Friday, February 12, 2010

It's snowing! It's snowing!!!!

It started snowing at our house around 1:15 p.m. today.

This is 2:00 p.m.


This is at 3:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.

And according to my Snoopy Ruler, at 5:00 p.m. we got just a little under 2 inches:
Veronica got bundled up and we took her outside to be in her first snow (although we had snow in January, we didn't take her outside, so this is her first snow outing):



Thursday, February 4, 2010

Baby Einstein, Mirror, Cold

So, V caught Matt's cold but thankfully she's a trooper and other than the cough and little runny nose, you wouldn't be able to tell!!  I was going to make an appointment for her at the pediatrician this morning, but while I was on the phone waiting for them to answer, I was looking at their website and found this: http://www.dekalbpeds.com/index_files/Page1488.htm  So, after reading it, I decided to wait and see how she is tomorrow.  Thankfully Matt is feeling better and so far (knock on wood) I have been feeling normal (well normal for me at least...).  Let's just hope that V doesn't get worse over the weekend! So far we love our Pediatrician, but the bad part is they are only open Monday - Friday.  Which is great for the staff, but bad if baby gets sick on Saturday or Sunday. 
 
Because Veronica is getting more aware of her surroundings, Matt got her a cute mirror last night for her crib!  I put it in her crib this morning and she just stared at it.  Then she started crying, but that was only because she was hungry.  The awesome part about the mirror is that it can be used on the floor as well!  Multi-use gadgets are awesome!
 
(Have I told you that she only cries when she's hungry or is gassy?  We really do have a great baby!! And we're very blessed and lucky.  And she sleeps through the night too!  Very lucky for sure.)
 
Now on to Baby Einstein.  The Cunnington's gave Veronica her first Baby Einstein for Christmas and she loves watching it!  When Matt was at Target yesterday getting V a mirror and more bottles (thanks Lash for eating more bottles!) he got her another Baby Einstein Movie: "Baby's First Moves, Get up and Go!"  She and I are watching it now and it's hard to believe that she'll be able to do some of the things on the video very soon!!!!!  During my pregnancy, the first couple of months went by very fast, the middle months went by relatively slow, and the last couple of months went by very fast.  I'm wondering if this is how it's going to be with Veronica now.  The first month and a half went by very fast, after that it's gone by very slow - which I'm VERY thankful for!!!  It's still hard to believe that Matt and I are parents, and it's even harder to believe that Veronica is 3 months and will be doing SO much more!!!!
 
She can almost sit up on her own, it's sort of like the video of her trying to roll over - she almost has it!!!
 
Yeah, posting through email is much easier, so I should be updating more often now!!!
 
Much Love!
Katie
 

Blogging through email?

Let's see if this works. If it does then hopefully I'll update more!

V meets Elmo

again, sorry it's sideways!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Sweet V's already 3 months!!!!

(Sorry for taking forever to update our Blog. Hopefully I'll do a better job at updating on here)



It's hard to believe that Veronica is 3 months old!! Over the last 2 months, Veronica has:
- grown out of all of her 0-3 months clothes
- grown out of the majority of her 3-6 months clothes
- fits perfectly into the few 9 months clothes we have for her
- has moved into Size 3 diapers
- gotten her first round of vaccines
- smiled a lot
- focusing on us and objects
- started grabbing things
- tries to roll over
- loves to watch Food Network
- started talking some
- gained about 5 pounds since birth, from 9 lbs 3 ounces to around 16 pounds
- grown about 4 inches since birth, from 22 inches to 26 inches


I know I'm forgetting things that she has done, so hopefully I'll remember them.


Things are going well in the Monroe household. Matt is doing awesome in school. Word around town is that he got the Hope Scholarship!!!! Couldn't be more proud of him!!! He's still enjoying it, but can't wait to be finished.


We're very lucky that both our schedules are letting us not have to put Veronica in daycare. I'm working from home 2 days a week and Matt is home 2 days a week. Matt's mom, Pat, watches her for a couple hours on Thursdays when we're both at work.


I was going to add more pictures, but my computer is acting up so at least you've got some recent photos of Sweet V!
Her Christmas outfit

January 1, 2010

January 25, 2010

NOW FOR SOME VIDEOS!!!! (sorry some are sideways! I'm still trying to get used to the camcorder on my phone)

February 1, 2010: Veronica can almost turn over!


February 3, 2010: look who's talking now!!!