Friday, February 17, 2012

Love

After Jenna was born, I won a photo shoot and a few pictures from a local photographer. Although Jenna was not so happy when we left for the pictures, she quickly turned things around and we got some great pictures. Yesterday I received an E-mail from the photographer letting me know that they featured the girls on their blog yesterday, so I thought I would share. We took Jenna for her 9 month check up yesterday and she is doing great. She weighed in at 15lb 10 oz, 26.5 inches long with a 42.5 cm head circumference. At least she is proportionately small in the 5th percentile for weight, 10th percentile for length and between 5th-10th percentile for head circumference. I asked the doctor how much she should be eating and she just started laughing and responded with - this kid, she can eat however much she wants!

Jenna still has the same tricks - laughing at Claire, clapping, pulling up on EVERYTHING, getting into EVERYTHING, and crawling and cruising. She loves the vegetables that Dan is making for her - sweet potato, squash, lentils, cauliflower, tomato, celery, onion, basil. But God help the person who tries to put a green vegetable in her mouth. She squeezes her little lips together so tight and closes up the feeding station. And good luck gaining her trust again after that! As far as fruits go, she will eat bananas although her stomach can't really handle them and after that she is not loving any other fruits. We have made some and bought some and haven't found anything she will eat on a regular basis so we aren't forcing the issue. The girl loooooooves her yogurt - she can devour 2 bowlfuls at a time. We have been giving her plain, vanilla and Stonyfield's Banilla (banana & vanilla) which I highly recommend, it is delicious!! She has no interest in the sippy cup and is still taking 4 bottles a day and sleeping from 8ish until 7ish when Dan wakes her up.

Claire continues to be sweet as ever with everyone at school and her sister but sure gives us a run for our money at home. She is so smart and knows how to manipulate us big time! Without a doubt our most difficult time of the day is bed time. She is a master staller as soon as we start our potty, teeth, and book routine. And once she is in her room she colors and writes and colors and writes for a loooooooong time before she decides she is ready for bed, which is normally between 9:30 and 10PM. This week we had our parent teacher conferences and Claire got an excellent report. Her teachers are impressed with her writing and her memory and have started working on initial sounds with her. They said she is like the big sister in class and helps to get all the kids involved and Claire loves to read and answer questions. And of course she is talking great. We asked them to stop napping her during the day in hopes that she will go to bed earlier at night - time will tell.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Happy Valentines Day!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day!

Claire and Jenna both had little parties at school and then we had a little Bruno Mars dance party once we got home :-) Don't worry - Jennas arms are still attached !