Saturday, March 31, 2012

St Patrick's Day 2012

I love St. Patrick's Day! It may be one of my favorite holidays actually. This year it fell on a Saturday and on a day Ft Irwin was expected to have horrible weather including 20+ mph winds. I knew we were going to be spending all day inside and I knew that Jason would be home which sometimes means that the normal schedule goes down the drain :) I spent a decent amount of time Pinterest (this time with a direction other than time wasting) looking for fun, easy, indoor St Patty themed activities. 

Clayton started the day with a glass of ice cold green milk with a rainbow Fruit Loop straw 
Then for morning snack we did a graphing project using Lucky Charms. He was surprising great at graphing and grasped the concept immediately. Maybe math is his thing?






For lunch I made the kiddos a fruit rainbow. it was gone super fast. They love fruit!!
I love those chubby little fingers
We went out to dinner so I got a few hat/ bow pictures before we left.


 
All in all it was a great day and Clayton loved the extra sugary snacks plus dinner out!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

In their Sunday best

Last Sunday the kids were dressed so cute I had to take some pictures. Aren't they precious?

A close up of just one of Lil C's smocked dresses. I just love a sweet little girl in these dresses! I got this one on sale from this cute online boutique.


How grown up is this little man?

While it appears that I am being given the universal sign for the worst of the four letter words, I can promise my innocent child would do no so such thing!

Friday, March 16, 2012

2 months until 1 year!


So my little miss has entered her 11 month of life already. She turned 10 months on the 3rd of March and I can not begin to tell y'all how that makes me feel. But I will also say because she is still so baby like to me I don't see her as this close to one. Since her last monthly report she really hasn't changed that much. The only big different is that she is now being seen by a physical therapist to help her with a diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). You can read the beginning stages of that process here.

Growth: I am assuming she is roughly 22 lbs and around 26/27 inches long...still short but starting to equal out...maybe :)
She is wearing anything from 6-12 month clothes and size 4 diapers.

Eating: She has 4 bottles of 5oz a day and 9 cubes (18 tbls) of fruits/veggies and 4-6 tbls of cereal . Part of her SPD is textures in food. So while she will eat almost anything she will only in certain forms. For example she will not anything mixed like a casserole or spaghetti. She is basically eating at a stage 2 food. Cookies (biter biscuits) and soft fruits/veggies are OK sometimes but it usually takes a really long time for her to eat them and involves quite a bit of screaming :(

Sleeping: She is now sleeping from 7:30ish pm to 6:30 am, with 2 1.5 hour naps during the day. I shifted her whole day up by about a n hour to make room for the twice weekly PT. Bless her heart she is cutting 3 teeth and the teething is really effecting her sleep. She is just really restless and hard to get her down initially, but is still sleeping through the night.

New developments:
         6 teeth, that's 3 more than last month
         She loves to clap and do hand motions to songs IE. Wheels on the Bus and Patty Cake.
         Still only saying "mama" but is not signing "daddy" "eat" "more" "bottle" "milk"
         Screaming: when she is excited, mad, happy...I can not figure how to make it stop!!

She is still really struggling with gross motor. After evaluation from the PT she was placed at a 3 month development level but only in gross motor she is average if not above in every other aspect.

Charleigh Grace is really coming into her own. She knows what she likes and doesn't, she will laugh when its funny but doesn't waste that energy if it isn't.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Spring is in the air...and clogging up my ears?!?

I woke up this morning with the worst clogged ear feeling, no pain just annoying! Allergies...sinuses...screaming infant...who know? What I do know is although I had to ask Clayton to repeat himself 80 times today we had a great day and spent some much needed time soaking in some vitamin D.

 My sweet chubby girl
 Accessorize, its a must for any little girl 
 

 Love this shot






















 SPD in action!


 Sweet laughs for her "bubu"


I hope this weather is as nice where you are today!