what's up in the world of weed?

It's been awhile since I've updated. Life has been busy the past couple of weeks. This week it has finally died down a bit. The best news of all is that except for two nights, our little one has slept through the night for about a week and a half now! Hallelujah! I had forgotten what it was like to wake up and actually feel rested, like I had slept that night. It's so nice to wake up in the morning and feel energetic. I don't think I've felt that feeling since before I got pregnant!

Today we had to go to the pediatrician because I was worried about her lack of weight gain. In two months she has only gained one pound, two ounces. I talked to the doctor about how to get her to eat more--food just doesn't seem too exciting to her. The doctor told me to go ahead and give her pretty much whatever we eat, with the exceptions of a few things babies aren't supposed to have until they're older. So tonight she was thrilled to eat pancakes with her oatmeal and pears for dinner. She loved them! And at lunch she ate a ton of yogurt--I think that's her new favorite food. The doctor said to give her that every day for lunch because it's high in calories. I had given it to her a couple of times in the last week and she liked it, so I'm sure she'll love lunch from now on!

Let's see....what else is going on....we're getting ready for Christmas. Every day she likes to sit on the floor in the living room, look at the Christmas lights on the tree, and play with this curly ribbon that we've now turned into her toy. It fascinates her for about 20 minutes a day. Today it was so warm and sunny that I took her outside and she got to swing on her new swingset for a little while. She loved looking at the shadows on the ground and watching the wind blow the tree limbs a little bit.

That's the update from our house. I probably won't write again until after Christmas.

family pics

We had family pictures taken yesterday. These are just a few of them. Enjoy!!

oh christmas tree...

Here's her first Christmas tree. We rushed through dinner last night so we could put it up while she was still awake. She loved watching us put the lights on, because they were lit up and strewn all over the floor. But when we started putting the ornaments on, she started getting sleepy and fussy. I really wanted to keep her up so we could get some pictures, so I picked her up and she started "helping" me put the ornaments up--which means she tried to grab every single one out of my hands and put them in her mouth. She didn't succeed too often. Her new "Baby's First Christmas" ornament was the first to go up, along with one we made with her handprint (I bought a kit to make it). I'm not sure what I'm laughing at in the pictures...I wish SHE was laughing too!












After we were finished we put her Santa hat on and took pictures. She tried to pull the hat off the whole time and ended up with it over her eyes.















This is one of my favorites....it looks like she's giving us attitude about having to wear this hat over her eyes.