Christmas Day

Christmas Presents Part 2

This was my mom's picture. Vivian's special cashmere cardigan. I don't even have cashmere!

Uncle Bubby's picture. She's ready to visit him in the cold Madison weather.

Auntie Keegan's picture

Auntie Caiti's picture

Christmas Presents

For about two months Vivian has been working on special pictures for everyone for Christmas. Each person got their own special picture. Some based on an outfit from the person, some just because.

This one is Nana's

My dad's. This was the first one we took. She has grown up so much. Compare this to my mom's which is the most recent one we took

I didn't mean to upload this one. It wasn't a present. Still cute though

Back to work

Monday was my first full day back to work and Vivian's first full day at daycare. I think she really likes it. Whenever I pick her up the other little kids are sitting next to and sharing their toys with her which is nice. There's an eleven year old who stays there after school who loves to hold Vivian and play with her. She's happy to see me but she loves to have me hold her while she looks around at the other kids. I'm very happy with the provider we chose. Here are the first day of school pictures. Note the matching shirt and socks.

My Christmas gift to you - baby in a box

Headbands

I've been looking for cute headbands for Vivian but they are all either too big or too expensive. Happily my brother's fiance is a crafty lady and made two adorable headbands for her! This is the first one. It has a little pearl in the middle of the flower. So cute!

4 months old

I can't believe Vivian is four months old! She's pretty amazing. She loves to stand up. I try to get her to work on sitting but she just holds her legs straight until I pull her up to stand. She is starting to like tummy time more and wants to crawl so much. I feel bad when she just can't move anywhere. She is becoming more talkative but she still prefers to observe. She's starting to clutch things but it's really not too important to her at this point. She doesn't love any particular toys yet but she is becoming more aware of them. I feel like she is going to start progressing when I return to work because she will see all the "big" kids doing things that she wants to do. Next up, toys! I really like all of the Melissa and Doug wooden toys so I think quite a few of the toys we buy for her (when she gets bigger) will be wooden instead of the modern plastic toys.

Kind of sitting up... with help of course

4 month checkup

Yesterday we went to Vivian's four month doctor appointment. She's doing really well!

She weighs 16 pounds 7 ounces which is the 97% 24.75 inches which is the 75% and her head is in the 30%. I guess she's a pinhead. Poor baby. Happily baby heads are all huge so maybe hers just looks normal. Her head percentile when down but it's back to where it was at her 1 month appointment so it's not worrisome. I don't think she's actually that long. The way they measure her length is by having me try to hold her head in place while the nurse pulls on her legs to straighten her out. Her head always pulls a little away from where I'm supposed to hold her so I'm assuming she's closer to just 24 inches.

She also got some more vaccinations. She did really well. She cried more when I accidentally snapped her finger in the car seat trying to get home than she did after the shot. Poor baby. She was asleep before we even left the doctor's office.

The doctor said if we want to start some rice cereal we could but I'd rather get her day care bottle situation all situated before starting other foods. Supposedly rice cereal in a bottle helps a baby sleep through the night but the pediatrician said that's an old wives tale. She had been sleeping through the night until last week. Last night she finally did it again! Hopefully she's going to start being a good sleeper again. Tonight we are going to try moving to the crib. Wish me luck!