She did it!!

Hooray for Avery! She rolled over last night (back to front). I just knew it would be any day......of course the day that she went to the Dr and he was a little worried that she hadn't done it yet. I just had to share the news! She hasn't done it yet today. She's really cranky :( She was up at 5 this morning and didn't go back to sleep. She's only napped for about 30 minutes today. Hopefully she's not getting worse!

Avery ~ 6 months

Avery had her 6 month well baby visit today. No immunizations though, due to her slight case of pneumonia. [while in Indiana we noticed Avery was just not herself on Sunday. She was extremely cranky and was crying like she was in pain. She also had not being eating hardly anything for the past couple of days. She wasn't sleeping very well either. I finally broke down and took her into the ER thinking she might have an ear infection. She didn't have a temp, her ears and throat looked fine so they decided to do some tests. She had an IV put in to draw blood (in the foot) and she was literally covered in blood all the way up to her knee and the bed was soaked around her foot. They put a catheder in her to get a urine sample and then took x-rays of her chest. Everything came back fine, except for the x-ray........showing some fluid in her left lung. She was put on antibiotics throught the IV....but at some point the IV came out and so then they had to jab her with a shot to the muscle :( She was such a trooper........and so was Allie. It was a looooonnnnng 5 1/2 hours there.]

Once she's done with her antibiotics we'll take her back to get her immunizations up to date. Other than that she's 15 lbs 10 ounces - that's 34% on the chart, 25 inches long - that's 30% on charts, and her head is at around 15%.

I know she looks chubby now, but it's looking like she'll be a petite on once she gets moving around. She's pretty much sitting up by herself. She usually leans forward too much, but can keep herself from falling over by using her hands to stop her. She is soooo close to rolling over. I really think that could happen any day now. Crawling should be sometime in the near future, she can really get her head pushed up with her arms and pushes off with her feet, but doesn't get anywhere yet. She has the cutest smile and beautiful eyes. She is so loving and still a mama's girl. Loved her rice cereal until she got sick.......I'm sure she'll still love it once she's feeling better. Then we'll start giving her some veggies too. That's about it for now. We love our little "AV" ( as Allie calls her.)

Where A Kid Can Be A Kid.......

.....or a Mom, Grandma & Grandpa can be a kid! You all know what I'm talking about........Chuck E Cheese's!!!!! While we were in Lafayette my Mom and Dad wanted to take Allie to Chuck E Cheese. They took Monday off so we could spend the day there (ended up being the evening). Allie had never been before, but she knew all about Chuck E Cheese from commercials and seeing coupons I've been saving. When we got there Chuck E Cheese wasn't around, but towards the end of our day he came out to a birthday party at the table next to us. She didn't want to have anything to do with him! As we were leaving to go up to the prize counter he started back towards us. My Dad and I were still at the table gathering things up and I heard a shrill little scream and Allie was sprinting (I mean this is the fastest I've ever seen her run) back towards us! I don't know why she is so afraid of him, but surely she'll grow out of it someday.

Anyway, I think we all had a really good time there. My Mom seemed to enjoy skeeball and I was on fire at the basketball thingy. Every time someone plays it and doesn't score over 60 points the tally for the amount of tickets you'll get keeps going up. The first time I played I got 54 points.....so close! Next thing I know there are a couple people that must have been watching and wanted to play against me to see if they could be me......not a chance! I wasn't going to leave until I scored over 60....finally the last token of the night I got 63 and the tally was 51 so we got 51 tickets too. Allie was excited to have them to use towards her prize.

Anyway, so funny story on our way to Chuck E Cheese's. Allie was exhausted and actually fell asleep about 5 minutes before we got there. We pulled up and tried telling her that we were there. She wouldn't budge. So, I took her hand and again, told her we were here. She sort of opened her eyes so I proceeded to tell her over again and asked her if she still wanted to go. She mumbled yes and fell right back to sleep! Poor little thing! She finally snapped out of it, but she was still so tired......maybe that's why she was afraid of Chuck.....she's always extra sensitive when she's tired.

Another funny thing. Before we went to Chuck E Cheese we ate lunch (Arni's......yum) and picked up Avery's prescription. We knew then that Allie was tired so instead of going to Chuck E Cheese then, we went to GG's........hoping she would take a nap. On our way there my Mom said I think A-L-L-I-E is about out (she spelled out her name). Allie sat straight up and said NO! She didn't take a nap while we were there anyway, but I did!

FUn, FUN, FUN!!

Baby Central

The girls and I headed back to Lafayette for an extended weekend (Fri - Tues). The main reason for going back was to go to a baby shower for my Aunt Amy and new cousin Kiya. She is such a cutie!! Of course all of the little ones were there and we had to get a picture of all 4 together. I also found out that two more of my cousins are expecting by the end of the year (Crystal and Alicia)! How exciting.....and then Derek's sister, Sarah, is due with her baby girl in March! We just keep expanding!!


From L to R: Avery (6 mo), Jenna (4 mo), Conner (3 mo), Kiya (1 mo)

xoxo HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!! xoxo

My friend, Nicole, took these pictures of the girls and they turned out great...enjoy!

UPDATES

I know I never updated anyone via the blog on how Derek's nose was and I am behind on updating the girls as well. So here it goes:

• Derek did go to the ENT Dr the next day and got his nose rebroken to put back into place. OUCH! It does look a lot better, but is still a little crooked. He got his stitches taken out too....and has a nice scar from it. The Dr did tell him that he couldn't play any contact sports for the next 3-6 months. He was dissapointed about that and asked if there was any way he could get a mask. The Doc said no, the military doesn't give that kind of stuff out. After seeing Kramer get a broken nose in a recent Purdue basketball game and with him coming back in a face mask Derek decided to go out and buy one too. He got the Dr's permission and is now back to playing indoor soccer.


• Derek also had a recent oral surgery. They had to tear away his gums to expose a tooth that was dead and hack at that tooth to make it smaller so they could put a crown on it.


• I can't believe that I've missed Avery's 5 month post! She'll be 6 months on Saturday!! Time has just flown by.........so much so that I had been holding out on giving her cereal for the longest time. I had given her some between 4 & 5 months with a medicine dropper a few times, but then never gave her any more. Finally, I gave her some with a spoon last week and she LOVED it. She smiled the biggest smile. I know she was probably thinking, "It's about time Mom!" She can sort of sit up by herself now, but tends to lean forward so much that she eventually falls. She is enjoying tummy time a little bit more and sometimes it looks like she's going to start scooting forward. She still adores her big sister even though she isn't so nice to her sometimes. She's definitely a Mommy's girl and is soooooo spoiled.


• Allie is getting big too! Since we've moved in to the new house she has started going potty on the big girl potty more than ever. We really thought the move would make it worse so that was a very nice surprise. Also, one day we were sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner and she looked back at the refridgerator and then started singing the alphabet. We were in shock! We work with her alot on it but she's never said it all the way through by herself before. I told my Mom and Dad about it and they just figured that she had been doing it for a while because she was singing it for them while they were here for our move!


• As for me, nothing is new. My Mom and Bryan came to visit this weekend and so I went snowboarding with Derek and a couple friends. The house is slowly getting put together. We're enjoying playing Mario Kart once the girls go to sleep for the night........and that's about it!