Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Random July pics



Not the hair Norah!

"Mama, take my picture."

Still loves putting on weird outfits:

Mimi bought Norah some jammies in Ireland. They have blue and yellow cars on them??....

Always silly

Swimming with five kids. Nobody drowned!

Sleeping babies are still my favorite.

I kill plants so that Asa has pots of dirt to play in. You're welcome.

Butts up!

Asa is Famous!

I took this picture of him at swim lessons:



And it's now the cover photo on their Facebook page!



A Visit from Uncle Christopher



5th Anniversary

My mom flew in to visit and offered to watch the kids while Tony and I went out and stayed in downtown Denver for the night:




Happy Anniversary Tony!

4th of July

Maybe I should add pictures of our 4th of July weekend now that it's mid-August?

Norah in her red, white, and blue:

After spending the Fourth in Greeley with family, we decided on our way home to pick up more stuff and head back out for an impromptu road trip. Off we went to Lake McConoughey (sp?) in Nebraska! We had our swimsuits, towels, a cooler of beverages and were excited to play in the water! About 10 minutes after we arrived and found lodging for the night, a cold front blew in and the temp dropped about 30 degrees. And it rained. No joke. It was too cold (in July!) to get in the water. We basically just slept there and looked at the enormously impressive lake. Lesson learned- we'll check the weather next time. Ha! 
We left the lake and drove to Holyoke, CO where Grandma Ardis, Uncle Eric, and Aunt Karla live. We spent the night with Grandma and continued to endure the unseasonably cool weather in our shorts and tank tops. Norah stayed in jammies since that was the warmest thing we brought and Asa was lucky enough to have had a hoodie in the car.






Grandma let Norah play with pills! 😳😁

The kids posed in front of Grandpa's statue:



Of course, Asa had to get real silly!

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Norah at 9 and 10 months!

Norah continues to be such a sweet, easygoing baby! She's definitely developed an attachment to Mama, but does slowly warm up to others. We recently went through a phase where nobody (except immediate family) could make eye contact with her without Norah bursting into tears and wailing! Thank God she's over that (for the most part). 
I'm super happy to say that she's been consistently sleeping through the night (8pm- 6:30am) for a few months. She's also in her crib! She can also be put down awake with little to no fussing! It's amazing and it really is a shame we couldn't and still haven't figured this out with Asa... ;)

Current tricks:
Waving "hi"
Saying "Mama" and "Dada"
Army crawling
Feeding herself puffs
Sitting up and getting from laying to sitting on her own
Shaking her head "no" (sort of violently)!
Scooting super fast toward the dog water bowl as soon as I'm not looking

9 month stats:
Height: 27 1/2"- 48th%
Weight: 16# 6oz- 12th%
HC: 17 1/2"- 70th%

She gained only 11oz between 6 months and 9 months. The doc suggested I start supplementing but Norah still refuses to drink from a bottle or cup. Instead, I've increased her table food intake and I'm hoping that helps.