Being the Joneses: 2010

December 20, 2010

18 Month Update

Carina really surprised us this week with new and exciting skills. Most notable were counting to 10 (video soon to follow!) and pooping on the potty! And to top it off she napped for nearly 3 hours yesterday which was huge because she has only been napping one hour per day for the past 3 weeks. She is such an amazing little person and I just can't believe how quickly she picks up new things. Last night I pointed out a snow man on her cup and she repeated the word and then proceeded to point out two more snow man decorations near by. Wow.

She's working on her colors and has pink and blue down cold. Yellow, red and green are coming along pretty well too. She can also recognize the letters E and O and sometimes A. It's seriously nothing that we're doing. We talk to her all the time and she LOVES to read so I think most of it she is picking up from her millions of books.

Her love affair with Sesame Street continues. She already received an Elmo microphone as a Christmas present from a friend, we got her a small plush Grover and a DVD and Mom got her a book and is wrapping her gifts in Sesame Street wrapping paper, haha. I am so excited for Carina to experience Christmas again this year! She's not much for unwrapping gifts but she just loves watching everything.

Of course she's not always sunshine and rainbows. She has a temper and tantrums are fairly frequent. It's hard to get her to sit still in her high chair for dinner. She wants to feed herself but just doesn't have the skill yet and I won't hesitate to admit that I'm not a fan of the mess she is certain to make. However I'm sure I'll soon be over that and we'll be letting her practice more with her plasticware.

Since I'm not sure if today will be a good or bad nap day I'd better wrap this up. At her 18 month check-up she measured 18.4 pounds and 27.5 inches. I just this week put away her 6 month jammies (the last pic below shows her in those jammies just last week!). We couldn't love our tiny peanut more :)

December 1, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010

We hauled ourselves and our stuff (and our baked goods!) all the way to Dayton this year. It is always so nice to see Peter's extended family. Carina was a rock star traveler even though it took 10 hours to get home Friday (we stopped to visit friends in Pittsburgh). We definitely have much to be thankful for this year!