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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Maeve 4 Months, 8 days
Maeve is totally different every week. Just when we have her set, she changes. This week she is into hysterical screaming. Often it is silly screaming, but often it is not. She eats, smiles a little bit and then starts screaming. She wants to be held every second and if you think of putting her down she screams at you. I need to video tape it to show you how dramatic this is. She gets so worn out by this screaming that she is napping a ton and when we put her down she just closes her eyes immediately. The sleeping is nice, but I'd rather have my happy baby. We're not sure if it is the thrush or the reflux or just a stage. It's already Thursday, so we'll just see what next week brings!
PreSchool Party
Today we had Noah's PreSchool Halloween Party. It was really fun. Noah was a T-Rex and he looked adorable. We got him all dressed and ready to go. The kids did a little parade around the school and then back to the classroom for stories. Noah was sitting on the story rug and he grabbed the tail of his costume and held on to it in front of him. He kept jerking it around and it was so funny. All of the mothers were laughing hysterically and taking pictures because it really looked like Noah was doing something else... oh my.
We had a great snack and Noah had to make sure his tail fit through the hole in the chair!
The kids played around a little bit and all of these mothers kept coming up to me telling me that all of their daughters wanted to marry Noah! One little boy's mom said that her son insists there is no one else at school other than Noah. It was nice to see that he is well liked.
We have another party tomorrow and Trick or Treat on Saturday and I'm sure I'll report more. This is the first year he really knows what is going on and it is a whole different ball game!!!
Friday, October 23, 2009
How do you like these apples?
This year we joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share. In the spring we paid for our share of fruit and vegetables for the summer. We had no idea what we were doing, just that we thought it would be good to buy local and pesticide free. The summer has proven to be so incredibly amazing. The flavors of all of our food have been unimaginable. Raw broccoli tastes like a gourmet food! Noah has been a part of his food in a much more active way. He helps to shave carrots (which are purple, orange and white!). He picks green peas, lima beans and edamame (and loves all of them!). We have had so many new foods we had never heard of.
The fruit has been incredible as well. We have been so enlightened, especially by the Asian Pears. I don't know that I had ever had one before and the flavor of them is soooo sweet and wonderful. This week in our share the fruit was so full and large. The pictures show a grocery store sized apple next to our CSA fruit.
We only have a few more weeks left and I am going to be so sad until next June comes around again. If there is a CSA in your area, I highly recommend it!!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
4 Months!!!
Our baby girl was 4 months old on the 20th of October. Time flies so fast!
At the doctor yesterday she was 14.8 lbs (70%), 23 inches (50%) and her head circumference was 20%tile. She is a little roll-y poly nugget! She is super healthy, though her thrush is STILL covering the back of her mouth. We were put on a new medicine that is a bit stronger to try to finally kick this infection. Her new reflux meds are AWESOME and she is much happier.
At 4 months she is almost rolling over, she gets completely on her side and then gets stuck. She is holding her head up really well when she is on her belly. She is sooo talkative and shrieks at the top of her lungs and laughs a lot. She likes to be standing in your lap and she loves to see what Noah is doing all of the time!!
She is doing great with her cereal. This morning she ate a whole bowl without any fussing. She is doing great breastfeeding as well. Her sleep is still really great for a 4 month old. We still do the dream feed most nights before we go to bed mostly because I'm afraid to drop it, but I will soon because she is more and more sleepy and less interested in eating at night. Sometimes she wakes up and needs her pacifier, but last night no one heard a peep from her until 7:30AM.
She is still doing pretty well with her routine and generally naps 1.5 hours out of every three.
Overall she is a very happy little girl. I think without reflux and thrush she would never complain a bit, but it's not so bad.
She is starting to play a bit too. She can grab the rings on her toys and pull them to her mouth (which usually has her hands in it!). She will lay and look at a mirror for quite a while and is easily entertained by the person staring back at her. She loves the Baby Bjorn and is now a bit too big for the peanut shell sling. I can generally lay her down outside of the shower and she will wait patiently until I am done.
Noah continues to be great with her. He is a great helper and always wants to hug her and kiss her. His patience is tried sometimes when she is fussy or needs extra care, but I am thrilled with how well he has welcomed her over all. After all, he has been the king of this house and of our entire extended family for 3 years!
We're having a good time with these little ones. I just wish we had more free time to do things as a family! But, we have our whole lives together, right? At least until they don't like us anymore... so I'll take all I can of the wide mouthed grins, baby shrieks, and giant toddler hugs I can get!!
At the doctor yesterday she was 14.8 lbs (70%), 23 inches (50%) and her head circumference was 20%tile. She is a little roll-y poly nugget! She is super healthy, though her thrush is STILL covering the back of her mouth. We were put on a new medicine that is a bit stronger to try to finally kick this infection. Her new reflux meds are AWESOME and she is much happier.
At 4 months she is almost rolling over, she gets completely on her side and then gets stuck. She is holding her head up really well when she is on her belly. She is sooo talkative and shrieks at the top of her lungs and laughs a lot. She likes to be standing in your lap and she loves to see what Noah is doing all of the time!!
She is doing great with her cereal. This morning she ate a whole bowl without any fussing. She is doing great breastfeeding as well. Her sleep is still really great for a 4 month old. We still do the dream feed most nights before we go to bed mostly because I'm afraid to drop it, but I will soon because she is more and more sleepy and less interested in eating at night. Sometimes she wakes up and needs her pacifier, but last night no one heard a peep from her until 7:30AM.
She is still doing pretty well with her routine and generally naps 1.5 hours out of every three.
Overall she is a very happy little girl. I think without reflux and thrush she would never complain a bit, but it's not so bad.
She is starting to play a bit too. She can grab the rings on her toys and pull them to her mouth (which usually has her hands in it!). She will lay and look at a mirror for quite a while and is easily entertained by the person staring back at her. She loves the Baby Bjorn and is now a bit too big for the peanut shell sling. I can generally lay her down outside of the shower and she will wait patiently until I am done.
Noah continues to be great with her. He is a great helper and always wants to hug her and kiss her. His patience is tried sometimes when she is fussy or needs extra care, but I am thrilled with how well he has welcomed her over all. After all, he has been the king of this house and of our entire extended family for 3 years!
We're having a good time with these little ones. I just wish we had more free time to do things as a family! But, we have our whole lives together, right? At least until they don't like us anymore... so I'll take all I can of the wide mouthed grins, baby shrieks, and giant toddler hugs I can get!!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Yummy!!!
Well, our little girl is growing quickly! We thought it might be time to think about solids. It's funny how the times change. We have Paul's baby book and he had solids at 2 months. We gave Noah solids at 3 months but he didn't want them. Maeve is now about 4 months and she was thrilled. She watches us eat so intently. I had pizza for lunch today and she stared at every bite that went into my mouth. When she realized that the food we had was for her she smiled from ear to ear and swallowed quickly. Here's the play by play:
I can't imagine having so much joy at rice cereal!
I can't imagine having so much joy at rice cereal!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Home Sweet Home: 5 years!!!!
It is so hard to believe, but five years ago in October we put bought our home! It was late October and we took a huge chance on this old house and we have just fallen in love with it!! I look around and can't believe that we have been here this long. We constantly have a project going all the time and as I was working with some contractors today I just realized how much we have really done on this place!
Here is the picture on the listing from when we bought it (hence a little blurry)
Here it is today. It doesn't look that different on the outside. We have had it painted, put on a new front porch, took down the dilapidated awning and porch on the roof. We need to have the whole thing re-pointed, but that will be around $30K!!!
The first project we tackled was this bathroom downstairs. You could literally see into the basement! We put in a stone tile floor, new walls, new electric and new plumbing and fixtures.
This was our office when we moved in. A beautiful paneled room! We just did this project last winter and now we have a great new bright orange office space.
The back of the house was in terrible shape when we bought it. The old second floor porch was enclosed to make a large bathroom but the previous owners left the outside like this.
We replaced the shingles and all the windows and added a window and a vent. Again, the brick repointing still desperately needs to happen.
We really love to have people over and our dining room was so sad. It was dark and the ceiling was peeling. We repainted, redid the crown moulding, added new electric, redid the windows. We love it now!
Noah's room was a huge project as well. The ceiling was rotten so we took it out and built a new one. His room had old knob and tube wiring and pipes exposed everywhere. We redid the ceiling and wiring, put up chair rail, crown, a ceiling fan, and painted.
The whole list (for my perusal)
New downstairs bathroom (new stone tile floor, new walls, new plumbing)
Rewired 1st and 2nd floor
Remodeled Dining Room (new crown moulding, new lighting, new window panes)
Remodeled Office (floor refinished, new lighting, new closet, added window, replaced old windows)
Remodeled Noah's Room (new ceiling, new lighting, new electric)
Remodeled Maeve's room
Fixed Roof
New Siding
Chimneys Repointed
New Gutters
7 replacement windows
New front porch
House Painted
Replaced all rotten wood
New ceiling on back porch
This helps me a lot! I sometimes get frustrated when things don't look like I want them to, but when I look at how much we have done in 5 years I am in shock! I have grown to love our home so much and I feel like it really reflects our personalities. I love that it will never be duplicated and that we are in such a great town where we can walk everywhere! I am still in awe that five years has gone by so quickly and I hope we're here for a long, long time!!!
Here is the picture on the listing from when we bought it (hence a little blurry)
Here it is today. It doesn't look that different on the outside. We have had it painted, put on a new front porch, took down the dilapidated awning and porch on the roof. We need to have the whole thing re-pointed, but that will be around $30K!!!
The first project we tackled was this bathroom downstairs. You could literally see into the basement! We put in a stone tile floor, new walls, new electric and new plumbing and fixtures.
This was our office when we moved in. A beautiful paneled room! We just did this project last winter and now we have a great new bright orange office space.
The back of the house was in terrible shape when we bought it. The old second floor porch was enclosed to make a large bathroom but the previous owners left the outside like this.
We replaced the shingles and all the windows and added a window and a vent. Again, the brick repointing still desperately needs to happen.
We really love to have people over and our dining room was so sad. It was dark and the ceiling was peeling. We repainted, redid the crown moulding, added new electric, redid the windows. We love it now!
Noah's room was a huge project as well. The ceiling was rotten so we took it out and built a new one. His room had old knob and tube wiring and pipes exposed everywhere. We redid the ceiling and wiring, put up chair rail, crown, a ceiling fan, and painted. 
The whole list (for my perusal)
New downstairs bathroom (new stone tile floor, new walls, new plumbing)
Rewired 1st and 2nd floor
Remodeled Dining Room (new crown moulding, new lighting, new window panes)
Remodeled Office (floor refinished, new lighting, new closet, added window, replaced old windows)
Remodeled Noah's Room (new ceiling, new lighting, new electric)
Remodeled Maeve's room
Fixed Roof
New Siding
Chimneys Repointed
New Gutters
7 replacement windows
New front porch
House Painted
Replaced all rotten wood
New ceiling on back porch
This helps me a lot! I sometimes get frustrated when things don't look like I want them to, but when I look at how much we have done in 5 years I am in shock! I have grown to love our home so much and I feel like it really reflects our personalities. I love that it will never be duplicated and that we are in such a great town where we can walk everywhere! I am still in awe that five years has gone by so quickly and I hope we're here for a long, long time!!!
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