I've been writing more of the day to day snippets on Facebook, but as I've started to write more there, my heart is yearning to write even more and get back to a journaling habit.
The little moments of life and the things the children are saying and doing, continue to be my favorite - and yet I do not remember with the greatest clarity even a few days after they happen. So, in an effort not to overdo my Facebook posts all about my wonderful and charming children - and to write down the sweet (and often times trying) moments in life...I'm going to attempt coming back to blog :)
Such as two days ago I was out running errands, Emilia had a messy diaper so we went into the restroom to change her - only I discovered that they did not have a changing table. I laid her on the counter between the two sinks, which was a tight squeeze! She was not thrilled with this arrangement, and kept trying to get up and would move her arms back - flailing them outwards like a bird in flight. As she put them back, they actually triggered the sensors under the faucet to turn on the water and the water splashed onto her hands - and she pulled them back in with big round eyes and an "Ohhhhh!" as she was so surprised!
Sometimes the little things in our day to day activities are really the big things that I want to remember. I love each stage that the children are in for a variety of reasons - they aren't always a perfect stage - we have a lot of bumps along the road of growing up, however they do bring darling comments, things that the children do and a view of who they are! I need to remember to journal more!
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
Emilia - 11 months 2 weeks
This week ---
You started to shake your head no! I was joking with you last Sunday when I was drying my hair - I would shake my head near you to get you to laugh, and you would start shaking your head back. I thought it was just a game, but this week you figured out how to shake your head to answer 'no'! When you are done with food or don't want something - you'll shake your head no. It's rather helpful :)
You stood up on your own for about 5-8 seconds. I had put you down near a toy and I thought you were holding on, but you were standing completely on your own! You have been starting to try to stand up from your kneeling/crawling position. You are really working on your balance, and love to pull yourself up in your crib and other places around the house (especially the stair railing in the kitchen) - so we are all certain that you'll be standing on your own by your birthday! I can't believe you are this close to turning 1 year old!
Sleep has continued to be an issue - you seem to always be cutting a tooth (you have such a mouthful) and with cutting teeth, you seem to get ear aches. Not fun. You really have a hard time sleeping with these - so a lot of nights I'm up anywhere from 2-4 times with you to nurse and get you back to sleep. Sometimes you go right back to sleep...sometimes it's an hour or more for you to settle back into a deep sleep. We are tired girlies you and your mom some days from those crazy sleep-less nights!
You are a fast-fast crawler! I have to constantly watch where you are going, we have to barricade the stairs, entrances into the rooms you don't want you in - and if it has a door, it usually stays closed to keep you out of places like the bathroom and mom and dad's bedroom. You especially love to race over the cabinet under the sink and open it up to try and get to everything under there. I have the kid locks sitting on the counter - we just haven't gotten to put them in yet, but you help me realized many times each day how much I wish those safety locks were already in!
More than anything - we all love you so much! Madeleine said it perfectly the other day - she said you are busy and everywhere, but that you bring such peace and happiness to our home & family. She said that none of us can help but smile when we see you --- and how right she is!
You started to shake your head no! I was joking with you last Sunday when I was drying my hair - I would shake my head near you to get you to laugh, and you would start shaking your head back. I thought it was just a game, but this week you figured out how to shake your head to answer 'no'! When you are done with food or don't want something - you'll shake your head no. It's rather helpful :)
You stood up on your own for about 5-8 seconds. I had put you down near a toy and I thought you were holding on, but you were standing completely on your own! You have been starting to try to stand up from your kneeling/crawling position. You are really working on your balance, and love to pull yourself up in your crib and other places around the house (especially the stair railing in the kitchen) - so we are all certain that you'll be standing on your own by your birthday! I can't believe you are this close to turning 1 year old!
Sleep has continued to be an issue - you seem to always be cutting a tooth (you have such a mouthful) and with cutting teeth, you seem to get ear aches. Not fun. You really have a hard time sleeping with these - so a lot of nights I'm up anywhere from 2-4 times with you to nurse and get you back to sleep. Sometimes you go right back to sleep...sometimes it's an hour or more for you to settle back into a deep sleep. We are tired girlies you and your mom some days from those crazy sleep-less nights!
You are a fast-fast crawler! I have to constantly watch where you are going, we have to barricade the stairs, entrances into the rooms you don't want you in - and if it has a door, it usually stays closed to keep you out of places like the bathroom and mom and dad's bedroom. You especially love to race over the cabinet under the sink and open it up to try and get to everything under there. I have the kid locks sitting on the counter - we just haven't gotten to put them in yet, but you help me realized many times each day how much I wish those safety locks were already in!
More than anything - we all love you so much! Madeleine said it perfectly the other day - she said you are busy and everywhere, but that you bring such peace and happiness to our home & family. She said that none of us can help but smile when we see you --- and how right she is!
Monday, September 16, 2013
Emilia Monet ~ 9 months
Our little beauty is 9 months old! I can't believe we are 3/4 of the way through the first year - time seems to have gone faster with our last little lady, which might be because things go so quickly with the older children.
Emilia is a light and joy in our family. She is the one that everyone wants to see first thing in the morning or when they get home from school, activities or work. We absolutely adore her! She is adjusting to having the children back into school the last few weeks - now there is only mom to entertain her during the day - however, once the children are home she is more than the center of attention with Madeleine, Bryson and Jacob all wanting to hold her, play with her, talk and sing to her & read her books. The youngest child certainly can be spoiled with so much attention! :)
Emilia loves to smile, is mostly a very happy baby & is starting to move everywhere with crawling. She loves kisses, cuddles and having people sing and read books to her. She is also watching a little bit of the Baby Einstein videos and loves the sounds, music and little puppets to follow on the screen. She laughs when a certain puppet comes and sticks out his tongue with a funny noise. It is always fun to watch a little baby discover the world and wonders around them & we absolutely love watching Emilia and all that is in her little world. We are so blessed that she was sent to be in our family - for only being here 9 months and having more time in our family without her - it feels like she has always been apart of our family and with us. This gives confirmation that our families are eternal, and we knew her spirit and all our children before we came to earth. We love our Emilia Monet!
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Madeleine's new digs
Madeleine was able to go in and check out her locker for Jr. High today & walk around the school going from class to class....it's great to practice this without the crowds of students that will be there the first day! She practiced opening her locker a few times & after we realized that there was a glitch that kept it from locking back up, we found a janitor who will take care of it before school. I just hope he doesn't fix it too well so that she can't open it!....she finally got it down so that she could open it each time!
I'm so excited for her to enter Jr. High - she is so ready! Madeleine has always been ready to tackle the next adventure and event that is before her. She has so much ambition and drive - I love to see her take on new things to do, and how she works through them.
I know she'll love Jr. High & I'm thankful that she made such excellent friends at Morningside Elementary that will also be attending Wasatch Jr. We have always been very fortunate in the friend area with Madeleine - I have thought multiple times that this is in part that we chose to have her bump up a grade. Usually the girls her age she enjoys, however she doesn't click with them like the girls in the grade she is in...I usually forget that she has skipped a grade, until it comes around to her birthday and we explain why she is celebrating a year behind what her peers are :) We feel great about having her pursue her Jr. High experience at Wasatch - it's in a great area, a little more of a drive for me than 2 other Jr. High's that are by us, but then again...I'm hoping that we'll be able to move in the next year and be closer to all of the schools that the children are attending! Wasatch was rebuilt after there had been a fire which ruined the old Jr. High - the new building is bright, has big halls, an amazing auditorium and a great design where the classes that are similar in what they teach, are put together in a horseshoe shaped pod, so that all English/History/Foreign Language classes are together in one area, and Math & Sciences are together in another pod - I really like the layout of the school.
I just wish that time would just slow down a bit....it just seems the other day that she was getting ready for Elementary School!
Sunday, August 11, 2013
8 months
How can it be that this little miss hit her 2/3 mark for her first year! I can't believe it's already been 8 months - each day is such a treasure with this girl and she continues to leave us all more in love with her each day.
Life with Emilia at 8 months if full of:
*MOVEMENT! She reaches for everything & is really active, although is still content to sit in one place to play. She loves to pull on hair, necklaces, earrings and anything that looks remotely interesting to her :)
*EATING: She has discovered the joy of little food puffs and can pick them up with her little fingers, but is still mastering getting them into her mouth! She loves her cereal mixed with pureed food (and I'm finding out how fun & easy it is to make homemade baby food - why I didn't always do it this way I don't know!). Her favorites foods are - bananas, peaches, mangoes (although she isn't nearly as spoiled as she was having them every day while we were in Hawaii!), carrots which I can sometimes mix in some peas with, and a homemade applesauce I made. Yummy! You are still eating sitting up in your Bumbo, which makes some mealtimes comical as you are lunging over the side to try and get anything in your reach. You have figured out how to push your leg/foot into the table and scoot around a bit, so we definitely have to keep a sharp eye on you!
*SLEEP: You love when you get to sleep in your crib & it makes a huge difference to have you sleep there! You sleep more soundly and longer, so it's hard when we're on the go because you just get so tired and try to stay up and be social - because you LOVE people - however, there is a point where you just cranky and want to go to sleep in your own bed! You are still taking about 3 naps (on good days) - where you go down about every 1.5-2 hours after you wake up and usually the morning nap is about 1-1.5 hours with the afternoon nap about 2 hours. Then you take a quick nap in the evening for about an hour and then after eating, playing and getting on your pajamas you are so ready to go to sleep! You have yet to sleep through the night - you get up once or twice, and some nights it's more than that due to your teething and that our schedule has been so sporadic with getting back from Hawaii and then with so many family functions that have been taking place. I can't wait for September once the kiddos are in school and we are back from all vacations to really establish the best sleep schedule for you - because you are always happy, but you are so incredibly happy when you get the right and best amount of sleep (I mean really - who isn't happy when they get good sleep?!).
ALL SMILES: You love to see your family - your face lights up when you see Madeleine, Bryson or Jacob - and they can get you to laugh so easily! They absolutely adore you, and are thrilled to watch you whenever I need a moment away. You wave both arms when you get excited, and break out into a huge grin and then sometimes giggle when you are happy & you've learned how to whistle. That's right - whistling! You can purse your lips and a little whistle escapes and it's just so fun to hear - we're pretty sure that you don't know exactly what you are doing, but we all clap like crazy when you do whistle, so hopefully it will reinforce it in your mind and you'll be able to whistle on demand!
BRIGHT EYES: Your eyes are getting darker and your eyelashes are still dark, full and gorgeous. You routinely have people stop to tell me how beautiful you are - all babies are cute, but you are beautiful...you already have a very striking look.
Other fun memories from this month:
*clapping! You figured out that bringing your hands together is the body response for when we call out "Yeah!" A lot of times your hands just flap together (a little bit like a seal), however you do get your hands to connect, and it's so fun to watch you clap for when you enjoy watching something or when we're cheering you on!
* kisses - I've been working with you to give me kisses, and you are starting to understand! How I love your slobbery kisses!
*playing - you are really engaged with your toys - studying them, turning them around and around to see how they work. I love to set you down on your play mat/blanket and I can set your little basket of toys next to you and you reach in and just pull out each toy to look at and discover. You are so inquisitive!
*two huge blow-outs! You really did not have any major blowout up until this point. It seems that eating "solids" (your pureed food is about as solid as it gets for you right now) - that your system is just trying to sort things out. After these pictures were taken, we drove home to get everyone ready for bed...everyone was super cranky! When I started to unbuckle your car seat, I smelled a terrible smell and realized you had one incredibly messy diaper. Yuck! The different food has also caused some diaper rash - which of course is super painful, but thankfully we have the Redmond Clay & your rashes are cleared up quickly.
*bath time - you love having your baths, and I have found an easy way to keep you safe. I put you in a laundry basket in the tub, and fill up the tub with enough water to just cover your legs and then you get to play in your mini-tub in the big tub. Perfect solution to keeping all your toys within arms reach, you get to hold onto the side of the basket for comfort & safety, and it's not another contraption that we needed to buy. I forgot how expensive you wee little babes can be!
Another fun and wonderful month with you! You light up our lives and we are so blessed to have your sweet spirit in our family & home. It's not an exaggeration that your siblings constantly seek you out to hold and dote over - you are absolutely adored and cherished!
Life with Emilia at 8 months if full of:
*MOVEMENT! She reaches for everything & is really active, although is still content to sit in one place to play. She loves to pull on hair, necklaces, earrings and anything that looks remotely interesting to her :)
ALL SMILES: You love to see your family - your face lights up when you see Madeleine, Bryson or Jacob - and they can get you to laugh so easily! They absolutely adore you, and are thrilled to watch you whenever I need a moment away. You wave both arms when you get excited, and break out into a huge grin and then sometimes giggle when you are happy & you've learned how to whistle. That's right - whistling! You can purse your lips and a little whistle escapes and it's just so fun to hear - we're pretty sure that you don't know exactly what you are doing, but we all clap like crazy when you do whistle, so hopefully it will reinforce it in your mind and you'll be able to whistle on demand!
Other fun memories from this month:
*clapping! You figured out that bringing your hands together is the body response for when we call out "Yeah!" A lot of times your hands just flap together (a little bit like a seal), however you do get your hands to connect, and it's so fun to watch you clap for when you enjoy watching something or when we're cheering you on!
* kisses - I've been working with you to give me kisses, and you are starting to understand! How I love your slobbery kisses!
*playing - you are really engaged with your toys - studying them, turning them around and around to see how they work. I love to set you down on your play mat/blanket and I can set your little basket of toys next to you and you reach in and just pull out each toy to look at and discover. You are so inquisitive!
*two huge blow-outs! You really did not have any major blowout up until this point. It seems that eating "solids" (your pureed food is about as solid as it gets for you right now) - that your system is just trying to sort things out. After these pictures were taken, we drove home to get everyone ready for bed...everyone was super cranky! When I started to unbuckle your car seat, I smelled a terrible smell and realized you had one incredibly messy diaper. Yuck! The different food has also caused some diaper rash - which of course is super painful, but thankfully we have the Redmond Clay & your rashes are cleared up quickly.
*bath time - you love having your baths, and I have found an easy way to keep you safe. I put you in a laundry basket in the tub, and fill up the tub with enough water to just cover your legs and then you get to play in your mini-tub in the big tub. Perfect solution to keeping all your toys within arms reach, you get to hold onto the side of the basket for comfort & safety, and it's not another contraption that we needed to buy. I forgot how expensive you wee little babes can be!
Another fun and wonderful month with you! You light up our lives and we are so blessed to have your sweet spirit in our family & home. It's not an exaggeration that your siblings constantly seek you out to hold and dote over - you are absolutely adored and cherished!
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Sand Babe
One word on why today's diaper was so interesting from yesterday's adventures.
SAND.
But, wow did this little girl love, LOVED it! I put her down to sit in a natural made Bumbo seat on the beach, thinking she would get upset with the feel...but she reached her little hand over & let her fingers scoop up some sand...
Crazy enough - after she tried that sand, she went back for more! I tried to wipe her mouth & hands clean with a wipe, and she would just dip them right back into the sand. I finally had to take her to wash off in the ocean....which she wasn't really thrilled with - cold & salty!
Waimea Bay
Monday, June 24th
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