(This is a long overdue post but I am posting it anyways :) )
Right after your shots at your one year appointment
October 16-27
It seems so crazy to even make a label titled "Raleigh Grace's Second year!" How is that even possible!? I am not promising to continue updating on a weekly basis but I will try to as much as possible because I know that down the road, I will enjoy reading. I hope you enjoy reading about my growing little girl as well! Raleigh Grace is becoming such an independent little ball of energy... so much fun, and so cute! I love you Miss RG!
This past week you have started laughing a LOT
Your favorite game is when daddy hides from you and then chases you or comes and gets you... you squeal and laugh and scream.
Your favorite "word" is UHHHHH-HUUUH!! In a very convincing tone :)
You learned how to try and put lids on things. You started doing this with your puffs. (sometimes you are successful too!)
You have used a fork for the first time... You love trying to stab things on the fork and are very good about getting the fork to your mouth and eating the food.
You are very good at following simple commands- even the doctor noticed this at your 1 year check up and was so impressed-- he said that you were easily "performing" the same as a 15-18 month old. He told you to "give this to mommy" and you brought it to me. I have also told you to "put the baby in the bed" as well as many other simple commands and you most definitely understand and more often than not follow the instruction.
You weighed 19.5lbs and _____________inches! (Ill have to look this up!)
Sleep has been on and off... you fight going to sleep a little more than usual and gone are those nice nights when you fall asleep nursing. You are back to your silly acrobatic self.
your last go-round at the swing... just a little over a year old! You loved your swing all along!
You loooove to blow bubbles on my stomach, arms, legs, etc... it makes a really loud noise and makes everyone laugh-- you will come up to other people (gma Lala, Daddy, etc) and do this to their legs while standing up. You love the attention!
You are SUCH a social butterfly! You looove making new friends!! A couple of weeks ago we were at Goodwill and there were some little girls who thought you were so cute (they were about 5 and 7) and they sat down in the floor to talk to you, you went up to one girl and crawled in her lap and went to give her a kiss... hahah!
You love walking around. You do NOT like to be sitting in one spot for more than a few minutes (read: you try to climb off the changing table, out of your high chair, out of your stroller, etc.) You throw little tantrums if you don't get your way (getting down and walking free.)
At the doctor when they questioned me about you I said "excellent" on all accounts except for eating. Part of that is my fault I know... you still don't really care for veggies and thats probably because we don't eat much of them around here. Shame on me!
You love my computer and will pitch a fit if you don't get to play on it when it is around... tonight you wanted to blog and here is what you wrote: :)
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I love sneaking pics of you while sleeping but it sure makes me nervous
You enjoyed playing in the leaves at gma and paw-paw's house (K's parent's )... funny story: Daddy was blowing leaves and thought you would like to see them flying around so he blew them up in the air... come to find out it was blowing dirt all in your eyes haha you didnt seem to mind, just kept blinking hard haha we took you inside where gma gave you an "eye bath" and you were better than new :)
Y'all! I have to apologize for avoiding my blog like the plague... I didn't really do it on purpose it just happened...
I have a BABY who is about to turn a year old! SIGH! Where oh where has the time gone? The days seem to fly by even faster as she is a running and a walking all over the place. Each day is filled with new adventures and tons of fun!
On the 17th Raleigh Grace is going to be ONE! I can not wrap my mind around that.
What did you do on your child's first birthday? We really don't have anything too special planned but we are having a party this weekend to celebrate.
This post is going to be short and sweet unlike most weekly posts but I just want to be done with it... I don't want to contemplate anymore than I already have what it means to have a one-year-old.
I'm just going to post what notes I did make these past few weeks :)
50 Weeks:
Nursing is great! You almost always fall asleep when I nurse you now! That means no more acrobatic nursing at nap/bed times. You are sleeping 10-12 hours at night. You loooove your books even more than ever and you love when someone reads to you-- you always turn the page of course. When we are sitting on the floor you have started walking backwards to us and sitting in our laps to have us read to you. You always bring the book you want us to read to you. This is my FAVORITE moment of this week. I love reading to you with you in my lap. it is SO cute! You have also started saying "UGH-HUH" to everything as in, "Raleigh Grace, are you a happy girl?"..."UGH HUH!" haha :)
51 Weeks:
We went to Great Grandma and Grandpa's house in the mountains. Gma was cleaning up some water on the floor with a paper towel and you just bent over and started wiping the floor back and forth with your hand, she gave you a paper towel and man were you the best helper ever! You love to "clean" now :)
That Sunday at GGma's house you cut your second top tooth (third tooth overall)- It is the top center right tooth if that makes since... (I have totally failed you all by not getting a picture of either top tooth yet... )
You sleep great in the car- you slept the full two hours to gma's and the full two hours home and then you went right back to bed since it was your bed time when we got home. I love that you have always been so flexible with your schedule!! :) Thank for that sweet girl!
Your eating habits are only okay... you are picky and sometimes eat a lot and sometimes eat nothing. You like table food but we have been giving you pouches to get you in some veggies (yes, mommy and daddy are sneaky like that hehe).
doing a little cleaning :)
52 Weeks!!!! ONE YEAR!!!
You now like to clean the floors and tables with towels, napkins or wipes. Tuesday night you slept for almost 13 hours... I was a little nervous because you were warm when you woke up. You were a very different baby with a different personalitly-- you were clingy, needy and wanted to be held all the time. I think you took 3 or 4 naps on Tuesday... I thought maybe it was the top tooth still working its way through or something... Around 9pm you really perked up and would NOOOOT go tobed. You cried and fussed for over 30 minutes after you wore me out with your acrobatic nursing again...This was something new because for the last month or so you have been so calm nursing and almost always falling asleep while nursing. You haven't fought sleep for that long in forever either... I thought it was weird and after 30 minutes of crying and fussing on and off I finally went and got you out of bed. You were warm and doing the cry-hicup sounds... After being up for a few minutes I took you back to your room and nursed you and you and rocked you in my arms side to side (like I always do before laying you in your crib) and you finally fell asleep. Wednesday morning you woke up and you were BURNING hot... I was a nervous wreck when I took you temp and it was 100.8 under your arm. I called the doc and he said to monitor you for the next 24 hours and give you motrin... if you were still feverish in the AM to come in then. This was the FIRST time that I know of that you had a fever in your life. You got up and everything made you fussy, and whimpery... you didn't want to nurse but you ate a little food. I took you to my bed and you just sat there with me, bunny and your passy. You looked sleepy so I tilted you back on a pillow and you were asleep within one minute. You kept startling and waking but then going back to sleep... you did this several times and even fell asleep in my arms while I was holding you. This hasn't happened since you were probably two weeks old! I knew for sure something was wrong. We did this all day, just cuddled, nursed and layed low... I really enjoyed the cuddles but hated sooo badly that I couldn't make it better. Thursday you woke up and still had 100.8 fever. I called dr. and they didn't have any appointments but I called the dr. on his cell and he told me to bring you in (what doc gives out his cell and does this for his patients... I just love your dr!)! I got you ready and we jumped in the car... it ends up you did have a 101 fever (I didn't give you any meds to break your fever that morning bc I wanted doc to see you as-is.) You fell asleep laying on my chest in the exam room waiting on the doc to come see you- lights on and all... You are NOT the cuddler, I could not believe you were doing that! He looked at you and checked your ears and you had a right ear infection. He gave you Cedex (antibiotic) and told you to take 5ml a day... along with 5ml of children's motrin once a day as needed. We gave you the meds at the dr but you didn't really perk up any. By friday I think you were feeling a little bit better -- you seemed to be acting more like yourself but Friday when you woke up you had a rash covering you head. I was nervous you had had a reaction to the cedex since you had never had it before so I called the nurses line to see if they wanted you to come in... you doc was gone that afternoon but we went back in and saw a diff. doc in that office and he tested your blood count and we found out that you had Roseola. By Friday afternoon the rash was on your diaper area, belly, and head. Roseola (I learned) is a virus that starts with a mild- to mid grade fever and after the fever breaks a rash breaks out on body -- sometimes an ear infection can accompany it. When the rash shows up it means that you are no longer contagious and that you are on your way to getting well. He instructed us to continue antibiotics because your ear was still infected and to be checked again in a week. Luckily, you already have you one year check up scheduled for next week so we will just have your blood checked again then to make sure you are getting well and that the infection and fluid in your ear goes away. I'm ready for you to be well! I hate seeing you feel bad!!
By Saturday you were in great spirits (minus the rash that didn't seem to be bothering you) and you played and had a great time. We went to several yard sales (you me and daddy) but found nothing. We went to Chic-fil-a afterwards for lunch and you played in the playplace for the FIRST (of many I'm sure) times! You had such a ball!!
You went to your FIRST wedding rehearsal dinner for Daddy's friend Michael and Katherine and you stole the show as always!
you poor sickly baby, I can't even remember the last time you laid down in bed with me, much less fall asleep within a minute!
Feeling a little better- K and RG went to get dressed to go have some dinner so we could leave the house at least once, when they came back they were both wearing red :) Such little love birds!
Thursday, before seeing the doc... 101 fever :(
sweet girl refusing to sleep... this was about 11pm- she was wearing her I love my mom shirt so that made me feel better :)
waiting to see the doctor... Um yeah, this NEVER happens and by never I mean the last time it did happen was when she was a couple weeks old
and back to the doctor we go... she now has a rash covering her body...sigh
She was wayyy more mad about the band aid than the finger prick- she was so mad that she coudn't get the band aid off.
Eating up my little beauty today (saturday), shes feeling much better :) She's wearing her new Joe's and her North Face we bought her last year... TOO adorable
K (right) and his brother at their friends wedding Sunday
Doing a little driving... this is serious business! #focused #10and2
Doing a little reading with Auntie :)
Raleigh Grace, you are so much fun... walking, running and making mommy and daddy smile on purpose. You love playing peek-a-boo with us and tilting your head around things to see us. I love watching your face light up when you see us- and our face definitely lights up when we see you. You are a joy to teach and watch grow, you are smart beyond your days and I thank the Lord for giving us SUCH a blessing in YOU!! We love you to the ends of the earth and back, forever and ever!!! xoxo, Mommy and Daddy!
Wow!! Are we really winding down the weeks until my sweet baby girl turns ONE!? How can this be!!??
You love playing with shoes
Cheering on your Baylor Bears!
Stats:
We took you for your check up this past week to see if your double ear infection was gone and you were 18 1/2 lbs! :) (When you went two weeks ago they wouldn't let me put a dry diaper on you and they said it wouldn't matter much- well you lost a whole pound in two weeks going from a wet diaper to a dry one haha -- I made sure you were dry before they weighed you this time ;) )
she got herself in there... and I think she might be stuck ha
First/Milestones:
You have started signing "All Done/Finished" and "Night Night"
You cut your 1st TOP tooth!
You had your first PBJ sandwich (without the PB of course!) :)
you love eating lunch with GGdaddy! :)
Behavior/Loves:
Getting into things...
You love your bunny (that you sleep with), walking, feeding yourself, exploring things, doing your scruntchy nose grin, Brown Bear (which you call "buh buh"), when people talk to you in public, being the center of attention
getting into trouble!
yup, that last picture is how you got "down" haha
Sleep:
You are an awesome sleeper! Your naps are anywhere from 2-3 hours and you sleep 10-12 hours at night depending on when I put you down. You don't get up in the mornings until 9 or 10am!
after sleeping from 8:30pm - 9am!
Feeding:
You nurse about 5-6 times a day -- in the am when you wake up, when you go down for your 1st nap, (sometimes when you wake up from your nap), when you go down for your 2nd nap, (sometimes when you wake up from your nap), and before bed at night. Randomly there will be another feeding in there but usually its just "snacking" for you. You nurse from 5-10 minutes max.
You are eating all table food- we have had a hard time getting you to eat veggies so I bought you some of the baby food pouches of veggies and you will eat those. You are just miss independent and don't want anyone feeding you. You love the pouches of applesauce too!
Favs- bananas, avacado, applesauce from a pouch, teddy grams, cheerios, puffs, lunch meat, hot dogs and veggie straws
You still like your yogurt okay but not like you used to.
you stick that bottom lip out ALL the time ha!
you also love lunch with Auntie
Clothes:
6 month for the most part- your sleepers are starting to get a little bit "short" in the feet but your 6-9 are still a little big but thats what we are transitioning to. You also wear some 9 month things. Size two diapers (but totally ready for 3's we are just trying to use up what we have!)
you love sitting on the bed and leaning backwards and throwing yourself onto the bed, then sitting up and repeating :)
Favorite Moments:
You have started to "cuddle" a tiny bit more- Daddy watched you the other day while I did some shopping and he sent me the sweetest picture of you laying on him on the couch. You will cuddle for 5 mins max in about 30 second intervals hah this is more than usual though :)
Watching you walk around- everywhere! Watching you explore on your own!
watching some football with Daddy
Most Challenging:
You have started bursting out with a LOUD high pitch squeal or scream when you don't get what you want or when you are frustrated. You also do this thing where you will grab Mommy or Daddy's face and pinch it as hard as you can- frankly it hurts and you often scratch us with your sharp little nails... I'm not sure why you do this but we are trying to tell you "No" very firmly and you usually just grin and laugh. It makes me wonder if you think you are being funny...?
helping daddy with dishes (aka spinning the water spinner)
looking up at Mama!
Looking Forward to:
{not!} Your 1st Birthday Party!! I really am looking forward to it, just don't want you to grow up!!
Talking a walk with PawPaw and using his walking stick :)
playing with PawPaw at his house- climbing the stairs
I promised I would post more pictures of the cutest little girlies ever aka Emma Claire and Raleigh Grace aka Two Peas in a Pod aka Twinkies (we really did get asked almost every time we were in public if they were twins)... I just love the pics of this fun trip with Mallorie and Emma Claire !!! We love ya'll!
(and I'm crossing my fingers this post might convince them they need to come back-- like SOON! We could always go to BSF together and so could our babes... you know it would be greatness! ;) )
(pardon the fact that lots of these are iphone quality aka not the best, and unedited. enjoy!)
RG by the Week: 47 Weeks
the mornings started out like this... sharing some "breakfast" and they just happened to be wearing matching jammies this morning!
and a little cuddling... RG loved it even if she doesn't look thrilled :-P
and they have matching "I <3 bbq="bbq" course="course" nbsp="nbsp" of="of" onesies="onesies" restaurant="restaurant" td="td" that="that" the="the" they="they" to="to" wore="wore">
at the produce stand... :)
oh their faces... totally crack me up!
at the Plantation in their smocked goodness... too bad it was 100 degrees and they were NOT feeling the photo shoot. RG loved EC's barn animals :)
they enjoyed lots of bath time fun...
oh my word, they were such a hoot squealing and bouncing in the cart- literally entertained the whole store
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