Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Another tooth!
She's crackin' me up these days. This morning she decided to pull herself up to the coffee table again. I snapped a picture with my cell phone. Moved her away and she found her way back! Then I got the camera out and just started shooting. She's really become a ham with the camera! Chuck and I have caught her crawling about 2 hand/knee movements and that's it. It's so just a matter of time!
I went in to check on the little stinker last night? Yup. She was sitting up in bed! She was looking away from the door, so I grabbed Chuck to come in and look. She just looked at us like, "What are you guys doing in here?" She was just sitting there with a pluggie in her mouth while holding onto another one!
Our internet is incredibly slow today, so maybe later or another day I'll get pictures posted of Nyssa & Daddy in their Bears shirts!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Christmas Photos
Another thing she has started is trying to pat-a-cake! She ends up slapping the backs of her hands! It's so funny. I caught her doing it while I was changing our 3rd poop of the day!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Her first time with Cheerios. By the look on her face? She's not diggin' it so much! At one point she launched that baby onto her tray! It was pretty funny. If I could ever figure out how to put video up here we've got some good footage of the Cheerio action.
After lunch yesterday we gave her this thing with a banana inside. At first she was totally into it, then all of a sudden she started squawking at me. Every time she'd get a little banana she would wince!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Brrrrrrrr!
The lovely snow fall we got over night Thursday and in the morning on Friday resulted in Nyss and I not having to go in to work! They were leaving for Colorado that day anyway, so it worked out. Everyone had enough notice that this was coming so Susie stayed after work and did the work she usually does on Friday mornings. Their flight was leaving at 2ish from Midway. Next on the list is to email them and see how they made it out there! I also need to email Zachary pictures of Nyssa because he "won't see her for 8 days." I think most of the week he spent kissing her and hugging her all the time! It was so cute!
So Nyssa and I are off this week! Yay! We would have loved to come back to IA but the retail Gods were not in our favor. I hate retail. There's no way in h-e-double hockey sticks that I'm doing that drive with just Nyssa! I think everyone understands that! It would be one thing if she was forward facing in her car seat and it was easier to reach her to bribe her, but not rear facing! Ugh. It really kind of sucks because we'd love to make it back. On Christmas we will get together with Chuck's family. I think we are doing it on the early side, so that'll be nice. (Last year we got them in the afternoon and good lord were they crabby. So this year we get them early and they get them later!) This is the first year that we aren't going to Chuck's Mom's for Christmas, we are going to his brother's house. It will be nice, but different. We are actually going to go to his Mom's on Christmas Eve and hang out with Sue. That will be awesome. The whole family shouldn't be there all at once, so we can maybe visit with Sue for a change!
Let's see...tomorrow Nyssa and I are going to Chicago to hang out with Teddy and Avery! We will be there Tuesday also. It's going to be interesting with 3 babies! Yikes! Nyssa is pretty easy going and will hang out in their exer-saucer, so that will be nice. I think Sara has one of those jump-a-roo things too. Nyss might need to test it out and see if it's something we will need to find! Chuck is off Tuesday so I think he may go with us then! That way I'll have a photographer to take the pictures while I'm propping babies! Of course there is bound to be a photo shoot!
Last night Chuck (he opened), Nyssa and I all headed downtown to babysit Piper! She's so big now and talking up a storm. Her little voice cracks me up. (I left Piper when I was about to have Nyssa.) Nyssa loves other kids. I am worried she is going to be incredibly bored while we are stuck here without other entertainment!!
I'll try to post some pictures from last weekend when we celebrated Julia & Jimmy's (her cousin) birthdays. The kids also decorated Ginger Bread houses. Julia was totally into it and was so giddy to have presents! Christmas should be fun! Cameron. Cam Da Man. In the car on the way to Chuck's brothers house I asked him, "Hey Cam. What does Santa say?" Julia pipes up, "He's just a baby Jacq, he can't say it." (Tell me the girl doesn't speak for him, maybe that's why we aren't at our 50 words for an almost 2 year old?? Hmmmm.) I said, "Sure he can, you just have to teach him how." So I asked him again, "Cam what does Santa say?" He gets this little troublemaker grin and says, "Moo." I love those kids!
I've got about 4 loads of laundry to get done today and the timer just went off. Good, fun, exciting times when it's below zero outside! If I'm not on here before Christmas we hope everyone has a wonderful day full of memories! (I'm seriously hoping to be back to post some pictures!)
Merry Christmas!
*I'm hoping to get our Christmas cards done today and out tomorrow!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
6 month check up
We actually met Susie at her office this morning. She brought Zachary (who turned 5 yesterday :) along and we took him to school after. Nyssa seriously loves that boy. I think she stopped crying sooner because he was there lovin' on her. I think next fall will be hard on Nyssa when she has to watch Zach get on the school bus for Kindergarten!!
Her stats:
Weight = 16 lbs 8 oz (70 - 75%); Length = 25inches (25%-shorty!); Head Circumference = 43 50-75% I think she got Momma's big melon!)
She's been doing really well at night lately. Sunday and Monday nights we spent at the Shapiro's so they were kinda sucky. Especially Sunday. Monday Mommy put towels under the sheet in their pack n play because it was NOISY! I think that kept waking her up. She was back in her crib last night and did awesome. I have about 5 pacifiers in there and she's been finding them..finally. I think I'm going to ask Santa for more pacifier's for Nyssa. I'll put 20 in there if it will continue to go like this at night! Of course my child doesn't take just any ol' pacifier either, oh no...she's picky.
I think that's it for now! She's passed out in the laundry room at Zach's right now. She was due to eat at 1, but no way in hell am I going to wake her up at this point! She got some Tylenol too so I'm sure that's knocked her out. Hopefully she won't be very fussy!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Random Nyss Pics
Yes, Uncle Jeff...she cries.
She put the pluggie in by herself.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thanksgiving weekend photos!
Another. Cameron's entertained by his feet...go figure!
Nyssa News!
Also on the Nyssa front...we now like to get on our hands and knees and go back and forth. Yeah. Mommy's not too thrilled about this latest achievement! I know what's coming...crawling, being mobile, putting everything in the apartment up..you get what I mean! She's incredibly funny as she's rockin' away though. I usually just crack up laughing at her. She's also started this growling thing. Growling all the time. Happy. Sad. It doesn't matter, she growls and stiffens up like Frankenstein.
There will probably be some random pictures before you get to this post. I'm not quite sure what I'll be posting, but it's for some new one! We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
PS: Mommy has learned that asking Daddy to decorate the Christmas tree while the Bears are playing doesn't work so well!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cold
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
5 months today!
Nyssa with Mommy's Baby Beans. She talked to it then grabbed for it really fast.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Roller Girl!
A close up.
We laid on the blanket after the rolling and Mommy just started taking a lot of pictures!
Peas and other photos
This is my garage sale cover for her carseat. I could have cared less that it's blue, because it cost a whopping $1. I figure her carseat is pink, so it should confuse enough people.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Halloween!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
1st time having cereal!
She's rolling over!
I think it's time this Mommy gets used to vacuuming all the time to keep her from eating fuzzes off the floor!
She's doing really well, getting so big! She talks all the time and seems to have quite a few opinions as well (nothing like her Momma). I had no idea being a Mommy would be so cool!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
4 Month Doctor Visit
We get to start giving her cereal once or twice a day now! Daddy is off tomorrow, so we'll see what happens then! We could start her on a fruit or veggie too, but we are going to stick with the cereal and see what happens with that first! I'm sure pictures will be posted soon after!
On another note we went to the pumpkin patch (yes, our 3rd visit this season) yesterday. Only we got to go with Julia and Cameron and Danielle (the kids' Mommy). It was very cute and we actually got a nice picture of Chuck and I and the kids and then one with all of us and Danielle too! It was a nice day! The pumpkin patch wasn't very busy either, which always is a bonus! Tomorrow I'll try and post some pictures of that event also!
Have a good weekend!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Nyssa...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
The 3 Amigos
Pumpkin Patch!
Nyss hanging out on Daddy's lap. He was just holding her legs steady, she was diggin' sitting up and watching everything!
Every year we have done this with Julia (we didn't think hold Cameron up there last year, duh) I love these pictures.
The full view of the Didier's sign.
We had a beautiful day at the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. It was great. The babies did awesome as well. It was nice having Chuck there, the ratio of baby to adult was even! It was such a great day! We are hoping to get the big kids there before the season is over!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Nyssa's First Play Date!
Ms. Avery. She's such a little cutie. You should see the girl's hair!
Teddy guy! He's the true peanut. He's so little. He spent most of the time hanging out in the Baby Bjorn on me!
Sara called me Saturday before I took the kids back, and we decided to meet at an outdoor mall! They were all so cute together! Granted they don't do much, but it was still cute! Nyssa did great being the "Big Girl"! She didn't like it so much when Teddy started crying, that upset her a lot. I looked down and she was crying with him, ugh, it was cute!
The Big Kids Friday night and some feet shots!
As long as she gets plugged she doesn't care how the passie looks.
We had the munchkins over night Friday night. This was the next morning. They are both hams!! I love it!!
My little buttercup found her feet Saturday night! She was in her seat most of the day (coming in the next post), as soon as I put her on the floor her feet went flying up!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Miss Nyss & 1 year ago on this date!
It was a year ago today I took a pregnancy test. It was our first anniversary. During lunch Chuck had said, "Why don't we stop at the store and get a pregnancy test? Just to see. It might be funny." We did. I took the test. Looked at the two pink line's a couple of times (as in, put down the test and picked it back up, as if my eyes were playing tricks). I yelled from the bathroom, "Holy crap, Chuck! Come in here." My lovely husband in a kind of annoyed voice, "What? Why? Where are you?" I stood in the bathroom (keep in mind it's small, we live in a an apartment), I was over by the tub, with tears in my eyes pointing at the stick on the counter. He looked at me, I pointed again. He picked it up and I think I literally saw the light bulb go on over his head. Chuck, "Oh my God, you're pregnant." It was all over from there! Yay for Dollar store pregnancy tests (those sucker's add up if you buy them in grocery or other retailers. They all do the same thing.)! To think it all started as a joke, it was funny alright. For the record....there will be no peeing on a stick for me tonight!!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
I think...
(The picture is from Sept. 19th!!)