week 40

Well we have hit the 9 month mark! Holy cow! Tenille is now into EVERYTHING. We "child proofed" the house. The toilet had become her favorite new toy. Now we have to remember to lift the safety latch. So everyone be warned when you come over! I thought this phot of her was the best because this is how she is now, into everything and most always smiling!

The one picture is off Tenille at another birthday party. She got her first "ears" as a souvenir. She really didn't know what to think because there were so many kids there. :)

We are putting our house on the market this week. Everyone send up prayers for us. We just don't have the yard for a little one. So hopefully it will sell quickly. :) One another non-baby note, I have an extra wisdom tooth that I need to have removed. All that fun will take place at the end of April. Good news is, I get two days off of work. :)

Thursday Tenille developed a high fever. Of course this happens when J is working. What event doesn’t? My mom went after work and picked up Tenille. It was supposed to be picture day at school but I guess she didn’t want to have anything to do with that. We got an appointment to see Barkow at 4pm. Doc said her ears are ok but to watch the fever. She is spiking 102-103 and then down to 99.3. He said it could be two types of viruses but he is not worried as long as the fever doesn’t stay at 103 degrees. So Jason stayed home with her on Friday. I left in the morning and she was sleeping. J took a nap and went to check on her at 9:50am. She was sitting in her crib and playing with toys. She had also turned on the music/light thing in her crib and it was playing. J said he never heard her make a peep. J

As of Sunday, she is running around 99.1 so hopefully it will stay that way.

Mom and I braved the Wakarusa children's resale on Saturday morning. We waited outside from 8 am until 9:30 am, when we got in. I got 12 outfits for $50 so I thought that was pretty good.

For you planning people out there, we are going to have Tenille's birthday party at Krider Garden, here in Middlebury, on June 14th. Since we don't know what will be happening with our house then, we thought this was safest. :) So pencil us in . . . sometime around 2pm I think. Have a great day!

week 40 video

Here is Tenille trying her best to help me with the laundry.

week 39

She actually snuggled with me on the couch!

She wore this to church last Sunday. I love the hat!

We can thank Aunt Angie for these CUTE clothes!

Watch out Uncle Bill, Tenille is ready for singing with you!

This week Tenille has add the cutest and hardest thing to add to her list of accomplishments. She has learned to pull herself up from a laying down position. So what does that mean? It means that when she is in her crib and she cries, you walk in to find her standing in her crib with her arms up, tearing running down her face, and this look like, “How could you have left me in here?”

We are loving this great weather. We went for bike rides or walks almost everyday. She falls asleep so that is fun. J She did not beat anybody up at daycare this week so maybe she was doing it because of her ears.

On the 14th Tenille went to her first birthday party. It was for a friend of mine’s son. Tenille didn’t really understand what was going on but loved the cracker I gave her!

On Wednesday, Tenille learned a new game. It is lock daddy out of the truck game. J picked her up from daycare and when he got home gave her his keys to play with. He shut his door and went around to the other side to get her out. When he got there the door was locked. He walked back around to find that door locked as well. There was Miss Tenille, eating the keys and smiling. J got the spare key, unlocked the doors, put the key back, shut the door, walked around the truck, only to find . . .the doors locked again. This happened 3 times before he got her out. She thought it was VERY funny, Jason was not really impressed. :)

On Saturday, Tenille got to go to her second wedding shower. Our cousin Jordan is getting married in May and Tenille loved the attention.
That is about it! Enjoy the great weather!

week 38

Our punk - up close and personal!

Well we started this week with Tenille having an ear infection and me having strep throat. So that is not the way to start things off!

Tenille had to have her crib changed at daycare. Apparently she can escape from the other one! It has a side you can pull down and she does! We are raising a Houdini!

She did sleep through the night one night! Yippy! J even had a fire that night and she didn't get up. Sure wish we knew the secret! :)

We are really in love with books now. She reads them, eats them, crinkles them, and in general thinks that they are pretty cool!

She not only is crawling around the house and peering at us around corners, she is pulling herself up to standing. Everywhere, in the tub, on your leg, in her crib! She also can go from crawling to kneeling without any support. For all my Catholic family: I guess she must be getting ready for mass! :)

Her biggest news is that she got a tattoo on Thursday night. We left her in the care of our friends the Barnes. We went for ice cream and picked her up. The little girl was completely pooped out and sleeping. We brought her home and I changed her and put her p.j.s on. She ate and I put her down. Well a little while later I thought she had pooped her pants so I was checking her in the dark and thought, what in the world is on her thigh? I turned on the light and low and below our precious daughter has a rose tattoo on her left hip. I didn't know it before because it is facing the wall and not me when I changed her diaper. I am not sure how long it will stay on there but it sure is funny! I took some pictures of it and are sending them on. The naked baby picture I think is adorable but J thought it was a little racy so I won't be putting that online. :)

We surprised the people at daycare with the tattoo. They took pictures and thought it was cute. She spent some time with Jason's parents Saturday and they were sure it was J's idea. :) My dad got to see it Saturday night and said, well at least it is not a piercing. (In reference to my belly button I once had pierced)

So by the end of this weekend we are starting to feel better and are still enjoying the tattoo. I hope this find you all well. I want you to know that you all mean so very much to us. Thank you for letting us share our daughter with you!

The video of the week is her new skills of . . making noise . . .

I am pretty sure my grandmother tried to get her to do this two weeks ago and now she thinks it is the COOLEST thing ever!

Patty Cake with Aunt Cari!

week 37 photos

Week 37

It is offical Tenille has TWO front teeth on the bottom!

At Daycare they have had to take her crib mobile down because she pulls herself up in her crib and hangs on it. Two new babies started this week. One is two weeks older than Tenille and looks big enough to have eaten another baby. :) The other baby is 8 weeks old and so little. So what does darling Tenille do on the second day with the baby? Crawls up to the poor girl and claws at her face! The daycare workers had to put Tenille in "time out" (her crib) because she keep going to pick on the poor girl. We know the mom and the family so I appoligized on Wednesday for my nuaghty daughter. On Wednesday afternoon, our dear daughter attacked a different kid and strached Abbie in the face. I wonder how many more times I will end up doing apololigizing for her? (In her defense, Abbie was pulling Tenille's pigtails) When we got home, J and I snuggled with her on the couch. When she started to claw at our faces we said "No!" She then looked at both of us and made a pouty lip and cried into her arm, for about 1 second, then looked at us to see if we were still made. The little stinker, she already knows how the game works! Tenille has not taken on the big kid at daycare, I think she is afraid he might eat her. :)

The last couple of days it has been da da this and da da that. I am trying wtih ma ma but to no avil. If J is not around that is about all she says. My brother Mark came for a visit this weekend

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Gotta love this kid's hair!

Week 36 and Chasing The Elephant!

Uncle Mark got this elephant for Tenille for Christmas. She is really getting the hang of crawling after it! Maybe this is why her knees are all red and chapped!

Week 36 Notes:
What a week! Tenille learned to crawl last Saturday (the 21st). I got the flu and we spent all week trying to return to “normal”. Tenille’s biggest news is that officially we have a tooth! You can’t really see it, but yes you can feel it! I am sure her self esteem is through the roof now because she has a tooth like everyone at daycare! I am pretty sure that she now has two teeth, otherwise she has one VERY wide tooth in there. She does let me "brush" her teeth at night. It thought we should get in the habit now so we don't have a fit about it later. I rub her gums with a little brush every night. She like it!

She is perfecting her crawling and now is giving Harry and Sasha a run for their money. Her new favorite toys are the dogs crew toys and stuffed animals. Harry doesn’t care, Sasha is not happy.

You can’t leave Tenille alone very long because she will get into something. The funny thing is that she will mostly go back to whatever spot you left her in, and then look at you like, “Hey I had this the whole time, you just don’t remember!” I had to start putting something like chap stick on her knees. She is moving around so much that she is wearing the skin right off her left knee. Of course it doesn’t seem to bother her.

She did sleep through the night for us on Thursday night. J So yippy! She spent Saturday and Sunday with Grandma and Grandpa Watson. They had a great time! They made cookies and crawled around a lot. We hoped that would make her sleep well for us Sunday night but it didn't happen.

Cookies with Grandma

We left Tenille with my parents this weekend. I think they had a good time! I used the little rolling pin to help my great grandmother make cookies! That is a lot of generations making the SAME shamrock cookies. Grandma with the white hair would be proud!