xo JBM
March 5, 2010
Baby Dino
Here is a quick little video of Sloan doing her best baby dinosaur impression! Her little growl is adorable, but quiet so you'll have to turn up your volume!
March 2, 2010
Dear Sloan: Three Months
My dearest little NoodleE you are growing and changing so much! Today, on your 1/4 year Birthday you were 13lbs11oz! And every single ounce is made up of lovable adorableness!
This month you started babbling to us A LOT! You coo and goo and sometimes surprise yourself by how loud you can get! You love to sit on your Daddy's chest and just talk away with him. I've caught your chatty-ness a few times on camera, but you seem to really like the camera and usually just stare into it every time I put it in your face (which is a lot). You also started doing the cutest little growl in the last week or so - it is almost a whisper, but it sounds like you are trying to mimic a growl. I love all of your little noises! Because of your love of the camera I sometimes call you a ham, and sometimes you are acting like a little nut...so sometimes you are called a ham-nut....I'll apologize now for the identity crisis you will surely suffer! Luckily your Daddy calls you by your real name more often!
This month you celebrated your first Valentines Day and went out to a fancy dinner with Mummy, Daddy, Nana, Papa, and your Great-Nanny. You are an excellent dinner companion and draw in the other diners to your cuteness! You have also attended a couple of volunteer meetings (one for the Women's House and one for the MS Walk) and you are a great companion there too - you are still so compact and a great traveller! You love the car and fall asleep almost the instant we take off!
(All dressed up for V-Day dinner)
In other firsts...there was your first swim...which you LOVED! I think you're going to be a little water-baby and can't wait for the summer and lots of beach days! There was also your first Superbowl, you watched with Daddy and helped Mummy prepare all the tasty snacks! And then there was your first Olympic games! We watched quite a few of the games in Vancouver, but most exciting was the final hockey game that Canada won against the USA. Mommy shrieked so loudly at one point you started to cry...sorry for startling you!
(Your 1st swim!)
You are sleeping longer at night now and it breaks my heart that you actually like sleeping in your crib...maybe you are just happy to be away from Daddy's snoring! I miss you in bed with us, but I guess you had to go at sometime...I just didn't think it would be so soon. You always wake up with a smile and I can't wait to get in your room to see you in there! You are able to roll from your back to your side now, so you are moseying around your crib that way, but sometimes I can't believe the positions you get yourself in to!
You still look a lot like your Daddy most days, but I think you are starting to look like me more too...
Speaking of Daddy...he is home now! He is all finished up trade-school as of Feb 26th and we are so happy to have him home for good now! It will be nice to know he will be home for dinner everynight and get to kiss you good bye every morning!
Mama loves you Sloan!
xo Mama
Talkative Tuesday!
I'll be posting Sloan's 1/4 of a year letter a little later today, but here she is talking up a storm...well sort of...she likes to clam up when she sees the camera...apparently she isn't a performing monkey!
Also, she has been loving the crib lately (much to my heartbreak), but she moves around in there SO much!
This is how I put her to sleep in the crib:
Also, she has been loving the crib lately (much to my heartbreak), but she moves around in there SO much!
This is how I put her to sleep in the crib:
And this is how Matt found her this morning at 5:30 when he went in to say bye:
I have no idea how she managed that!
*this was a reenactment...I didn't think to grab the camera this morning*
We are off to the EYC today! :)
xo JBM
February 28, 2010
Noodle-Fish!
Sloan went swimming at the pool for the first time today...and LOVED it!
xo JBM
Sloan's First Swim! from Joelene Murphy on Vimeo.
xo JBM
February 24, 2010
February 22, 2010
What a day...
I'm hoping that if I put in down in writing it will seem like less of a "bad day"....
Matt got up and left at 4 this morning as usual (to get to Hamilton for school)...and then I heard the phone ringing at about 5:30 (at first I wrote it off because I thought it was just in my dream!)...he was almost in KW and the battery light was flashing on the truck and the lights seemed dim. I told him to get into KW and go to a Canadian Tire or something so they could check it out...um...ya...not much is open at 5:30...He called me back about 10min later to tell me the truck had completely died and he was blocking the entrance to a shopping centre! Lovely. He got to use his Christmas gift though and called CAA! They tried to jump the battery, but it wouldn't work so they towed him to CT. At first they thought it might be just the battery...then it was the alternator...then it was both...then it was both plus something else...a conductor or something. So...$536 later...Matt was finally on his way to school...SUPER late!
What a lovely start to the day...
Then I turned on the dryer with a full load...it is turning but there is no warm (or cold for that matter) air coming out. Nice. My Dad is going to come down tonight to look at it, but it sounds like it might be dead.
I've also got the dishwasher filled...but I am afraid to turn it on! I think I'll wait until tomorrow!
Randi recently blogged about the joy of new appliances, looks like I might be getting a new one too! There is something VERY exciting about new appliances...when we got a new stove our old one still worked (with major hot spots), it was just old and not very nice and the new one was a GREAT Christmas gift from my parents...when we got a new dishwasher the following year it was another GREAT Christmas gift and super exciting because we didn't have one at that point. Getting new appliances when the old ones still work or don't exist is great! Getting new appliances because you have to isn't so great. It just doesn't seem as exciting....especially when there are clothes hanging everywhere in the house to dry! Of course this couldn't happen in the summer when I could use my lovely 2 load clothes line!
I'm off to research our dryer options while NoodleE naps IN HER CRIB!
xo JBM
EDIT: The dryer is fixed!!! My Dad just came and looked it over and it was just a belt that had fallen off! Yay for not having to go out and buy a new one! But boooo for not getting a new dryer...I was starting to look forward to a shiny new appliance!
And yes Randi...I sure am glad we have cells now!
Matt got up and left at 4 this morning as usual (to get to Hamilton for school)...and then I heard the phone ringing at about 5:30 (at first I wrote it off because I thought it was just in my dream!)...he was almost in KW and the battery light was flashing on the truck and the lights seemed dim. I told him to get into KW and go to a Canadian Tire or something so they could check it out...um...ya...not much is open at 5:30...He called me back about 10min later to tell me the truck had completely died and he was blocking the entrance to a shopping centre! Lovely. He got to use his Christmas gift though and called CAA! They tried to jump the battery, but it wouldn't work so they towed him to CT. At first they thought it might be just the battery...then it was the alternator...then it was both...then it was both plus something else...a conductor or something. So...$536 later...Matt was finally on his way to school...SUPER late!
What a lovely start to the day...
Then I turned on the dryer with a full load...it is turning but there is no warm (or cold for that matter) air coming out. Nice. My Dad is going to come down tonight to look at it, but it sounds like it might be dead.
I've also got the dishwasher filled...but I am afraid to turn it on! I think I'll wait until tomorrow!
Randi recently blogged about the joy of new appliances, looks like I might be getting a new one too! There is something VERY exciting about new appliances...when we got a new stove our old one still worked (with major hot spots), it was just old and not very nice and the new one was a GREAT Christmas gift from my parents...when we got a new dishwasher the following year it was another GREAT Christmas gift and super exciting because we didn't have one at that point. Getting new appliances when the old ones still work or don't exist is great! Getting new appliances because you have to isn't so great. It just doesn't seem as exciting....especially when there are clothes hanging everywhere in the house to dry! Of course this couldn't happen in the summer when I could use my lovely 2 load clothes line!
I'm off to research our dryer options while NoodleE naps IN HER CRIB!
xo JBM
EDIT: The dryer is fixed!!! My Dad just came and looked it over and it was just a belt that had fallen off! Yay for not having to go out and buy a new one! But boooo for not getting a new dryer...I was starting to look forward to a shiny new appliance!
And yes Randi...I sure am glad we have cells now!
February 21, 2010
Milestones
We were thinking about taking Sloan to the family swim today, but I am just a little worried the water will be too cold and then she won't be able to warm up because the change rooms are freezing and it's still really cold outside. That would have been a picture-worthy milestone!
But...last night she hit a major milestone...she slept in her crib...and it broke my heart!
She went down at 11:30 (she is a little night owl!) and slept right through until 4:30! She nursed and then went right back down in the crib until 7:30 when she was hungry again. At 7:30 she came into bed with us for some snuggle time! I'm not sure if this will continue without fuss...but it's a start I guess.
Also, another milestone today...she had her first "oh-my-god she needs a bath" poop! All of her cloth diapers were in the wash so I had her in a disposable and sure enough...poop EVERYWHERE! Matt just looked at her and asked if I wanted him to run a bath...yes please! She LOVES the bath so she was super happy to get an extra middle-of-the-day bath!
xo JBM
But...last night she hit a major milestone...she slept in her crib...and it broke my heart!
She went down at 11:30 (she is a little night owl!) and slept right through until 4:30! She nursed and then went right back down in the crib until 7:30 when she was hungry again. At 7:30 she came into bed with us for some snuggle time! I'm not sure if this will continue without fuss...but it's a start I guess.
Also, another milestone today...she had her first "oh-my-god she needs a bath" poop! All of her cloth diapers were in the wash so I had her in a disposable and sure enough...poop EVERYWHERE! Matt just looked at her and asked if I wanted him to run a bath...yes please! She LOVES the bath so she was super happy to get an extra middle-of-the-day bath!
xo JBM
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