tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89225614430848626192024-02-07T13:59:31.973-07:00toast and tuna meltsAaron Robisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07638264807004078714noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-39163185132727009052015-11-28T22:58:00.001-07:002015-11-29T08:11:48.159-07:00Elsie is a two-year-old<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnpt8MFU-y-4ANkk66dyZ1v7k-Lq7-mBddG1kUdNHtY0FoOSsRtDlTKq8ryIvP8azv3O18nNtmaOAaZeLEJ90XV8GWdP1U0N0dBF8WtKkvtBzmdHbnWPnZN_vwgkEgpKbRTf0V1BBNJMm/s640/blogger-image--910953637.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnpt8MFU-y-4ANkk66dyZ1v7k-Lq7-mBddG1kUdNHtY0FoOSsRtDlTKq8ryIvP8azv3O18nNtmaOAaZeLEJ90XV8GWdP1U0N0dBF8WtKkvtBzmdHbnWPnZN_vwgkEgpKbRTf0V1BBNJMm/s640/blogger-image--910953637.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have a renewed desire to keep record of our lives and especially to try to remember all the adventures of Elsie. Every now and then, Aaron will mention something that he says "needs to go in Elsie's journal" to which I say "what journal?" She is growing up too fast, and I've already missed and seem to have forgotten so much. Perhaps there is a way to live with such a zen-like, in-the-now mental state that it doesn't bother you if you forget things from the past, but I have not reached such a mindset. I guess, actually, Elsie is the epitome of that mindset, though her memory is getting more impressive--not to mention her astounding sense of direction. Recently, someone asked us what Elsie's first word was, and we couldn't even remember! We guessed either ball or dog, but we weren't sure. And so, here goes another push to be better at keeping record of our lives, if not for anyone else but ourselves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjekvmeCDJY16xeKB-y5B3wMahlcZ15iLojpDyXkmmlXawtY7QKw0l3LBI5042lRdjW3dsjR_rOWpdLKR8niDrmL6Lz6uMBbbJyx2g03CuWl8sb5EVh2MejLjY5K1B22217o_U7d3I-yAG-/s640/blogger-image--278270659.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjekvmeCDJY16xeKB-y5B3wMahlcZ15iLojpDyXkmmlXawtY7QKw0l3LBI5042lRdjW3dsjR_rOWpdLKR8niDrmL6Lz6uMBbbJyx2g03CuWl8sb5EVh2MejLjY5K1B22217o_U7d3I-yAG-/s640/blogger-image--278270659.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So Elsie turned two in October and I didn't post about it. It was a beautiful morning on her birthday and I took her "up the mountain", as she says, to a spot along the Provo River Trail and followed her around snapping pictures of her and the beautiful colors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV-L-4R5eglatQkJRgpAhiqYxqkV_EHN8enw8nNQynlpnaPHV6RaaSevGbgxHvidUDhjqsl6Rv_mSN90h0ewbdMNtjXRUmjFExiIqHIqc5RK2QWNTfGZApFaizSbDHN7tILgFgyXrThyphenhyphen4/s640/blogger-image--96449867.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV-L-4R5eglatQkJRgpAhiqYxqkV_EHN8enw8nNQynlpnaPHV6RaaSevGbgxHvidUDhjqsl6Rv_mSN90h0ewbdMNtjXRUmjFExiIqHIqc5RK2QWNTfGZApFaizSbDHN7tILgFgyXrThyphenhyphen4/s640/blogger-image--96449867.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Her first activity was gathering handfuls of gravel to throw off the bridge and into the river. What could be better! Down the path a little further we found more gravel, eventually a nice puddle for jumping in, and a perfect fence for posing on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcrBSuDBbFadRKgJAeiZz599c_MXUgknqq_R40zdh6Zy1Ge3CBR48BYRMVVoCLG0hMKb8GVszhXJ27zhELLVVGFSD9GVm9qCxVe7z5OF6dS2gmEld3CjHAqCrL2rB2w8RyVgBnHkHqbvA/s640/blogger-image--1781135291.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcrBSuDBbFadRKgJAeiZz599c_MXUgknqq_R40zdh6Zy1Ge3CBR48BYRMVVoCLG0hMKb8GVszhXJ27zhELLVVGFSD9GVm9qCxVe7z5OF6dS2gmEld3CjHAqCrL2rB2w8RyVgBnHkHqbvA/s640/blogger-image--1781135291.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When we were done taking pictures, and the clouds took over the sun, Elsie went down the slides on the wet playground a million times. And because it was her birthday, I tried not to care that the slide was wet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXt8PxmdhwEez8s23NuRlzs3ZbumbvHHIgzGrCrvz8nPmp0tqeiU1YVUQsAYIrU4Mj4GzfWAfEMkmbOvEEf9KqWZWh3uPVAN3t3wVLG8k-GmlTmAZikrr3HmJd8C5w-xNPIQb28PNGVxO/s640/blogger-image--1039960029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXt8PxmdhwEez8s23NuRlzs3ZbumbvHHIgzGrCrvz8nPmp0tqeiU1YVUQsAYIrU4Mj4GzfWAfEMkmbOvEEf9KqWZWh3uPVAN3t3wVLG8k-GmlTmAZikrr3HmJd8C5w-xNPIQb28PNGVxO/s640/blogger-image--1039960029.jpg"></a></div><br></div>The rest of that day consisted of, I'm not sure what until dinner at Gramma's house, a slew of Elsa themed presents, and a bunny and an owl cake (I don't know what got in to me). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HFbDJIreJMkHMY_14emvK99s3iQSPXIp3YdK29osHRWEORgcI6FWzwp4dEzh3VXyebr9CfjS4oMZbDJrRoAmyDAtC8IvpqXDYBkUDa733AaBCbeDOHNDvLw3hySXYzery7GIwg-ICMsA/s640/blogger-image-1344854387.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HFbDJIreJMkHMY_14emvK99s3iQSPXIp3YdK29osHRWEORgcI6FWzwp4dEzh3VXyebr9CfjS4oMZbDJrRoAmyDAtC8IvpqXDYBkUDa733AaBCbeDOHNDvLw3hySXYzery7GIwg-ICMsA/s640/blogger-image-1344854387.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Now November is almost over, and I can't distinguish the October 18th Elsie from the November 28th Elsie, so here are some thoughts on Elsie now:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She can put lots of words together to make pretty decent phrases and sentences. One that she learned from a Baby Signing Time video is "Nice to see you again" and "How are you doing". For some reason she switched to calling us "mom" and "dad"...she seems to be dropping the baby-ish "ee" and the end of every word. Aaron and I cracked up laughing the first time she said "poop" instead of "poopy". I guess we are childish, something about it seemed so funny.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She can use the potty. Sometimes (rarely) she wants to use the potty. Potty training mainly seems like my burden--like it will take more time and effort on my part than hers. But we keep saying that she's practicing for her Elsa undies...because we bought her a 3-pack and sometimes she just likes to hold on to them and take them with her to places. Like the restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She also likes to speak jibberish, thanks, I'm certain, to Aaron. Right now her jibberish word is "ga-goose". At first we tried guessing what it meant by asking her--Goggles? Bad goose?--and she would just laugh at us like it was a secret we would never know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--Elsie is, I won't say picky, but selective when it comes to eating. Her current go-to foods are Life cereal and scrambled eggs, though those seem to be on their way out. She hates meat--she's never tasted it except for in mashed up baby food, but she won't even let us put it near her. Sometimes we can get a vegetable bite in her. The biggest issue there is mainly just that I need to actually make vegetables.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--Somehow Aaron started the "Hug Song" with her. He would just hold her in a hug and sing "hug song, hug song, hug song" over and over as long as she would allow. Now it's turned into the family hug song, so I get to be included in the love. And Elsie likes to sing the song herself!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She is also really good and singing her ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Rock-a-Bye Baby, but she won't sign them for anyone except me quite yet. Just a little more practice then they'll be perfect :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She loves swings, slides, parks, being outside, throwing leaves off our front threshold through the fence and watching them fall (this is a ritual that seems to be necessary before every entry), Inside Out, Snoopy, playing Play Doh, coloring with crayons, playing sneaky or chase or any rough housing game with daddy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">--She has recently experienced a serious leap in her dancing power. Katy Perry's "Roar" is her favorite and will get her grooving instantly. She even jumps and gets both feet up off the ground!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I guess there are probably endless bullet points that I could write. But endless is frightening, so here I shall end.</div><br></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015386612229417712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-50075612534735145322015-04-19T13:45:00.001-06:002015-04-19T14:32:47.636-06:0018 months!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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--Words: "mouse", "house", "moose", "shoes", "juice", "bath", "blueberries", "cheese", "socks", "tights", "hat", "kitty", "doggie", "daddy", "mommy", "eat", "milk", "dirty", "potty", "poo poo", "pee pee", "sneeze", "nose", "eyes", "duck", "baby", "blue", "pink", "balls", "more", "help me", "bird", "bow", "boy", "glasses", "happy"... and lots more thing.</div>
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--New signs: "banana", "ice cream", "laugh", 'happy", "sad", "cry", "rain", "airplane", "hurt", "lion", "cold", "hot", "apple", "bread", "cracker", "mommy", "daddy", "flower", "tree", "bird", "duck", "cereal", "dry", "wet", "read", "soap", "dirty", "clean", "help me", "boy", "girl"...and probably some others I am forgetting.</div>
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--Teeth count: 7.25</div>
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--She created her own sign for "phone".</div>
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--She has used her little potty a handful of times.</div>
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--She likes to peel stickers off of things, twist lids and caps off of things, open all the drawers, dump out all of her bows or Gramma's rubberbands, dump out the contents of her bowl of food. She is great at mess-making.</div>
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--She loves to climb on everything--she can get all the way on top of our table without any help.</div>
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--She basically doesn't eat anything except cream of wheat and bread.</div>
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--She gets really excited when we make jaaaaaaah-ooooze.</div>
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--She is addicted to technology, Flappy Bird, and Signing Time--not the baby version anymore.</div>
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--She only likes coloring with the blue crayon that doesn't have its wrapper anymore.</div>
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--She likes to try to do things by herself--like go up and down stairs, put on clothes, blow her nose, and brush her teeth.</div>
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--She is taking shorter and shorter naps and I am very much not ready for that.</div>
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--She has started sometimes giving 5 second hugs--arms wrapped around and all. It's pretty glorious.<br />
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**UPDATED: I forgot two very important words in Elsie's vocabulary--"night-night" and "sneaky" :)</div>
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1. Showing me to tiniest things she notices, like fuzz on her hands. </div>
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2. Being cute and hugging stuffed animals.</div>
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3. Using sign language. I think she was trying to say "daddy".</div>
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4. Being really distracted by technology such that she simply stares at the camera. </div>
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5. More snuggling stuffed animals and big smiles :)</div>
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6. Dropping to the floor at any time to lay down for a 3-second rest.</div>
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7. Climbing up into the chair in her room and asking for books. Or "boo boos", as she says. </div>
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8. Reading "boo boos".</div>
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9. Standing up on chairs. Not all chairs that she stands up on are this safe.</div>
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10. "Oh!"</div>
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11. Giggles.</div>
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12. Pointing to koala's nose.</div>
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13. Trying to rip off koala's nose.</div>
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14. Standing on anything.</div>
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15. Being cute.</div>
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16. Climbing on everything.</div>
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17. Playing with her iPad.</div>
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18. Closing (and opening) doors.</div>
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--Her favorite foods right now are blackberries and cream of wheat, and she will usually eat scrambled eggs like a mad woman. She tried to shove them in her ears once--perhaps in attempts to get even more eggs inside of her.</div>
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--Her vocabulary includes daddy, doggie, bubble, boots, kitty, apple, diaper, icky, uh-oh, all done, and night-night (usually said while squeezing her eyes shut). AND.... "No".</div>
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--Elsie's signing vocabulary includes: tree, cookie, bath, baby, bike, fire, food, kitty, bird, shoes, potty, bear, milk, hat, all done, more, book, food, doll, ball, sleep, coat, please and thank you. You can pretty much teach her a new sign each day, so she basically knows daddy, mommy, doggie, and pig, too.</div>
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--Elsie LOVES to go outside. She is kind of like a puppy--if I just say "outside", she will go look for her boots, coat, and hat, and go knock on the door.</div>
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--She also has started making little "ruff" noises like a dog, but <u>not</u> in response to "What does a dog say?" She will only make dog noises out of her own free will and choice, not on command.</div>
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--Elsie started Kindermusik! It usually takes her quite a while to warm up, but by the time we are leaving, she is usually running around the room screaming :) </div>
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--She has gotten really great at cleaning up her toys, which is wonderful, since she loves making messes. One of her favorite things is to spill a whole deck of cards out on the floor and then either throw them in the air, swim around in them, or start gathering them up and putting them back in the box.<br />
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--Her fourth bottom tooth has just started to make it's appearance--bringing her to a whole 6 teeth now!<br />
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--She is a super pro at using her own spoon. Any by super pro, I mean she still gets really messy...and the walls really messy, too, sometimes. Especially if she doesn't like what I'm feeding her.<br />
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--She loves when you throw things up high in the air. She can't quite watch it fast enough for its whole path, so generally she'll just keep her neck craned back and wait for you to throw it again so she can see if way up high.<br />
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--Aaron taught her how to log roll. That's pretty awesome.<br />
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--Maybe you noticed in the list above that she learned the sign for "cookie". That was thanks to Kindermusik--she learned it right away, and then shortly after happened to be Valentine's Day...there were cookies around the house...one thing lead to another and now she thinks she can ask for cookies whenever she wants. And I guess she can ask...</div>
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--She is a walker! This past week, especially, she is totally done with crawling. She can walk wherever she wants, even out of the photo set :)</div>
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--Her signing vocabulary has grown and become refined. She finally learned "more", and has really perfected the twisting-wrist motion for "all done". She also knows potty--but not in the "I need to go potty way", but the "Hey mom, you are on the potty" way. I guess that's still a good step!</div>
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--She is a technology addict already. When she wants an iPhone, nothing else will appease her.</div>
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Yes, Elsie had her first birthday. She made it all the way to one year with no teeth and only one day of sickness. And for that, we celebrate.</div>
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The first celebration was letting her eat Cream of Wheat while sitting in out bed with us, and very un-messily, I might add. </div>
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After her morning nap, it was time to head over to Gramma's for Party #1. I thought she would have fun eating the chicken salad we had made (she generally loves grapes), but she pretty much just whined and screamed the whole time she was in her high chair. Birthday Diva. It was funny, she would scream and cry, then stop to take a bit of croissant, then scream and cry again.</div>
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We figured she was just trying to get through the eating part and hurry up to the present part!</div>
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In attempts to get her interested in pulling out all the tissue paper from the many chevron bags of gifts, we started by helping her find the baby cell phone toy in one of the bags. That actually only got her interested in playing with the cell phone, and she was only slightly distracted by a card that was in another bag.<br />
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We did give Elsie a little cake with applesauce on top, but I only took video of that part. She liked the applesauce, but didn't quite understand what to do with the cake. Aaron smashed her hand in to it, and that caused her to take a few bites, but most of it went untouched.</div>
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Next, we headed up to South Jordan for Party #2 with the Robisons. It began with a Cheerio bath...and I discovered that you can't seem to stop taking pictures when you baby is in a Cheerio bath. And I also discovered that a Cheerio bath is a great way to get some cute expressions on camera.</div>
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Elsie did a lot better at birthday dinner, though she didn't keep the cupcake headband on longer than five seconds. She seemed to enjoy her carrot cake cupcake pretty well, too, and loved watching the smoke float away after Aaron blew it out (a few times).<br />
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--Elsie gets leaps and bounds smarter everyday. It seemed like suddenly one day you could ask her things like "Where is your spoon?" and she would look towards the spoon drawer, look around her high chair, earnestly looking for the spoon. Or if she were holding it, she might hold it up and smile.</div>
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--The biggest and best new thing for Elsie is that she calls everything "Daddy"! Or maybe "Doggie"? It's really the same word, whatever it is--she says it when Aaron comes home, or when she sees a dog... or when she's pointing at the iPad, or a picture of herself, or a stranger... or anything.</div>
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--Still no teeth and no walking...but she crawls around like crazy.</div>
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--As you can see in the pictures, she can't stand headbands. She won't settle until it is either hanging around her neck, or completely off--which she can do all by herself!</div>
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--She is so determined! She loves focusing all her energy on little details and projects, like pulling people's earrings out, or putting a cap or lid on something. She has been trying to buckle the buckle on her high chair for some time now. She'll get it soon :)</div>
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--She plays peek-a-boo with anyone, including her own reflection in the oven.</div>
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--She will only eat if you let her get really messy--even pureed food has become finger food in our house, just so we can get that little girl to eat.</div>
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--She used to love string cheese. Then she hated it for two weeks. Currently, it's a love-hate.</div>
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--We left Elsie for the first time this past month for a week! Honestly, it wasn't really that hard for us. She was with grandmas, grandpas, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other great people the whole time, so we weren't worried. And all reports said she was a perfect little girly while we were away!</div>
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--Elsie also got sick for the first time this month. It was so sad! She spent all morning just lying in my arms, not wanting to move. I even just plopped her in the bean bag and she just stayed there, motionless. It was such a dramatic difference for our constantly-moving little jumping bean to be so mellow! Luckily, she was feeling more perky later that day, and back to herself (pretty much) the next day.</div>
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--She is starting to help me put her clothes on. She knows when a shirt goes over her head, she has to stick one arm up, then the other.</div>
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--I swear she knows the sign-language sign for "hat". If I have a headband on, she pats her head and points at it. If I have a bun on my head or a towel turban wrapped on my head, same thing. Thanks, Baby Signing Times.</div>
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--It's hard to capture her really good moments, because whenever a phone comes out or a camera, all she wants is to get the phone!</div>
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--She can open cupboards :) The only drawer she has opened so far is the one under the oven with some pans in it. The real baby proofing is overdue!</div>
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--Elsie has entered the stage of head bonks. At least 3 times a day, cries break out due to some sort of head-bonking fall.</div>
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--This little lady is determined! If she wants something, she will keep at it until she gets it. She crawls and climbs all over everything. If you pull her away from something, like, oh, Aaron's bike, she will just keep going for it over and over and over again.</div>
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--She smiles and laughs when she sees the yellow Cheerios box.</div>
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--When she first wakes up, either from nighttime or a nap, she generally wants to point at everything around and tell you about it.</div>
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--She does this super cute shoulder shrug with her right shoulder. Only the right shoulder.</div>
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--She has started playing games with us--mostly making us do silly things</div>
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--She is in the stage of "sequences" and that is totally obvious! She knows that when she pulls the iPad charger cable out of the outlet, the iPad will light up and show a picture of Aaron. She pulls the cord out and immediately looks at the iPad.</div>
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--She has started letting go of her support while she's standing! It only lasts a little while, but when she wants to go down she generally can squat all the way to floor with some serious control.</div>
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--Literally the day after I wrote her last, 8 month journal, and said that she was only pseudo-crawling, she started crawling full-out, no joke, for real. She is a girl on the move!</div>
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--She crawls around and pulls herself up to stand on anything she can. Our house is not baby-proof for a crawler, so I have to keep my eye on her constantly.</div>
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--She has started whispering incantations. These are usually accompanied by pointing fingers, like she is hexing the world around her...or just looking at things and describing them.</div>
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--As mentioned above, and seen in the last photo, she is great at pointing.</div>
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--She has added "dada" to her vocabulary, and sometimes in her whisper voice it sounds like she says "bebe".</div>
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--She has slept through the whole night a handful of times! We put her down at 7:30pm, and she will wake up between 6:00-7:00am.</div>
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--She loves turning the pages of books. She usually does it very vigorously.</div>
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--It has become a battle to change her diaper, meaning she twists and turns and tries to sit up and crawl around as soon as I get the dirty diaper off. We've had a few accidents.</div>
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--She usually laughs when you say "Meow meow".</div>
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--No teeth yet, but she sure is chewing a lot this last week. They are somewhere under those gums!</div>
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--She has entered Mommy-Only mode. I guess it's not so bad when I am nowhere around, but if someone else is holding her in the same room as me, Elsie probably won't stand for that.</div>
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--I've been taking Elsie swimming (trying to go every week). She gets more and more comfortable with the pool, and we tried bouncing her under the water for a moment. She did pretty well with that--just some coughing, no crying.</div>
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--She loves watching other kids. Sometimes just seeing other babies makes her laugh.</div>
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Thanks Aunt Kaili for this amazingly cute outfit! I don't think I caught any smiles in this bunch, but these pictures are pretty accurate of Elsie--always exploring, always moving. </div>
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And my camera battery ran out after only 47 pictures! So a few are iPhone shots :)</div>
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--She's making serious advancements in the crawling department. She can travel pretty far if left to her own devises, but it's not really straight up crawling quite yet.</div>
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--She likes to walk around, especially if there is a hug at the end of the journey, she just needs a little stability help.</div>
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--She loves trying to stand up. If you sit on the floor, you become her jungle gym. She has been seen standing up in her crib, screaming at the door until someone comes to get her :)</div>
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--Her fine motor skills are also developing. She is starting to get better at putting Cheerios in her mouth, instead of up her nose, on her chin, or mostly, in her lap.</div>
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--She loves pointing. She often has her pointer fingers out. If not, than her hands might become crab claws, opening and closing at you.</div>
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--I think giving suckerfish kisses has become a game, but she is selective who she gives them too. I am the winner and often get quite slobbery. Aaron gets a few here and there, along with a few choice others, I think.</div>
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--She is starting to get stranger anxiety, or more like anyone but mom anxiety.</div>
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--She flew on an airplane for the second time--to Arizona to visit Uncle Ryan, Aunt Kim, Uncle Dave, and Aunt Adrienne. And Roger and Me (cats). Yet again, she was a champ on the plane.</div>
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When do babies learn that their feet aren't hands? Why don't we praise their pedal dexterity?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elsie</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7 months</span></div>
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--Though Aaron is convinced that she weighs 20 pounds, I think that is highly unlikely when a month ago she was barely 14 pounds.</div>
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--She has developed a sniffy face where she scrunches up all her face in a really adorable way and sniffs really fast. I haven't decided if she does this when she's hungry, when she's sleepy, or if she's just trying to be funny.</div>
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--She gives sucker-fish kisses--big, wide open mouth sucking on your cheek, eye, nose, chin or anywhere really. It is a rare delight to receive such a gift. (Again, I haven't decided if this is really just a sign that she's hungry.)</div>
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--She has finally learned how to bounce in her Johnny-Jumper-doorway-thing. Just short spurts of bouncing, but it's pretty awesome.</div>
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--Her vocabulary includes "mama" and "baba".</div>
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--She is pretty close to crawling! You can tell it really frustrates her that she can't locomote herself forward into your lap yet. So instead, she has gotten really good at spinning around on her tummy, log rolling and scooting backwards. If only she could piece all of those skills together to figure out how to get where she wants to go. That would be awesome.</div>
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--I think her favorite toy is those plastic easter eggs that I got for her last photo shoot. </div>
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--She is entranced by other babies.</div>
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--She loves going upside-down and doing flips with Aaron.</div>
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--As of this post, she is sleeping a million times better--aka she slept for 10 hours last night. We decided it was time to try something new, and called Aaron's sister for help. She laid out the plan to let Elsie "cry it out". It worked wonders. She only cried for 30 minutes the first time, and never that long since. We still use the white noise, but no swaddling and no pacifier. We put her down awake, with a little soft blanket, and she gets comfy and goes to sleep! </div>
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I should be more selective... but I can't be. Each little facial expression is so priceless!</div>
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--She has become such a real little human person with her own personality!</div>
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--She is great at lunging towards what she wants, reaching for it, and grabbing it if possible. She loves the stretchy beaded bracelet I always wear (nursing reminder), and I'm afraid that one of these days she'll pull it apart and choke on the beads.</div>
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--She loves high-pitched noises. Aaron loves to appease her by saying "Wee!" in glass-shattering pitches.</div>
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--I swear her favorite color is green (hence the photos...and St. Patricks Day, I guess). She is always reaching towards green towels, green bowls, green pillows... or maybe MY favorite color is green, and she's just reaching towards the things in our house.</div>
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--After a week of terror, we decided to follow the Happiest Baby plan for sleeping. She is great at falling asleep, she was just waking up all the time in the night. I was super hesitant because "the plan" would mean going BACK to swaddling, and getting OUT of her crib and into a swing. But, the past couple nights have been significantly better, so no complaints here. I was kicking myself for not doing "the plan" from Day 1.</div>
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--We started feeding her some pureed sweet potatoes. At first, she didn't know what to do with them, but now she loves them! We aren't super consistent--solids aren't really any source of calories for her yet--but it's fun to get her down to her diaper, put her in her tub, and let her paint herself orange.</div>
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--She's still pretty small. Before she was born, Aaron got her some Apple onesies, thinking they would be one of the first things she ever wore. He keeps asking me when she'll wear them, but they are way too big. Some brands of 3/6 size clothes are still too big. I love that she's small, but there are some things I am dying to get her in, like her shiny, leopard Sperry sliders and her tie-dye dress from Wild Child in Madison.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4 MONTHS</span></b></div>
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--Makes spit bubbles and high-pitched singing noises</div>
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--Rolls over from her tummy to her back</div>
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--Is really good at grabbing hair and holding on tight</div>
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--Starting to sit up with assistance pretty well</div>
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--Loves any toy that squeaks</div>
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--Loves to talk to her bird mobile, especially when the heater comes on and makes them "fly"</div>
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--Loves to watch videos of herself laughing</div>
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--Hasn't doubled her birth weight yet</div>
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--Moves her arms non-stop, which is a problem for sleeping</div>
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--Sleeps in her crib now, sometimes with her arms free, sometimes swaddled until she busts out of it</div>
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--I may have learned a very valuable trick... early bedtime :)</div>
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Okay, maybe this next one is my favorite...</div>
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--She has found her hands and her feet. She spends a lot of time trying to get her hands in her mouth, and when she is diaper-less, she tries to grab her feet...or at least bring them as close to her head as possible.</div>
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-- She is learning how to use the muscles around her mouth to make different noises and to blow bubbles.</div>
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--She has started to drool.</div>
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--She loves to sit up and look around.</div>
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--She loves diaper changes and baths.</div>
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--Tummy time is too exhausting because she refuses to let her head rest on the floor. She often even picks up her arms and legs and just flies on her belly above the floor...all while screaming.</div>
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--She has started rubbing her eyes, especially when she's eating.</div>
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--SHE GIGGLES! It is still kind of rare and amazing when it happens, but it happens :)</div>
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--She tries to grab things, like a toy, if it's dangled in her face, or sometimes she'll try to grab it with her feet.</div>
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--She still sleeps swaddled, pacified, and in her Rock and Play. I don't know when to try to break her of each of those things...but, I think, not yet.</div>
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--Schedule? Meh...</div>
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This is way late, so here's to remembering...</div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--By far the best part of month 2 = smiles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--The conversation improved greatly, too. I swear she would say "Hello" to me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--She is just barely getting too big for her newborn sized clothes, but the next size up still seems too big. And she didn't make it to fit into her Christmas jammies in time for the holidays...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--She still sleeps pretty well, with usually at least one longer stretch somewhere in there. She till gets tightly swaddled whenever I put her down, and she still sleeps in the Rock and Play instead of her crib.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--Her daddy is rigorous with her baby exercises, including tummy time, standing time, and airplane time. She is getting good at holding her head up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--She likes to look around and can often be calmed by being held "football" style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--She started following things with her eyes and turning her head to keep focus with a passing object or person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--She likes to interlock her fingers and pull them to her face in the-cutest-manner-possible. See picture two above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">--Sometimes we wake up and it seems like she has grown way too much while we were sleeping.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015386612229417712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-70120945727578966232013-12-10T11:46:00.000-07:002013-12-10T11:46:35.221-07:00our first family pictures!Thanks to Kaye and Kaili for snapping over 300 pictures :) We did, in fact, get some good ones!<br />
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The "S" in some pictures is our contribution to the Robison family photo idea where each family takes a pictures with one of the letters in "ROBISON".<br />
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I posted one of these pictures on Instagram and wrote "We kept her alive for one month!" and I guess there was confusion and people thought that she was no longer alive. But she is--don't worry--and she's getting bigger everyday!</div>
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So most parents will write down milestones, personality traits, habits, etc of their kids when they make a post like this. I feel like I don't have to much to report, she is just kind of a baby right now. Maybe I'm not intuitive enough to sense her personality. But, I will try to note some things I will want to remember.</div>
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--She is starting to make noises that sound more like "cooing" and baby babble, which is exciting! I told that to Aaron and he was confused at why they call it "cooing".</div>
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--Other noises she makes have been compared to: dolphins, goats, horses, pterodactyls, and a balloon letting out a little air.</div>
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--I swear I have gotten some real, social smiles out of her, and they are dang cute.</div>
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--She gets the hiccups... <i>a lot</i>. Even in her sleep.</div>
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--She has a new habit of only sleeping well if swaddled. But when she's swaddled, she does sleep pretty well! I am only waking up about two times in the night to feed her, and one of those times she is usually falling asleep as the sun is rising and I feel like I should be getting up anyways since it's light out.</div>
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--She has started to love laying on her back on the floor. I call it "playing" on her back, but Aaron doesn't believe it is playing. He says it is "observing"--which is probably mostly true. There is a lot of learning happening. Sometimes she seems to be having so much fun looking around and kicking her legs, though, it seems like playing to me!</div>
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--She is starting to out grow her newborn sized clothes! As I realized that, I suddenly felt an urgency to dress her in all her next-size-up clothes, because they are so many and so cute and who knows how much time there will be until she out grows those too! (Though I still think it's silly to dress her up because she just spits up on herself and sleeps most of the day)</div>
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--Nicknames: Elsie Bean, Elsie Bell, Elsie Belsie, Elsie Love, Elsie Pie, Elsie Bug, My Little Bean, My Little Bug. The "Bug" variations have kind of worn off, but that was a common one when she was small and curled up to sleep on my chest more often...just like a bug?</div>
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My due date arrived, October 17th. I tried to get my mind off things. I got dressed. I went in to work. I bought some post-maternity clothes. I ate lunch with a friend and we got manicures. That evening Aaron and I drove up to Salt Lake to pick up my mom from the airport.<br />
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We were put in a holding room, and told there was meconium in the fluid. That fact is what made it so some things didn't go according to "plan".<br />
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First off, I was told if I didn't dilate fast enough, I would be put on Pitocin. Oh, yeah, I was planning to go unmedicated, which is what made the idea of Pitocin disconcerting.</div>
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We got in a little tub time at the very end, sparing Aaron's wrists from pushing on my knees to help ease the pain during contractions. I didn't feel like the water really helped with pain relief, though I was at the worst part of the process, but maybe it helped me relax mid deathly contractions.</div>
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From about this point on, I was pretty sure Aaron was in some sort of coma-shock. In my minds eye, he was just silent and wide-eyed, doing whatever the nurses told him to do to help me. In reality, I didn't really look at him--pretty sure my eyes were closed from here on out.</div>
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Eventually the sounds that came out of me during a contraction (horrifying screams, I guess) signaled to the midwife that it was time to get a-pushin'. Back to the bed for 40 minutes of blood-vessel-bursting pushing (literally, my blood vessels burst all over my face and chest), the most insane feeling of all of my insides gushing out of me without any control on my part, and then a baby!</div>
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Here's where one thing I had really wanted didn't get to happen: immediate skin-on-skin and time for breast feeding to happen naturally. Our little sweetie didn't scream or cry, had aspirated quite a bit of poopy fluid, and was having trouble breathing. I got to hold her for about 2 seconds, then they took her to try to suction out some goop and get her wailing, which still didn't work. I got to hold her again for 2 more seconds, then they took her away to the nursery to be checked out more and put on a CPAP machine and monitored in a million other ways.</div>
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After about an hour and a half, I got wheeled in to the nursery and we finally got our skin on skin time. We watched as her breath-per-minute rate evened out and got down to normal as I held her, and eventually they told us she was good to go and we could bring her back to our room for some feeding.<br />
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Am I disappointed in my experience? Heck no. Are these pictures more "medical" than I had anticipated. Yeah--but do I have a happy, healthy baby? Yes!<br />
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And here is our first family picture!<br />
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Hooray for car-trunk picnics with snow on the mountain tops, Jimmy Johns, cake from Kaye, long socks and boots, and a cutie husband!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015386612229417712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-35108886165384866392013-09-27T09:59:00.000-06:002013-09-27T09:59:07.568-06:00baby showerI have truly come to learn, first hand, why people value living near their families. Not only do you get to be physically close in location to people that you love and perhaps understand you a little bit more than other people, but there are also major perks. Like delicious weekly dinners, people to play games with, and trusted opinions and support whenever you need it.<br />
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And, I discovered, a new perk. They throw awesome baby showers.<br />
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My Aunt Linda and my cousin, Annalise, offered to throw me a baby shower almost immediately upon their move to Utah in May/June. Little did I know what kind of party planners they were! The shower was September 10th, and I was seriously blown away by the cute decorations, delicious food, and the totally-fun-and-not-involving-"poopy"-diapers games.<br />
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--Cute name tags (made by my momma) that had you put your name, and your relation to baby. </div>
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--An awesome tree (created by my aunt/cousin) to hang these bird pages (made by my momma) for guests to write a note to Baby.</div>
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--The <i>beautiful</i> bird cover to hold the book together (made by... of course, my momma).</div>
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Then there were the party favors. Bird houses!!</div>
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Besides the decorations and delicious food--(hummus and cinnamon rolls? Reminds me of my wedding... yum)--there were wonderful people there as well. However, it seems as if the camera didn't capture many shots of these beautiful people. I do, however, feel comfortable posting awkward photos of myself--which it seems like all pictures mid opening a gift are pretty awkward.</div>
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In this one, I seem to be saying "Whoa-ho-ho! I am a large pregnant women and that is a small baby jacket!"</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015386612229417712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-17287906393536527152013-08-23T16:02:00.003-06:002013-08-23T16:02:35.933-06:00blitz room makeoverWhen my mom was visiting Utah for my dance show at the end of June, I had just recently decided to rearrange our living room. The results were disastrous. Our beige walled living room with beige carpet and greyish-beige couch with orangey colored pillows just looked awful in the new configuration.<br />
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I am so sick of beige--it is the go-to color of all Utah interiors, it seems. Sure, we are in a rental, but come on people!<br />
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The impetus for this move was the prospect of at some point, some way, getting two large leather chairs that previously lived in my dad's office in Madison. We didn't know how we were going to get them out to Provo, but I was starting to plan for it.<br />
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Anyways, when my mom was out, we started dreaming and designing things in our minds. We started looking for color inspiration, and went off to some fabric stores to find fabric inspiration to pull all the colors together that we were thinking of.<br />
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Then we went to Pier 1 Imports and decided to just buy it all. Ha. Blitz Room Makeover.<br />
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Unfortunately, I am struggling to find any "Before" photos... though I am sure I posted some once upon a time when we moved here.<br />
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The "After" photos are better anyways, right?! Our motto was "MORE COLOR!"<br />
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Oh, and now that WE OWN THIS PLACE (as of today), there will hopefully be many more upgrades and makeovers to come!<br />
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And in case your curiosity is killing you, we did, in fact, get the chairs out to Provo, thanks to some Madison friends. They are big and tan :) We've found some pretty good spots for them, though.<br />
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My eye is now turned to the baby room...<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015386612229417712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922561443084862619.post-71834141604346509812013-08-20T15:54:00.001-06:002013-08-20T15:55:59.851-06:00friends in utah!Emily and Benedita, my friends from high school, came out to Utah for a visit over the first weekend in August. Luckily the rain had stopped and the weather forecast was looking hot and sunny! I had never been to Bear Lake--The Caribbean of the Rockies, so I thought we would go adventure up there together.<br />
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We were just a little stressed out about finding a place to set up camp. Also, all the closest beaches were flooded and we were told we'd have to go all the way to the north or south end. We chose south since it was closer, and the map said there was camping there. But, of course, that too was full. In desperation to find a campsite, we kept driving around the east side of the lake to the more "primitive" campgrounds.</div>
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I guess primitive means perfect! Our own private beach access:</div>
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We got in the cold, cold water before the sun went down, and then gorged ourselves on our many snacks, including cheese curds Emily brought from Wisconsin.</div>
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Before the sun went down, we built a fire--with the conveniently left logs waiting for us in our fire pit. </div>
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We had prepared a tin-foil dinner mixture and were, yet again, nervous about how exactly to go about cooking them and knowing when they would be done. Taking them out of the fire was the exciting part. I used two sticks, one which was bent perfectly to help the process along, and Benedita held the "dinner rock" nearby for transportation to the table.</div>
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Benedita and I were in girl scouts together when we were wee and here you can see we remembered camping rule number one: No sandals by the fire.</div>
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Everything was cooked--in fact, some bits were a bit too charred. But we ate something that wasn't sugary snacks!</div>
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The next morning, after it got deceivingly cold that night, and we three were crammed in a two person tent, and Emily was forced to be in the middle, we huddled in blankets eating some breakfast until the sun came over the ridge behind us and then we promptly went for another chilling swim. This time the waves weren't so forceful and we could more easily see where to step without hurting our feet.</div>
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Eventually, after many many rounds of Bananagrams, we packed our things and headed out towards Park City to ride the Alpine Coaster. We didn't know we had to drive through Wyoming to get there, but that was all the better. </div>
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Back in Provo we had dinner at Black Sheep Cafe, walked around "downtown" Provo, which to Aaron and my surprise, they thought was cute and interesting. We got frozen yogurt, and came back home for some Jungle Speed. *Highlight: Aaron dragging Benedita across the table and floor and Benedita refusing to let go of the totem. They were fighting for nothing--neither of them could get rid of any cards if they won.*</div>
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The next day, Sunday, we made waffles for breakfast and then went on a jaunt up Rock Canyon. It was really hot. We only brought one water bottle and we didn't ration too well. Luckily there was a water fountain on the trail. Unluckily it was swarming with bees. Emily the courageous filled it up.</div>
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It was so fun to have these ladies out for a visit!</div>
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