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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Trip to the Dallas Arboretum!!
Today McKenley and I took a trip down to the Dallas Arboretum with a group of moms and other precious little ones!! I got to take lots of pictures and with all the pumpkins they turned out AMAZING!!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7 Month pictures
She's just so precious... and getting so big!!! Click on the picture to see the whole album!!
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| 7 Month pics |
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
7 Months Big!!!!
I cannot believe our little peanut has been in our lives for 7 months now! I can honestly say, I don't even remember what life was like before her :)
I have to admit, I was a bit of a slacker last month and didn't post any of her stats or accomplishments :/ So this will be things that have been going on in the last 2 months!
Accomplishments:
McKenley has been SUPER busy these last 2 months:
- She is able to sit up completely on her own now! ANNDDD, I have even been able to walk a few steps away without the constant fear she is going to fall backwards and bang her noggin! (This is not to say we haven't had a few noggin bangs!)
- She has learned to bang toys together or against something & LOOOOOVES the big noise it makes
- McKenley is working soo hard to become mobile. She has mastered rolling front to back and back to front quite well and barrel rolls ALL over the living room! On top of that she has started a small bit of scooting. Whatever the strategy, she is able to get to the toy she wants, even if it takes her 10 minutes! haha
- Don't know whether to put this in the "speedbump" section or the "accomplishment" section, so I'll mention this in both :) WE HAVE TEETH!!! As of September 20th McK's bottom 2 teeth broke through!!
- FIRST GAME DAY!! McKenley is already brainwashed & loves her Sooners. I can't wait to post the first time she says Boomer Sooner :)
- PAAAARTAY! My social little butterfly has already been to 2 birthday parties. Her cousin Blake turned 3 and we visited the firestation & the Ms. Poppy turned one! Can't wait to celebrate with more friends as she gets bigger!!
- Casey discovered one of McKenley's favorite way to pass the time! Our little scholar LOVES reading Time Magazine... or chew it up :)
Speedbumps:
Although McKenley has been busy knockin down those milestones, these last 2 months have not been without our struggles :(
- About a week and a half ago, we had to make our first sick visit to the doctors. Our poor little girl fought her way through a yucky cough. It took us a full week to get back to our routine, YUCK! We did learn lots about how to fight congestion - prop the bed up, Vicks plug-in, sitting in the steam bathroom, and the ever hated "nose sucker"
- As I mentioned before, TEETH! Hopefully she'll let me snap a picture of them soon. Man can 2 little teeth cause so many problems! :(
- Her sensitive skin is still causing issues here and there. We had to get a prescription ointment from the doctor that really cleared things up, but after a week or 2 of not using it, the rough patches seem to come back. Hopefully it doesn't get out of control during the winter.
Stats:
6 months~
Weight: 15lbs 6oz (35%)
Length: 26 1/4in. (75%) ~ yes, long and skinny like her mommy... used to be :) haha
Head Cir.: 16 1/2in. (30%)
Food: McKenley has officially put herself on a 4 month schedule. Sooo, she has four 6oz bottles a day... well I offer them to her, who knows if she will actually take the whole thing! :) She has solid foods once a day consisting of a bowl of baby oatmeal and half of the Step 1 Gerber fruit or veggie.
Diapers: Still in Size 2!
Clothes: Our peanut is holding strong in 0-3 month clothes! haha
Sleep: McKenley is sleeping mostly through the night. She loooooves waking up because she has lost her pacifier (I have a love/hate relationship with that thing!) or because she has flipped herself to her back :) She normally takes 3 naps a day that are around an hour or an hour and a half.
7 months~
**Headed to the doctor soon for the 2nd round of the flu shot, so I'll have the official stats then**
Weight:
Length:
Head Cir.:
Food: We have moved to 2 servings of solid foods a day! She has a small bowl of oatmeal with 1/3 of a fruit in the morning & a large bowl of oatmeal with 1/2-3/4 of a veggie at night. She is still taking four 6oz. bottles of formula a day. We have also discovered the yummy little Puffs!! Video coming soon of her working on picking them up and feeding herself!!
Diaper: Still Size 2
Clothes: We are teetering between 0-3 month and 3-6 months :) I love that she's so little, we get much more use out of clothes!!
Sleep: After working through her being sick and teething, we are back on routine BETTER than before!! We have gone 5 night now without waking up at all!! (I try not to talk about it too much though b/c I don't want to jinx us! :)
WOW!! This was such a long post, and honestly I had a lot more that I could've talked about, because lets be honest, I LLOOOOOOVE talking about our perfect little princess. :)
I have to admit, I was a bit of a slacker last month and didn't post any of her stats or accomplishments :/ So this will be things that have been going on in the last 2 months!
Accomplishments:
McKenley has been SUPER busy these last 2 months:
- She is able to sit up completely on her own now! ANNDDD, I have even been able to walk a few steps away without the constant fear she is going to fall backwards and bang her noggin! (This is not to say we haven't had a few noggin bangs!)
- She has learned to bang toys together or against something & LOOOOOVES the big noise it makes
- McKenley is working soo hard to become mobile. She has mastered rolling front to back and back to front quite well and barrel rolls ALL over the living room! On top of that she has started a small bit of scooting. Whatever the strategy, she is able to get to the toy she wants, even if it takes her 10 minutes! haha
- Don't know whether to put this in the "speedbump" section or the "accomplishment" section, so I'll mention this in both :) WE HAVE TEETH!!! As of September 20th McK's bottom 2 teeth broke through!!
- FIRST GAME DAY!! McKenley is already brainwashed & loves her Sooners. I can't wait to post the first time she says Boomer Sooner :)
- PAAAARTAY! My social little butterfly has already been to 2 birthday parties. Her cousin Blake turned 3 and we visited the firestation & the Ms. Poppy turned one! Can't wait to celebrate with more friends as she gets bigger!!
- Casey discovered one of McKenley's favorite way to pass the time! Our little scholar LOVES reading Time Magazine... or chew it up :)
Speedbumps:
Although McKenley has been busy knockin down those milestones, these last 2 months have not been without our struggles :(
- About a week and a half ago, we had to make our first sick visit to the doctors. Our poor little girl fought her way through a yucky cough. It took us a full week to get back to our routine, YUCK! We did learn lots about how to fight congestion - prop the bed up, Vicks plug-in, sitting in the steam bathroom, and the ever hated "nose sucker"
- As I mentioned before, TEETH! Hopefully she'll let me snap a picture of them soon. Man can 2 little teeth cause so many problems! :(
- Her sensitive skin is still causing issues here and there. We had to get a prescription ointment from the doctor that really cleared things up, but after a week or 2 of not using it, the rough patches seem to come back. Hopefully it doesn't get out of control during the winter.
Stats:
6 months~
Weight: 15lbs 6oz (35%)
Length: 26 1/4in. (75%) ~ yes, long and skinny like her mommy... used to be :) haha
Head Cir.: 16 1/2in. (30%)
Food: McKenley has officially put herself on a 4 month schedule. Sooo, she has four 6oz bottles a day... well I offer them to her, who knows if she will actually take the whole thing! :) She has solid foods once a day consisting of a bowl of baby oatmeal and half of the Step 1 Gerber fruit or veggie.
Diapers: Still in Size 2!
Clothes: Our peanut is holding strong in 0-3 month clothes! haha
Sleep: McKenley is sleeping mostly through the night. She loooooves waking up because she has lost her pacifier (I have a love/hate relationship with that thing!) or because she has flipped herself to her back :) She normally takes 3 naps a day that are around an hour or an hour and a half.
7 months~
**Headed to the doctor soon for the 2nd round of the flu shot, so I'll have the official stats then**
Weight:
Length:
Head Cir.:
Food: We have moved to 2 servings of solid foods a day! She has a small bowl of oatmeal with 1/3 of a fruit in the morning & a large bowl of oatmeal with 1/2-3/4 of a veggie at night. She is still taking four 6oz. bottles of formula a day. We have also discovered the yummy little Puffs!! Video coming soon of her working on picking them up and feeding herself!!
Diaper: Still Size 2
Clothes: We are teetering between 0-3 month and 3-6 months :) I love that she's so little, we get much more use out of clothes!!
Sleep: After working through her being sick and teething, we are back on routine BETTER than before!! We have gone 5 night now without waking up at all!! (I try not to talk about it too much though b/c I don't want to jinx us! :)
WOW!! This was such a long post, and honestly I had a lot more that I could've talked about, because lets be honest, I LLOOOOOOVE talking about our perfect little princess. :)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
McKenley's newest "trick"
Although she's been doing this for awile, this is the first I've been able to get it on video with such... intensity! haha. It's super cute... until she does it with formula or food in her mouth :)
(No worries, its not sideways like this once you click on it!)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Another First!!! But not a fun one...
Well, add this to this list of firsts...
Saturday morning, McKenley and I, made our way to her first visit to the doctor because she was sick. Casey and I knew it was coming & we are glad we got to wait 6 1/2 months before having a sick baby!!
She woke up Saturday with a nasty cough, much worse than any other cough I've heard from her, so I decided to go ahead and call and make an appointment. We are so lucky to have a doctor that has Saturday hours!!! I'm so glad we decided to go in because the doctor said she had croup cough (or as my mom put it, a bad cough and they don't know what else to call it :) haha). Unfortunately, its a viral infection and absolutely nothing we can do but wait it out! GREAT!! They gave her a steroid shot, which went over FANTASTICALLY, or not, to try and reduce the inflammation in her upper respiratory and sent us on our way.
Luckily, she wasn't showing any other symptoms, no fever, not much congestion, and was in pretty good spirits, so Casey and I were thinkin, "We can totally handle a sick baby!!" and I left that evening to go see a show with my family. POOR CASEY!! That's all I have to say!! McKenley's mood evidently took a turn for the worse and, to put it nicely, wouldn't cooperate with dad. :( I arrived home at about 10:30pm to find our sick baby asleep on her exhausted daddy.
The last few days have been about the same. The cough has gotten remarkably better, but the congestion has gotten a bit worse. Poor thing has so much trouble breathing when you lay her down that it takes quite a while to get her to sleep. We have tried sitting in a hot steamy bathroom for a while before bed to loosen up the congestion, but as soon as she starts crying when we lay her down, the congestion is back. We have gone 3 days now with very few naps and waking up quite a bit at night. One of the only ways we have gotten a nice nap out of her is...
Hopefully we are over the worst of it, I am definitely ready to have my baby back, the one that goes to sleep when I lay her down and takes nice long naps :)
Saturday morning, McKenley and I, made our way to her first visit to the doctor because she was sick. Casey and I knew it was coming & we are glad we got to wait 6 1/2 months before having a sick baby!!
She woke up Saturday with a nasty cough, much worse than any other cough I've heard from her, so I decided to go ahead and call and make an appointment. We are so lucky to have a doctor that has Saturday hours!!! I'm so glad we decided to go in because the doctor said she had croup cough (or as my mom put it, a bad cough and they don't know what else to call it :) haha). Unfortunately, its a viral infection and absolutely nothing we can do but wait it out! GREAT!! They gave her a steroid shot, which went over FANTASTICALLY, or not, to try and reduce the inflammation in her upper respiratory and sent us on our way.
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| Caught in the middle of a cough, so sad! |
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| Waiting for her shot :( |
The last few days have been about the same. The cough has gotten remarkably better, but the congestion has gotten a bit worse. Poor thing has so much trouble breathing when you lay her down that it takes quite a while to get her to sleep. We have tried sitting in a hot steamy bathroom for a while before bed to loosen up the congestion, but as soon as she starts crying when we lay her down, the congestion is back. We have gone 3 days now with very few naps and waking up quite a bit at night. One of the only ways we have gotten a nice nap out of her is...
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| on mom or dad. :/ |
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Solid Foods Update
Well, after a slow start, McKenley has been dominating her solid foods!! She has started eating twice a day, a small amount in the mornings, and a larger portion for dinner. It used to take so long to get a small amount down because she would push most of it out, now that she has gotten the hang of swallowing a more solid substance, we are rockin and rollin!
Likes:
Oatmeal
ALL VEGGIES!! Squash, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, you name it! She loves them!
Dislikes:
Rice cereal
ANNNNDDD, most fruits! Totally backwards!!! We have tried peaches, bananas, apples, and pears... she just doesn't seem to care for them! See the video below to see what I mean! haha
After she finishes her food, she loves sitting in her highchair and chewing on her washrag and spoon! Yes, a simple washrag & spoon seems to provide hours of entertainment for our little princess! haha
All in all, our little girl is getting to be quite the big girl!! We are now working on mastering the sippy cup :)
Likes:
Oatmeal
ALL VEGGIES!! Squash, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, you name it! She loves them!
Dislikes:
Rice cereal
ANNNNDDD, most fruits! Totally backwards!!! We have tried peaches, bananas, apples, and pears... she just doesn't seem to care for them! See the video below to see what I mean! haha
After she finishes her food, she loves sitting in her highchair and chewing on her washrag and spoon! Yes, a simple washrag & spoon seems to provide hours of entertainment for our little princess! haha
All in all, our little girl is getting to be quite the big girl!! We are now working on mastering the sippy cup :)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
6 Month Pictures!!!
Today McKenley and I had our first meet-up with a LensBaby group that I recently joined. I was so excited to meet up with some other moms with cameras and adorable kiddos to learn more about how to take beautiful pictures with my amazing new camera!! My hopes were that these pictures would take place of having to take her somewhere else and pay to have pictures made, because lets be honest, I spent a bit of money on those 3 month pictures... :/
Well, I am excited to say that I think the pictures turned out sooo great!!! With a little help from Sarah, I was able to get some of the most beautiful pictures of our little peanut. I will be posting her "official" 6 month post on Friday after we go to the doctors and get her stats. And to my family... I will try and have some prints available on Sunday when I see you all and I can order what I don't have there for you, because lets be honest, I know you're going to want several of these! haha :)
Hope you all enjoy!
Well, I am excited to say that I think the pictures turned out sooo great!!! With a little help from Sarah, I was able to get some of the most beautiful pictures of our little peanut. I will be posting her "official" 6 month post on Friday after we go to the doctors and get her stats. And to my family... I will try and have some prints available on Sunday when I see you all and I can order what I don't have there for you, because lets be honest, I know you're going to want several of these! haha :)
Hope you all enjoy!
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