Annie's First Christmas!
Thank you everyone for making this such a special year! We had so much fun! :)
Thank you everyone for making this such a special year! We had so much fun! :)
12.29.2009
12.21.2009
Annabelle's first Christmas 
12.09.2009
Happy Holidays Blog Followers!
(all two of you ;)
Annie is now over 5 months old. She's interested in sitting up, and does so pretty well, but has yet to stop toppling over whenever she sees something that catches her eye. She's also just started solid foods...so far, just rice cereal, which she enjoys blowing all over Momma. Why swallow the food when it's so much more fun to spray it?Annie's "capilary hemangioma" is holding it's own. Luckily it has not grown enough to warrant surgery or medication - however it is affecting her vision enough that the doctor is concerned about ablyopia (lazy eye). Her good eye has better vision, and at this point in her development, her brain may essentially shut down the "bad eye" in favor of the better vision. Soooo....of course that means we're onto another goofy treatment for poor Annabelle. For two hours each day, she now wears an eye patch over her good eye to encourage the bad eye to focus. Arrh Matey! That's right, we've got a pirate on our hands...well after halloween. ;) Cross your fingers this does the trick!
Merry Christmas Everyone, enjoy the holiday!
Love, Jeremy, Robyn, Annie, Sammy & Kitten
12.03.2009
11.29.2009
Annie's First Thanksgiving - 19 weeks
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Over the river and through the woods to Great Grandma Meek's house we go!.JPG)
Annie in Kansas with Great Grandma.JPG)
Annie's first brewery - Kansas City
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Annie's first botanic garden - Des Moines11.25.2009
Happy Thanksgiving! Bring on the holidays!
Decorating is done, Christmas shopping is started! We're on our way to see family for Thanksgiving! Love and hugs to everyone we'll miss this week, see you soon!11.19.2009
18 weeks...
Getting ready for the holidays! (Sorry kiddo...Momma's been dreaming of this day forever...Christmas tunes, decorating together...nearly-naked-baby-Santa-hat photo and all ;)
11.13.2009
11.10.2009
11.02.2009
Annabelle -- 4 months!
Annie & the Chief - 16 weeks16 weeks have flown by!
Annie sure doesn't seem like a stranger in the house any more - it's impossible to imagine life before her! I cannot believe how much she has grown this month. We were in "newborn" size clothes and diapers for what seemed forever, and now, every week I'm packing away things she's outgrown already, and she's about to overflow her size 1 diapers in favor of a larger size any day now. Her arms are chubby, complete with elbow dimples...her thighs have rolls...she's definitely beginning to fill out! It's amazing to think she used to drink 1-2 ounces of formula a meal, and now she's chugging down 5-7 ounces a meal, and packing in a good 30+ ounces per day. That probably explains the nice weight gain recently. We've also had to move tubby time from the kitchen counter to the big bath tub, she's just too wild and crazy in there these days, we were soaking the kitchen floor (and ourselves)!
A recap of the month:
-Annie sleeps through the night -YAHOO!
-Annie gets yet ANOTHER Doctor, this time an eye specialist. Annabelle has a "capillary hemangioma" under her right eye (hence the photos where she looks like she has a black eye) - it's essentially a benign tumor. Supposedly these "capillary hemangiomas" are somewhat common, and no big deal....if they're anywhere else on the body. But due to it's location (in her lower eye lid), we have to watch and make sure it doesn't get bigger (which unfortunately is pretty much what these do...get bigger). If it begins to affect her vision, she may need surgery. But for the moment I just stare at it, and will it to go away on it's own.
-Annie's umblical hernia has all but disappeared :) Yay! (out with the umbilical hernia, in with the capillary hemangioma...always something!)
-Annie has her first dip in a pool.
-Annie stays in her first hotel.
-Annie takes her first hike.
-Mom makes her first successful batch of Annie-cakes (galactose free pancakes) :)
We're currently working on sitting up (eh, well, seriously aided slouching I guess) and still the dreaded tummy time (A's not a big fan of using her arms) -- and looking forward to starting solids sometime in the next month or two.
Annie sure doesn't seem like a stranger in the house any more - it's impossible to imagine life before her! I cannot believe how much she has grown this month. We were in "newborn" size clothes and diapers for what seemed forever, and now, every week I'm packing away things she's outgrown already, and she's about to overflow her size 1 diapers in favor of a larger size any day now. Her arms are chubby, complete with elbow dimples...her thighs have rolls...she's definitely beginning to fill out! It's amazing to think she used to drink 1-2 ounces of formula a meal, and now she's chugging down 5-7 ounces a meal, and packing in a good 30+ ounces per day. That probably explains the nice weight gain recently. We've also had to move tubby time from the kitchen counter to the big bath tub, she's just too wild and crazy in there these days, we were soaking the kitchen floor (and ourselves)!
A recap of the month:
-Annie sleeps through the night -YAHOO!
-Annie gets yet ANOTHER Doctor, this time an eye specialist. Annabelle has a "capillary hemangioma" under her right eye (hence the photos where she looks like she has a black eye) - it's essentially a benign tumor. Supposedly these "capillary hemangiomas" are somewhat common, and no big deal....if they're anywhere else on the body. But due to it's location (in her lower eye lid), we have to watch and make sure it doesn't get bigger (which unfortunately is pretty much what these do...get bigger). If it begins to affect her vision, she may need surgery. But for the moment I just stare at it, and will it to go away on it's own.
-Annie's umblical hernia has all but disappeared :) Yay! (out with the umbilical hernia, in with the capillary hemangioma...always something!)
-Annie has her first dip in a pool.
-Annie stays in her first hotel.
-Annie takes her first hike.
-Mom makes her first successful batch of Annie-cakes (galactose free pancakes) :)
We're currently working on sitting up (eh, well, seriously aided slouching I guess) and still the dreaded tummy time (A's not a big fan of using her arms) -- and looking forward to starting solids sometime in the next month or two.
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