Tuesday, April 21st was Violet's 9 month check-up...officially, she was 9 months and 2 days old.
John took her to the appointment b/c I had a chiropractor appointment to try to figure out what's been going on with my neck.
I had e-mailed John some questions for the doctor I wanted him to ask for me, and he actually e-mailed them out and the doctor wrote down the answers on the paper!
Here are her official stats:
- Weight: 18.36 pounds (42nd percentile)
- Length: 28.54 inches (82nd percentile)
- Head Circumference: 17.68 inches (77th percentile)
Some new things in Violet's life:
- She likes to clap her hands (a lot)
- She now has 3 teeth...two on bottom and one on top.
- She says 3 words: Dada, Mama, and uh-oh. She may have said "block", that's what we heard once but we haven't ever heard her say it again so it could have been coincidental.
- She waves bye, but only when she's in the mood. She doesn't like to wave bye when one of us is actually leaving, but when it's playtime, she'll do it!
- She throughly enjoys banging things together. We went out to eat the other day and she was sitting in the high chair...I gave her a toy to entertain herself and she starting pounding it on the table. Needless to say I then had to take it away because we don't want to ever be one of "those" families. We tried to find ways to entertain her without so much noise.
I think that's all for now!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Spring Fever
Sunday, April 19th was John's first triathlon of the season...the Spring Fever sprint triathlon. It was also my second triathlon with Violet...the first was Redman last September. Spectating and photo-taking was definitely a different experience with her! I shall tell the story through pictures.
Here's John jumping into the pool to start his swim. We only watched the first few laps because then it was time to head outside to try to catch him heading out of transition.
And here is Violet wondering what's going on and why we're out and about so early. You can almost see the look on her face saying "Mom, what are we doing now?". Priceless.
Here's John heading out of the bike transition. I was worried we wouldn't make it there in time to get a picture...but we did! Unfortunately, that was probably because he got a flat tire in the transition...he has pretty bad race-day luck!
Check out his sweet bike.
Here he is heading out on the run. I used the time on the bike as an opportunity to feed V before it was time for the second transition. After that, I pushed Violet's stroller back and forth, trying (unsuccessfully) to get her to take her morning nap.
And here he is approaching the finish line. Run daddy run!
Violet FINALLY fell asleep for her morning nap, just before daddy finished. She fought it really hard but tiredness took over.
However, the nap did not last too long and she woke up. Yay, daddy's back!
While I knew that meant she would be grumpy from such a short nap, how can you not love a face as ornery as this?!
So, since she was awake now, I had to get a picture of her and John. It took several tries because every time one of them was looking at me, the other wasn't. I gave up.
And here she is being loaded back into her carseat after the big race, happy as ever!
Our day of triathlon was now over...while it was more difficult spectating with her, we made it through the day and even got quite a few pictures of John so I considered it a success! =)
Here's John jumping into the pool to start his swim. We only watched the first few laps because then it was time to head outside to try to catch him heading out of transition.
And here is Violet wondering what's going on and why we're out and about so early. You can almost see the look on her face saying "Mom, what are we doing now?". Priceless.
Here's John heading out of the bike transition. I was worried we wouldn't make it there in time to get a picture...but we did! Unfortunately, that was probably because he got a flat tire in the transition...he has pretty bad race-day luck!
Check out his sweet bike.
Here he is heading out on the run. I used the time on the bike as an opportunity to feed V before it was time for the second transition. After that, I pushed Violet's stroller back and forth, trying (unsuccessfully) to get her to take her morning nap.
And here he is approaching the finish line. Run daddy run!
Violet FINALLY fell asleep for her morning nap, just before daddy finished. She fought it really hard but tiredness took over.
However, the nap did not last too long and she woke up. Yay, daddy's back!
While I knew that meant she would be grumpy from such a short nap, how can you not love a face as ornery as this?!
So, since she was awake now, I had to get a picture of her and John. It took several tries because every time one of them was looking at me, the other wasn't. I gave up.
And here she is being loaded back into her carseat after the big race, happy as ever!
Our day of triathlon was now over...while it was more difficult spectating with her, we made it through the day and even got quite a few pictures of John so I considered it a success! =)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
V's First Easter
I bought Violet her Easter dress really early (like, right after Christmas) because I found a really cute one (on sale)! So, Easter Sunday comes and I go to put it on her and it's almost too small! Oopsie... Also, I decided since she's too young to put up a fight and because I couldn't help myself that she needed a set of bunny ears!
So here she is all dressed up.
It took about a bazillion takes to get some good pictures. She was more interested in playing than sitting still for me and her "ears" kept falling down and yadda yadda...but here are a couple more.
We headed over to my parents house for a little while and then to John's parents house for some more fun.
In the week following Easter, I took pictures almost every night. I know this because I had to upload my pictures the following Sunday before John's race because the card was full!
Here she is smiling away.
In this one, she was actually clapping but it looks like she could be tapping her fingers together in a mysterious way thinking of an evil plan.
Here she is playing with the phone book (again!). My caption for this one is "Uh-oh, you caught me!"
Here she is trying to steal Daddy's gum!
And this one I just love...here she is "reading" her My Little Pony book.
I love it because first, she looks like she's actually reading it! For those of you that don't know, I have always been an avid reader! And second, she looks like such a little person instead of a baby. She's sitting there in her jeans and shirt and just looks like such a big girl!
Next post will cover John's first triathlon of the season!
So here she is all dressed up.
It took about a bazillion takes to get some good pictures. She was more interested in playing than sitting still for me and her "ears" kept falling down and yadda yadda...but here are a couple more.
We headed over to my parents house for a little while and then to John's parents house for some more fun.
In the week following Easter, I took pictures almost every night. I know this because I had to upload my pictures the following Sunday before John's race because the card was full!
Here she is smiling away.
In this one, she was actually clapping but it looks like she could be tapping her fingers together in a mysterious way thinking of an evil plan.
Here she is playing with the phone book (again!). My caption for this one is "Uh-oh, you caught me!"
Here she is trying to steal Daddy's gum!
And this one I just love...here she is "reading" her My Little Pony book.
I love it because first, she looks like she's actually reading it! For those of you that don't know, I have always been an avid reader! And second, she looks like such a little person instead of a baby. She's sitting there in her jeans and shirt and just looks like such a big girl!
Next post will cover John's first triathlon of the season!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Loving the Phone Book
So, a few weeks ago, I needed to call Wal-Mart auto express to get their hours. Since that's slightly harder to search for on my iPhone, I decided to whoop out the phone book.
After wiggling over to check out what it was, we quickly discovered one of Violet's new favorite things...tearing apart the phone book!
She sits there and rips page after page out...sometimes she just rips and rips, sometimes she crinkles the pages, and sometimes she tears the pages into little pieces. Whatever her mood, the phone book can be quite entertaining.
Here's a picture of her "roar" face, where she's smiling SO big and showing off those two little teeth, while playing phone book.
"Roar, I'm a monster!"
And here she is just playing away...
Next post will include all our Easter pictures! And hopefully, video. I know I keep saying that but one of these days it'll happen! =)
After wiggling over to check out what it was, we quickly discovered one of Violet's new favorite things...tearing apart the phone book!
She sits there and rips page after page out...sometimes she just rips and rips, sometimes she crinkles the pages, and sometimes she tears the pages into little pieces. Whatever her mood, the phone book can be quite entertaining.
Here's a picture of her "roar" face, where she's smiling SO big and showing off those two little teeth, while playing phone book.
"Roar, I'm a monster!"
And here she is just playing away...
Next post will include all our Easter pictures! And hopefully, video. I know I keep saying that but one of these days it'll happen! =)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Kate's Birthday Party Day
Saturday was my neice Kate's second birthday party. I wrapped up her presents while Violet was playing. John got home shortly after, and saw V looking at the roll of wrapping paper so he gave it to her. She really liked it!
Playing away...you can see the nicely wrapped gifts in the background...good thing I got those done before John gave Violet the paper!
Hard at work...
Caught red-handed!
"Get off my paper you stupid roll!"
Notice how crinkled it is...
"That was fun!"
Needless to say I had to throw away the remaining gift wrap, as it was too crinkly to use on anything else. Luckily there wasn't too terribly much left.
So, then it was time to get ready for the party. Even thought it was cold, I wanted Violet to wear a dress. So, after bath time I got her all dressed up and then John said she needed a mohawk. So I had her in an undershirt, dress, and tights and a mohawk. She was a rocker baby!
I know it's not true but I like to think she was trying to look up at her mohawk. Or maybe she really was because I kept messing with it trying to make it perfect and she was wondering what the heck I was doing!
What a cute little girl!
"Mom, why do you keep taking my picture? I'm just playing with my block!"
Now I don't have any pictures from the actual birthday party, but Kate loved the dress we got her (it had all the Disney princesses on it) and she wore it the rest of the night! She's such a cute little girl!
My goal this weekend is to figure out how to get the videos off our video camera and onto the computer so I can upload some. Hopefully I figure it out! =)
Playing away...you can see the nicely wrapped gifts in the background...good thing I got those done before John gave Violet the paper!
Hard at work...
Caught red-handed!
"Get off my paper you stupid roll!"
Notice how crinkled it is...
"That was fun!"
Needless to say I had to throw away the remaining gift wrap, as it was too crinkly to use on anything else. Luckily there wasn't too terribly much left.
So, then it was time to get ready for the party. Even thought it was cold, I wanted Violet to wear a dress. So, after bath time I got her all dressed up and then John said she needed a mohawk. So I had her in an undershirt, dress, and tights and a mohawk. She was a rocker baby!
I know it's not true but I like to think she was trying to look up at her mohawk. Or maybe she really was because I kept messing with it trying to make it perfect and she was wondering what the heck I was doing!
What a cute little girl!
"Mom, why do you keep taking my picture? I'm just playing with my block!"
Now I don't have any pictures from the actual birthday party, but Kate loved the dress we got her (it had all the Disney princesses on it) and she wore it the rest of the night! She's such a cute little girl!
My goal this weekend is to figure out how to get the videos off our video camera and onto the computer so I can upload some. Hopefully I figure it out! =)
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