Look Who Is Learning to Brush Her Teeth

She loves brushing her teeth and her new training tooth paste. Just wanted to share, cuase I think she's cute!!!!

Updates...

Words we think we've heard:

Mama

Dog

Hola

Tyler

She is imitating tons of actions and has a few signs she uses:

candy

water

all done

noodles/more

dog

waving hi and bye

She has also developed an ATTITUDE when you take things from her or something doesn't go her way...

She has started talking on the phone, using remotes, pointing them at things and pushing buttons.

Oh and she got her first haircut.

Here is her talking on her "phone". I was using the computer so she was watching herself.

She was fascinated and kept waving hi, or trying to pass herself the phone.

1 Year Checkup

Lexi's Stats for her One year checkup today.

Weight: 18 pounds 14 ounces (20th Percentile)

Height: 31 1/8th inches (99th percentile)

Head Circumference: 17 1/4 (10th percentile)

Tall and Skinny!!

Allergy Test

Our poor baby had to get allergy testing. We took her in because she had this horrible rash/excema all over her poor little body. We thought it was allergy related so we went in to figure out what in the world we were feeding her that was messing her up so much. Good news is the only extra thing she is allergic to that we didn't know about is dust mites. She was such a good sport about the whole thing. It also turns out that the other stuff all over her body is a fungal infection that has gotten infected in places. We make a mixture of neosporin, lotrimin, and cortisone and spread it all over her poor little body. Now she has to take a medicine which she HATES and she has to take a teaspoon of it every night.

The big patch (1,2) is peanuts (bad allergy to that!!!)

In non baby/kid related news I finished my classes for my Applied Behavior Analysis certificate. Now I just have to do my supervision hours (1500) and pass the exam and I'll be a board certified behavior analyst:)

The Party at Our House

The party was a blast!!! Lexi's little friends were so cute, she had so much fun opening her presents (well attempting to - the other kids were pretty fast helpers), eating the cake, and running around like a the little madwoman she is!!!

Sharing and feeding chips to her friend.

Lexi and her little buddies.

She started out all neat and tidy...

But in true one year old fashion she was a wonderful mess by the end.

Ciara is already aching for another one...

Aren't they cute!!!!

Mostly Photos because I'm tired tonight but wanted to share:)

I took Lex to the playground by my Dad's new facility. She had a great time playing on all the stuff. They even had a special section for toddlers (it was the playground that belonged to the daycare).

YAY I LOVE PRIDE

Milestones: She's taking steps independently - I think 18 is her record so far. She's cutting her first two teeth. She now knows two signs, all done and water, she uses all done for whenever she wants us to do anything for her (mostly pick her up since we taught her it first to get out of her highchair) and she uses water for anything she wants to eat. If we don't give her what she wants she points to what she does want and then signs water

More Milestones

Today Lexi signed "all done" when she was done eating and wanted to get down.  We've been practicing for a while, but its the first time she did it by herself.  It was too cute and so exciting for me.  She has started trying to imitate a lot of things and is kind of starting to imitating saying mamama and bababa.  

We have spring break this week and I have been loving spending time at home.  We have been spring cleaning and are going to go to Key Largo on Tuesday.  We're staying at the same place we stayed at for our honeymoon, only this time we'll have kids in tow.  Here's a pic of the view form our balcony last time...

We won't have a water view this time but I'll be sure to post pics from our tree view to compare:)

Lex has become very independent and is very sure about what she does and does not like.  She does NOT like pony tails but I am trying to work with her on it.  This is the first time i have successfully gotten them into her hair again.  I will continue to try (I'm not torturing her she doesn't care once they're in she just doesn't like sitting still for me to do it).

Been A While...

Its been a while, things have been busy and I just haven't had much time for blogging. Also my favorite part is the pictures and we haven't been taking as many. Lex is quite the handful lately. She is a pro at crawling now and has started pulling up on just about anything she can. This makes for MANY falls because a lot of the things she pulls up on are not that steady and they both topple over. She also gets so excited about standing or tries to grab something without realizing she's let go, and over she goes. Although I have seen her stand there for a few seconds on quite a few occasions.

So her milestones this month are: pulling up, standing alone for a few seconds, and her first bloody nose (She terrified her Mama by falling off the bed onto her head and getting a bloody nose - I freaked out, she was fine, but then I felt justified the next day when I heard about Natasha Richardson and the people on the news were saying that all head injuries should be checked because you never know).

And now for the pics:)

One of her favorite places to play...not much sleeping...but she loves to stand up in there and talk to us.

She gets into EVERYTHING!!! This laundry basket kept her occupied for close to twenty minutes, and I only put all the clothes back in once.

Today was beautiful so we took advantage and took the kids out to a bike path and park near our house. They had a great time - and Alexis even seemed to enjoy the stroller. Especially when her Mama practiced her jogging (Thank you Aunt Dina).

She was ok sitting there until she tried to crawl and little pieces of rock, dirt, sticks, etc stuck to her hands.

We spent a long time trying to practice throwing the rocks into the stream like her brother. I thought she would enjoy it because once she's out of the tub she LOVES throwing things back into it. She didn't really get it with the rocks and was far more interested in trying to eat them.

A pretty photo taken by Mama.

Also not such a big fan of the grass. She takes after Mommy like that. I'm not too much of an outdoorsie type:)

She much prefers to be held, as you can see.

Sibling Love

I realized that it was Lexi's Seven month birthday Sunday night and since we hadn't done anything for her six month I got all excited and got her an ice cream cake at the grocery store.  (I think really I just needed an excuse for a little C.arvel in my life:)  We sang and put in a candle and let her have a little taste of the frosting and a little taste of the ice cream.  We're so bad but she loved it!!!

Well maybe love was a little bit too strong of a word:)

Ty is such a GREAT big brother.  I made them dress up in their matching PJs for a mini photo shoot tonight.  I needed a new picture for my computer desktop.  Lexi LOVES her brother!!  He always gets the greatest laughs from her like this one in the tub.

Look out World Here She Comes

Our baby is growing so fast!!!!  I was so scared that when I went back to work I was going to miss her big milestones but guess what Mommy got to see tonight:)

Pigtails and Stuff

Not too much to say today.  Our internet and tv and phone are all out.  Silly bundles.  Ciara got so annoyed on their third trip out to fix our problems that she canceled the service and kicked the technician out. Unfortunately we now have nothing!!!!  I called and its going to be set back up tomorrow....but its sad how much I rely on those three things!!!  Wanted to post these pics though while I do have some internet.  I know its sad I brought my computer over here to watch the Inauguration because I was in internet withdrawl:)

So close to Crawling..

Watching Obama Being sworn in.

Pigtails.

How Time Flies...

Look how she's grown!!!!  We haven't been good at taking pictures of her in the same chair or seat so we can see how big she's getting.  I found these two of her in her car seat though.  Now that I am thinking about it I'll start being more conscious about trying to get one of her in the same seat every month or so.

One Day Old

Three Months Old

Six Months Old

Today she got up in the crawling position and started rocking.  She was able to move one hand forward before she fell.  I have a four day weekend (Woohooo for Martin Luther King and Obama) coming up so I told Mama Ciara no more practicing until I get home tomorrow.  I want to be there for the first time she crawls!!!!!

6 Months Already!

So our little Alexis is 6 months and growing so fast! We wanted to have a half a year B-day with just us and a cup cake. We didn't get a chance to do because we had a busy day. 

I thought I would post that she is starting to get up to crawl but when she pushes forward she falls. Its a start and I'm pretty excited about it. She is also starting to be a picky eater. Which makes sense because her brother and mommy are that way as well. She screams a lot! She flirts and its funny! Im sure Im missing something but Ill post on it later on. 

Look Who's Sitting Up..

She's starting to sit up for longer periods now.  She's still pretty wobbly especially if she's trying to get something.  I think she's pretty excited about it as you can see:)  And what is it about babies and remotes.  She had like ten toys on the bed with her (including her own toy remote) but was still most interested in the power cord for my computer and the remote.  I tell you we are in serious trouble when she starts crawling.  She's not even mobile and she's already into EVERYTHING!!!!

Tyler had basketball practice today which I think he enjoyed.  I didn't get a chance to get any pictures though because someone was squirming around and trying to escape from her car seat, or my arms like it was her job!!!  When we first got there she was so fascinated she sat really still.  I was so excited because I was able to read (I'm on the third book in the Twilight series, unfortunately a highly addictive series) but it lasted all of about three minutes and then no more reading for mommy.  She loves trying to turn the pages if she can reach them and screaming at me when she can't.  

Well this turned out to be a rather random post but thats just how my head is tonight....off to try to read some more and pray for lots of ice and sleet so that we at least get a delay tomorrow:):):)

Fun Times During Winter Break.

We have had a fun Christmas break.  Last week we got to meet up with our blogger friends from Love Makes a Family.  They were great.  We met up with them at a museum which we never do so it was fun to take advantage of living so close to DC.  Our little guys had the same due date and Candice and I talked through a forum throughout most of the pregnancies so it was so neat to meet them in real life.  Their boys are adorable and we all really had a good time.  I wanted to kick myself because I forgot to bring my camera which I take everywhere but they said they'd email the pics so when I get them I'll post them.  Although here's The Link to C's post with the pics which is probably easier:)

Yesterday we took Tyler snowboarding for the fist time.  He and Ciara took a lesson, at the end of the lesson they went down the bunny slope and I met up with them.  Ty was laying on the ground crying when I came off the lift.  He said his hands were freezing.  I told him that he could take off his board and walk down and we could go warm up or he could try to board down the hill.  He would get up go a little bit fall down and bawl.  He and Ciara were ready to turn in their boards once they reached the bottom but I convinced them to get some food warm up and try again.  Tyler was great.  The second time we got out there he LOVED it.  Ciara went down the baby bunny slope (barely a hill) once and was done.  Tyler kept going and by the end was doing pretty well.  I left them and ventured out on my own one last time to try the intermediate slope.  I have to say that skiing is not quite as easy to pick up again as biking (I hadn't been in probably 10 or more years).  On the bunny slope where I stayed so that I could watch them in their lesson (and cause I'm a chicken) was fine but I hit a few bumps and some ice on the harder slope and thought I was going to die.  I made it down and actually had a lot of fun.  Tyler is already plotting for another trip but we'll have to see about that.....Skiing isn't the easiest sport on the pocketbook:)

We're all pretty sore today but it was fun!!!!