Tooth #10

 This is what we see all day long...
She CONSTANTLY has a finger way back in her mouth... sometimes on one side, sometimes the other!

Haven finished cutting one side of her bottom right molar yesterday.  I am "counting" her molars as soon as she cuts an entire side since molars are so big, lol.  So right now she has her top and bottom molars on her right side and both on her left side are close, super swollen, and the top left is starting to cut through.  It is torture!!!!  :(  I absolutely HATE seeing her in pain.  Today she was okay until noon, just biting on her fingers and stuff and then she started saying "OWWW!  OWWWW!  OWWWW!" with her fingers in her mouth and tears on her face and I just wanted to cry with her!  I gave her some Ibuprofen and Orajel and she was back to just biting her fingers again!  It looks super painful too.  She is not taking great naps because of it, but is still sleeping over 12 hours straight during the nights!!

2 more molars!

Are cutting through!  The bottom right and the top left!  They are just a tiny point so far, so I won't count them yet, but hopefully over the next day or 2 they will be through!!!!  I'm so ready to be done with them! 

Tooth #9!!

Haven's first molar (top right) finally cut through today!!!!  It has been a difficult week trying to get this thing through, but she woke up SUPER HAPPY this morning!  She continued to be SUPER HAPPY the entire rest of the day, so I looked in her mouth, and sure enough, it was cut all the way through! F.I.N.A.L.L.Y!!!!  Except, that we still have 3 more to go, lol!  She started getting crabby again around 5:30pm and was asleep by 6:15pm (which is her typical bedtime lately).  Her bottom right molar is extremely swollen and I can feel the tooth right below the surface and her top left seems to be really close as well, so hopefully we don't have too much longer with these darn molars!!

It's funny how different my girls are on some things and how similar they are on others!  When I looked back at Venily's babyhood, I remember thinking the following things in comparison to Haven:

* I hope Haven doesn't spit up like Venily did!  (Didn't luck out there, Haven definitely took after her sister on that one)

*I hope Haven sleeps better than Venily! (Yep, she continues to be an AMAZING sleeper, sleeping 12 straight hours at night.  I would have KILLED for 12 straight hours from Venily, lol, even for just one night!)

*I hope Haven doesn't have Venily's lactose sensitivity! (Definitely luck out here, Haven has ZERO issues with regular milk!)

*I hope Haven doesn't hate baths like Venily did!  (Haven LOVES baths and always has!)

*I hope Haven's molars don't bother her as much as Venily's did coming in! (Ick!  It's just about as bad as I remember!)

*I hope Haven is as easy to potty-train as Venily was!  (Still waiting and hoping on that one!)

*And of course, I also hoped that she'd be an early walker/talker/and milestone-reacher like Venily (and she has definitely done that!!!)

Venily's 1st Field Trip!!!

Venily went on her first field trip last Wednesday to The Apple Barn!!  She got to ride on a bus all by herself and Haven and I drove there as well, so we could come too!  She sat with her teacher, Mrs. Vivian (since she's technically still 2 and needed to be with an adult) and Mrs. Vivian said she was very talkative the whole trip and showed her where each and every corn stalk was that they passed, lol!  We got to go on a hay ride, pick apples right off the trees, pick pumpkins, go on a tour of the facilities there and all the things they make, and have a snack of apples, apple cider donuts, and apple juice! :)  It was fun, but Haven was not having a good time at all! :(  She whined almost the whole time, which is sooooo crazy for her!  It was supposed to be her naptime AND she is having an absolute miserable time cutting these molars!  I couldn't put her down for a second, I feel so bad for her!!  Venily wanted to ride the bus back to her school instead of just coming straight home with me, and I ended up getting HOPELESSLY lost on the way home.  Like hyperventilating, crying to a bunch of construction workers, barely able to think and lucky I didn't get into an accident, type of lost!  AND THIS IS WITH A GPS, lol!  I had taken a different way to get there b/c I had to run home quick and get Venily different shoes.  I luckily was only about 5 minutes late picking her up though since I left to go back to her preschool well before the buses left.
 

And how fricken cute are these girls in their matching Halloween outfits?!  LOL!  They have other matching Halloween shirts too!  :)  Obviously Haven was a much happier camper after 2 naps and some Tylenol, haha!

12 month update!

Okay, enough procrastinating, I unfortunately was not able to prevent Haven from turning one, so I guess I will just have to write her update now!!!


Here are her 12 month stats:

Weight: 23 pounds (as weighed at the dr's on 9/28th)


Length: 32.5 inches (measured at dr's on 9/28th)



She is pretty big and definitely TALL! :)

(Venily was 21lbs, 12oz and 31.5 in at 12m!)


Haven's updated growth charts:

Her weight is plateauing, but her height continues to skyrocket, lol!



Clothes size: 18m

Diaper size: 3

Shoe size: 5's and 5 1/2's.  Even some of them are getting too small, lol!  Venily and Haven are going to be sharing shoes soon!  (Venily is a 9)


HAIR LENGTH: longest top pieces- 
longest bottom/back pieces-

SLEEPING: Still sleeps through the night.  Her bedtime keeps getting earlier and earlier!  Some nights she goes to bed at 5:30pm!!  But it's never later than 7:15pm!  Usually wakes up around 6:30am.


She takes 2 naps.  One around 9am and the other around 1pm.  Her morning nap is usually pretty short, around 45min.  And her afternoon nap is usually around 2 hours.

EATING: Eats anything and everything we're eating.  Some of her top favorite things are spaghetti, any kind of cheese (but especially string cheese), any kind of beans (baked beans, chili, refried beans in tacos), blueberries, yogurt, applesauce, any kind of fruit, and tons more.


We are done nursing now and she is on all whole milk!  She LOVES her milk and demands it throughout the day!  She goes up to the refrigerator, points and says "MILK!" :)  And I make her say "MILK, PUH!" which translates to "milk, please!"
PLAYING: Her favorite toys are her slide (which she calls all slides "weeee's", babies, fake kitchen stuff (she loves to pretend to eat food and feed it to her babies and little people and stuffed animals, lol, oh and mommy and Venily, of course!), any thing she can draw with, and anything she can ride on!
APPEARANCE: She couldn't get any cuter if she tried!!!  She still has her gorgeous smile and huge dimples and her bright blue eyes and reddish blonde hair!  (side story:  I left Walmart one day and forgot my extra reusable bags and the checkout lady, who I talk to often, comes running out, trying to get my attention and says " Hey, lady with the little red-headed baby!" LOL!)  I have different people tell me all the time that she looks like me and that she looks like Jason.  BUT, I know the truth, she most definitely looks like ME! :)



TEETH: 8 teeth!  And her 2 top molars are close to cutting through and it looks like she is getting her bottom 2 molars as well.  I SURE hope that all 4 come in at once... and SOON!  She is miserable right now!!!!

SPEECH: She can say over 75 words now!!!  And is VERY effective at communicating her wants!!

Some of her newest words are:

shoe (doo, LOVES shoes!!), sock (though she usually calls socks "doos" as well, until I correct her and then she'll call them socks!), STOP! (dop!, said when she doesn't want you to do something, lol), tickle (tick, tick), remote (mote), water (wawa), brrrrr (when she's cold or feels something cold), "spank your butt" (LOL, I pretend to spank her butt, and she picked it up!), fork (though again, she usually calls it a spoon first, until I correct her and then she'll say it right), wipe (calls them "weep"s), phone, buckle (says "buck" while trying to take off the buckles on her high chair and carseat, but when I pronounce the word correctly for her, she'll say "buck, cle, cle"), gramma, help (when she needs help with something), bug (her newest fascination since we have a gazillion boxelder bugs and lady bugs on the sides of our house, including our windows! and she has to make sure she points them all out to me, haha)!  Also, she calls Venily "DEE!" when she sees pictures and videos of her, but no so much to her face.


She also loves to point at any letter or word she sees and says "E!"  "E!".  lol.  She'll even grab one of my books, open it and start reading "E, E, E" while pointing at all the words.  When I sing her songs she always wants me to sing the "E" song too (ABC's) and she tries to sing them as well.  She usually sings "A...E... E... F... E".  :)


Venily knew about 50 words at 12.5 months.





ANIMAL SOUNDS: She's up to 19 now, I believe!!!

previous: fish (open/close mouth), sheep (baaa), cow (moo), elephant (blows lips), bee (bzzzz), and kitty (meow), lion, tiger, bear (all the same sound, haha! rrrrawrrrr), owl (who, who), horse (neigh), chicken (bawk, bawk), dog (ruff), monkey (ahh, ahh- I've tried to teach her "ooh, ooh, ahh, ahh").  

new last month:  frog (ribbit), giraffe (touches neck), pig (snorts), goat (meh), bunny (tries to wiggle nose)


She also knows that a train says "choo, choo" and a car says "vroom, vroom"

BODY PARTS:  Up to 13 now!!! 
Previous:  hair, hands, feet, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, ears, and bellybutton
also knows: fingers, toes, butt

MOVEMENT: (newest accomplishments)
Goes down the slide without standing up at the top now, which is a definite improvement! 


Also, a lot better at going down the stairs on her butt

Random happenings:  

Throws garbage away in the garbage can now, which is quite impressive since our garbage is in a semi-child proofed cupboard (it's hard to make things Haven-proof, but NOT Venily-proof, lol)


She is now sometimes answering "yes" to yes/no questions, but still often says a word associated with the question rather than saying "yes".  (And, of course, she has no problems saying "no" to things, lol.)  For example, if you ask her if she is hungry and she is she'll sometimes say "yes", but most times say "eat, eat" and run to her high chair.  Same for if you ask her if she's tired.  Usually she says "na-night" and runs to her crib.

Birthday Party!!!

The girls had their birthday party on Sunday!  It was the most stressful party I have ever organized, but Jason didn't think it went badly at all, so maybe it was just me!  First of all, Haven started being fussy the night before her party and that has continued on to this day! :(  Her molars are really bothering her now.  She's been sleeping a lot and biting her fingers like crazy.  Also, the morning of her party she was really constipated and tried pooping 5 times, screaming each time.  I finally gave her some prunes and that helped a bit.  I was excited that Haven got a nap in before her party started, but unfortunately she was still super tired at her party and wanted to be held most of the time!  On top of all of that, it was freezing cold for an outside party!  I think the high was in the low 50's, which was made worse by the fact that it was gorgeous a few days before the party and now, a few days after it's back in the 70's!


My mom made the girls' cakes, just like they wanted them and they turned out really well!  We had a pinata and the kids played at the park, which they loved.  We only opened about half of the presents at the party, since people were all leaving b/c it was so cold and Haven wanted nothing to do with that b/c she was tired and cranky.  She only took a few bites of her cake too (which is understandable seeing as it was the third time she'd had cake in one week, lol!).


Both girls fell right to sleep on the ride home (at 5pm) and I finally woke Haven up at 7:30pm to eat dinner and change her diaper.  Venily, however, continued sleeping ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE MORNING, lol!  She woke up and opened the rest of her presents! :)  The girls got some really great stuff and have been having so much fun playing with everything!!!!  Lots of kitchen toys (which is one of their favorite things to play), lots of clothes (which I LOVE), drawing things, and other fun new toys!  I went through some of their other toys and packed some away!
Overall, I think it went well.  But I seriously don't think I'd do another park party again, even though I LOVED the fact that I didn't have to stress out about how clean my house was before the party!

Annnnnd.... we're DONE!!!

Nursing, that is! :(

Yesterday she tried to nurse twice and didn't get anything either time!  She was mad and would unlatch and say "MILK!" so I gave her a cup of whole milk instead both times.  Today I didn't even offer it to her.  I just gave her the whole milk when she asked.  Soooo.... I'm sad.  I can't even think about it too much or I start to cry.  That and the whole hormone thing is not going well for me.  I would have thought since I've had my period back for several months now, that the drop in hormones while weaning (and the fact that I've been doing it gradually) would make it not so bad, but that's not the case.  I'm a bit of a wreck.  Mood swings and zero appetite (I literally have to force myself to eat and then I feel sick right afterwords).  Hopefully it regulates out soon!


It's weird that I have my body back to myself finally.  It's been over 4 years since I wasn't pregnant or nursing or trying to get pregnant!  I feel like doing something to celebrate, but I don't drink, lol!  So... maybe I will go down some Nyquil or something?!  LOL, I'm just kidding, but I am looking forward to being able to take Nyquil the next time I get sick!  YAY, or any other medication that I haven't been able to take in over 4 years! :)

Tomorrow is the girls' birthday party!!  They're excited even though it's only supposed to be in the 50's!  yuck!  Hopefully it all goes well!!!  I can't believe that Venily will be 3 in only 12 days!!!

Haven's 1 Year Pics!!

My sister-in-law Jacki took Haven's 1 year pics!!!  Haven never stands still long enough to take many pictures, but Jacki does an amazing job anyway! :)  How in the world did I get such gorgeous kids?! 

And this little girl... well, she's my favorite!!!  ♥