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Pictures!!!

We took the girls out to Picture People this weekend and got Lexi's 1 year pictures done and Lainy's 2 1/2 year pictures taken. It was a handful but they turned out great!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update at Last

It's been forever since I've posted an update, so I figured I better do so before Lexi's birthday at least.

Lainy is almost 2 1/2 now and any traces of babyhood have long left her. She's talking a lot more but still not very clearly. We have started her on speech therapy this past week to help her with this and save on both ours and her frustration level. I'm trying to think of new things shes doing, but it's more what is she not doing! She has been getting big into dress up lately and I even included a picture where she came out of the bathroom wearing my skirt, bra, and shoes. Potty training is on again/off again. Most of the time she will tell us after she has went potty versus before, and I've tried the method of taking her to the potty every 30-60 minutes to hopefully catch it beforehand but she's gotten very defiant with that and now yells "no pee pee on potty". So I figured we might back off a bit and she if she gets a renewed interest in it. The big girl bed is still great, I think she's been in that since January and she has been off the pacifier since March right after her birthday.

And well Lexi, I don't know what's happened but she's not my little baby anymore either. She's almost 10 months old, has 6 teeth and is due for some more since we haven't had any new ones for a few months now. She started army crawling around 7 1/2 months, and at around 9 months started crawling correctly with her tummy off the floor. And now she crawls insanely fast and can clear a room before you know it. She's also pulling herself up and crusing around things. Lexi had nonstop ear infections from about 3 months until 9 months when we decided to get tubes put in her ears. The tubes should last 1-2 years and will fall out by themselves and when she gets an ear infection, her ears will drain out a brown waxy substance and we just have to put an ear drop in there 3 times a day for a week. So much easier then being in the doctor's office every other week! The funny thing is the day after her tubes is when she started crawling with her tummy off the floor and pulling up and crusing. So maybe she felt a lot better? Lexi is still my little sweetie pie. She is very smiley and cuddly and is a favorite with all the daycare teachers. My only gripe is that she still gets up a lot in the night. The last few days (knock on wood) she has done pretty well and has been getting up once around 3:30am and then wants to be up for the day around 6:00am. This is with going down around 8:00pm. She is still sleeping in her crib in our bedroom and once we get the basement finished (trim needs painted and then carpeted) we will be moving the spare bedroom to the basement and Lexi will have the bedroom next to Lainy's room. Lexi has the nicknames of destructo or Jedi Master. Destructo cause the child gets into absolutely everything and leaves behind a trail of destruction where ever she goes. And Jedi Master cause of her quick relexes while eating. Whenever you feed her baby food, her hands will come out of no where and block the spoon right before it goes in her mouth and it goes everywhere. She'll either do that, or she'll get her arms going and waves them in front of her mouth to block the spoon, or she'll bite down on the spoon and not let go. It literally took me 20 minutes to feed her breakfast a week ago and afterwards she was so covered that we both needed bathes. So this last week, I've given up and switched her to just table foods and let her feed herself. It's been so much easier!

Enough talking, on to the pictures. Click on the girls below to view the photo album.

Happy Valentine's Day

Next week is Lainy's 2nd birthday!!!! We'll probably have a small party for family and friends sometime in April since we will be out skiing in Colorado shortly. Lainy has really changed in the last 2-3 months. Her vocabulary is 35+ words and I almost always can understand what she wants, and she really big into pretend play right now. Every night when we tuck her in bed (still in her own big girl bed), she plays with her dolls until she falls asleep and you can hear her over the monitor having a conversation with them, it's mostly a lot of gibberish but you can make out the night-nights and no and baby, etc. The latest thing is that, now every time she holds Lexi she lifts up her shirt (mommy is still nursing Lexi)! She doesn't know what to do once it's up (thank god) and I don't think she associates it with feeding her but it's so funny. She is still for the most part very sweet and gentle towards Lexi. Sometimes if she is really tired and laying next to Lexi or wanting my attention, Lainy will kick out or try to push her away. But it's pretty few and far between and she's usually very loving. It's funny cause when Lexi is fussing, she'll get this motherly look on her face and get down and look her right in the eyes and gently pat her. And Lexi just stops and looks at her and smiles.

Alexis is 4 1/2 months and is getting so big. We had a dr appointment last week cause she had a cold with an ear infection and she weighed in at almost 15lbs! Lexi is almost over the cold now, but she almost gave me a heart attack because she had a coughing fit one morning for a minute or two and started to turn blue. Her doctor even had us go to Children's Mercy to make sure it wasn't Whooping Cough since Daddy had a bad cough for over a month and that's one of the signs. But everything checked out okay and she's hardly been coughing yesterday or today so it looks like that is behind us. Lexi started daycare twice a week about two weeks ago. She seems to like all the interaction and is like her big sis and refuses to take naps while she is there. I think she's averaging an hour all day whereas she takes probably 3-5 at home. We also finally found a bottle she'll take so I'm just pumping and sending the milk with her to daycare. I hope to keep breastfeeding her for as long as possible but we'll have to see how it goes. I'm not able to pump much and as she moves into a full-time daycare spot, I don't think my supply will keep up. As far as milestones goes, she can roll over from tummy to back, and has once did it from back to tummy, I wouldn't be surprised if she can sit unsupported soon either.  She now has really good hand control and is playing with rattles and toys (and rather violently sometimes!). Lexi absolutely loves the exersaucer, and probably within the month will be a maniac on the jumperoo. I think that's about everything, she's a very smiley baby and loves her big sister.

Click on the picture below to see the latest photos!!!