Merry Christmas - 2009

Sevyn loved pushing around grandma's sleigh!

Taking ornaments off Grandma's tree is one of our favorite holiday pastimes too!

I just think she is adorable in this photo

Cheese!

Sevyn enjoyed pulling the tissue paper our of packages!

Lots of fun presents

Sevyn got this bike from "Santa" so while taking a stroll we stopped and took a picture by a local snowman! How nice it was to have a white Christmas

More presents from Grandma and Papa! Sevyn is still in her morning reindeer PJ's!

11 Months Old!!!

Sevyn is 11 months old today! She is such a fun gal.

Here are a few things she does:

1. Walks - 5-6 steps at a time and she is getting better and better each day.

2. Climbing - She loves to climb, out of her crib, onto boxes, etc.

3. Waves Bye Bye, and sometimes she tries to say it.

4. She laughs a lot.

5. She enjoys reading.

6. She loves corn dogs, refried beans, rice, chicken and anything else she can eat.

We are moving soon and Sevyn's room will be a bit bigger so we can add a play area, and we will have a swimming pool for the summer. Sevyn loves to play in the water so I am sure the pool will be a lot of fun!

Fun Times in November & 1st of December

(Sorry these pics are in reverse order, but here ya go!) Sorry its been a while since I updated.)

Fun times in the snow!

We had our first snow in early December. Sevyn loved it although it didn't last very long.

The twins (whose birthday party it was) played with Sevyn in their new ball pit!

Sevyn attended her first birthday party. She wore the hat for about 2 seconds. Good thing I caught the pic !

The whip cream off the pumpkin pie was Sevyn's favorite.

Sevyn's Thanksgiving lunch in Orange, TX. Yum Yum!

Just relaxing waiting for bedtime.

Having fun under the tent.

Dad made a tent for her in our living room and they read books under it.

Sevyn and dad hanging out at a bon fire. Sevyn loved it and almost had her first smore. She had a graham cracker without the chocolate and marshmallows (those are too messy!)

Two New Teeth!

When we went to the doctor for her 9 month check-up, he told us that Sevyn would have her front teeth coming in very soon because her gums were swollen.

They have finally broken through. The first one came in on the 11th and her second one followed behind on the 19th.

Now she has two teeth on the top and two on the bottom. You can't really see the new ones too well because they just broke through, but she definitely likes to use them to chew up all the new foods she likes to eat.

Movin'

Sevyn is getting pretty darn steady on her feet. Here is just a quick example of what she is doing now (this was actually filmed Nov. 6th - 9 Months Old.)

Diaper Derby!

Sevyn competed in the diaper derby on Saturday at the Mavs game again. Here is the video of the contest. There is a ton of footage of her but in the end . . . . well you'll see!

9 Month Doctor's Appointment

Sevyn had her 9 month doctor appointment today, and she is napping now.

She is 17 lbs 3 oz. in the 25% percentile in weight (still.)

She is 27 3/4 in. long in the 75% percentile in height (still.)

She has a head circumference of 17 1/4 cm and is in the 50% percentile.

She had 4 shots and a blood draw. It was really suppose to be just two shots but since she hasn't had the flu vaccine or H1N1 vaccine then we went ahead and got the shots. They also did a blood draw. I have no idea why but they say at 9 months they do a panel of blood work.

Sevyn had a UTI the last two weeks, and apparently at her age that is pretty rare. So they have ordered a renal ultrasound in order to find out if she has vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). This is basically where they look to see if her urine is refluxing back into her kidneys. If this is happening then we will have to monitor her pretty closely for fevers because that could indicate additional UTI's. Most UTI's go undetected because they cause low-grade fevers. Because they can go undetected and if she has VUR then it could cause kidney damage and it would be permanent. So the goal is to see if she has this, if she does then we will put her on meds and monitor her closely until she grows out of it. If she doesn't then its all good. As our doc said it is better to know early than to find out late when there could be permanent, irreversible damage to her kidneys.

When they did the office culture today she still had white blood cells in her urine, they don't think it is another infection but are sending it out for culture again as well. Last time it didn't indicate infection in the office, but then later the cultural came back as positive for infection.

We of course expect everything to come out just fine for the sonogram, but it is just important to know one way or the other.

Keep ya posted.

Meanwhile, shot days always mean napping days!! Woo hoo.

Tif

P.S. Love my pediatricians office, they gave me three small cans of formula!!! Its about two weeks worth of formula. They're the best!

Happy Halloween!

Here are pics of Sevyn's first Halloween costume.

Updated pics of Mommy and Sevyn, and Daddy and Sevyn. I think Sevyn looks a lot like Jim more and more each day.

Champ made a special appearance at Trunkfest this year. Sevyn was happy to see him. She didn't spend much time in costume though because it was 75 degrees and her costume was fleece, thick and too hot.

New Foods . . . All Unhealthy

To start, I love this pic. We went to a fall festival because Jim had to make an appearance. She was just so happy to be outside and playing.


So this is probably a HUGE parenting no-no, letting your child eat sweets, introducing her to sweets, and then taking pictures (or encouraging her) while she is eating sweets. I should probably put as much enthusiasm into Sevyn eating sweet potatoes and carrots (which I have,) but I love giving Sevyn new yummy things to try, and she loves to get messy. So here is the outcome of some of her 1st tries of new favorites. (P.S. don't tell my pediatrician, I don't think any of these fall in line with his eating plan he lined out for us.)

Here she is trying banana pudding. Jim and I both love banana pudding. Sevyn made a mess of it, and LOVED smearing it around but for the most part she attempted to get it in her mouth.

This is the batter for strawberry cupcakes. Yes, I am a bad mom I gave my child batter, yes it had an egg or two in it but it was only a teaspoon. About 20 minutes after she did break out on the face, but it went away within an hour. She didn't seem to care, and after a few carefully placed phone calls to make sure something was actually wrong I just let it work itself out. (That's batter on her nose, looks like a zit though!)

After church on Wednesday evening we took Sevyn over to Rita's to eat some custard. YUM! She loved it especially with sprinkles. See the bliss on her face. At this point the custard was flowing straight to her veins, and she was on a sugar high.

On this pic she decided to go in with full aggressiveness so she could maximize the amount of custard she got in her mouth.

"Dad, bring the cone closer, my tongue's not that long."

Oh the joy!

I love this stage where we can feed Sevyn just about anything if it is shredded or soft enough. The other night for dinner I gave her spaghetti, and she thought it was great too.

Fun Times With a Good Friend

Sevyn already has the best friends she could possibly have (and their parents are pretty amazing too!)

Sevyn hung out with Joey (and his mom and dad) on Thursday evening, while Jim and I were working. She wasn't all bubbles and giggles, but she definitely seemed to have fun during bath time.

As Dawn put it, the couple that chews together stays together!

"I LOVE BATH TIME!" ~Sevyn

9 Months Old!

Sevyn is now 9-months old!!! YIKES.

Its kinda a scary thought that in just three short months she will be a year old, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas in between I know those three months will go by quickly.

Here's some details about Sevyn:

She LOVES to play "where's Sevyn?" (peek-a-boo, but she doesn't know it by that name.)

She LOVES to eat table food, and will turn away her bottle or baby food for a chance to feed herself.

She LOVES to climb, in fact she has climbed out of her crib multiple times. (She hasn't figured out the fall yet though.) We had to lower her crib to the lowest setting, and she still tries to scale the wall.

She LOVES to see her daddy in costume. We are pretty sure she knows it is him and gets really excited when she sees pictures or video of him.

She LOVES to put everything in her mouth, including the dog bones. ICK!

She LOVES to make us laugh at her. She really is quite funny, and I know she is going to have her dad's sense of humor.

She LOVES to go outside.

She LOVES to play at Kelly's house during the day while mommy is working.

Sevyn is such a special little girl, and we are so blessed to have such a great baby.

Diaper Derby at the Mavs Game!

Last night was the second pre-season game of the year for the Dallas Mavericks. Sevyn was able to participate in an 0n-court promotion, the Diaper Derby. She has just been crawling for a few weeks, and it still looks a little chunky but she was ready to crawl.

Champ was going to be on the other end to catch her at the finish line so we practiced several times to get her to crawl to him. We think she has really figured out that Champ is daddy, which makes it a lot of fun! She gets very excited when she sees him.

Here we are at the starting line waiting for the announcer to start the race.

Sevyn started off strong. Good form, focused on Champ.

When she got about a foot away she decided that she didn't need to go any further and . . .

. . . layed down. She was about a foot from the finish line.

Next time, we are going to have champ back up as she comes closer so that she will keep coming toward him. She almost won but just wouldn't cross the finish line.

Her cousins Emily and Brady were able to come to the game too, so after the game we snapped a quick photo on court.

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

Sevyn had her first sleepover with her cousins this past Friday night. She stayed with her Aunt Shelly and had a great time! (Although I am pretty sure she had so much fun that she decided not to sleep very well that night.)

On Saturday, Shelly, Brady, Emily and Sevyn went to the pumpkin patch in Flower Mound. It was cold and muddy but they had a blast.

Brady spent the first hour or so trying to pick out a pumpkin. He had to find the very best one. Emily just picked a pumpkin and was ready to move on to the next thing. Sevyn enjoyed riding around in her stroller. She loves the outdoors!

Jim got there about and hour or two later. So they took some fun pictures together.

Sevyn had a fun time playing with the pumpkins.

She loves her daddy!

They had a great Saturday. I am pretty sure she went down for a long nap.

Lots of Fun - Randomness

Whew! We have been so busy. Jim's Mavericks season starts tomorrow with the first pre-game, and I am in full swing with my work on high school and college football games. Because we are so busy we try and spend as much time playing with Sevyn as we can.

When we were playing with her recently we realized that she was becoming bored with her "baby" toys, and we needed to start getting some toys that challenged her a bit more.

I went to a just between friends sale and picked up a few things, and Sevyn really likes them.

This is a fisher price crawl through, Sevyn really likes it. She can crawl through the different tunnels, pull up and play with the toys and wind chimes on it, and she loves the sound and music. I got this for $15 at a jbf sale. I was super excited!!

Sevyn loves to play peek-a-boo, or as we call it "where's Sevyn? Here she just popped up!

Sevyn loves the wind chimes on the crawl through. When she pulls on them they make music.

Both Jim and I are musically inclined and we hope Sevyn loves music too. We both play piano so we bought Sevyn her first little piano. She loves to bang on it!! In this picture though she was trying to sit on it, which was really funny. Hopefully that doesn't mean she is going to grown up and become a lounge singer. : ) Ha!

Even though we bought her some new toys (and there are others) Sevyn still loves to playing baskets, with coke bottles and other things like that. Here she was "helping" mommy fold her clothes. She loved the "ride" she took in the basket on our way to put her clothes away.

On Saturday, we took Sevyn to her 1st fall festival. My nephew and nieces school was putting it on. It rained so the festival had to be moved inside.

The only game Sevyn could really play was the duck game. Pull one out and the number on the bottom matched what prize she would get. Sevyn enjoyed playing in the water, and eventually she was able to catch a duck, it was a challenge though. They kept "swimming" away from her!

Riding around on dad's shoulders is a lot of fun. The best place to hang on is to grab his hair or his ears!

Emily (Sevyn's cousin) was dressed up as Cinderella. She had lots of fun at the festival!

Here is the last picture. Jim and I watch a nursery class during the second hour of our church service. One of our favorite little boys in our class is Parker. About the third week that we had him, we told his mom that Parker could marry our daughter. Ha! He is just so sweet, and cute.

Today we took a picture of them together. How funny would it be if that actually happen. Long shot, but funny! I know that God has a great plan for Sevyn and for Parker and we look forward to watching them both grow up!