Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Mother's Day & 18 month Well Baby

Jacinda loves to climb. Her favorite thing to do is climb up and down the step stool in the kitchen. Even though she has gotten stuck a few times, it does keep her busy while I am cooking dinner and she seems to be more open to trying food when I give it to her there... Hmm...

She loves being outside and exploring. Since we live in a cul-de-sac, we let her walk up and down the driveway and into the street a little. She loves to go get the mail and asks for the keys when we get to the box. She likes putting the keys inside the package spots in the bottom because she gets to open and close the door. She is very reluctant to leave the mailbox every day and will often trick my by agreeing to head back to the house but then quickly turning and running back towards the boxes. It usually ends in me carrying her home crying.
Sorry for the blury pictures. I realized later that there were little tiny fingerprints on the lens. :-)







Yesterday Jacinda had her 18 mo well baby check up and she is doing great! She is 25 pounds and 32 inches tall. She still has a very large head at 19 1/2 inches! (challenging to find a cute toddler hat, by the way) We saw a new doctor and he said Jacinda's lungs sound great and that she very well could have seasonal allergies that is causing her to breath a little fast, but that at this age it is very hard to test. He suggested we try Zyrtec and see if it makes a difference to her breathing after a few days. She is still meeting her milestones like a champ and impressing the doctor with how well she follows directions. She seemed to like the male doctor a little better, at least she smiled and talked to him.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Catch up

Our beautiful day at the zoo in April.
Watching the bear play in the water. I have never seen them move before, I think they've always been sleeping when I've gone to the zoo!
At the beginning of the zoo, every time we left an animal Jacinda would start crying, she really enjoyed watching them.



Jacinda's favorite animal, "rarr" or just recently began calling them "tigey". Another very rare site to me is seeing the tiger awake and in the water. I think all the animals were enjoying the nice 70 something degree day just as much as the people.


Our first ride on the carousel... sitting on a horse WAS NOT an option for Jacinda.
Second time around the horse looked more fun.... she was very sleepy here, but overall that was the look on her face for most of the zoo.


Listening to the loud peacock.


Every time we stopped to look at the animals she could climb all over her stroller, in and out, in and out. You think she's excited to see a wallabee, but no, she just wants out!

Sporting her new cute pink bear harness/leash. This girl is pretty strong-willed and is constantly testing her limits, so I wanted to be sure that she didn't walk off in a crowd.

"Eeewww... don't let that thing touch me!! "


My Big Backyard... wasn't quite as fun since they hadn't turned on the water or brought out all the animals to pet yet. The one downside to going before summer.
Jacinda got to spend the day with all but one of her cousins!
"Fia" (Sofia) "Titin" (Christian) "Hadey" (Haley), "Handro" (Alejandro)... and Efrain, but she doesn't try to say his name yet. The only cousin missing was "Bedny" (Bethany) whom she asked for on the way home as well as her Uncle "Weya" (William)

My little baby bird, much bigger and happier this year at the zoo!

Probably her favorite thing in the entire zoo was the slide. We coulda gone to the park for that!

Cute little Gibbon monkeys.



"What animals? I am just glad they put this step here for me to climb on."


All tuckered out after a very long day at the zoo.



"I YUV YOU!"


As you can see, Jacinda has learned to say, "I love you" and boy does it melt our hearts every time!!! She has even said it amidst playing without us saying it first, that is the best! She will often include a kiss and a hug with it as well! :)

One of Jacinda's newest past-times, is playing the drums from Guitar Hero World Tour.



This was one of her very first times sitting on the chair at the drums. She learned all of this from just watching Daddy. We just handed her the sticks and she started drumming! We think she is destined to be a rock star drummer!!


More drumming...

Monday, May 4, 2009

Not again...

So, our computer crashed again a couple weeks ago and we lost a hard drive. I have yet to be able to recover my photos from the external hard drive because my photo program won't recognize them. (if you have any suggestions why it would be hidden, please share!) In the meantime I feel like the Kodak (?) commercial where all the photos are wondering which of them will be deleted next to make room for more. So, hopefully soon I can get that figured out and share pictures of my 17 month old! We have some cute ones!!!