Favorites - Winter 2010

Here are some favorites at our house recently:

Samuel:

1. Playing in the snow

2. Washing anything at the kitchen sink:

3. Creating experiments with things from the pantry (food coloring, sprinkles, chocolate chips, etc...) I think this is mainly an excuse to eat the sweet things, but he does a fair amount of mixing things up and guessing what's going to happen next, so I overlook the fact that he eats most of his experiment ingredients in the process.)

Becca:

1. A whale picture Samuel made at school last summer. She LOVES to look at this whale and smile.

2. and 3. Being carried around in the Bjorn, and seeing her reflection in the mirror.

4. Her big brother

Look at her face there. She loves loves loves Samuel. The other day she made some cooing noises near him, and he said to me, "You know what she just said? She said 'Big brother, you're amazing.'"

Becca also really loves her baby oatmeal (much more than the rice cereal), but I haven't taken a picture of her eating it yet. Mainly because each time she eats it, she gets frantic when the spoon is out of her mouth for 1 second because she needs more oatmeal NOW. In the time it takes me to get another spoonful of oatmeal, she has usually grabbed her bib and stuffed that in her mouth, hoping more oatmeal will come from there. She gets to try fruits and vegetables in a few weeks (at 4 months), so maybe we can get a picture of her eating then.

3 Months Old

Becca is 3 months old already! Here she is with the bear this month:



At her last doctor's appointment back in December, she weighed 12 pounds 8 ounces (50-75th percentile) and was 22 inches (25th percentile.) Her doctor gave us the go ahead to start rice cereal. With Samuel, I remember we couldn't start until later. Either Indiana has different guidelines than Colorado, or things have just changed in 4 years. At any rate, we have tried the cereal a couple of times so far. She does that baby thing where she spits it back out, but then she seems like she wants more. Tonight at dinner she screeched while the spoon was out of her mouth, and only stopped when I put some more cereal in. So, I think she likes it, but she can't quite figure out how to eat it yet. I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but she has slept through the night the past 2 nights. Whoo hoo! Yea for rice cereal!

She has also started making talking noises. She loves to "talk" to Samuel. Whenever he is in her line of vision, she will make these loud cooing, squawking noises to him. He thinks it's hysterical. We'll try to film it and post the video soon.

Christmas pictures

Even though it's only January 10th today, Christmas already seems like it was so long ago. Probably because I have been trying to post on our blog for weeks now and run out of time every single day.

At any rate, here are some pictures. The first 2 are from a kids' Christmas party that Ernie's work had. In the first picture, Samuel is decorating a cookie. They had red frosting and green frosting. He mixed his together and frosted his cookie gray. Gray frosting does not look very yummy, but he ate it (and loved it) anyway.

Here I am with Becca at the party:

Here are some pictures from opening presents at our house Christmas morning.

Ernie modeling a jacket (and also a toy snake Samuel got):

Samuel opening a Lightning McQueen tool bench from Grandpa Bob and Memere:

Displaying his new hat and scarf. (the red truck next to him was his big present this year from us. It's a transformer that turns into a remote control truck. Combination of everything he loves right now.)



The four of us:

(I got Becca to wear this dress for only as long as it took to take the picture. Apparently it looks super cute, but is not as comfortable as pajamas. As I would personally wear pajamas all day long if I could, I can totally relate.)