week 27

Good Morning Everyone! I know this is early but we are headed out for our first vacation as a family of three tomorrow. We are going to South Carolina. Should be a great time and I am sure there will be tons of great picture opportunities along the way. :)
Tenille spent a lot of time this week getting better. We don't hear the raspy breath much anymore and are almost done with the antibotics. :) Once she started feeling better there was no stopping her for Christmas. I am pretty sure she knows to smile for the camera now. She will perk right up if I bring it out.

Santa visited before Christmas and Tenille did great with him. She didn't cry at all. She got a new outfit and promised to be good for the next year. :)

She absolutely loved the presents. I guess I should say the paper and bows. She put everything in her mouth and smiled. We had to rearrange our current toy situation so we could make room for a high chair and other great toys.

On the developemental front, she is trying VERY hard to pull herself up to sitting. This makes it difficult to change her but she laughs the same.

We tried prunes this week. She thinks they are ok. We only ate a little bit because I didn't want crazy poopy diapers. :) We only have peaches, bananas, and squash to go. Squash is up next I think. Today I gave her some pears and you should have seen her face. She didn't like them one bit. She puckered up her lips and made her eye brows do weird things. Funny girl! Hope everyone is doing well!

A visit from Santa

Santa stopped by last night to tell Tenille to behave so he can come back on Christmas Eve with lots of presents. She did SO well! She didn't cry or anything! She even jingled Santa's bells.

week 26

Well this has sure been a week. We went to the doctor Wednesday because Tenille's lips were turning blue, she was having retractions, and her nose was flaring. Poor little girl, she couldn't breathe! So after the doctor my mom and I went to the hospital to have a chest x ray and an RSV wash done on Tenille. End result: double ear infections, no RSV, and pneumonia. So I took off of work Thursday and Jason and I stayed home with her. School was canceled Friday so we could stay home again. She is starting to sound a little better. We give her 5 breathing treatments a day, which take like 20 minutes. Poor thing. Through the whole thing she is still smiling at us so that has to count for something. :) It was so nice when I got to the hospital. Jason Aunt Bobbie checked us in. Then 10 seconds later, (Not kidding!) my sister in law, Heather was there. It was nice to have family with me during that time. Other than that, she has discovered eddy the elk in the basement and doesn't know what to think about him. We have tried green beans and she likes them better than peas. She is sleeping pretty well all things considered. Oh, and she loves tissue paper. She is helping me wrap presents.






One picture is of her and her dinosaur breathing mask. J picked it out. :) Also, Tenille is learning how to rock in the rocking chair by herself!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Doctor Visit

Well we went to the Doctor and the hospital on Wendesday night. They took a chest x - ray and did a test for RSV. The RSV came back negative and they think she has pneumonia. We started antibotics and more breathing treatments. She seems to be doing a little better tonight. I get to call the doctor Friday to update him. I hope these drugs work. What a scary thing!

week 25

I guess you can tell how our week went by the fact that this email is coming out Wednesday! :)
I have been sick all week and Tenille has been "out of sorts". She has been fussy and just plain not happy. :( Her sleeping has gotten better. Thank you Lord! We started apples this week and will start green beans soon. So far sweet potatoes are the favorite!She has eaten two jars of food at a time along with cereal! Then other days she eats a little and is done. So I am not sure what that is about.

She has been getting upset when something is hard for her to do or is out of here reach! When all else fails, if you sing, "You are my Sunshine" she will usually calm down. Now when I lost my voice this week, that trick didn't work out so hot!

The day care ladies are starting to call her wheezy because of her breathing. I sure wish we could get this figured out. :(

Our biggest accomplishment this week is that we started taking baths in the "big girl tub". She absolutely loves bath night, or swimmy swimmy, as we call it. She chases her toys all around and smiles and laughs.

Christmas Photos

Our big girl did SO great! Yep, I think she is cute!

week 24

This week we had a two hour delay on Tuesday. It was so nice to let Tenille sleep in and I got to read a book! :) When she did get up at 8:15 and yes we slept all night (Thank God!), I fed her and then let her play in her exersaucer. I went in the other room and noticed that she got really quiet. So I went out to see what she was doing, she was stareing out the window at the snow. It was so cool to watch her watch snow falling for the first time! She loved it. This is her watching the snow fall.

Friday night was her Christmas play at daycare. Her three other babies from the daycare were dressed like animals. She was adorable but thought the costumes were a little weird. She kept looking at the other babies like, "hey, what is that silly thing on your head?"

We tried Sweet Potatoes on Saturday and Jason and I have decieded that they are a very messy vegtable! It doesn't help when she spits or sneezes on you! We got our Christmas pictures / 6 month pictures taken on Saturday as well. What a CRAZY time to get pictures! ahhhhh! We got them finished and of course she looked cute!

week 23

Good Morning Everyone!
Monday of this past week let us know just how opinionated our daughter can be. She was fussy, wouldn't eat, and cried for 45 mins. The daycare called and said we should come pick her up. They also said she was very pale. They were worried that she may have caught what one of the other kids had which was some small form of mealses or something. Jason was done working at Eagle so he ran over there. Once he came to the school to get the car seat(yep I left it in there again!) and went back to daycare, she was happy, smiling and bouncing in her seat. So I guess she is just not happy with the daycare staff. In her defense, we did have our first Thanksgiving on Sunday and we may have worn her out! To avilavate the problem, we tried orajel for her teeth. It worked GREAT. She slept through the night and we all got sleep!
Sidenote: the gel should be put on AFTER nursing if possible. Nursing and oragel do not work very well together. :)

I have decided that feeding her cereal is like trying to play frogger. You have to zoom past her arms and land in her mouth before she hits either the spoon or the bowl. Both of which usually go flying out of my hand at least once when we eat. :) We are going to start sweet potatoes this next week.

Funny story of the week:
J was changing her Tuesday night. I was in the other room and hear: "Gross, how did that happen?" I go in there to find Tenille fully dressed and smiling, J holding his hand out like it had pee on it (it did by the way), and a wet spot on the changing pad. She had somehow peed in the two seconds when she didn't have diaper on. J didn't notice and bundled her back up. His had got wet when he went to snap her pants back together. I told him he is lucky it wasn't poop! Even funnier is that she peed on me on Saturday.

We had a good Thanksgiving. (We have lots to be thankful for) We tired Sweet peas on Saturday and we are kinda liking them. Tenille also went and got her first Christmas tree and helped us decorate. Tenille also helped us make candy. So she is pretty tired. All in all she is doing great! Hope everyone day a great week!

week 22

What an amazing week for us! First we mark the 5 month milestone. I have to say that I am feeling a lot better today than I was 5 months ago! :) As for Tenille, she has gotten two new blocks on her wall at school. Her first new block was for sitting unsupported. This is completely amazing to me. Her second block came from rolling over from back to front. Tenille now seems to think that moving is very cool and gets frustrated when something is out of her reach.

Another first was the snow. We went out and played in it. Tenille thought it was fun at first and then she got cold.

Everything is going in Tenille's mouth these days. No teeth, but lots of drool. :)

We are still not sleeping through the night every night. This last week she slept through the night 3 nights so I will take that instead of none! She is eating cereal two times a day. Once at daycare and once at home. Tenille wants to help when she eats and usually I end up with cereal in her hair, on the floor, and on me. I think that is why God invented baths!

For date night this week we had movie night, so Tenille got to watch her first movie, Wall-e. She sat and loved it. I think she likes all the movement on T.V.

Kids at daycare have a sore throat with spots thing. I am hoping we don't catch it! Friday when I took Tenille in the whole room smelled like bleach. They had cleaned EVERYTHING! Which is great. So keep your fingers crossed!

We started packing up clothes that she doesn't fit into anymore. :( She is almost out of all her 3-6 month clothes and we are bringing out the 6-9 and 9 month clothes. I can't believe that she was that little or that we have already gone through so many clothes!

I am sure we will have plenty of pictures with Thanksgiving this week. So everyone have a great week and be thankful for everything. We are!

Our First Snow!

Tenille was in a great mood after day care today so we took some time to play in the snow. She is not so sure about the snow (much like the leaves) but she did like being outside!

week 21

We tried cereal for the first time Sunday night. It did not go well. It all came out of her mouth and went right up her nose. After that, to tell us how much she really didn't like it, she pooped! A lot, not a little. It took both of us to clean her up! So we resolved to add some to her bottle. I think the lie everyone told us about making her sleep through the night with cereal is a horrible one to spread around. Since we have feed her cereal she has been up all those nights.

As of Sunday night we have yet to sleep through the night. I believe it must have something to do with the breathing treatments that we are doing. I am not sure that they are helping but other people seem to think so. She is still a happy smiling baby, she just wheezes.

My parents have decided to call Tenille poohder but are not sure how to spell it. :) When my sibling and I were young we were called poohder-sicles when we were cold. So I guess that is where the name came from. Jason and I have named her punkerdoodle which she responds to.

She started eating ceral at daycare on Thursday. She is doing really well with it there and even got an AWESOME on her paper Friday. We tried it over the weekend and by Sunday night she impressed Grandma and Grandpa Watson with her new skills. By Sunday night we were not as messy and she didn't spit it out on us or poop! :)

I spent Saturday scrapbooking and J got to spend about 9 straight hours with Tenille. He did a GREAT job. When I came home at 8:30 pm I found them sitting on the couch watching COPS. Tenille seems to like T.V. a lot. Tenille and J watched the Norte Dame game Saturday. She seems to like football. :)

She did roll over on J the other day. So I think that counts. :) She is preapring for Thanksgiving this next week and can't wait to see everyone! We will practice the eating thing so you will all be impressed!

Our leaf adventure

While it was so nice last week I put Tenille in her bumbo chair and put leaves around here. She was ok until all the scary leaves were covering her. Then it wasn't so fun anymore. This is about 2 seconds before the wheels fell off!

week 20

I forgot to mention last week that Tenille has started growling. (It was great for her cat costume). Apparently, Abbie and Tenille have learned to growl at each other. Tenille finds this VERY amusing!

Best part of Monday with Tenille was that she "kissed" me. By that I mean she put both hands on my face and reached in and slobbed me with an open mouth. Maybe she was trying to eat my nose. As the mom I think she was trying to kiss me!

As of Tuesday morning Tenille is sticking her tongue out. I think she just found out that she has one. We are loving this time change. She goes to bed at like 6:15pm and stays out until I get her up at 6:45am. She still has a few night terrors(screams even though she is still asleep, we run in there, and she is sleeping). This is allowing Jason and I to have some time to ourselves which is AWESOME!

Friday we went to the doctor for our 4 month visit. The nurse's first comment was, "Oh she is still wheezy, poor thing." Followed by measuring her and saying, "My, what a big girl you are!" She is now 14.5 pounds, and 26 inches tall. Dr. Barkow says she looks about 6 or 9 months old! :) So Tenille is growing which is great! Everything looked good except for the cough and breathing problems that we have been having for almost 2 months. He talked about doing steriods again but J and I reminded him we have tried that and it didn't really help. So now we are doing breathing treatments everyday. We got a nebulizer from Park's home medical and drugs from CVS. I felt like I was cleaning the place out when I went and got the drugs. We have drugs for everyday and drugs for if it gets really bad. So they had to give me a paper bag full of stuff! So we tired it last night for the first time. She cried! She does have a fun mask that looks like a dragon. Not sure she finds the humor in it yet. :) Tenille also got 2 shots at the doctors office. The first shot was not a problem. She didn't cry or anything. The second one was a different story. I am so glad that Jason is there to hold her and pick her up right away. I can't even look. So that has been a week in the life of the Wogoman's.

Hope all is well with you. Do you have your Christmas shopping started?

Tenille at Grandma and Grandpa's

Tenille got to spend the afternoon w/Grandma and Grandpa Watson..not sure who was the most excited, Tenille or the grandparents! (-:

Week 19

This week has been filled with wonderful adventures. It started Sunday when we worked outside in the beautiful day. Tenille was outside with us, all wrapped up, but not really happy. Then we packed her up and headed for the fire station to wash our cars. I had Jason grab the diaper bag (or tackle box as he calls it). It is a good thing he did. When we got to the fire station I took Tenille out of the car and noticed she still was not happy. I removed her blanket and noticed her stomach was went. Not a good sign. Apparently, it is possible to poop up the front of your diaper and into your belly button! I used almost half a pack of wipes to clean her up. She was SO happy after that.

Wednesday was the harvest party at day care. We dressed her up in her frog outfit because she was supposed to look like an animal on the ark. She then got to go trick- or –treating to all the other classroom. You may ask, “How do you get 6 babies who can’t walk trick or treating?” well you put three babies in a rolling crib and you roll them down the hall way stopping at all the doors. She got stickers, pencils, erasers, M&M’s, a small fish and a bracelet. She had fun and told us all about it.

Friday night we went trick or treating to a few houses and the fire station. Tenille was a pink cat and looked very cute. Grandma Watson gave her a bag of treats. It had baby food in it! She is so very excited to try it soon.

Our week topped off with Saturday. Jason and Tenille were watching Norte Dame football and Jason was teaching Tenille how to cheer. She laughed and laughed and laughed. Then all that laughing caused her to throw up! Then she had the hiccups. No, Jason did not scare her to get rid of them, we learned our lesson on that one.

We go to the doctor for shots again on Friday. I will keep you updated on that. We are still trying to roll over. Jason and I have not seen her do it yet! Have a blessed week!

Week 18

Good Morning!
What a week! We started the week with a breast cancer walk and Tenille did GREAT. She slept a ton and was very well behaved. Afterwards was a different story. She was in her jumperoo jumping along having a great time until she farted. I'm sure you can bet it was more than a fart and I went to change the poopie baby. Well, this one was so bad, it was on her back and shoulders and ended up on her elbow. Not sure how that happens! I ended up just giving her a bath because it seemed easier. :) She smiled and laughed the WHOLE time.

At daycare they had spirit week. It was P.J. day, hat day, crazy hair day, and red day. Friday was show and tell but Tenille didn't go to daycare because I didn't have school! Yippy! :) Charolette started this week at daycare so Tenille has someone new to talk to. She is only 2 months old and makes Tenille look so big!

We went last night and got our pumpkins. Jason found a great place in Elkhart that had pumpkins, turkeys, goats, deer, and ponies. Tenille thought the turkeys were funny and laughed a lot.

Biggest news is that she rolled over in daycare. Jason and I have yet to see it but she did it once this week. So we will keep you posted.

Spirit Days at Little Saints Daycare!

Picking the perfect pumpkin!

Breast Cancer Walk

We finished our first breast cancer walk in Middlebury today as a 3 generation family. My mom, my sister, Tenille, and I all walked the 5k race. The weather was beautfiul and we had a great time!

week 17 photos

week 17 update

Good Morning! Ok everyone I am having WAY to much fun with this blog thing! If you haven't checked it out you should! wogomanweekly.blogspot.com
Highlights for the week:Wednesday Tenille got a letter home from daycare that she was scratching herself and to trim her finger nails. I had never done it before. Well, I got 8 done no problem but number 9 sounded different and Tenille went from a happy baby to a screaming baby in about 1 second. After the bleeding stopped and we got the blood off my clothes and hers she had two cuts on her finger. They looked like this ( ) from the clippers. :( Her whole finger was red the next day!

We are still trying to roll over. She has her hips going now but hasn't quite made it yet.

I have started to print these emails off and am putting them in a binder for Tenille someday. I have to laugh while reading some of them because you can tell when I was super tired and writing these.

We are doing the Breast Cancer walk in Middlebury this weekend so Tenille will get to walk/stroll in honor of her great grandmother. Should be a nice day.

This next week at daycare is spirit week. Monday is P.J. day, Tuesday is hat day, Wednesday is crazy hair day, Thursday is red day, and Friday is show and tell. I will be sure to take pictures of these big events. Hope all is well!
Tracy

Week 17

Tenille is now trying out her bumbo chair. It helps her sit up and see the world. Friday night she used it to sit and watch T.V. with the family. Check out the socks! She has multiple pairs of these "shoe socks". Everyone loves them.

Here is the first of many pictures being uploaded to the site. This is from my cousin Steph's wedding over labor day weekend. It was an outdoor wedding and so we needed shades!

Wogoman Weekly is now ONLINE!

Here is our first attempt to move our family life onto the web!