Mama love

 

Brush brush

Now that Vivi is sporting two shiny little teeth, we bought her her very own tooth brush to keep them clean. She thinks it's pretty funny to brush at the same time as us.

 

Catch up

I was having trouble signing in to blogger through our picture program, which makes it easy to upload pictures, but everything is fixed now and I have a lot of catching up to do!

My friend Shante had a baby girl a couple of weeks ago and she was born just a few ounces heavier and an inch longer than Jenavieve, so we offered to lend them our preemie clothes. Shante was really excited since Giliana was swimming in her newborn clothes. I pulled them out to put them in a bag and couldn't believe how tiny they were! It seemed impossible that a person could be that small. When we went to visit I got to hold Giliana and she was just sooo tiny! It felt vaguely familiar, but I still couldn't believe that Jenavieve had once been that small.

The baby's name is Giliana Giselle, so they call her GiGi. It was funny to have GiGi and Vivi together :)

 
 

Cheese!

I just wanted to share this picture because it is the goofiest cheesy smile I've ever seen!

This was her first night eating whole wheat cous cous instead of mushy brown rice or oatmeal. She liked that she could pick it up (and flip the plate all over her lap) Plus it's super quick to make so it's easy to add to a meal. She's doing really well with chewing her food, and with dipping the spoon into her food and getting it into her mouth repeatedly...until she gets tired of that and starts using her hands, and eventually just picking up the plate or bowl and licking it off.

Pretty soon we'll start giving her little pieces of pasta and whole pieces of rice. She's on her way to solid food!

 

Play bottle

While doing laundry (hence the laundry in the background) I gave Jenavieve a basket of toys to keep her busy. She made it to the bottom of the basket and found a bottle that came with one of her dolls. She knew what it was and knew just what to do with it, but kept pulling it out of her mouth and looking at it, then sucking on it again. She was very confused!

Macy's 2nd Monday January

I took Vivi, Kaylee and her friend Clara to The Henry Ford for their Macy's 2nd Monday event. Last month I took Vivi and Kaylee for the first time and we had fun. It's really cool, they have stations set up for crafts, and they opened up one of the old trains for story time, and there are lots of adult volunteers around to talk to the kids. The December one was super busy, probably because Santa was there, but this time it was pretty empty so they had plenty of room to run around. We were walking toward the cafe for lunch when we started seeing a bunch of kids coming in the door carrying Mickey Mouse dolls. I asked someone what was going on and she said they had a limited number of them at the door for people that participated in the Macy's 2nd Monday event. We were right there so we headed out and all 3 girls got a Mickey. It says Maycy's Holiday 2009, so they must have been leftovers. They also had a Mickey alarm clock attached to them, so it was a pretty good freebie. What they didn't think about was how the moms were supposed to heft a pile of Mickeys around :) It seems like the stroller is never big enough...

They all had a great time and asked if they could come back on Wednesday. I can't wait to go back next month!

Listening to stories on the train














Posing with their Mickeys




























Playing school in the old school room

Teeth!

Jenavieve's second tooth popped up on Monday, exactly a week after the first one. They're really growing in quick!