Hadley 9 months

Here's what Hadley was up to at 9 months!

-Almost 17 lbs - 25th percentile

She has one tooth so far and I am expecting another one soon. She still doesn't crawl on her hands and knees much although I have seen her trying it more lately. She scoots on her bottom or one hand, one foot, and one knee. She is always dragging some toy around in her free hand. She has completely stopped eating any baby food unless it is the kind that she can hold in the little pouch and squeeze into her mouth, and rarely takes anything from a spoon. She eats about anything she can pick up by herself. Her favorite thing to do is hide behind the living room curtains or the couch and play peek a boo with us. She thinks she is hilarious, really she is. Especially when we can see her smiling behind the sheer curtains...lol. She still doesn't sleep through the night but is only waking up usually one time (only in the last month or so!). Which also means I have still not had a single full nights rest in over 9 months. It is really starting to wear on me! She is a pretty happy girl though and LOVES her big brother!

Time flies when you are crazy. :)

I have been trying to take some pictures of the kids lately because I have been so bad about it since Hadley was born. I was just looking back at some of the old pictures and it all seems like such a blur! Peter will be three in May and Hadley already 8 months old tomorrow. Peter says the funniest things and I really need to start writing them on here so I can remember them...so we will start with today. Earlier today I put him in time out and the whole time he was yelling from the other room, "MOM! I'M PRETTY SURE I WILL LISTEN THIS TIME! MOM, I'M PRETTY SUURRRRE!" lol. Peter I love you, but "pretty sure" will never get you out of time out early. Oh and I have to write this down too. I picked Peter up from Mother's Day Out last week and the teacher asked me to talk to him when we got home because he peed in the front yard of the Methodist Church on Main Street! Good gravy..I have been trying to explain to him that he can do that at Gaga and Pa's house in the country, out at the farm, or even in our back yard I don't care. But nowhere else. I keep getting "BUT Mooooom." No buts or butts...lol.

Hadley has learned to army crawl for a few weeks now but never very far. Today Peter and I were making Jello in the kitchen and I found Hadley by the front door eating leaves. Guess my days of leaving her on the area rug are gone. Want to know what we did after we made jello? Yep..Swept up all the leaves and mopped. :)

Enjoy the pics!

February Fun

I started this last month and never got around to publishing it until now.....sigh..

It seems like since I have started staying home with the kids that I rarely know the day of the week, the date or the time. It is hard to believe February is about over and that this week Hadley will be 7 months old. This month started off trying to get her to eat some solids. She has finally decided that she likes them and regularly eats sweet potatoes, avocados, banana, carrots, and most of the other normals so far. She loves the mum mum rice rusks or anything she can do by herself.

We were able to take the kids to the rodeo a few times thanks to some sweet friends who gave us tickets and of course I took no pictures. Peter loves the horses and bulls and probably the popcorn just about as much. Our good friend Hesbon came from Kenya to stay with us for about 5 days and the kids loved him. It was his first trip to the states and not at all what he expected he said. He had a good time and it is always an honor for us to spend time with him. Here are some pictures from the week! Here is Hesbon on the fake bull at the rodeo...lol.


My sweet Valentine balloon from Pete. I kept this balloon as long as I possibly could. It just made me laugh every time I saw it.

Hadley pooped out from eating her weight in carrots.



Hadley and Hesbon at the rodeo.

Videos!

I think I finally got my video uploading from the Flip camera figured out. Here's a few..more to come!

January Wrap Up

Here's what went on with us in January: We celebrated the New Year at home, built a fire in the fire pit and rang in the new year with a few firecrackers and sparklers, actually I don't think we made it to midnight but watched the ball drop in New York at 11.


We have been using our zoo membership lots this month. It is an easy place to take both kids by myself and since we have had such pretty days this month, we just pack up a lunch and spend the day there. Peter is loving it. He is also in Mother's Day out two times and week and learning so much this year! We love his new teachers and he looks forward to going every week. Lately we have been working on recognizing letters. He knows most of them, sometimes getting mixed up with his k's and x's and can recognize his name. He is so smart but also pretty challenging! Who taught this kid how to argue? Any ideas Mom? Sheesh...he acts just like me when I was young, so I've heard from my sisters and mom....soooo sorry you guys. He is a good big brother though and tries his best to entertain Hadley. He was singing to her yesterday and I heard him saying "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, put the pancakes in the microwave and throw them in the pan!" Apparently that's the 2011 version. :)

Hadley is working on sitting up, she is still pretty wobbly but getting there. She is "talking" a lot and just starting to eat some solid foods. She has refused just about any baby food that we have tried and I am still trying them everyday. She won't even eat applesauce! What baby doesn't like applesauce? She loves mashed potatoes and smashed avocado. She loves bananas but only in the little net thingy that you suck them out of...kind of nasty but we are glad to have it.

I took Hadley for her 6 month well visit on the 27th and she weighs 14.8 pounds and is 25.5 inches long and head is 16.25. She is on the smaller side but I am not surprised. Dr. said she looks awesome besides the little bit of eczema that I am trying to fix. She is rolling around to get where she needs to go for now and no teeth just yet.


I finally got the Flip video camera out but I am having trouble uploading videos. I will keep trying and get them up soon!

December Catch Up!

Wow time flies when you are having fun! OR when you have a 2 year old and a 5 month old and lots of Christmas festivities going on. I have sat down to blog at least 5 times and didn't know where to start so...well I just didn't. Here we go!

First Pete took his vacation at the beginning of December as usual but we had some work to do on the house so we decided on a "stay-cation" this year instead. We enrolled Peter in Mother's Day Out two days a week to get him around some other kids and to give me some time with Hadley. He has been enjoying it a lot. We went to Fiesta Texas one day while Pete was off and watched the Nativity show with all of the live animals. They had a lot of little rides open that Peter could ride and believe me we rode every single one. Peter loved the train and rode it by himself at least three times. We also went to SeaWorld one day and saw their Christmas shows. After we watched the Sesame Street show, Peter kept telling us that he really needed to talk to Elmo and he needed to give him a hug so we waited around afterwards. You have to sign up before the show to take pictures with the cast but a family didn't show up and we got to take their spot. Peter could not take his eyes off of Elmo. Cookie Monster and Big Bird were hanging their heads because Peter didn't look at them once...lol. Guess I didn't realize how much he liked Elmo!
Hadley has really changed over the last month. She is finally not crying all of the time and is really a pretty happy baby. She will play by herself on the floor or in her exersaucer for 20 minutes several times a day which is so nice when I am getting meals ready or getting Peter and I dressed. She is figuring out how to spin all of her toys or pull the ones that play music. She jibber jabbers much of the day and has me wondering if she will be the talker her brother is. Her favorite place to nap is in the swing. Now if we could only get her to sleep at night! She turned 5 months old yesterday! We also got her ears pierced this month, which if you saw the picture on facebook, you know stirred up some controversy...lol...to be expected I guess. Oh well.

Hadley wearing my baby dress.


Loving the exersaucer!


We got all of our decorations up pretty early this year and Peter loved helping to decorate the tree and play with his nativity scene. We have the Fisher Price one and Peter figured out that baby Jesus fit just right for a ride in the donkey cart.

We found this little guy in our Christmas tree box.


One of the million shots for Christmas cards. :)



Went for a trip with Gaga and Holden to see Santa.
Pete's mom gave us tickets for "A Tuna Christmas" at the Majestic theatre this year. It was really funny and we had a great and much needed date night!



Eating dinner at Rita's on the River. Pete gave me my Christmas present there, a Pandora charm bracelet. I cried.


Getting ready for a birthday party for Jesus!

Christmas Day!

HAPPY 2010!

October Fun!

We have had lots of fun this month so far! We were able to get away for a week earlier this month to our friends lake house at Lake Corpus Christi near Mathis, Tx. It was so nice to just relax and to be together as a family for 5 straight days! We fished a little and mostly just hung out. Here is Peter's first catfish catch!

While we we there we went to Corpus Christi one day and visited the Aquarium and ate some seafood. Peter really liked getting to touch the animals and "train" the dolphins. :)



Our first Professional Portrait as a family of four...lol.This Sunday we had baby dedications and got to dedicate Hadley. One of our elders Bob dedicated her since usually Pete does the dedications. She fell right to sleep when he started praying. There were 11 families doing dedications this weekend!

My friend Becca told me after church that she had put some left over baby food, that she had from her little boy, in Pete's truck for when Hadley starts eating it. I didn't expect 75 jars! Your awesome Becca! Had to do a little rearranging in my cabinets!


My mom was here for a few days and helped me get so many things off my to do list! It is so nice having good company all day to talk to. We hate when she has to leave!! Today we had playgroup costume party. Peter requested to be a brown dog so I made his costume this week and H was a ballerina.


Speaking of dogs...Lucy has been so naughty since we brought Had home and has spent most of her free time pouting, spilling the kitchen trash can, and soiling the carpet about 10 feet from her doggy door. Want her? Maybe she can't SEE her doggy door since i haven't taken her the groomer in SO long. Good news is we have new tile for the house..bad news is we still don't know who will install it. I can' wait! We have Fall Festival on Sunday night so stay tune for more pictures!