Anguilla 2015

Anguilla 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Crawford - The Last Five Months

Crawford,

I am happy to say that as I write this you are doing wonderfully!  You're listening and overall behavior has been much improved this year!  You have been on green at school all year and have been a really good kid at home too.  We started using a magnet chart that Nanu and Poppie got you for Christmas and that seems to be working well.  Currently, the areas of focus are: no whining, no bad language (this includes baby talk), bed time routine, keeping hands to yourself, doing homework, pick up toys and saying please and thank you.  If you got all but seven magnets each week you get a prize!  So far you have gotten to build a bird house and a locker.  This week you get to plant your garden with Poppie if you keep up the good work!

You are making huge progress at speech therapy and have mastered your K and G sounds.  You are back working on your T,D,N and W sounds.  It won't be long and we won't be going to "new school" anymore.

I just dropped off your application to Our Lady of Mercy yesterday!  It took mom and dad a while to decide which school was going to be best for you, but we finally made a decision and you get to go to the same school as daddy!  I can't wait to see what big boy school has in store for you!

You are still hilarious and we never know what you might tell or ask us!

You are pretty average in size - 3'5'' (60%) and 37 pounds (56%)

You had your first job on January 10th walking "Memmy" for Nanu and Poppie and got paid $2.00.  You love to talk about all of the jobs you are going to have when you get older and how much money you will have.  You constantly tell us, we won't need to worry, that you'll have enough to share!  You are currently saving your money to buy a truck and wood for your building job.

We sure do love you!!






Jane Clare - The Last Five Months

Why is it so hard to consistently write?  A lot has happened since Crawford's 4th Birthday...

Since September, Jane Clare had her First Christmas, her First Birthday and is walking/running all over!  Since I'm not going to write on each event here's a list of what's happened and when it all happened with her.



September 17 - Top Two Teeth Came In
September 18 - Started Pulling up on the coffee table



October 2 - Two more top teeth came in; tried little bites of banana
October 15 - Crawling with tummy off of the ground and walking around objects; can stand by herself for a second
9 Month Check-Up - 28.74 inches long (83%); 22 pounds 10 ounces (94%); 45.7 centimeters around head (89%)

December 1 - Taking one to two steps
December 15 - Taking seven, eight, nine steps







January 6 - Happy Birthday baby girl!!  This last year has been so much fun with you!  You are the sweetest baby!  You currently have eight teeth, say daddy, night night and no-no!  You still love your momma and would much rather be held by her, unless your Nanu is around.  You really like her too!! You love to dance when music comes on, generally moving your arms up and down - raise the roof!  You love to give hugs to your stuffed animals and sometimes your family!  Slobery, open mouth kisses are your specialty.  So far, you are very calm and patient and rarely fuss.  You play wonderfully by yourself and thankfully you still love your sleep.  You sleep about 12 hours at night (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM) and take two 1-2 hour naps a day.




We gradually switched you off of your formula and you did great!  And you made the transition from bottles to sippy cups very easily!  Thank goodness!  You love your food and eat three meals a day with milk and some water with a splash of apple juice throughout the day.  So far, the only thing you don't really like are mashed cauliflower and mashed potatoes!  You LOVED your birthday cake!


January 27 - One Year Check Up - 29.921 inches long (68%); 24 pounds 3 ounces (87%; 46.4 centimeters around head (81%).

Please stop growing so fast!!