week 31

Big changes at our house! We are hitting the big 7 months!

We offically "lowered" the crib. Tenille was looking like she was thinking about climbing out so we put an end to that! We also tried our first 2nd foods. Blueberries and applesauce. She ate it all up the first night and the next morning wanted nothing to do with it. So we will see!

The workers at daycare have acctually send she has been pleasent and fun lately. We have stopped the breathing treatments and she is getting more sleep. This is due to the fact we have been letting her "cry it out" this week. It has been working pretty good so far. I have probably jinxed myself now. But I did get 5.5 hours of sleep in a ROW on Monday night. I can't tell you the last time that happened!

She is starting to be a curious george. I left her on the floor of the bathroom so I could take a shower. The next thing I know I hear her in the bathroom cabinet. She had scooted over there was fishing around in there for "fun stuff" to play with. She didn't find anything. :) Then when I got out, I opened the top drawer to get something. She looked at me and then she leaned forward and opened the bottom drawer. We might be in trouble soon! :0

She is also tilting her head to look at you when she thinks you are being funny. :) Hope everyone is good and staying warm!

week 30

In the news of food:
A highlight last week that I forgot to mention is that Tenille has fed herself a sweet potato puff. She is getting so good with her fingers that she picked up a puff and put
it in her mouth. So cool!

On the "other kid" front:
The dogs are getting more curious about Tenille, especially when she eats. Sasha will place herself right next to the high chair. Sasha hasn't gotten any food yet but she is waiting. Tenille thinks this is WONDERFUL because she LOVES to watch the dogs. She will flop her arms up and down and get all excited when she see them.

Jason is working on teaching her "arms up" when she wants to be picked up. She is getting the hang of it.

She is really starting to move around. Unfortunately it is backwards but she is having fun and moving. She backup up into Sasha on Thursday night. Sasha was not happy. Needless to say Tenille was very happy about it. Tenille also moved over to Sasha and grabbed Sasha's toy. Sasha didn't like that either. Sasha grabbed the toy (her husky baby) and ran away. :)

We are trying to work on her sleeping through the night. The last two night have not been that bad and she has put herself to back to sleep a few times without our help. So we will see if this continues.

We have tried some baby videos but she really doesn't care for them at this point. She still really likes football!

So other than trying to stay warm when it was -17 degrees and I had to go to work and take Tenille to daycare, everything is going well here. In the photos, we are pretty sure that Tenille is learning how to do CPR on her glow worm.

Weather Channel Watcher

Here is Tenille watching the weather channel last night. She was hoping for a 2 hour delay today!

week 29

Good Tuesday Morning Everyone!
I broke our camera during our trip to South Carolina. We have gotten another one and I hope you enjoy the pictures it takes just as much as the old one!

Major accomplishment for the week:
We are crawling/scooting . . . backwards. She gets all excited about whatever is in front of her and then gets so MAD when it gets farther away because she is pushing herself in the wrong direction! :)

We went to the doctor TWICE last week. (Is it bad that when I come in they ask how Tenille is doing and know my name?) Wednesday of last week she threw a FIT in the morning and we thought it had to be her ears again. Dr. Patel looked at her and her ears are not perfect but they are healing. He did just us a baby zertek which seems to be helping her breathing and SLEEPING. I did get up 2 times last night but that is WAY better than the 30 we did two weeks ago! :) We also went for her six month check up on Friday. Developmentally she is right on schedule. She weights 16 lbs and 2 oz (we have doubled our birth weight) so she is in the 50 percentile for weight. She is 27.75 inches tall and in the 95th percentile for height.

We lost power Monday night/ Tuesday morning of last week. It got so cold in our house we brought Tenille into bed with us. If she had teeth they would have been chattering! Tuesday daycare was closed so Grandma and Grandpa Wogoman had her for the day.

Funny story of the week:
With all the snow Saturday I was refusing to plow the driveway because J was gone and I didn't have anywhere we needed to go. My parents decided to come over that night so I had to get it done. When Tenille took her afternoon nap, I bundled up and ran outside with the baby monitor. I got two swipes done on the driveway with the snow blower and looked at the monitor. 4 out of the 5 lights were on. I knew I couldn't stop with so little done so I started running up and down the driveway trying to get it clean. Run down, run up, look at the monitor, feel horrible because of all the lights. When I got half way done I looked again, no lights, so I quick tried to finish. I go running into the house when I was done to save Tenille from being abandoned and find . . . a sleeping baby. The monitor had picked up the snow blower noise. Nice huh? Monday at school one of my students says, "Hey, Mrs. Wogoman I saw you running up and down your drive way Saturday. You looked like you were going to fall down. I thought it was your husband but then I thought . . . no he looks to little to be Mr. Wogoman." So people actually saw me being so crazy! Ahh what I do for Tenille!

week 28

We have survived our first vacation with Tenille! We say LOTS of first. She may have had a great growing week or we were just around more!

Tenille now HATES her car seat! She spent 19 hours in it on the way down and 16 hours on the way back. Not a happy camper. I put her in it this morning to go to daycare and she started crying! :(

We had to stop about every 100 miles or so with her. She slept a ton on the way home because we left in the middle of the night.

The first night we were in Seabrook, SC she got up . . . . 30 TIMES in the middle of the night. She finally fell asleep in my arms on the couch. I didn't move. I woke up with a sore neck. I think it was weird for her being somewhere so new.

Big news is that she is trying to crawl. She has her but up in the air and is trying really hard to get her feet into the carpet.

She now cries when you take something away from her that she wants. She was eating the T.V. remote and Jason took it from her. She started crying with tears and everything. He gave it back to her and she stopped. J looked at me and said, "Huh, we are to that stage now!" She also learned to turn the T.V. on and off and how to mess with the volume. She must a be a technology genius!

She got to touch the ocean and sit on the beach. She got to see dolphins almost everyday, and got a horse drawn carriage ride around Charleston.

On the eating side of things, she has decided that nursing is not for her really anymore and she is eating a TON of "big girl food" She ate oatmeal, a container of applesauce, and a container of sweet potatoes all for breakfast on Friday. She was so happy.

We got to visit with Marv and Linda because they came to see us in South Carolina. They think that she has gotten so big! (Well I guess she has!)

On the other kid front, our dogs stayed at home with Nikki Barnes. The first night we were gone we got a message from Nikki that was a picture with both dogs looking away. Apparently they had escaped and ran away. Nikki did a GREAT job and got them back to the house. Jason and I would be lost with Nikki, she is our babysitter, dog-house sitter, and my student aid at school.

So all in all a very eventful week. Wish us luck, we go to the doctor Friday for a 6 month appointment. We are also going to get her ears checked out again and talk about her breathing. She seems to be much better but I want her to stay that way! :)

One last thing, at Christmas, Tenille's cousin Anna couldn't say Tenille, Anna calls her snille. How cute! Have a great week!