Carley's First Sentence on the Phone

I think Carley's starting to understand the idea of the phone.  When I call from work to talk to her she'll say hello and then babble away.  Today when I asked her how she was she said, "I wake up".  Blain said she had just woken up from her nap.  Obviously she's a gifted genius child

Carley at 18 Months

Such a grown up girl!

Carley had her 18 month checkup this morning.  She is now officially 25 lbs and 31.5 inches tall.  Not only is she walking but half the time she's running.  I'm not sure how many words she's saying because she's adding new ones every day.  For some unknown reason "two" and "shoe" are her favorite words to say. 

Last week we started her back in daycare 2 days a week.  I thought she would be traumatized because it's been about a year since she was in daycare but she did great.  She is a happy, outgoing little girl and a joy to be with.  I feel so lucky and blessed that I get to be her mom.

Baseball

Sam and Lindsey are in a baseball league for a few weeks this summer. The kids playing baseball are so cute but I have to admit it gets a little bit scary for the bystanders when they all are practicing throwing the baseball.

MIA

We've been missing in action lately on our blog due to being too busy with our real lives.  I promise I'll be back to blogging soon with updates.

Happy Easter

We had a really fun Easter weekend.  Blain and the kids decorated eggs on Friday.  On Saturday we went to the local pool and the kids got to "dive" for plastic Easter eggs.  And on Easter Sunday the Easter bunny hid the eggs in our family room because there's still snow on the ground in our yard.  Fortunately there's plenty of clutter in our house so there were lots of hiding spots.  Then Oma came over for a yummy ham dinner.  The only picture I ended up taking this weekend was of the Easter eggs before they were turned into egg salad.

Fun in the Park

Checkups and Kindergarten Roundup

This morning Carley had her 15 month checkup and Lindsey her five year checkup.  Carley is 23 lbs 6 oz and is right on track height and weight wise, still right at the 50th percentile.  Her head circumference, though, has shot up to the 90th.  We were thinking her head looked a little big lately!  And other than eczema, she's perfectly healthy and right on track developmentally.

Lindsey at 36.5 lbs and 41 inches was at the 10th percentile for weight and the 25th for height but the doctor pointed out that the growth charts they had were not multi-racial so she was probably more in the middle for Asians.  She was also pronounced perfectly healthy and right on track developmentally.

Then in the afternoon Lindsey and I went to her Kindergarten "roundup" where we got to meet the kindergarten teachers, see the classrooms and best of all, play in the playground.  Afterwards Lindsey and I had a nice mother-daughter lunch date at a restaurant that overlooks the local municipal airport.  So we got to watch airplanes and helicopters take off and land while we ate.

Tonight we weighed Sam since it had been a while.  We were shocked to see he now weighs 29.5 lbs.  It will still be a little while before Carley catches him.

Lindsey was a little bit nervous while waiting for the Roundup to start

Sam at almost 30 pounds