Halloween

Dragon, I had a dragon - a cute pink dragon that roared.

Little C practiced her roaring for a week

1 1/2 (yesterday)

I meant for this to be posted yesterday, but well life was moving along pretty fast and the next thing I knew it was today.

Wow little C is 1 1/2 already. We see such a different girl, than the one we brought home, and yet so much has stayed the same.

She grows everyday and gains more and more independence too (or she takes it by force, it really depend on the day or how you look at it) She wants to do everything on her own, but she's getting better about letting us help. Her face has continued to change, when we look at past photos we see the difference at each stage/ age and still she's my little girl.

She's still maintains her avid curiosity, she watches and observes how everything is done and then tries it herself. you can watch her take in the world around her, and loving every moment.

Little C has learned so many things:
* She loves with such a big and open heart, we get kisses and hugs everyday (on her own terms of course)
* She walks forward, backward, and has a silly walk she needs help for (it's 1/2 a crab walk)
* She has signs : milk, water, mama, daddy, eat, more, pain, dog, motorcycle (used for 4-wheelers, tractors and some cars), bubbles (her own sign), shoes, socks, drink, please, thank you, grapes and bath. We are having a hard time keeping up right now, having new signs to show her.
* She has words: mama, daddy, bubbles, bo bos (boots), ball, no, up, down, help and please (only at daycare so far)

She is working on learning how to jump.

Love to all,
Urs

Visits & Daddy time

Big C and little C are out mowing with grandpa A's tractor (thank you). Little C was talking about going out all morning, she kept calling it a motorcycle, but she really wanted to go out. She was so excited. She keeps falling asleep while they are moving, but the instant big C stops moving she is wide awake and ready to keep going.

Yesterday was a day for visits, we go out early and drove down to visit great-grammy in NH, we got to visit, and little C seemed to remember her last visit a little. We all went out to lunch together and Gram played with little C rolling crayons back and forth. It was a lovely visit.

Then to top the day off, we had dinner with grammy A and great aunt Bev at Camp Cornish. It had been so long since out last visit with great aunt Bev, and it was a lovely opportunity to see family again.

Little C's 18 month check up

I nearly have a 1 1/2 year old, it's hard to believe.

We had her 18 month well baby check up this morning, and is was very uneventful really. She didn't need any shots. She was all up to date, and we weren't getting a flu shot or the chicken pox vaccine.

Little C weighed in at 26 lbs and 6 1/2 oz. (which puts her into the 75th percentile for weight)
She measured 33 1/2 inches tall (the 90th percentile for height). By the way for those of you wondering this makes little C taller than 1/2 my height of 5'-3".

She had blood drawn for an iron test, she was anemic at the last visit and we have been using a natural supplement plus dietary changes to raise her levels, it seems to be working, she still needs more iron, but we are heading the right way. She didn't cry during the blood draw, she watch with intense curiosity and gave the nurses a well developed scowl, but didn't cry. She cried later when she couldn't remove the band-aid covering the spot.

We had our first snow last night and into today, in fact there is still snow on the ground up here, little C was amazed to see it this morning. Big C and little C threw snowballs when they got home this evening, her first snowball!!!!! Big C says it was a really good throw too.

Love to all
Urs

Wildlife

We had about 7 does frolicking in our front yard and another 2 or 3 in the back yard this morning. They were eating and playing and it happened just as we were eating breakfast so it was great that we were able to see them.

Big C brought home an old keyboard they were going to get rid of at work and so now little C can "blog" along side me, she seem to like, but she does wonder what happened to the cord. Big C cut the cord off to eliminate the strangulation hazard. Bic Got these photos just this morning as I was working on the first part of this post. She's wearing some halloween jammies that are so adorable on her.

Currently as I finish this little C is playing 52 pick up with her feet, she scatters the cards on the floor, then steps on them, they stick to her feet, and then she walks over to me, holds her foot up and gives me the card. It's a silly game that makes us all laugh.

Lastly, little C went poop on the potty all by herself, she had that look, so I asked if she had to go and asked if she want to go sit on her little potty. So she walked over sat and did her business. Yeah!!! - We were proud of her and she acted like it was no big deal.

Love to all
Urs

Bath Time

Last night little C asked fo her bath, before we mentioned it, she was done with dinner and ready to go, so she handed her plate to big C and signed bath and bubbles (not the ASL sign, but her sign) She also says bubble/ bubbles.

Tonight at bath time she climbed into the tub herself, I was just there with my hands to make sure she didn't fall.

Love to all
Urs

Family Weekend

We have had a great weekend, lots of time for play, work and time with family.

We spent the weekend at Camp Cornish visiting Grandma and Grandpa A. Auntie M and cousin J were up visiting too, so we got even more family all at the same time. The weather was great and the foliage is looking good.

We all helped stack wood for Grandpa A, even the little ones. Little C thought is was a big game and kept trying bigger and bigger pieces of wood. At one point she got a little disappointed that she wasn't able to lift the larger pieces over her head to toss them over the side of the trailer. But she did enjoy helping pass pieces to her daddy and carrying them around.

Grandma A made that hat, with no pattern, just on a whim. It's a good thing too, little C loved it.

Big C installed a brush guard on the truck, ooh more chrome. Little C helped, she help and passed bolts and nut to big C and she helped turn the wrench. She handed tools to her daddy and inspected the final placement. Big C needed to lift up the bumper during the installation and was using a 2x4, a wedge, and a very large hammer. This is when little C first wanted to help, she was trying to swing the hammer to help lift the bumper up, Grandpa actually did this part, much safer that way.

Little C got to meet several dogs, two small neighbor dogs, who she had a barking contest with and a large puppy that gave her kisses. This may have been her favorite part of the weekend, she was so excited to inter act with the dogs. Little C also got to have some nice quiet time to cuddle with the cats this weekend too. Benny was very patient and let her pet him several time, and little C got to practice her cat sign.

We also had some great potty time - which was really great since little C hasn't been very interested in sitting still for very long, especially on the potty. This weekend we had several catches and we all were very happy about it, little C even went willingly to the toilet, and she even found ways to let us know when she wanted to go potty.

To top off the weekend big C and little C when out on the 4-wheeler after we got home, first to take some photos, then two more time because every time they got to the house and big C asked little C if she wanted to be done or wanted more, she kept signing for more. She came back into the house with a huge smile on her face and full of excitement.

Love to you all,
Urs

Our Little Monkey

Here's little C up on the coffee table, she managed this all by herself with out using the chair, she was very proud of herself. She looked to me for help a few times but I told her she was own her own - she managed just fine and was able to get down safely by herself too. She stood at first but sat as soon as she was told she would have to come down if she continued to stand. But she spent about 20 minutes up there playing and reading happy as can be.

Little C's starting to get interested inhelping in the kitchen, last night she was begging to help while I was making biscuts to go with the really great chili big C made. So I handed little C small dish of flour to "cook" with. She sprikled it on the floor, rubbed it all over her face, and ate it, but had tons of fun.

Wow pain on day 3

Today was the first time the pain from my teeth extraction really caught up with me, of course I went without the powerful pain relievers last night and woke up hurting. So I've been resting and taking it easy. Big C has been quite the nurse, making sure all my needs are taken care of.

Big C has really helped since the surgery, today he's done all the diaper changes and he's cleaning house, we have a showing Monday. Little C been spending time with both of us. She's been reading and trying to blog, leave it to the young. Earlier she "help" mow - which really means she went along in the backpack carrier, actually she was a bit upset when she heard Big C start up the mower without her, she led me right outside to find her daddy.

She has loved watching me sort the photos, actually now when ever she sees the laptop she climbs into my lap, points and says "baby" - she's a bit obsessed with babies lately, and dogs still. But she loves pictures of babies, or better yet the real thing at daycare.

On the house selling front we had a family stop by interested, just drove up and talked to big C so we may be showing them around some time this week - Interest in the house may be picking up, that would be nice.

Just a start

Well if you've found this I probably did something right. This is just another big step in to the digital world for us. I wanted to be able to share stories with everyone who might care, family and friends. Most of them will probably revolve around little C.

I manage to organize out hundreds (maybe thousands) of photos today, I was home recovering from having two wisdom teeth extracted, and I'm supposed to be resting. It's horrible how doing nothing can be so tedious when it's what your supposed to be doing.

Here's a picture of little C just this last weekend, we're at Mad River. We stopped by to get our ski passes, little C has one too (her second really, but this year she will actually use it). Just in time since I heard on the news this evening they got snow, and people have already skied it.

This was her first time on a non-toddler swing, she did really well and even jumped off while it was still moving, dragging her feet along to slow down and stop.

There will be more in the future.

Love to all
Urs