOS games on it that we setup before there was a Sadie. She was more into the keybanger program than she’d been in the past, but I decided to show her Commander Keen (4, arguably the best of them). So I played quickly through the first two levels and tried to show her the controls. Then played with another level and let her bang on keys, wherein she shot one of the slugs that was approaching. I also left it sitting at the main map for a while, and she managed to get into one of the game levels. She was hopelessly fascinated, even if she didn’t understand the distinction in keys to control things and stuff yet.
What we need is something like a keybanger, but one that responds differently depending on the key you press. Even if it’s to show a large version of the letter, maybe say the letter, and show something it stands for. Or else the world’s most forgiving game or game-like program for a toddler.
Speaking of letters, nobody has made serious attempts to teach Sadie the alphabet or anything yet. So it is freaky to watch her stand by the bookcase, pointing at letters on the spine of books, making letter-like sounds, including sometimes distinct sets like “eee eff gee.” We’re like “no way, can’t be.”
This from the kid who makes up her own words for stuff, most notable gee with a hard G sound for candy. As I always say, “gui, it’s not just for karate anymore.” She also holds animated conversations between her ducks and sometimes other critters, occupying some rich fantasy world.
But books? Letters? She doesn’t even care that much for being read to anymore, whereas Valeries loves it more than Sadie ever did.
This is just begging for a nut joke of some sort, but I’m tired.
You know, I’m less shocked by the presence of Fluff in the Mass. schools than I am by the presence of peanut butter. I didn’t know there were any schools left where it hadn’t been banned.
The sacred status of the Fluffernutter is something I learned about after moving here. A New Englandism, to be sure. Sadie, of course, has already had and loved one. I’m not so much on them but I’m trying to learn before they throw me out of the state over it. I can’t imagine they’d actually throw it out of the schools in a statewide, organized fashion.
Anyway, the last time I checked jelly was pretty much fruit-flavored sugar, so WTF is the problem here, really? Far as I can tell, there isn’t one.
Via Radley Balko.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Mmmm… Calcium, and Light Posting
Sadie must have a calcium craving this morning. She asked for cheese for breakfast, and then for strawberry milk. Not coffee. Which has a lower proportion of milk in it than strawberry milk. She didn’t ask for a pickle, or fruit, or raisins or cashews or whatever. Speaking of pickles, we got a jar of the cutest little miniature gherkins yesterday. They’re Sadie-sized. Speaking of calcium, we got some yogurt, too, which Sadie hasn’t tried since she was a baby. Speaking of shopping, the night before last we went to the BJ’s in Taunton for the first time. I used to go to the Avon store, because it was under 5 minutes from the old apartment.
At two years old you would think the Taunton store was brand new, and built to acknowledge the fact of competition from things like Wal-Mart Supercenters (the amazing Plymouth version of which we went to yesterday). My first thought on walking into it was that the store layout exactly matched that of the Costco in Sherbrooke, Quebec, which is the only Costco I have been in, and a very nice store. From my father’s in Vermont, right on the border, it’s either shop up in that area, probably 40 miles away, or drive all the way across the state at an angle to Burlington, an all day jaunt.
The BJ’s even has parking for customers with infants! We thought we were just getting an insanely good spot - and we still would have even without that - but then we saw the sign… and it happened to apply. Go us.
That BJ’s is one of the nicest stores I have ever been in. My only complaint is the weird traffic pattern they setup for entering the plaza. Well, that and the pair of employees going around gathering empty boxes for the “free boxes” cart, who pretended we weren’t there rather than moving the box cart to the side a foot to let us pass and look at what we wanted in that aisle. They were being low life pricks and there’s no excuse for that.
Anyway, I have to work on billing. It should have been done several days ago. Even though they almost always pay faster, terms are net 15 and it’s the 15th and rent is due the 1st. I’ve just been a combination of busy and skittish about giving the big client a second really huge bill in a row. I figure the extra several days will make it feel less bad. These two will have been larger than all but a handful of other months since we started in January 1999.
Monday, June 12, 2006
This is an improvement:
Sadie, when asked if she got enough to eat for lunch, nodded.
She never, never answers us if the answer is “yes,” so this is huge. Well, if she keeps it up, anyway. Heh.
The Girl is a Force of Nature
So did y’all see the storm names for this year?
Valerie is on the list. LOL!
(As is Debby but I’ve never, never spelled it that way so it doesn’t count. Heh.)
(Oh, and Michael’s there, too. Yikes.)
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Mmmm… Summer Foods
Sadie had her first experience with corn on the cob tonight. We were out of salad stuff, fruit, and any veggies not frozen, except a wee bit of broccoli more likely to be used in my salads than cooked.
So I popped up to the Farmer’s Outlet on route 44, and in the course of spending way too much, which wouldn’t have been way too much had I skipped the cherries and the sweet bread, I got three ears of corn for $1.29. It turned out to be fantastic. Maybe I won’t have to go to Peterson’s Farm in Bridgewater for corn this summer, though that’s not that far either.
I broke one ear in half so Sadie could have one her size, and I demonstrated. She’s not real clear yet on things like fruits having cores or pits, so I wasn’t sure what would happen. She did actually nibble on it a bit, but overall didn’t feel much like eating. I offered to cut some off for her to eat more normally, but she was fleeing the table at that point. Oh well. No pictures. Overall she got enough to eat. She’d had a bunch of cherries, a strawberry and a hunk of cheese before dinner. She was unenthused about the strawberry, once she so much as glimpsed the cherries. Long memory.
I ended up buying two packages of strawberries, a pound each, because they looked good - a rarity - and were two for $3. I was thinking over ice cream, or making shortcake. I am not a big strawberry person, but these are the tastiest ones I have had probably since I used to grow them myself. When I get a yard with space for a garden, I’ll probably plant them again because they’re a fun and easy thing to grow.
I also got a bag of nice looking green beans, lettuce, carrots, a pepper, apples, pears, oranges, and six Portuguese rolls that were perfect for burgers.
We were gonna have salad, but after I got the corn and rolls, we wanted rolls with the burgers and salad seemed like overkill.
Oh! I didn’t mention our internet outage today, and how Verizon annoyed me, for amused values of annoyed.
Mmmm… Pickles
Sadie’s latest favorite food is sweet gherkins. Strange, huh?
She loves relish, and I buy sweet pickles once in a while. I’ll eat them, or put them on tuna sandwiches or burgers. Oddly, I couldn’t get her to try sweet pickles in the form of slices.
I recently got a jar of Cains sweet gherkins to be different. Took the first one out, bit off half and handed her the other half. She looks at me and is like “okay,” wanders off and and eats it while doing her cool Fonzie pose leaning against the coffee table.
Yesterday she asked for one twice, at different times, and at them as a major component of her food intake for the day.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Milestone Time
Valerie is sleeping on her belly. More comfortably and deeply than she normally sleeps, which is great. She’s lucky ever to get naps with Sadie around, and her greater noise sensitivity than Sadie ever had.
In the course of about a week she has learned to roll over both ways, gotten good at it, become able to play with the toys in the saucer and move herself around in it more or less at will, gotten good at putting stuff in her mouth to sooth the teething, become able to squirm right out of the car seat if she wants, used being in the seat for leverage to essentially crawl off the head end of it so she could explore the adjacent wall and radiator (cute pictures not yet posted), made it clear she knows her name, made it clear she knows the word bath, figured out she can get us to take specific actions for her, and gotten excited about the idea of real food on schedule. Plus whatever I might have forgotten. And she’s gotten even harder to entertain and prevent from being bored. She loves looking out windows, or listening to music, or sometimes watching TV, especially if there’s music, or watching what Sadie is doing.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Valerie on Tuesday
And another milestone: She learned to blow raspberries the same day she rolled from belly to back, which she promptly started doing almost as readily as rolling from back to tummy. She has also gotten down the concept of using her hand to put something in her mouth that’s not her hand. She uses the teething aspects of the ExerSaucer more than Sadie ever did. Speaking of which, she has already learned to play with some of the toys on the saucer, like spinning the clear cylinder of colorful plastic beads. Go Val!
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Milestone
Valerie just rolled from her tummy to her back for the first time. Yay!
Unfortunately, I wasn’t looking, but the evidence of the deed was unmistakable.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Best invention ever?
Washable crayons.
Seriously.
And the Valerie? We put her down yesterday and she rolled again. And again. And again.
We’ve since lost count.
Yay!
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Valerie’s First Word
No, not one she says, but one she unquestionably, enthusiastically understands.
Bath.
Well, she appears to have learned her name, but that’s not a “word.” Nor has it been obvious until I just tested her response.
If you say bath she gets all excited and giggles and assumes she is going to get a bath ASAP. If this is not forthcoming, she gets unhappy. We now have to avoid using the word casually around her. We figured this out yesterday when she managed to get herself a second bath in the same day.
In other antics, she managed to get herself most of the way out of her car seat, which she spends a lot of time sitting in, unstrapped, in the house. When she was to the point of only her shoulder blades and above still in contact with the seat, Deb helped her sit up on the floor and scooted the seat so she could be on the carpet. Where she roams surprisingly far for not even being able to crawl yet (though that’s a close thing, when she does tummy time).
I have a bunch of pictures I should post soon, including when she did her first rollover, from above showing her on her belly, then at floor level showing how mad she was about being stuck face down.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Milestone
Valerie just rolled over for the first time by herself! From back to tummy, that is. And boy was she pissed. Much as she is right now since I put her down to type this.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Sadie, Bear and Tea Girl
This seems to be Sadie’s current favorite bear, and the other toy she’s holding, which we call Tea Girl because she is pouring tea from a pot, is her favoritest toy ever. Part of the Strawberry Shortcake collection from a McDonald’s Happy Meal, of all things. She plays with the others, which I believe all remain at the office (which is when we end up having McDonald’s, usually on days that involve doctor appointments), but she always loved Tea Girl the best and pointedly brought her home.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
My Mini Me
Me at 18 months and Sadie at 18 months. No resemblance at all.