Showing posts with label 8 months. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8 months. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Christmas Morning at our House

We dont have kids that are desperate to open presents so we let madison come in and come see all the cool presents that Santa brought her and then we had breakfast. Caleb had eggs with cooked apple in it. this was his first "big" boy breakfast instead of baby food. He did great.

 The rest of us had eggs with cheese, cinnemon rolls, bacon, and hashbrowns.
 After we had breakfast and cleaned it up we moved into the living room and did our own chirstmas.





 ready to open presents in their Christmas pajamas's.





 
we opened stockings first. I wasn't sure Caleb would even participate but he did. He wasn't too into it at first but once he saw the paci in the bottom of the
 in his stocking we put books, a monster truck, and some new pacifiers


 
then on to the good gifts Madison got a doc mc stuffins kit to give check ups
 some foam building blocks
 Santa Brought Madison a new razor scooter.



 Caleb got 2 new pairs of pants, some books, some toy magnets, and several new shirts


just a few of mine and anthony's




I'm totally in love with my new kitchen aid that the kids and Anthony got me.

 his angels baseball camping chair
 a Tom Brady patriots jersey
and a Gerber utility knife

Christmas becomes more fun every year. I'm already excited to start planning for next year! I also think next year we will try and find a way to integrate the store of Christs birth so we can remind the children of the real reason for Christmas.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Polar Express

Caleb is still a little too small to change his schedule in some crazy manor so we decided to run the polar express instead of walking the Christmas lights like we usually do. so we geared the kids up in their pajama's, got Madison some chocolate milk, and we were off to ride the polar express to see the fantastic Christmas lights.


This was super fun and the kids had a ball ...Caleb even stayed awake the whole time and we were all really surprised.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Christmas Countdown Chain

Anthony is getting to really be an amazing dad! Madison's therapy for fine motor and speech through the regional center will stop on her birthday so super dad decided to step in. So for their first craft he decided to make a Christmas countdown chain that she can rip a piece off each night.







All finished and super proud of her chain!





Helping daddy one ring at a time






daddy let her do the stapler! which takes tons of grip strength!





















Thursday, November 28, 2013

3/4 of a Year

Caleb is already 8 months and boy is that going by fast this month he learned to:
    • Sit well without support
    • Bears weight on legs and moves feet in a walking motion
    • Adjusts his posture to reach an object
    • Picks up objects using index, fourth, and fifth finger against thumb
    • Able to release objects
    • Pulls a string to obtain object
    • Reaches for toys that are out of reach and then dives for them from a sitting position
    • Listens selectively to familiar words
    • He is starting to "talk" especially when we talk to him
    • Understands the word no (but does not always obey it!)
    • Dislikes diaper change and being dressed
    • Can pull his shoes off
    • Only uses a pacifier when he is sleeping
    • Drinks 3 7oz bottles during the day (ever 4 hours) and then an 8 oz at night before bed
    • He is also eating 4oz of babyfood and rice cereal 3 times a day
    • Started eating Gerber stars and lil crunchies


 here's what a typical daily schedual is like

7:30 wake up - 7 oz bottle
9:30 cereal and baby food 4 oz
10:00 Nap
11:00 wake up
11:30 bottle 7 oz
12:30 Cereal and/or baby food 4oz
1:00 Nap
3:00 wake up
3:30 bottle 7 oz
5:30 baby food with us at the table
6:30 bath time
7:30 8 oz bottle for bed