We had a wonderful Christmas party at Lee and Cara's in early December with Lynn & Alex and Trevor, Liz, and Lily. As you can see, Santa visited and was a complete hit - for everybody except the girls, that is! It was amazing how much they all acted just like you hear babies act around Santa - TERRIFIED! (even though it was friendly, lovable Uncle Alex under all that stuffing) We laughed, they cried and we did a secret santa gift exchange (which got Lily thinking this Santa stuff is allllll-right). The most exciting part of the entire evening was the announcement at dinner that Lynn and Alex are expecting a baby in July! Then we all whooped and hollered, the babies laughed and we cried. Lynn is absolutely glowing and Alex is the proudest papa to be ever. We couldn't be happier for them and we can't wait to meet the little pal who will grow up with his/her big sisters Sabrina, Casey and Lily.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Winter at the park
Sabrina loves to be outside! Her favorite is still the swings so we try to make it down to the park by our house by Viele Lake as often as possible, even in the cold weather. She is a great sport about being bundled up, as you can see.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010
(yes, I'm catching up on my blog posting)
We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend at the condo in Breckenridge with Nana, Poppy, Erin, Duncan, Jacob, and Brie. We ate, we skied, we ate some more. Sabrina tasted her first whipped cream (surely not her last) and showed us how well she can handle her very own bowl, thank you very much.
We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend at the condo in Breckenridge with Nana, Poppy, Erin, Duncan, Jacob, and Brie. We ate, we skied, we ate some more. Sabrina tasted her first whipped cream (surely not her last) and showed us how well she can handle her very own bowl, thank you very much.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
These socks were made for walkin'
Go Sabrina!
(sorry for the sideways video - we were so excited to catch this on video that we didn't notice that it was sideways!)
(sorry for the sideways video - we were so excited to catch this on video that we didn't notice that it was sideways!)
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Tooth #5 is making an appearance!
Woohoo! Just today I noticed one of her two middle teeth starting to poke through. And it looks like the one next to it is not far behind. Finally she'll look like a kid who knew what order she was supposed to get her teeth.
We spent the day watching Badger football in the morning with our friends Tim and Sarah and their son, Jaden. The kids were both sporting their Badger gear.
We also took advantage of the beautiful day (along with the rest of Boulder) and went for a hike up Flagstaff Mountain. It was in the upper 70s today and is supposed to get cold enough to snow, finally, this week. We'll see! It was nice to enjoy one more day of beautiful sunshine while we can.
For dinner we went over to my coworker's house for a BBQ. Cullen and Leslie hosted us and Tatum and Carver shared all their toys happily with Sabrina and Lisa's boys, AJ and Dominick. Sabrina and Dom wreaked havoc on the Choi's refrigerator, as shown in the photo. They took everything off the fridge at least 5 times while we were there. It was quite the household with 5 kids under 5, but they all made up for the craziness with their cuteness.
We spent the day watching Badger football in the morning with our friends Tim and Sarah and their son, Jaden. The kids were both sporting their Badger gear.
We also took advantage of the beautiful day (along with the rest of Boulder) and went for a hike up Flagstaff Mountain. It was in the upper 70s today and is supposed to get cold enough to snow, finally, this week. We'll see! It was nice to enjoy one more day of beautiful sunshine while we can.
For dinner we went over to my coworker's house for a BBQ. Cullen and Leslie hosted us and Tatum and Carver shared all their toys happily with Sabrina and Lisa's boys, AJ and Dominick. Sabrina and Dom wreaked havoc on the Choi's refrigerator, as shown in the photo. They took everything off the fridge at least 5 times while we were there. It was quite the household with 5 kids under 5, but they all made up for the craziness with their cuteness.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Happy Halloween!
Sabrina had a great first Halloween - and wore her Pebbles costume 3 different times! We had an action packed weekend. We started the weekend at Brent's office party on Friday, then went to a party at her daycare, the Cottage School on Saturday morning, then a birthday party for her friend, Charlie, then a neighborhood party that night, then finally the Munchkin Masquerade on Pearl St., followed by trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Phew. No wonder I'm exhausted! The best part of the weekend was that Sabrina got to share this occasion with all four of her grandparents! Rich and Gail flew out on Friday and they leave Monday morning. They were great sports and dressed up for the munchkin masquerade on Halloween. Sabrina absolutely loved seeing them, and proved it by not falling asleep until 10 o'clock Saturday or Sunday night! The video at the end of the album shows how silly she got after dinner on Sunday night. She has definitely mastered the game of peek-a-boo all by herself.
She started eating like a sumo wrestler yesterday and hasn't stopped since. She hasn't been eating much for the past few weeks and I was starting to get worried. Now all of a sudden she's a bottomless pit! I feel like she's going to wake up 4 feet tall tomorrow. Probably not, but I don't know where she's putting it all. If she has a huge growth spurt, I'll let you know!
And, some other exciting news is that she took a few more solo steps on Friday night with all four grandparents watching. She took about 3-4 steps (differs depending on who you ask!) but it was unanimous that she was extremely close to walking. How exciting!
Here are photos and a video from the weekend:
She started eating like a sumo wrestler yesterday and hasn't stopped since. She hasn't been eating much for the past few weeks and I was starting to get worried. Now all of a sudden she's a bottomless pit! I feel like she's going to wake up 4 feet tall tomorrow. Probably not, but I don't know where she's putting it all. If she has a huge growth spurt, I'll let you know!
And, some other exciting news is that she took a few more solo steps on Friday night with all four grandparents watching. She took about 3-4 steps (differs depending on who you ask!) but it was unanimous that she was extremely close to walking. How exciting!
Here are photos and a video from the weekend:
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
9 1/2 months!
I can't believe that Sabrina is over 9 1/2 months old! It has been awhile since I've been able to post and it's just a result of us being ridiculously busy. But in the spirit of full disclosure, part of why we're so busy is that we've been partying it up like crazy for my birthday, and Natalie's birthday as well. It's been a blast.
Two weekends ago Brent and I took our first overnight trip without Sabrina. Mom and Dad were sweet enough to hire a babysitter for us so we could enjoy a romantic getaway to Devil's Thumb Ranch outside of Winter Park. Sabrina stayed with Hannah who was one of her favorite teachers at the Cottage where she goes to daycare. Hannah doesn't work at the Cottage anymore, but she's available for babysitting. It works out really well since Sabrina already knows her and we already trust her. Sabrina did great while we were gone, and she got to spend the whole day on Sunday with her Nana and Poppy, followed by a BBQ at Lee and Cara's house where we showed up on Sunday afternoon. It was a full weekend for all of us! We all survived the weekend apart (with only a minor hunger strike from Sabrina) and it felt great to get over the hurdle of having a babysitter watch Sabrina. In fact, we felt so comfortable with it that we used Hannah again this past weekend so that Brent and I could go out to dinner with Natalie and Kurt, followed by a movie. I think it was the first time the four of us have had a full conversation in about 18 months!! (no offense, Celia and Sabrina!) Once again, Sabrina did well with Hannah, and even made it easy on us by kicking and flapping all four limbs with excitement when Hannah walked in the house. I think she hardly noticed that we were gone. Be careful...we could get used to this!
Sabrina is right on the brink of walking. She stands unsupported all the time now and then last Tuesday she took 2 unsupported steps! She was standing next to Mom (Nana), and then took two steps and fell into my arms. We aren't calling it walking, but it was pretty amazing to see. Since Mom and Dad left for the ranch in CA the next morning, we've been following Mom's request to knock her over every time she tries to walk again before they get back (just kidding!) She hasn't taken anymore steps yet, but she's getting very stable on her feet. We think it's mostly a matter of motivation now. Like with crawling, we have to find out what she wants badly enough to move.
Her favorite things these days are:
- doors and cabinets (she still LOVES to sit in front of them and open, close, open, close, open...)
- tuperware (unfortunately this also means that we either clean all of our tuperware daily, or deal with little bit of Pongo hair in all of our leftovers...hmm...)
- a wooden stacking toy that she's figured out well enough to take off all the pieces and put them back on the three posts - we watch the coordination this takes and we can't believe how well she does at it
- the stairs - going up AND down these days. Going up is pretty solid and she's gone down the stairs pretty well a few times in the right way, turning around backwards, etc..., but it's still a little scary
- her alligator push toy - she walks from the living room to the kitchen back and forth. we took it outside the other night and she walked up and down the sidewalk several times (and waved at Pongo as she walked by our house - it was hysterical and drove him crazy as he sat at the front door watching her!) (see video)
- water - she gulps water like crazy during meals - and I'm pretty sure that she has said "water" a few times now. the first time I thought it was a fluke, even though it was used in a perfect context, but when she did it again at the right time, I think she might really be learning that word! very cool.
- drumming on everything, including her food (see video)
- flipping upside down - a sure laugh every time
- peekaboo - still gets her almost every time
Her favorite foods these days include: beets (the golden ones are less messy, so we've been cooking those), chicken, cheese, crackers, pears, apples, yogurt, cheerios, puffs, veggie straws, sweet potato fries, bread, cheesy vegetables, french toast, mac and cheese...and a new favorite (messy in many ways) is baked beans with bacon (Thanks Nana).
We've been in a bad sleeping pattern for the past month or two and I think we finally realized that she started it, but we didn't do a good job of getting her back on track. We've gotten into the habit of feeding her in the middle of the night, bringing her into our bed in the morning, and basically indulging her each time she wakes up. As we've started feeling run-down and worn out, we've read a bit about infant sleep. We've learned that she really doesn't need to be eating during the night and that she probably isn't getting very good sleep either because she doesn't know how to get back to sleep. So we've been working on a plan for the past few nights of making her put herself back to sleep if it hasn't been long enough for a feeding. We're also slowly increasing the times between feedings until we can eliminate them all together. It means more crying at night than we're used to, but she's been doing really well even after only a few nights. Last night she cried once for 6 minutes (not that I was counting...ha), and then she slept for 8.5 hours before eating, and then slept another 3.5 hours after eating. We hope to be back to sleeping through the night in a few weeks! Looking forward to that.
And, in general, she's still an extremely happy baby who smiles and laughs all the time. Here's another video from tonight of her just cracking up at me imitating her. Sorry for the shaky video!! In this video, you'll also hear Pongo trying to get attention. All I can say is "Poor dog." We try.
Two weekends ago Brent and I took our first overnight trip without Sabrina. Mom and Dad were sweet enough to hire a babysitter for us so we could enjoy a romantic getaway to Devil's Thumb Ranch outside of Winter Park. Sabrina stayed with Hannah who was one of her favorite teachers at the Cottage where she goes to daycare. Hannah doesn't work at the Cottage anymore, but she's available for babysitting. It works out really well since Sabrina already knows her and we already trust her. Sabrina did great while we were gone, and she got to spend the whole day on Sunday with her Nana and Poppy, followed by a BBQ at Lee and Cara's house where we showed up on Sunday afternoon. It was a full weekend for all of us! We all survived the weekend apart (with only a minor hunger strike from Sabrina) and it felt great to get over the hurdle of having a babysitter watch Sabrina. In fact, we felt so comfortable with it that we used Hannah again this past weekend so that Brent and I could go out to dinner with Natalie and Kurt, followed by a movie. I think it was the first time the four of us have had a full conversation in about 18 months!! (no offense, Celia and Sabrina!) Once again, Sabrina did well with Hannah, and even made it easy on us by kicking and flapping all four limbs with excitement when Hannah walked in the house. I think she hardly noticed that we were gone. Be careful...we could get used to this!
Sabrina is right on the brink of walking. She stands unsupported all the time now and then last Tuesday she took 2 unsupported steps! She was standing next to Mom (Nana), and then took two steps and fell into my arms. We aren't calling it walking, but it was pretty amazing to see. Since Mom and Dad left for the ranch in CA the next morning, we've been following Mom's request to knock her over every time she tries to walk again before they get back (just kidding!) She hasn't taken anymore steps yet, but she's getting very stable on her feet. We think it's mostly a matter of motivation now. Like with crawling, we have to find out what she wants badly enough to move.
Her favorite things these days are:
- doors and cabinets (she still LOVES to sit in front of them and open, close, open, close, open...)
- tuperware (unfortunately this also means that we either clean all of our tuperware daily, or deal with little bit of Pongo hair in all of our leftovers...hmm...)
- a wooden stacking toy that she's figured out well enough to take off all the pieces and put them back on the three posts - we watch the coordination this takes and we can't believe how well she does at it
- the stairs - going up AND down these days. Going up is pretty solid and she's gone down the stairs pretty well a few times in the right way, turning around backwards, etc..., but it's still a little scary
- her alligator push toy - she walks from the living room to the kitchen back and forth. we took it outside the other night and she walked up and down the sidewalk several times (and waved at Pongo as she walked by our house - it was hysterical and drove him crazy as he sat at the front door watching her!) (see video)
- water - she gulps water like crazy during meals - and I'm pretty sure that she has said "water" a few times now. the first time I thought it was a fluke, even though it was used in a perfect context, but when she did it again at the right time, I think she might really be learning that word! very cool.
- drumming on everything, including her food (see video)
- flipping upside down - a sure laugh every time
- peekaboo - still gets her almost every time
Her favorite foods these days include: beets (the golden ones are less messy, so we've been cooking those), chicken, cheese, crackers, pears, apples, yogurt, cheerios, puffs, veggie straws, sweet potato fries, bread, cheesy vegetables, french toast, mac and cheese...and a new favorite (messy in many ways) is baked beans with bacon (Thanks Nana).
We've been in a bad sleeping pattern for the past month or two and I think we finally realized that she started it, but we didn't do a good job of getting her back on track. We've gotten into the habit of feeding her in the middle of the night, bringing her into our bed in the morning, and basically indulging her each time she wakes up. As we've started feeling run-down and worn out, we've read a bit about infant sleep. We've learned that she really doesn't need to be eating during the night and that she probably isn't getting very good sleep either because she doesn't know how to get back to sleep. So we've been working on a plan for the past few nights of making her put herself back to sleep if it hasn't been long enough for a feeding. We're also slowly increasing the times between feedings until we can eliminate them all together. It means more crying at night than we're used to, but she's been doing really well even after only a few nights. Last night she cried once for 6 minutes (not that I was counting...ha), and then she slept for 8.5 hours before eating, and then slept another 3.5 hours after eating. We hope to be back to sleeping through the night in a few weeks! Looking forward to that.
And, in general, she's still an extremely happy baby who smiles and laughs all the time. Here's another video from tonight of her just cracking up at me imitating her. Sorry for the shaky video!! In this video, you'll also hear Pongo trying to get attention. All I can say is "Poor dog." We try.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
P.S. addition to the list
Please add " dishwasher" to the list of things that Sabrina loves to crawl into these days.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
September happenings & Ashley's visit to Boulder!
Ashley came for almost a week and we had a wonderful time playing up in the mountains and at our house. We didn't do great picture taking to record everything, but here are some from the hike up McCullough Gulch that we made with Ash and Dad. We went a little later in the day than last week, and on a weekend that wasn't Labor Day and it was almost completely empty. We had a great time lounging around by the Falls and taking pictures that were unobstructed by "others."
Sabrina continues to do extremely well. Her current "skills" are: opening cabinets (and getting mad about the cabinet under the sink that we've baby proofed), standing up in her high chair, blowing into an empty cup to listen to the noise it makes, blowing spit bubbles (kinda gross, kinda cute), pushing her activity table across the living room (we just purchased a push toy for her, taking the hint), and the most fun new skill is that she's standing unassisted more and more these days. She's stood unassisted for over a minute several times now. It's been very cool to see her start to wobble and correct herself - a few times by bending her knees and adopting a "surfer pose" as Brent calls it. It's very cute. She's also played a funny game of peek-a-boo a few different times where she crouches down behind the coffee table and then stands up when we say "Peek-a-boo" and she'll do it over and over. It's pretty cool to see her little legs figuring out how to crouch and stand up again. She also loves to climb up and over things, like up on the fireplace mantel (not our favorite game), up the stairs, over us if we're lying on the ground, and up onto her activity table. She still loves to entertain herself with the toys in her toy bins, the recycling, pots/pans under the kitchen island, and tupperware containers in the cabinets.
We also just discovered that she LOVES swinging and can handle the bucket swings on normal swingsets. The first time that we put her in one last Thursday at our company BBQ, she went nuts and cracked up like we haven't seen her do in weeks. It was so hysterical! She just laughed and laughed. Since then we've been to the park by our house twice to swing and it's been just as hilarious each time. I'll try to catch it on video soon!
She is extremely vocal these days. We still hear the Gremlin every now and then and recently she's adopted a Donald Duck sound, and a (slightly disconcerting) gasping noise when she's laughing. It made me nervous a few times, but I'm pretty sure it's just a funny sound she likes to make. Nana had a hard time hearing me on the phone today because she was talking so loudly.
She is eating more and more these days and nursing less and less. Unfortunately, most of her nursing actually happens in the middle of the night. She's started a rather unfortunate habit of waking up in the middle of the night a few nights a week to nurse. But during the day she's mostly eating what we're eating, just torn into small pieces. She only has two teeth, but she does pretty well. Her favorites these days are cheese, chicken, anything full of carbs (bread, crackers, cheerios, etc...), beets, apples, pears, yogurt, and french toast.
She's a cutie!
Sabrina continues to do extremely well. Her current "skills" are: opening cabinets (and getting mad about the cabinet under the sink that we've baby proofed), standing up in her high chair, blowing into an empty cup to listen to the noise it makes, blowing spit bubbles (kinda gross, kinda cute), pushing her activity table across the living room (we just purchased a push toy for her, taking the hint), and the most fun new skill is that she's standing unassisted more and more these days. She's stood unassisted for over a minute several times now. It's been very cool to see her start to wobble and correct herself - a few times by bending her knees and adopting a "surfer pose" as Brent calls it. It's very cute. She's also played a funny game of peek-a-boo a few different times where she crouches down behind the coffee table and then stands up when we say "Peek-a-boo" and she'll do it over and over. It's pretty cool to see her little legs figuring out how to crouch and stand up again. She also loves to climb up and over things, like up on the fireplace mantel (not our favorite game), up the stairs, over us if we're lying on the ground, and up onto her activity table. She still loves to entertain herself with the toys in her toy bins, the recycling, pots/pans under the kitchen island, and tupperware containers in the cabinets.
We also just discovered that she LOVES swinging and can handle the bucket swings on normal swingsets. The first time that we put her in one last Thursday at our company BBQ, she went nuts and cracked up like we haven't seen her do in weeks. It was so hysterical! She just laughed and laughed. Since then we've been to the park by our house twice to swing and it's been just as hilarious each time. I'll try to catch it on video soon!
She is extremely vocal these days. We still hear the Gremlin every now and then and recently she's adopted a Donald Duck sound, and a (slightly disconcerting) gasping noise when she's laughing. It made me nervous a few times, but I'm pretty sure it's just a funny sound she likes to make. Nana had a hard time hearing me on the phone today because she was talking so loudly.
She is eating more and more these days and nursing less and less. Unfortunately, most of her nursing actually happens in the middle of the night. She's started a rather unfortunate habit of waking up in the middle of the night a few nights a week to nurse. But during the day she's mostly eating what we're eating, just torn into small pieces. She only has two teeth, but she does pretty well. Her favorites these days are cheese, chicken, anything full of carbs (bread, crackers, cheerios, etc...), beets, apples, pears, yogurt, and french toast.
She's a cutie!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Labor Day Weekend 2010
Here are photos from a wonderful Labor Day Weekend in the mountains. Boats, good friends, gorgeous weather, and a happy baby. Fun! Thanks Mom & Dad for hosting us all on Lake Dillon on Saturday. What a good idea! Sabrina loved her first boating trip ever.
Walk in the neighborhood with Lexy.
Lexy and Sabrina are daycare buddies and we met up for a walk this afternoon. More photos from the weekend coming soon!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Splashin' with Casey
We had a great afternoon with Cara and Casey on Sunday and we splashed around in the baby pool! Thanks to Frank and Sharon, Casey had some killer new bath toys that were apparently delicious. Photos of cuteness:
Finger Foods
Here is a funny video of Sabrina eating finger foods
And in this first attempt to catch her eating, she doesn't do a very good job at the actual eating part, but it's fun to watch her actively working on her motor skills. And, you'll notice Pongo is hovering in both. "Whoa! You mean this kid drops chicken? Awesome!"
Unfortunately in this video you'll also be able to see the bruise on her arm where she was bitten (yes, bitten!) at daycare last week. It was an awful call to receive at work and it made me momentarily rethink the entire idea of working and putting her in daycare. But as I talk to more parents, I realize that when a group of kids are together, it's one of those things that happens. So whether it's in daycare or kindergarten, it's a possibility. It just stinks. But I felt like The Cottage School handled it as well as can be expected and thankfully the bite didn't break the skin. Let's just hope she doesn't pick up the biting herself...so gross. Our poor little victim. It's such a big, bad world. :-(
And in this first attempt to catch her eating, she doesn't do a very good job at the actual eating part, but it's fun to watch her actively working on her motor skills. And, you'll notice Pongo is hovering in both. "Whoa! You mean this kid drops chicken? Awesome!"
Unfortunately in this video you'll also be able to see the bruise on her arm where she was bitten (yes, bitten!) at daycare last week. It was an awful call to receive at work and it made me momentarily rethink the entire idea of working and putting her in daycare. But as I talk to more parents, I realize that when a group of kids are together, it's one of those things that happens. So whether it's in daycare or kindergarten, it's a possibility. It just stinks. But I felt like The Cottage School handled it as well as can be expected and thankfully the bite didn't break the skin. Let's just hope she doesn't pick up the biting herself...so gross. Our poor little victim. It's such a big, bad world. :-(
Monday, August 2, 2010
Bath Time!
Just some obligatory cute baby pictures from bath tub, including the favorite, the mohawk shot.
(you'll notice that Pongo "helped" too)
(you'll notice that Pongo "helped" too)
Omnivorous Baby
Sabrina eats chicken now - and LOVES it! She also drinks from a shot glass (pediatrician recommended...and I'm not kidding). Check out the video to see it for yourself.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Another weekend in CO, another beautiful hike
Ahhh - life in Colorado is so hard.
We went up to the Fourth of July Trailhead today outside of Nederland and Eldora and hiked the Arapaho Glacier Trail. The weather was very odd and we hiked through a little bit of rain and some sun. You can see the weird aura in some of our pictures. We think it was partly the sky and partly our lens, but these photos were taken on two different cameras and both came out a little funky. I'm convinced there were some spirits up there today!
After the hike we went to the Wild Mountain Brewery in Nederland, then visited the Carousel of Happiness (story included in photo captions) for Sabrina's first carnival ride.
Sabrina ate more than we've ever seen her eat today - we think her appetite for solid food is really developing. Today she ate green beans, squash & apple sauce, more apples for lunch, sweet potatoes mixed with apples (sorry, I made a LOT of apples awhile ago), and finally some apricots with rice cereal. She just kept wolfing it down! We've never seen her eat like that. She barely even had any on her face! Hopefully it doesn't give her a tummy ache tonight - we'll see. She went to bed like an angel so maybe it was just what her body needed after all that hiking and playing. She sure seemed like she was having a great time all day.
We went up to the Fourth of July Trailhead today outside of Nederland and Eldora and hiked the Arapaho Glacier Trail. The weather was very odd and we hiked through a little bit of rain and some sun. You can see the weird aura in some of our pictures. We think it was partly the sky and partly our lens, but these photos were taken on two different cameras and both came out a little funky. I'm convinced there were some spirits up there today!
After the hike we went to the Wild Mountain Brewery in Nederland, then visited the Carousel of Happiness (story included in photo captions) for Sabrina's first carnival ride.
Sabrina ate more than we've ever seen her eat today - we think her appetite for solid food is really developing. Today she ate green beans, squash & apple sauce, more apples for lunch, sweet potatoes mixed with apples (sorry, I made a LOT of apples awhile ago), and finally some apricots with rice cereal. She just kept wolfing it down! We've never seen her eat like that. She barely even had any on her face! Hopefully it doesn't give her a tummy ache tonight - we'll see. She went to bed like an angel so maybe it was just what her body needed after all that hiking and playing. She sure seemed like she was having a great time all day.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Movin' and a Groovin'
Here are a few videos from the past week of Sabrina and her new moving skills.
The first one shows how she was trying to crawl across the wood floor with the book in her hand and it was accelerating things, to say the least! Then I had to cut it off so she didn't eat Brent's socks (some of her favorite things to find in a room and stick in her mouth are Brent's socks and my flip-flops! ewww)
The next video shows a terrifying realization that we caught on film tonight...she can go up stairs. As in, our entire flight of stairs! She got a bit stalled on the top step as you can see in the video, but she crawled up the entire staircase with me behind her while Brent was trying to find the Flip video. ZOIKS! sorry this video got a bit long; I'm having IT issues with clipping videos.
Next up is just evidence of how fast she's crawling all of a sudden. When I picked her up from daycare today she just shot across the room to me. She's really getting good!
And finally just a good example of how hard Sabrina works when she's concentrating on something. Here is her trying to figure out Brent's free weights downstairs. They have commented on her concentration at daycare. They say that she will sit and focus on something for unusually long amounts of time for somebody her age. We've witnessed it first hand, but of course it's hard to know what is "normal" or "unusual" when it's your first kid! We just think everything she does is amazing, but it's pretty neat to hear when others say she's doing well too. She's just a fun, cool kid.
The first one shows how she was trying to crawl across the wood floor with the book in her hand and it was accelerating things, to say the least! Then I had to cut it off so she didn't eat Brent's socks (some of her favorite things to find in a room and stick in her mouth are Brent's socks and my flip-flops! ewww)
The next video shows a terrifying realization that we caught on film tonight...she can go up stairs. As in, our entire flight of stairs! She got a bit stalled on the top step as you can see in the video, but she crawled up the entire staircase with me behind her while Brent was trying to find the Flip video. ZOIKS! sorry this video got a bit long; I'm having IT issues with clipping videos.
Next up is just evidence of how fast she's crawling all of a sudden. When I picked her up from daycare today she just shot across the room to me. She's really getting good!
And finally just a good example of how hard Sabrina works when she's concentrating on something. Here is her trying to figure out Brent's free weights downstairs. They have commented on her concentration at daycare. They say that she will sit and focus on something for unusually long amounts of time for somebody her age. We've witnessed it first hand, but of course it's hard to know what is "normal" or "unusual" when it's your first kid! We just think everything she does is amazing, but it's pretty neat to hear when others say she's doing well too. She's just a fun, cool kid.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Ready for college!
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Baby Food Extravaganza - Take Two
On Sunday afternoon our friends and neighbors, Kristi and Lexy, came over for mass production of baby food. We did this once back in mid-June and the girls were ready for another round. We cooked up green beans, peas, squash w/apple sauce, sweet potatoes, and blueberries (a big hit...photos to follow). Lexy and Sabrina go to daycare together and it's been wonderful getting to know Kristi and Andy thanks to our cute little girls.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Saturday afternoon Mt. Sanitas Hike
Sabrina, Pongo and I headed out for a wonderful late afternoon hike up Mt. Sanitas (ok, just the valley trail, but still a good hike) today. Here are a few shots.
She continues to love the backpack and is getting pretty comfortable in it. She coos and giggles throughout the hike and always smiles at others on the trail. Pongo is getting pretty well-behaved himself these days which makes it possible for me to take both kids at once. Such a nice afternoon. And Brent was sweetly home fixing our swamp cooler and doing other chores around the house. We're so lucky!
She continues to love the backpack and is getting pretty comfortable in it. She coos and giggles throughout the hike and always smiles at others on the trail. Pongo is getting pretty well-behaved himself these days which makes it possible for me to take both kids at once. Such a nice afternoon. And Brent was sweetly home fixing our swamp cooler and doing other chores around the house. We're so lucky!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Belly Laughs
I posted these to Facebook today so I'm sorry for those of you who have already seen these, but here are 3 videos of Sabrina laughing that I took over the past week.
Daddy is SO funny!!
Daddy is SO funny!!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wedding Weekend Photos
Photos from our wedding weekend in Canada (and Detroit).
Thanks for a wonderful weekend Abigail and Michael!
Videos of the laughing lady (Sabrina) are coming - having trouble uploading them tonight. Stay tuned!
Thanks for a wonderful weekend Abigail and Michael!
Videos of the laughing lady (Sabrina) are coming - having trouble uploading them tonight. Stay tuned!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Third Country, First Tooth
We had a big weekend! Sabrina tackled her third country (Canada) and on Monday we noticed her first tooth - bottom left one. She was a complete joy to travel with the entire weekend - including a tough road trip on Friday when we ended up being in the car for nine hours due to traffic and a seriously backed up border crossing. She slept for almost 7 of the nine hours and we worried that she was going to be up for a few days after that, but in fact she slept pretty well all weekend. She is definitely waking up once or twice a night these days so our 11 hour stretches are a thing of the past, but we're rolling with it. Given all the time zone changes, traveling, road trips, different people playing with her all day long...she does pretty well. We spent a few days in Detroit with Jen and Mike before they set off for a two year stint in S. Korea. Then three days with extended family and friends at Abigail & Michael's wedding in Castleton, Ontario (about an hour north of Toronto). Then Sunday we had a family trip with just the three of us to Toronto where we stayed downtown and walked around the city for an entire day. Sabrina loved it all.
She hasn't seemed impacted by the teething at all yet. I'm sure we have some tough weeks/months ahead of us with teething, but so far, so good.
Sabrina continues to amaze us with her ability to stand up and she's even started moving a bit around the coffee table. She's still very wobbly, but she gets more steady every day. Her teachers at daycare comment every time I pick her up about how mobile she is. Her favorite toys these days are the turtle drum (and she's discovered that she can play it with her butt too...very cute), the music cube that plays multiple instruments, Sophie, a piece of mylar wrapping paper from the doctor's office, the cap to her Sippy cup, her Sippy cup, and anything she's not supposed to have (silverware, sunglasses, iPhones, keys, tonic water on the kitchen island, plates, beer, wine...okay, she grabs everything)
Tonight we spent time with Nana and Poppy (and Natalie, Kurt and Cecilia) before they head off for 2 weeks of motorcycle riding in Croatia with Tim & Erica. Sabrina was a sweetheart and gave them lots of smiles and kisses (slobbers), and played piano with Poppy before they left.
Cecilia and Sabrina are cuter than ever together these days. Cecilia started bringing toys to Sabrina tonight and Sabrina would take them from her and stick them directly in her mouth. We're not sure if we can call it full "playing" together, but Cecilia is starting to figure out her little buddy and we're sure Sabrina will discover how cool Cecilia is very soon. It was sweet to see.
We also got a CD with pictures from our friend, Jessica, from a barbeque back in early June that Jess and Luke had at Luke's house in Louisville. Here are a few photos that she took of Sabrina with her great lens. Thank you Jess!! (yes, this was just after her haircut, so no making fun of the poor child - it's growing in nicely!)
When I put together our photos and videos from the weekend, I'll post those too. Right now the camera and the Flip video are in the diaper bag...in Sabrina's room...and she's asleep. My mommy told me "NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING BABY" so you'll have to wait. I'll tell you though, she's pretty darn cute right now.
She hasn't seemed impacted by the teething at all yet. I'm sure we have some tough weeks/months ahead of us with teething, but so far, so good.
Sabrina continues to amaze us with her ability to stand up and she's even started moving a bit around the coffee table. She's still very wobbly, but she gets more steady every day. Her teachers at daycare comment every time I pick her up about how mobile she is. Her favorite toys these days are the turtle drum (and she's discovered that she can play it with her butt too...very cute), the music cube that plays multiple instruments, Sophie, a piece of mylar wrapping paper from the doctor's office, the cap to her Sippy cup, her Sippy cup, and anything she's not supposed to have (silverware, sunglasses, iPhones, keys, tonic water on the kitchen island, plates, beer, wine...okay, she grabs everything)
Tonight we spent time with Nana and Poppy (and Natalie, Kurt and Cecilia) before they head off for 2 weeks of motorcycle riding in Croatia with Tim & Erica. Sabrina was a sweetheart and gave them lots of smiles and kisses (slobbers), and played piano with Poppy before they left.
Cecilia and Sabrina are cuter than ever together these days. Cecilia started bringing toys to Sabrina tonight and Sabrina would take them from her and stick them directly in her mouth. We're not sure if we can call it full "playing" together, but Cecilia is starting to figure out her little buddy and we're sure Sabrina will discover how cool Cecilia is very soon. It was sweet to see.
We also got a CD with pictures from our friend, Jessica, from a barbeque back in early June that Jess and Luke had at Luke's house in Louisville. Here are a few photos that she took of Sabrina with her great lens. Thank you Jess!! (yes, this was just after her haircut, so no making fun of the poor child - it's growing in nicely!)
When I put together our photos and videos from the weekend, I'll post those too. Right now the camera and the Flip video are in the diaper bag...in Sabrina's room...and she's asleep. My mommy told me "NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING BABY" so you'll have to wait. I'll tell you though, she's pretty darn cute right now.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Six Month Doctor Visit
We took Sabrina to the doctor today for her 6 month check up. She is wonderful! She weighed in at 16 lbs. 8 oz. and 25 1/2 in. long with a 17 in. head circumference. That put her in the 25th percentile for height, 50th for weight and 70th for head size. As Brent said when the doctor told us her stats "yep, she's a Halsey." :-)
She is doing wonderfully developmentally too and is strong and very mobile for her age. The doctor told us our main job now is BABY PROOFING! She actually recommended getting a bit tipsy this weekend, crawling around our house on our hands and knees and seeing what we can get into! If we can get into it after having "a few" then Sabrina will definitely be able to get into it. So I guess that's our mission for the weekend. Sounds like fun, actually.
Sabrina still has a little bit of a funny cough/phelgm thing going on, but it's been going on for so long (almost 2 months) now that the doctor thinks it's definitely not bacterial or viral, but perhaps an issue with the functionality of her epiglottis. If this doesn't close correctly, then she could have a bit of "gunk" that gets stuck in her throat and she's unable to clear it. We are going to visit a speech therapist to see if that's what is going on. She certainly never acts sick, so I'm relieved that it could possibly be something other than "another cold." Thankfully she really hasn't gotten sick too much at daycare yet (thank you warm weather!) but we want to ditch this cough once and for all. So if a throat test does the trick, we're all for it.
Sabrina crawls more and more every day and last night Robert/Dad/Poppy coined the phrase "kickstanding" which is exactly what Sabrina does. she crawls, but with one leg out to the side like a kickstand. It's hysterical! we'll try to post a video soon.
Uncle Rob took a series of adorable shots of Sabrina this weekend in Breckenridge so I added those to the Picasa album that is linked in our previous post. You can go check that out, but here are a few teasers. Looks like a professional photo shoot, doesn't it? She's such a looker.
We are still having a great time with Rob, Renee, Jacob and Josh who are at our house until Friday. Unfortunately Brent and I have to keep working each day, but they are cruising around Denver (yesterday), Boulder (today) and Estes Park (tomorrow) keeping themselves very busy (despite the cold, rainy day today!) We sent Rob and Renee out on a date tonight and we kept the boys here with us and the boys, Sabrina and I baked banana bread. It was delicious! And right now, I'm listening to the boys crack up as they are "getting ready for bed" downstairs with Rob. Cuteness!
She is doing wonderfully developmentally too and is strong and very mobile for her age. The doctor told us our main job now is BABY PROOFING! She actually recommended getting a bit tipsy this weekend, crawling around our house on our hands and knees and seeing what we can get into! If we can get into it after having "a few" then Sabrina will definitely be able to get into it. So I guess that's our mission for the weekend. Sounds like fun, actually.
Sabrina still has a little bit of a funny cough/phelgm thing going on, but it's been going on for so long (almost 2 months) now that the doctor thinks it's definitely not bacterial or viral, but perhaps an issue with the functionality of her epiglottis. If this doesn't close correctly, then she could have a bit of "gunk" that gets stuck in her throat and she's unable to clear it. We are going to visit a speech therapist to see if that's what is going on. She certainly never acts sick, so I'm relieved that it could possibly be something other than "another cold." Thankfully she really hasn't gotten sick too much at daycare yet (thank you warm weather!) but we want to ditch this cough once and for all. So if a throat test does the trick, we're all for it.
Sabrina crawls more and more every day and last night Robert/Dad/Poppy coined the phrase "kickstanding" which is exactly what Sabrina does. she crawls, but with one leg out to the side like a kickstand. It's hysterical! we'll try to post a video soon.
Uncle Rob took a series of adorable shots of Sabrina this weekend in Breckenridge so I added those to the Picasa album that is linked in our previous post. You can go check that out, but here are a few teasers. Looks like a professional photo shoot, doesn't it? She's such a looker.
We are still having a great time with Rob, Renee, Jacob and Josh who are at our house until Friday. Unfortunately Brent and I have to keep working each day, but they are cruising around Denver (yesterday), Boulder (today) and Estes Park (tomorrow) keeping themselves very busy (despite the cold, rainy day today!) We sent Rob and Renee out on a date tonight and we kept the boys here with us and the boys, Sabrina and I baked banana bread. It was delicious! And right now, I'm listening to the boys crack up as they are "getting ready for bed" downstairs with Rob. Cuteness!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Happy Fourth of July with the Andinos
This weekend Rob, Renee, Jacob and Josh were with us up in Breckenridge to celebrate the Fourth, along with Natalie, Kurt, Cecilia and (briefly) Brent's cousin Tom. We hiked Saturday, spent Sunday walking through town, riding the gondola, riding the alpine slide, playing in the Blue River at the Riverwalk Center (where Brent and I got married), playing in the pool and hot tub, and finally watching the fireworks. It was a full weekend! Today we woke up early to avoid the traffic, drove home from Breckenridge quickly and easily, and spent the afternoon hiking behind NCAR in Boulder.
Sabrina is still doing her 'crawling but not crawling' move and I finally captured one version of it on video. She does a lot of this (in the video) where she gets up on her toes instead of her knees so that confuses her, so then she just sits back up. But we see more and more true crawls and she certainly has no trouble getting into everything. I looked over at one point this weekend and saw her across the living room at the condo, happily chewing on Pongo's dog bone. WHOOPS! I have a feeling that won't be the last time that happens.
She also starting to pull herself up on things like the coffee table and her ExerSaucer so books on the coffee table are suddenly fair game. yikes.
Here are photos from the weekend and Sabrina's video.
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| Happy Fourth of July 2010 |
Happy 2nd Birthday Pongo!
I'm a little late in my posting of this, but Pongo turned 2 on June 17th and we cooked him a steak. He thinks this blog is a little Sabrina heavy, so this one's for you little pup.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Half a Year with Sabrina Day
We can't believe that it's been 6 months since our wonderful daughter was born. She has amazed us in so many ways in the past 6 months and we can't imagine our lives without her in it. Brent, Sabrina and I all went out on Monday night to our local restaurant, Murphy's, and celebrated a number of things. We celebrated Brent's new job at Jive Software on Pearl St. Mall in Boulder, my new position at my current company as Director of Operations for the Sustainable Building Services Group at AEC, and our daughter's 6 month birthday. We are feeling happy and lucky these days.
Here are a few photos to show what 6 months can do. This first photo was taken at the hospital when she was first born:
And this photo was taken this past weekend at the condo in Breckenridge.
We spent a great weekend there with Nana and Poppy...and lots of dogs! Nana and Poppy are thinking of adopting Penelope (Penelly, or Nelly as she's being called) who is a buddy of Gracie's from her doggie camp. Nelly's mom just adopted a little girl and is having trouble keeping Nelly entertained as much as she would like. Gracie and Nelly get along great and I think you'll see in the photos from our weekend that Nelly would probably have a pretty sweet life with Nana, Poppy and Gracie. And Pongo thought he had hit the bully sticks a little hard when he started seeing double white fluffy dogs, but he decided that whatever the cause, two Gracies was pretty darn cool. That is, until he lost them in the snow field camouflage. Photos from the weekend are below:
Developmentally, Sabrina is seconds away from crawling. She is constantly moving around the room in all directions. We often put a blanket down and then we are still surprised when she's 2 feet off the blanket when we turn around, even though she's been moving pretty well for a few weeks now. In the past week we've noticed a lot of "revving the engine" where she'll get up on all fours and rock back and forth focusing on an object in front of her that she wants to grab SO badly. Then she usually gets mad and flops down on her belly. However, several of us have witnessed a few legitimate crawls here and there, but they are still few and far between. Uncle Tim is in Colorado for work this week so he got to visit Sabrina tonight and he witnessed one of her true crawling moments out on the back deck. Apparently, the spoon in front of her was worth a real crawl. I think it's really just a matter of figuring out the object that she wants badly enough that she'll decide to crawl one day. Unfortunately (or amusingly) right now beer bottles seem to be one of her biggest motivators...she loves the feel of the cool glass on her gums! I'm afraid she learned this trick from her big god-sister, Cecilia. Or could this be yet another bit of paternity proof?
Finally, here are a few photos from dinner tonight with Tim and BerndUwe who is driving to San Francisco and stopped in Boulder for a quick visit.
Happy Half Birthday Sabrina! We love you like crazy.
Here are a few photos to show what 6 months can do. This first photo was taken at the hospital when she was first born:
And this photo was taken this past weekend at the condo in Breckenridge.
We spent a great weekend there with Nana and Poppy...and lots of dogs! Nana and Poppy are thinking of adopting Penelope (Penelly, or Nelly as she's being called) who is a buddy of Gracie's from her doggie camp. Nelly's mom just adopted a little girl and is having trouble keeping Nelly entertained as much as she would like. Gracie and Nelly get along great and I think you'll see in the photos from our weekend that Nelly would probably have a pretty sweet life with Nana, Poppy and Gracie. And Pongo thought he had hit the bully sticks a little hard when he started seeing double white fluffy dogs, but he decided that whatever the cause, two Gracies was pretty darn cool. That is, until he lost them in the snow field camouflage. Photos from the weekend are below:
Developmentally, Sabrina is seconds away from crawling. She is constantly moving around the room in all directions. We often put a blanket down and then we are still surprised when she's 2 feet off the blanket when we turn around, even though she's been moving pretty well for a few weeks now. In the past week we've noticed a lot of "revving the engine" where she'll get up on all fours and rock back and forth focusing on an object in front of her that she wants to grab SO badly. Then she usually gets mad and flops down on her belly. However, several of us have witnessed a few legitimate crawls here and there, but they are still few and far between. Uncle Tim is in Colorado for work this week so he got to visit Sabrina tonight and he witnessed one of her true crawling moments out on the back deck. Apparently, the spoon in front of her was worth a real crawl. I think it's really just a matter of figuring out the object that she wants badly enough that she'll decide to crawl one day. Unfortunately (or amusingly) right now beer bottles seem to be one of her biggest motivators...she loves the feel of the cool glass on her gums! I'm afraid she learned this trick from her big god-sister, Cecilia. Or could this be yet another bit of paternity proof?
Finally, here are a few photos from dinner tonight with Tim and BerndUwe who is driving to San Francisco and stopped in Boulder for a quick visit.
Happy Half Birthday Sabrina! We love you like crazy.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Mea Culpa
Ok, in case you haven't noticed, or I haven't already talked to you about how embarrassed I am about this...it's time to come clean. I cut Sabrina's hair and...well...according to Ashley the bangs are very "hip" if she was living in the Mission in SF, so I guess that's what we'll tell ourselves. Thankfully, this was a few weeks ago and she's growing into them, but here are a few before and after photos to document what really happened that fateful Memorial Day Monday in 2010.
BEFORE
AFTER
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But here are a few more recent shots of her looking just as adorable as ever, even with the new bangs:
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Also noteworthy about the picture above is that she can now sit in a high chair at restaurants. Except today of course, when she was having too much fun with Poppy (Grandpa Robert) at lunch and she didn't WANT to sit in the high chair. But on several other occasions we've been able to put her in the high chair while we eat and she just sits and plays with toys! Both of us eating with two hands again. Wow. They sure are cute when they're tiny, but they sure are fun when they grow up too. So far, we've loved every stage! Can't wait for the next adventure.
BEFORE
AFTER
ai yi yi
But here are a few more recent shots of her looking just as adorable as ever, even with the new bangs:
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Also noteworthy about the picture above is that she can now sit in a high chair at restaurants. Except today of course, when she was having too much fun with Poppy (Grandpa Robert) at lunch and she didn't WANT to sit in the high chair. But on several other occasions we've been able to put her in the high chair while we eat and she just sits and plays with toys! Both of us eating with two hands again. Wow. They sure are cute when they're tiny, but they sure are fun when they grow up too. So far, we've loved every stage! Can't wait for the next adventure.
Sabrina Eats!
This morning we entered a new phase with our little girl. She eats! We fed her about 1/2 tablespoon of mushed avocado mixed with breastmilk. Here's how it all went down.
And a few more photos on our Picasa site:
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| Sabrina Eats |
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Rainy Saturday morning videos
Here are a few cute videos of Sabrina from this morning. We are all stuck in the house because it's cloudy, rainy and cold outside. But it's actually a nice change from all the heat we've been having in the past few weeks! so we are enjoying staying in and doing things around the house.
This week Brent survived his first Mr. Mom test with flying colors. I had to travel for work on Tuesday and Wednesday (my first night away from Sabrina!) and Brent held down the fort extremely well and even took Sabrina to her first swim class on Tuesday night with friends Laura and Brad and their little girl, Lyra.
In the above video I'm playing a "development" game recommended by a BabyCenter email today. The email talked about how she is now at an age when she can anticipate things, so pretending to tickle her or "get her" is supposed to be a big hit. And...I think it worked!
And in this one she's just playing in her "neglect-o-matic" (as a friend suggested we call it...and it fits!) and showing off how she can turn around and play with all the toys.
We've have a somewhat difficult few weeks with getting her to sleep through the night. She seems to wake up about once or twice a night now without much of a pattern. She'll still go for long stretches at a time, but every now and then she'll pull a 1am wake up and it's throwing us off a bit. But all in all, she's as cute as ever and developing wonderfully! We couldn't be happier with her.
This week Brent survived his first Mr. Mom test with flying colors. I had to travel for work on Tuesday and Wednesday (my first night away from Sabrina!) and Brent held down the fort extremely well and even took Sabrina to her first swim class on Tuesday night with friends Laura and Brad and their little girl, Lyra.
In the above video I'm playing a "development" game recommended by a BabyCenter email today. The email talked about how she is now at an age when she can anticipate things, so pretending to tickle her or "get her" is supposed to be a big hit. And...I think it worked!
And in this one she's just playing in her "neglect-o-matic" (as a friend suggested we call it...and it fits!) and showing off how she can turn around and play with all the toys.
We've have a somewhat difficult few weeks with getting her to sleep through the night. She seems to wake up about once or twice a night now without much of a pattern. She'll still go for long stretches at a time, but every now and then she'll pull a 1am wake up and it's throwing us off a bit. But all in all, she's as cute as ever and developing wonderfully! We couldn't be happier with her.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Sabrina drummer girl
Sabrina's tambourine antics with Señor Frog inspired Luke to get out the drum and have a little jam session with her.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Spring Morning Rockin' and Rollin'
This morning the weather was gorgeous, clear and sunny and we had a fun rolling/sitting up session on the back deck. Here are a a few videos showing how mobile and goofy Sabrina is these days. I didn't get a video of her sitting up, but she can sit up on her own for 5-10 minutes at a time now. There's still the occasional totter over but with a little supervision and intermittent corrections from one of us, she's a sitterupper.
Great Grandma Halsey Memorial Weekend
Sabrina's Great Grandma Halsey (Dora Jane Halsey) passed away on Tuesday, May 18, 2010...ten days before we were flying out to WI to introduce her to Sabrina. It was such a shame that she did not get to meet our little girl, but she lived a fabulous life and had a huge family to show for it. We spent a sad, but nice, weekend with the entire Halsey crew. We got to see family members who I had never even met (Molly) and Brent hadn't seen in over 10 years. Sabrina was the superstar of the weekend with tons of great smiles and giggles to keep us all laughing despite the circumstances. We had a visitation on Friday night and then a service on Saturday morning, both in Lake Geneva, WI. It was a beautiful day on Saturday with the sun shining and blue sky so the service at the cemetery could not have been more beautiful. We laid Grandma Halsey to rest, went back to the church for some grub, then went to a park where 4 of her great grandsons ran around, played games and climbed trees, Sabrina wiggled and rolled on a blanket in the shade...and we all thought about how much Grandma Halsey would have loved the scene. She touched and created so many lives. It was a wonderful weekend celebrating her life.
We went back to Germantown for the rest of the weekend with Grandma Gail, Grandpa Rich, Aunt Nay and Uncle Rob and Sabrina's cousins Jacob and Josh. This was the first time the boys met Sabrina and it was so adorable to see the two of them try to teach Sabrina things like how to roll over. They were exceptionally sweet to her and gave her tons of pats, hugs and kisses all weekend. We went to the zoo on Sunday and it was the first day that it topped 90 degrees in WI this year and we felt it. Plus the humidity!! Sabrina was a trooper with no complaints about the heat, despite her little body sweating like crazy.
Oh, we also went to the Harley Davidson Museum on Friday afternoon, so there are photos of that as well. Poppy and Uncle Tim will be proud to see Sabrina on a motorcycle!
Here are the photos from the weekend.
We went back to Germantown for the rest of the weekend with Grandma Gail, Grandpa Rich, Aunt Nay and Uncle Rob and Sabrina's cousins Jacob and Josh. This was the first time the boys met Sabrina and it was so adorable to see the two of them try to teach Sabrina things like how to roll over. They were exceptionally sweet to her and gave her tons of pats, hugs and kisses all weekend. We went to the zoo on Sunday and it was the first day that it topped 90 degrees in WI this year and we felt it. Plus the humidity!! Sabrina was a trooper with no complaints about the heat, despite her little body sweating like crazy.
Oh, we also went to the Harley Davidson Museum on Friday afternoon, so there are photos of that as well. Poppy and Uncle Tim will be proud to see Sabrina on a motorcycle!
Here are the photos from the weekend.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
May 2010 Update
Check out Sabrina's new toy-playing skills!
(sorry for the poor video quality - it was too bright behind her!)
She is moving so much these days that we really have to watch out with her in the chair on top of the kitchen island. This video was taken on 5/5/2010, but I'm just now posting it. As you may have noticed, it's pretty hard to keep up with postings now that we are both working, but we will continue to do our best. We love recording her milestones and sharing pictures with everybody, so here comes an onslaught of photos to catch up on the past month. I've been working for 4 weeks now and we are really getting into the groove. Sabrina continues to do wonderfully at daycare. They love her and she seems to love them too. She smiles when we drop her off and she's always happy and content when we pick her up. It's such a nice feeling. She's a bottle pro and I am almost perfectly in sync with her with pumping at work. It's still a pain to handle the bottle washing and all, but I got a nice "pumping room" at the office with a beautiful view of the mountains and I can leave my pump and accessories in there all day which makes it much easier to do frequent pumping sessions while working. I even have a picture of Sabrina there which helps a lot.
This week at daycare, her teacher, Hannah, made collages for all the kids that have pictures of their family. So now she can look at all of her aunts, uncles, grandparents...and Pongo each day when she's at daycare. I thought it was a great idea!
Here are some of the highlights of the past few weeks.
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Sabrina has definitely entered a phase where EVERYTHING goes into her mouth. Especially things that aren't toys (of course). She loves plastic bags, wrapping paper and ribbons (shown here) and anything with a crinkle or any interesting sound.
Sabrina still loves "senor frog" and we try not to leave home without him. I bought another one a few weeks ago just so we'd never be without him...but usually that means we either have 2 frogs or none. hmm...we'll get better about this toy thing.
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I had a wonderful first Mother's Day! Brent went all out and made the entire weekend fantastic. We went to a show in Denver on Saturday (thanks Nana & Poppy for babysitting). On Sunday I ran a 9K race in the morning with almost 3000 other moms. It was a gorgeous day and I ran with friends Diedre, Tara and Shannon. The dads hung with the kids at the end and cheered us on as we finished. Then we had Nana, Poppy, Natalie, Kurt and Cecilia over at our house for lunch cooked by the guys. We Moms stayed outside all afternoon and worked (and finished!) the Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzle. Here I am with Tara and Diedre at the finish line and another picture of us enjoying our great lunch.
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Sabrina's favorite new toy is this ExcerSaucer - she can spin around in it to play with all the toys around the edge. And, yet again, every toy goes right in her mouth. She has one of these at daycare and they say that she loves it so when a friend at work was getting rid of hers, I snatched it up and Sabrina seems pretty happy about it.
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We had lunch with Lea and Erik to celebrate Lea's birthday. We picked up Sabrina from daycare and then dropped her back off after lunch. It was great to see her in the middle of the day. Erik thought she was pretty cute except "she dribbles a lot" - which is true. Could she be teething?
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Lisa and Gary just bought a gorgeous new property in North Boulder where they had a BBQ for all of us (before they tear down the house!). Poppy and Sabrina enjoyed the empty living room floor which proved great for rollover practice (we had a good weekend with lots of rollovers) and also we discovered that Sabrina loves the Pillow Game. Which means that Poppy holds her by cradling her in a pillow and swings her towards people and she laughs and laughs and laughs. She has the cutest laugh ever these days and I'll try to catch a good one on film soon.
Ashley is here for a week, ostensibly for her sister-in-law's high school graduation, but we're pretty sure she's just making excuses to come hold Sabrina some more! Sabrina sure loves her and spent a good part of today laughing and smiling at her, both in the car and on a walk downtown to Pearl St.
The only unfortunate news right now is that Sabrina had a cold a few weeks ago and now she has a nasty lingering cough that just won't quit. She's having a hard time sleeping through the night due to the cough, so we've been having a few more middle-of-the-night family bonding sessions than we'd like. Last night was a doozy with a cough-induced spit-up which required a 2am sheet change, dryer session for her swaddle blanket, and call to the on-call nurse at Children's Hospital. Yuck. The nurse said there isn't much more to do than what we're already doing, so we're just hoping that she keeps fighting and can manage to sleep through the night tonight. They won't give a baby her age any type of medicine (which we agree with) but it's hard not to be able to help our little girl. She's sleeping soundly right now so hopefully she'll have a good night.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you all feel fully up-to-date now! Love to everybody...we're off to another week of work, daycare, volleyball, piano, etc.
(sorry for the poor video quality - it was too bright behind her!)
She is moving so much these days that we really have to watch out with her in the chair on top of the kitchen island. This video was taken on 5/5/2010, but I'm just now posting it. As you may have noticed, it's pretty hard to keep up with postings now that we are both working, but we will continue to do our best. We love recording her milestones and sharing pictures with everybody, so here comes an onslaught of photos to catch up on the past month. I've been working for 4 weeks now and we are really getting into the groove. Sabrina continues to do wonderfully at daycare. They love her and she seems to love them too. She smiles when we drop her off and she's always happy and content when we pick her up. It's such a nice feeling. She's a bottle pro and I am almost perfectly in sync with her with pumping at work. It's still a pain to handle the bottle washing and all, but I got a nice "pumping room" at the office with a beautiful view of the mountains and I can leave my pump and accessories in there all day which makes it much easier to do frequent pumping sessions while working. I even have a picture of Sabrina there which helps a lot.
This week at daycare, her teacher, Hannah, made collages for all the kids that have pictures of their family. So now she can look at all of her aunts, uncles, grandparents...and Pongo each day when she's at daycare. I thought it was a great idea!
Here are some of the highlights of the past few weeks.
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Sabrina has definitely entered a phase where EVERYTHING goes into her mouth. Especially things that aren't toys (of course). She loves plastic bags, wrapping paper and ribbons (shown here) and anything with a crinkle or any interesting sound.
Sabrina still loves "senor frog" and we try not to leave home without him. I bought another one a few weeks ago just so we'd never be without him...but usually that means we either have 2 frogs or none. hmm...we'll get better about this toy thing.
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Just looking sweet
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I had a wonderful first Mother's Day! Brent went all out and made the entire weekend fantastic. We went to a show in Denver on Saturday (thanks Nana & Poppy for babysitting). On Sunday I ran a 9K race in the morning with almost 3000 other moms. It was a gorgeous day and I ran with friends Diedre, Tara and Shannon. The dads hung with the kids at the end and cheered us on as we finished. Then we had Nana, Poppy, Natalie, Kurt and Cecilia over at our house for lunch cooked by the guys. We Moms stayed outside all afternoon and worked (and finished!) the Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzle. Here I am with Tara and Diedre at the finish line and another picture of us enjoying our great lunch.
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Sabrina's favorite new toy is this ExcerSaucer - she can spin around in it to play with all the toys around the edge. And, yet again, every toy goes right in her mouth. She has one of these at daycare and they say that she loves it so when a friend at work was getting rid of hers, I snatched it up and Sabrina seems pretty happy about it.
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We had lunch with Lea and Erik to celebrate Lea's birthday. We picked up Sabrina from daycare and then dropped her back off after lunch. It was great to see her in the middle of the day. Erik thought she was pretty cute except "she dribbles a lot" - which is true. Could she be teething?
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Lisa and Gary just bought a gorgeous new property in North Boulder where they had a BBQ for all of us (before they tear down the house!). Poppy and Sabrina enjoyed the empty living room floor which proved great for rollover practice (we had a good weekend with lots of rollovers) and also we discovered that Sabrina loves the Pillow Game. Which means that Poppy holds her by cradling her in a pillow and swings her towards people and she laughs and laughs and laughs. She has the cutest laugh ever these days and I'll try to catch a good one on film soon.
Ashley is here for a week, ostensibly for her sister-in-law's high school graduation, but we're pretty sure she's just making excuses to come hold Sabrina some more! Sabrina sure loves her and spent a good part of today laughing and smiling at her, both in the car and on a walk downtown to Pearl St.
The only unfortunate news right now is that Sabrina had a cold a few weeks ago and now she has a nasty lingering cough that just won't quit. She's having a hard time sleeping through the night due to the cough, so we've been having a few more middle-of-the-night family bonding sessions than we'd like. Last night was a doozy with a cough-induced spit-up which required a 2am sheet change, dryer session for her swaddle blanket, and call to the on-call nurse at Children's Hospital. Yuck. The nurse said there isn't much more to do than what we're already doing, so we're just hoping that she keeps fighting and can manage to sleep through the night tonight. They won't give a baby her age any type of medicine (which we agree with) but it's hard not to be able to help our little girl. She's sleeping soundly right now so hopefully she'll have a good night.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you all feel fully up-to-date now! Love to everybody...we're off to another week of work, daycare, volleyball, piano, etc.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Our little girl is growing up
from daycare today and is spending the evening with her while I play
volleyball and Brent goes to a software geek meeting. What a big
girl! Also, we had her 4-month appt today and she's still right about
50th percentile for weight, length, and head circumference. She
dropped a bit on the scales because she was between 50 and 75 last
time and now she's between 25 and 50, but basically they just said
that she's average and doing really well. She weighed in at 13 lbs 15
oz and 24 1/4 in long. Developmentally she is right on track as well.
In fact, the doctor described her as "awesome". We couldn't agree more!
She got her next round of shots today too so we will see how she does
tonight. Sorry for the added challenge nana!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Happy 4 Months Sabrina
Our little baby is 4 months old. This past month sure was a whirlwind for her (and us) but she has continued to surprise us with her adaptability, her skills development, her smiles, her great bouts of laughter and her persistent sweetness. She has grown up so much lately and I feel like we are all getting better and better and understanding one another. She still has occasional crying fits, but they are really few and far between. She has been getting great reports each day from daycare and this week she has taken a bottle like an old pro. She even started holding her own bottle a bit yesterday! They say that she is happy, sweet and easy at daycare. She sleeps well in her crib (except today), she loves getting her diaper changed, she is usually happy to entertain herself in a bouncy chair, the bumbo chair or on the blanket. Her favorite toy is still Senor Frog or the Mexican rattle that Brent bought for her in Cabo (although it makes us nervous for lead paint reasons so I think I have to take that one out of rotation). She is starting to play with Sophie (the rubber giraffe) more and more, including chewing on it. We've recently noticed that she brings almost everything to her mouth immediately. That proved challenging in New York City.
Last week she also discovered her feet and she grabs them all the time (see video), which allows her to scoot around in a circle. She still hasn't rolled over more than a few random times, but now she can wiggle around a lot and actually get places. I left her on the mat while I showered the other morning and when I got out of the shower she had flipped herself around 180 degrees. She was as shocked as I was! And while I was shooting this video, she scooted herself right off the activity mat.
As we move into this next phase of life with me at work and her at daycare, we look forward to the return of some normalcy in our schedules. At the same time, we are excited about all the surprises that she is sure to bring to us. Thanks for a wonderful 4 months, Sabrina Day.
Last week she also discovered her feet and she grabs them all the time (see video), which allows her to scoot around in a circle. She still hasn't rolled over more than a few random times, but now she can wiggle around a lot and actually get places. I left her on the mat while I showered the other morning and when I got out of the shower she had flipped herself around 180 degrees. She was as shocked as I was! And while I was shooting this video, she scooted herself right off the activity mat.
As we move into this next phase of life with me at work and her at daycare, we look forward to the return of some normalcy in our schedules. At the same time, we are excited about all the surprises that she is sure to bring to us. Thanks for a wonderful 4 months, Sabrina Day.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Urban Baby
Not only is she international, Sabrina is now a city babe. She does taxi cabs, subways, sidewalks (even over those scary grate thingies), elevators, tall buildings and museums.
Friday night we took in the Free Friday session at the MoMA (Sabrina napped through that), then visited the 5th Avenue Apple Store (aka Brent Mecca...Sabrina woke up for that) and wrapped up the night with Chino Latino on the Upper West Side and dessert at Cafe Lalo. We left Sabrina back in the hotel after putting her to sleep on Friday night, thinking that Nana would just have to listen to the monitor..."She NEVER wakes up"...but instead Sabrina had other plans. She woke up about 20 minutes after we left and challenged Nana's already taxed brain. But by the time we got home after dinner and dessert, Sabrina was asleep soundly. She didn't sleep all that well any night that we were there (hard to blame her) and she woke up once or twice each night. We are not used to that! But usually feeding her and bouncing her on the ball (yes, we even travel to NYC with a Fit Ball) calmed her down and she went back to sleep. Brent and I realized how incredibly lucky we are that she sleeps through the night. We were both pretty useless when she woke up in the middle of the night. We are out of practice! Hopefully this doesn't become a habit.
Saturday we had the service for Tommy in the East Village, then we walked over to SoHo to his favorite restaurant called Mezzogiorno for an early dinner reception. He sure had great taste in food. The service was very nice with several people speaking, reading, crying and laughing about their memories of Tommy (Thomas H. Connell III). Sabrina got to meet his incredible daughters, Megan and Phoebe, their loving husbands, Ben and Jake, his adorable granddaughter, Lucy, his hysterical sisters, Nancy and Abigail, and fabulous ex-wives, Katherine and Stevie. What a wonderful family he left behind. Despite the occasion, it was a gorgeous spring day in New York City and the city was teeming with people out and about. We had a wonderful walk through the Village after a successful (though crowded) first subway ride for Sabrina.
That night we learned that Pam and Tom were out in NYC visiting Trevor, Liz and Lily for Lily's christening on Sunday. So we scooted uptown to Times Square and had a great French dinner with all of them. Lily and Sabrina are 6 days apart and seem to be lockstep with development and cuteness. They made a very cute pair.
Sunday we woke up to pouring rain and much cooler weather. We wandered over to a very New York style diner for breakfast, then we met up with our friends John & Don and Jill & Bryan for Indian food for lunch. Jill & Bryan showed us a swanky hotel that had a well-known coffee shop in it called Stumptown. Unfortunately Brent wasn't too impressed with the coffee there. For my part, the Earl Grey tea was fine but that's pretty hard to mess up. We went up to visit Jill & Bryan's apartment in Spanish Harlem (or SpaHa as they call it...not sure that's stuck yet!) where we got picked up by one of Brent's friends from Janesville (high school), John Zolidis. John took us to his apartment on the Upper West Side where we met his wife, Alexandra, and adorable daughters Ophelie (7) and Amelia (5). They played a very cute doll game with Sabrina and we had a very sweet little cocktail hour with them. Then down to the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center to visit the fountain (and think about Tommy once again) and have dinner with Tim and Erica, Mom & Dad, Ash, and the Sandmans.
Monday we had even worse weather with rain and grey skies. We went up to the Guggenheim (finally! I had never been), then down to the World Trade Center to see the status of the construction on the Memorial. We visited a small museum showing the future memorial site and museum. They had architectural models and renderings of the site, plus videos, photos and interviews from 9/11. It was hard, as always, but good to see and remember.
Then home, on Sabrina's 6th flight, but once again she was a trooper. This was probably our most difficult flight with her awake the entire 5+ hours on the plane, but we can't complain. She's amazing. We can't believe that we've been able to pull off these past three weeks without more difficulty from her. She sure does make it easy on us sometimes. Now we'll see how another week at daycare goes. Think bottle baby!!
Friday night we took in the Free Friday session at the MoMA (Sabrina napped through that), then visited the 5th Avenue Apple Store (aka Brent Mecca...Sabrina woke up for that) and wrapped up the night with Chino Latino on the Upper West Side and dessert at Cafe Lalo. We left Sabrina back in the hotel after putting her to sleep on Friday night, thinking that Nana would just have to listen to the monitor..."She NEVER wakes up"...but instead Sabrina had other plans. She woke up about 20 minutes after we left and challenged Nana's already taxed brain. But by the time we got home after dinner and dessert, Sabrina was asleep soundly. She didn't sleep all that well any night that we were there (hard to blame her) and she woke up once or twice each night. We are not used to that! But usually feeding her and bouncing her on the ball (yes, we even travel to NYC with a Fit Ball) calmed her down and she went back to sleep. Brent and I realized how incredibly lucky we are that she sleeps through the night. We were both pretty useless when she woke up in the middle of the night. We are out of practice! Hopefully this doesn't become a habit.
Saturday we had the service for Tommy in the East Village, then we walked over to SoHo to his favorite restaurant called Mezzogiorno for an early dinner reception. He sure had great taste in food. The service was very nice with several people speaking, reading, crying and laughing about their memories of Tommy (Thomas H. Connell III). Sabrina got to meet his incredible daughters, Megan and Phoebe, their loving husbands, Ben and Jake, his adorable granddaughter, Lucy, his hysterical sisters, Nancy and Abigail, and fabulous ex-wives, Katherine and Stevie. What a wonderful family he left behind. Despite the occasion, it was a gorgeous spring day in New York City and the city was teeming with people out and about. We had a wonderful walk through the Village after a successful (though crowded) first subway ride for Sabrina.
That night we learned that Pam and Tom were out in NYC visiting Trevor, Liz and Lily for Lily's christening on Sunday. So we scooted uptown to Times Square and had a great French dinner with all of them. Lily and Sabrina are 6 days apart and seem to be lockstep with development and cuteness. They made a very cute pair.
Sunday we woke up to pouring rain and much cooler weather. We wandered over to a very New York style diner for breakfast, then we met up with our friends John & Don and Jill & Bryan for Indian food for lunch. Jill & Bryan showed us a swanky hotel that had a well-known coffee shop in it called Stumptown. Unfortunately Brent wasn't too impressed with the coffee there. For my part, the Earl Grey tea was fine but that's pretty hard to mess up. We went up to visit Jill & Bryan's apartment in Spanish Harlem (or SpaHa as they call it...not sure that's stuck yet!) where we got picked up by one of Brent's friends from Janesville (high school), John Zolidis. John took us to his apartment on the Upper West Side where we met his wife, Alexandra, and adorable daughters Ophelie (7) and Amelia (5). They played a very cute doll game with Sabrina and we had a very sweet little cocktail hour with them. Then down to the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center to visit the fountain (and think about Tommy once again) and have dinner with Tim and Erica, Mom & Dad, Ash, and the Sandmans.
Monday we had even worse weather with rain and grey skies. We went up to the Guggenheim (finally! I had never been), then down to the World Trade Center to see the status of the construction on the Memorial. We visited a small museum showing the future memorial site and museum. They had architectural models and renderings of the site, plus videos, photos and interviews from 9/11. It was hard, as always, but good to see and remember.
Then home, on Sabrina's 6th flight, but once again she was a trooper. This was probably our most difficult flight with her awake the entire 5+ hours on the plane, but we can't complain. She's amazing. We can't believe that we've been able to pull off these past three weeks without more difficulty from her. She sure does make it easy on us sometimes. Now we'll see how another week at daycare goes. Think bottle baby!!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Back to work and daycare
What a week! I started back at work on Monday and Sabrina went to daycare at The Cottage in Boulder. Brent and I took her together on the first day (to make sure I wasn't a blubbering mess leaving my baby girl!) and it all went fine. I didn't even cry at all. Unfortunately, Sabrina wouldn't take the bottle Monday or Tuesday so I spent time running back and forth down 30th Street to go rescue my bad bad baby. Then I left work early each day to pick her up. But, shockingly by Wednesday (only her third day!) she took the bottle and had about 3 oz., which is still only about 1/5 of what she SHOULD have in a day, but she was in a good mood all day so I never went over to the daycare in the hopes that that would help her figure it out. And on Thursday, she ate almost 9 oz.! She can be taught! (Jill, that Aladdin reference is for you). Hopefully she is getting it.
Sadly, we received bad news on Tuesday morning that my mom's brother, Tommy, passed away over the weekend. Mom hopped on a plane on Tuesday afternoon, we figured out plans with the rest of the family, and we bought tickets to go out to NYC Friday through Monday. Ashley will fly out from SF; Tim and Erica will drive down on Friday night; Dad will fly out with us and then work from NYC next week. As devastated as we all are about the reason for the trip, we are trying to make the best of it by seeing friends and family, and taking Brent to New York where he hasn't been since he was working in the World Trade Center in 2000. We hate to derail Sabrina's good progress on the bottle at daycare, but some things you just can't plan.
On a happier note, Sabrina got to meet her new friend, Triana Calderon Sievers, who was born on Tuesday April 20 to Alicia and Pablo. We visited Triana at the hospital Wednesday and Thursday so Sabrina got to teach Triana all sorts of good tricks like breastfeeding, pooping and peeing. I think they are destined to be good friends.
So, off to NYC we go. Rest in Peace Tommy. You will be dearly missed. We are so sad that Sabrina never got a chance to meet you.
Sadly, we received bad news on Tuesday morning that my mom's brother, Tommy, passed away over the weekend. Mom hopped on a plane on Tuesday afternoon, we figured out plans with the rest of the family, and we bought tickets to go out to NYC Friday through Monday. Ashley will fly out from SF; Tim and Erica will drive down on Friday night; Dad will fly out with us and then work from NYC next week. As devastated as we all are about the reason for the trip, we are trying to make the best of it by seeing friends and family, and taking Brent to New York where he hasn't been since he was working in the World Trade Center in 2000. We hate to derail Sabrina's good progress on the bottle at daycare, but some things you just can't plan.
On a happier note, Sabrina got to meet her new friend, Triana Calderon Sievers, who was born on Tuesday April 20 to Alicia and Pablo. We visited Triana at the hospital Wednesday and Thursday so Sabrina got to teach Triana all sorts of good tricks like breastfeeding, pooping and peeing. I think they are destined to be good friends.
So, off to NYC we go. Rest in Peace Tommy. You will be dearly missed. We are so sad that Sabrina never got a chance to meet you.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
International Traveler in Mexico
Sabrina has gone INTERNATIONAL!
We had a fantastic trip to Cabo San Lucas with the Clarke grandparents, the Baumgartners, Suz & GEK and Joan. Sabrina wore a Hawaiian shirt on the plane and got right into the vacation mode. She played with toys, hung out with her grandparents, and charmed us all on the plane ride down. She loved getting off the plane on the stairs and walking out into the sunshine (or maybe that's me who loves that, but I'm sure she enjoyed it too). A little emergency feeding on the way down ("road boob!") and then we were poolside. We took her swimming every day in the pool and she LOVED the game of somebody going under water and popping up right in front of her. she laughed and laughed whenever we did that...especially Nana! We tackled the bumpy streets of Cabo with her stroller on the first night, used it as a shopping cart for the essentials at the grocery store, and met Joan at a wonderful restaurant in town. Tuesday we got Suz and GEK, we played on the beach and at the pool, then had a great dinner at Pancho's where a mariachi band played a Mexican version of the Chicken Dance! Brent was in gringo heaven. The Baumgartners arrived on Wednesday with their own little world traveler, Cecilia, in tow. We swept them off to see the sunset from the Whale Watcher Bar at the Finestera, then a crazy, whacky dinner at Mi Casa (with multiple mariachi bands). Cecilia let us know that she loves Mexican fish sticks by eating them for about an hour until we picked her up to take her home. Thursday and Friday contained more fun beach and pool time where Cecilia showed off her underwater swimming skills and Sabrina got more comfortable in the water. We had fun dipping the girls' toes in the ocean too, until a mean wave came and crashed down on top of them. It was slightly dramatic for a few moments, but the quick skills of Brent and Annie kept the girls safe and sound. Cecilia actually did a great back float Survival Swimming move when the wave hit her! Way to go Celia! All in all, they both loved the water and we had a great time imaging this trip in 5 years. Craziness!
We had another fun dinner on the marina Friday night where Sabrina fell in love with all the lights from the restaurants on the pier. The girls also got adorable little Mexican dresses at a stall in town. Saturday morning we took the kiddos to a "zero entry" pool at a resort on the Pacific side of town where they got to play in the water one more time. Brent and I took Sabrina down to watch the waves crashing against the beach, which lulled her right to sleep. I guess she would like the "waves" setting on her Sleep Sheep. We'll have to try that. We packed up, got a ride to the airport with Nana and Poppy, and flew on home. Sabrina was an absolute delight on the flight home as well...even during her rough evening hours...and was actually laughing throughout the entire customs line at DIA! We love our world traveler.
We had a fantastic trip to Cabo San Lucas with the Clarke grandparents, the Baumgartners, Suz & GEK and Joan. Sabrina wore a Hawaiian shirt on the plane and got right into the vacation mode. She played with toys, hung out with her grandparents, and charmed us all on the plane ride down. She loved getting off the plane on the stairs and walking out into the sunshine (or maybe that's me who loves that, but I'm sure she enjoyed it too). A little emergency feeding on the way down ("road boob!") and then we were poolside. We took her swimming every day in the pool and she LOVED the game of somebody going under water and popping up right in front of her. she laughed and laughed whenever we did that...especially Nana! We tackled the bumpy streets of Cabo with her stroller on the first night, used it as a shopping cart for the essentials at the grocery store, and met Joan at a wonderful restaurant in town. Tuesday we got Suz and GEK, we played on the beach and at the pool, then had a great dinner at Pancho's where a mariachi band played a Mexican version of the Chicken Dance! Brent was in gringo heaven. The Baumgartners arrived on Wednesday with their own little world traveler, Cecilia, in tow. We swept them off to see the sunset from the Whale Watcher Bar at the Finestera, then a crazy, whacky dinner at Mi Casa (with multiple mariachi bands). Cecilia let us know that she loves Mexican fish sticks by eating them for about an hour until we picked her up to take her home. Thursday and Friday contained more fun beach and pool time where Cecilia showed off her underwater swimming skills and Sabrina got more comfortable in the water. We had fun dipping the girls' toes in the ocean too, until a mean wave came and crashed down on top of them. It was slightly dramatic for a few moments, but the quick skills of Brent and Annie kept the girls safe and sound. Cecilia actually did a great back float Survival Swimming move when the wave hit her! Way to go Celia! All in all, they both loved the water and we had a great time imaging this trip in 5 years. Craziness!
We had another fun dinner on the marina Friday night where Sabrina fell in love with all the lights from the restaurants on the pier. The girls also got adorable little Mexican dresses at a stall in town. Saturday morning we took the kiddos to a "zero entry" pool at a resort on the Pacific side of town where they got to play in the water one more time. Brent and I took Sabrina down to watch the waves crashing against the beach, which lulled her right to sleep. I guess she would like the "waves" setting on her Sleep Sheep. We'll have to try that. We packed up, got a ride to the airport with Nana and Poppy, and flew on home. Sabrina was an absolute delight on the flight home as well...even during her rough evening hours...and was actually laughing throughout the entire customs line at DIA! We love our world traveler.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Sabrina working on her motor skills
Sabrina has just started playing with her toys differently. While it might not seem THAT exciting to anybody but me (who thinks that everything she does is amazing and adorable!) Sabrina has started deliberately using her hands to do things. This morning I caught her on video spinning a ball on her toy. The neat part is that most of the books say that she's supposed to be doing exactly this at exactly this time. It's really fun to read that in a book and then see her do it, just like they describe, within a few days. Child development is pretty incredible! She's also started staring at her arms and hands much more often, like she's trying to figure them out. Our other big news is that Sabrina did a daycare practice day yesterday. It was probably more difficult for me and Brent than it was for her, but it's good for all of us to get some practice. Brent and I dropped her off after lunch, I went to work, and Sabrina stayed at daycare for about 3 1/2 hours (and I only drove over once to check on her!). I also figured out that it takes between 4-5 minutes for me to get from my office to her daycare which gives me good peace of mind. She's really not that far away from us. We're doing the same thing again this morning, then we are packing up for a weekend of skiing in the mountains, then re-packing for a week at the beach! What a life.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Happy Easter
tomorrow for Easter weekend. Sabrina and I are getting in the mood.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Indisputable Paternity Proof
Ever since the minute Sabrina was born, I've been hearing how much she looks like her mother. Her furrowed brow, her hair, nose, lips, etc, all mom, mom, mom, mom. I like to take credit for her eyes, but even those have been compared to her maternal grand father. This is all starting to change. After hitting 3 months, Sabrina's looking more and more like me.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Bumbo chair
finally convinced her parents to get her one too. Here she is tonight
helping me make dinner. She sits up really well in this chair...it's
great!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sabrina turns 3 months old!
Wow. Three months went by quickly. And so did our busy day with our little girl. We kicked it off with a little (not so hot) hot tub session. We're prepping Sabrina for her beach time down in Mexico. She wasn't fazed by the water, but she needs a little practice with her strokes.
Then we had our first reunion with our birthing class. So much fun to see all the babies out in the world. It's funny how the birth seemed like such a big deal during the class (and it certainly was a big deal), but now it's a distant memory. I didn't hear anyone talk about their birth -- now it's all about diapers and daycare.
After checking in with the class of 2028, Sabrina was off to wish her Poppy a happy birthday. Robert's new luggage scale weighed her in at about 12.5 lbs. She keeps laughing at her grandma, and we're pretty sure she managed to roll over. Fun times!
Then we had our first reunion with our birthing class. So much fun to see all the babies out in the world. It's funny how the birth seemed like such a big deal during the class (and it certainly was a big deal), but now it's a distant memory. I didn't hear anyone talk about their birth -- now it's all about diapers and daycare.
After checking in with the class of 2028, Sabrina was off to wish her Poppy a happy birthday. Robert's new luggage scale weighed her in at about 12.5 lbs. She keeps laughing at her grandma, and we're pretty sure she managed to roll over. Fun times!
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