Irene One Year Stats

On her baptismal birthday, November 6, I took Irene in for her One Year Checkup. Here's what we got:

Weight 21lbs (65th%)
Length 30 1/4 inches (85th%)
Head 46.3cm (85th%) (isn't it kind of weird that they do measurements in pounds, inches, and centimeters?)

So, she's a growing girl. She only cried when they pricked her finger for her lead and anemia test (her hemoglobin is "excellent"...).

When the nurse asked me if I had any other concerns or questions I said no. Then I said, "you know, just now when I picked her up in the waiting room she felt a bit warm. Could you take her temperature?"

Her temp was 102.3, and the doctor found that she has an ear infection in both ears. Poor girl. She had a cold last week, and she got over that and did not give us one sign that she had an ear infection. So now she's on antibiotics and has gotten a rash from that, so we're off to the doctor again this afternoon.

But grandma is here, so things are way more fun than usual. That makes up for at least some of it.

Syntymäpäiväjuhlat!

AHH!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT IRENE IS ONE YEAR OLD!!!!

We had a great party with the NC family.

"MOM!" - by Evangeline

I'm how old?!?!

This was actually a joint party for Irene and my Grandma Lucy, who turns 88 this month. She was much better behaved than Irene.

She got woken up for her party and spent the first few hours in a haze, finally warming up for the last 15 minutes.

The classy hostess.

Ruth came over to celebrate too.

Evangeline didn't wait to take advantage of the new toys.

True to form, Irene takes kindly to the bags.

Evangeline gets a few pointers from the old guard.

And then she took a picture of Uncle Mike.

Later in the evening, Irene decided to propel Evangeline's car. Unfortunately she isn't too great at steering. She will probably learn pretty soon.

Happy Birthday Irene

Irene is 1!

að dansa

Ellee's choir had a concert tonight, so I got to have a few hours with the kiddies. I will usually put on the music and try to have some dancing. Shes really getting the hang of it. Notice how she gracefully transformed twirling into the chair into some other fancy move.

Around Here

Here are some pictures of some stuff that's been going on around here.

Evangeline was being so nice, I let her do some ipadding in the morning. Then
she surprised me with a request for "pop". We had a ginger ale rolling
around, so I surprised her even more with giving her one.

Every pumpkin she picked up = "my favorite!"

You get that she's a rascal, right?

Costume

Portrait Of Dad by Evangeline

We had a bunch of kids (10) over last night, so of course
there had to be drawing.

This is a zebra showing her little sister how to eat kale.

New Playground

We went to a new playground today. It took us about 35 minutes to drive there, but only takes 15 or so if you don't miss the exit. It was big and fun and worth the trip. The only downside was enduring the car rides, in which Evangeline repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated things at an ever increasing volume. I kept turning the radio up till we lost the signal.

Evangeline called this the "spiderweb".

Who would teach music from B to B?

Finally a monkeybars a 2 year old can get on board with.

She really wanted me to take a video of her doing this hopscotch.

Irene's Drink

 Does anyone else drink like this at dinner?

I made a cold frame with some windows from our dear friends Josh and Mary.