The Weekly Photo

Man, late again. I've really neglected this little blog and I probably don't have many readers anymore. My computer is so slow and probably needs to be cleaned up so I have not felt much like getting on the computer and pretending like its 1999. Here are two pictures:

For Monday, February 15th:

Star Wars kids

{Elanor with her cousin, Cedric}

And Monday, February 22nd:

Tree teepee.

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Alice makes this face on purpose to entertain us all. She is a silly one!

10 Months

When Elanor turned 10 months I did a post listing 10 things about her and I like that idea so I'm doing it again!

Here are 10 things about Alice:

1. She gets sick often. She spent a lot of this past month sick, with a period of time where she was very sick and sleeping all day.

2. Once she was better, Alice seems to be on a fast forward mode to learn everything she missed by being so sick. She is crawling around, getting into things, pulling herself up, and walking along furniture.

3. Alice is plenty talkative at home, but once in public she gets very quiet.

4. She likes to make goofy smiling faces.

5. Her favorite thing to do is play peekaboo.

6. Alice has started to really love looking at books/be read to. Some favorites are Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Big Red Barn.

7. She loves to give kisses and gives them liberally.

8. Alice has started to love to be anywhere Elanor is and follows her around and tries to look at books, play with legos, etc., but mostly just gets in the way. 

9. Alice is still quite small and seems quite a bit smaller and shorter than Elanor was at 10 months.

10. Alice still loves to eat, but also does not yet have any teeth! Elanor got her 1st at 9 months and by 10 months already had 2 or 3. She does not even appear to be teething in any way. 

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Should have been posted on Monday, January 22nd:

It was so nice to get outside after been cooped up so long with a sick baby!

Should have been posted yesterday:

 On a hike for Grandpa's birthday!

9 Months

Well, she was on New Year's Eve. She is almost 10 months at this point! 

Alice finally had a Doctor's appointment as we finally got all the insurance stuff figured out. She was 16.5 pounds (5-10th%) and 27 inches (20th%). 

 Alice is a very smiley girl, around people she is comfortable with at least. She was very serious at the doctors. 

 She loves to kiss and will do so upon request. Open mouth baby kisses are the sweetest. Cedric (her cousin), was here for a few weeks in December and she absolutely loved him and kissed him any chance she got! 

Alice giving Cedric kisses:

Alice still loves to eat and is not picky at all. She says, "Num!" now, which is very cute.

Here is another video of Elanor and Alice. Elanor loves to play with Alice, and Alice is so good at just doing whatever and not getting upset. She really loves Elanor.

These two videos are basically what Alice is like: affectionate and loving and patient and smiley. She does occasionally let you know when she is frustrated though, with a loud shriek.

Some notable moments that happened in her 9th month:

Met Santa and absolutely loved him.

Played with cousin Cedric a lot, met Uncle Ricky (had already met Aunt Jessie before).

Met her Aunt Allison for the first time!

Her 1st Christmas! She loved the wrapping paper and understood that fun things were wrapped up inside.

Got sick at some point, as per usual for her.

Crawling, crawling, crawling.

We love this sweet baby!

The Weekly Photo (s)

I have pretty much been the worst blogger ever. I missed Elanor's birthday, all of the Christmas season, Alice's 9 month update (though I will still do that), and a bunch of Weekly Photos. Ugh. Life. I've been busy and living and enjoying life, so I suppose that is as good an excuse as I have. 

Should have been posted December 14th:

Happy 5th Birthday Elanor!

We celebrated with a Princess and the Frog party with friends, then out to eat for fish and chips with family, and then a Frozen themed party with Tyler's family!

Should have been posted December 21st:

This is probably one of my most favorite pictures ever...and it was taken on my phone (by my sister). 

Should have been posted December 28th:

Christmas!

The Nativity.

The girls with Mema and Papa on Christmas Day!

Should have been posted on January 4th:

 Zoo lights!

Should have been posted on January 11th:

 For January 18th:

 Elanor, Tyler and Alice have been sick all week. This was her at the beginning of the sickness. It has just gotten worse, so we are off to the doctor tomorrow. Poor little girl.

8 Months!...two weeks late

I know I need to do a Weekly Photo, and it was Elanor's birthday last week, but Alice turned 8 months at the end of November and I need to update before she's 9 months old!

{Phone picture, sent to Tyler at work, as he misses us when he is gone.}

I love this sweet, smiley baby so much and I am so glad she joined our family. I also love the baby stage and am so enjoying our baby each day.

This is a pretty horrible, early morning picture, but I love it! It shows how Alice is so sweet and loving. She loves to hug, cuddle and can kiss upon occasion. She loves to reach up and touch my face.

 Alice giving me a kiss. 

When I think of Alice, I think bright. She a little light of a person and brings so much joy through her huge smile and sometimes very loud sounds. She absolutely loves music and seems to already have good rhythm and taps her hand to the beat or moves her body to the beat. She is always right on with the music and I am thinking it will be something that she will always love.

Alice seems to be generally a little less social and not as talkative as Elanor was at this age (and still is), but is also sometimes very loud and does enjoy the company of other babies or children. She is also getting so much better with the whole stranger or even going to people she knows thing. She will often smile at strangers and lets people hold her quite often. She often still looks at me to make sure I or Tyler are there. Speaking of Tyler, she lights up so much when he gets home!  

Two weeks ago, Alice was just starting to army crawl around and could get places. She is even better now and gets up on her knees all the time and has taken a few knees and hands "steps".  She often will get frustrated with herself, but is very determined to get where she wants to go.

Alice also loves to eat and will eat anything. Smoked blue cheese, yep. A scone, of course. Soup broth, definitely. Brussel sprouts, she gobbled them up. She LOVES food. Alice has also got the pincher grasp down and can feed herself really well. 

 Alice still loves Elanor so much and Elanor loves her. I hope despite the age gap that they become the best of friends.

Oh, and she loves putting pretty much anything in her mouth and she is simply wonderful.

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Little ice baby.