Cecilia Update

Well, Cecilia had her "18 month" Checkup, even though she is 19 months now. She was so good; I was so proud of her. She weighed in at 22 lbs. 6 oz. and measured up to 31 1/2 inches. Whenever we were just speaking with the doctor she proceeded to simply play around the room and bring us books to show her. She hated having her ears checked but was given a clean bill of health and held perfectly still while she got her vaccination shot. She cried only a minute and then grabbed her Teddy and became our happy little Cecilia again. Throughout the entire thing she only managed to shed 2 tears! She was a great trooper. Now if we could just figure out how to get the bandaid off without her knowing...

Smile Cecilia

Cecilia loves this video. She points out the ball everytime with a loud "Ba..ba...ba.." Although she could also simply love that I sing it to her with "Cecilia Smiles" instead of "Savannah Smiles"...

Our Little Gymnast

For almost a year now Cecilia has enjoyed getting on her hands and feet and looking through her legs to observe the world upside down. To her own surprise, she discovered that if she just pushes off her feet enough, she will flip over. Yesterday she did her first summersault and enjoyed it so much she decided to do a couple more.

Update on Baby "Bean"

Well, the results from the ultrasound were very good. The baby looks very healthy and right on schedule. She has been kicking me more and more, which makes me smile almost every time. She has even kicked Cecilia though I don't think Cecilia realized it as it was in the vicinity of her diaper.

James and I are working on names - primarily girl names though we do plan to have a boy's name just in case.

The pregnancy has been going very well and we are getting eager to meet our new little one.

Getting Bigger All the Time...

Cecilia came dangerously close to crawling out of her crib. She could get one whole leg over the top bar and lift herself up until her body was parallel to the floor.

So, before we had to deal with her and the floor being introduced from a much greater height than she has ever met the floor before.....


She picked out the Butterfly pillow herself. She loves butterflies.

It took us a day to get the guard rail that would fit next to the mattress but inside the side rail of the bedframe. There is no box spring but a special support board and hence she can get on and off her bed all by herself. Our only concern is the fact that once she is on it, she likes to jump and run and have a ball. Hopefully the novelty will wear off enough for the jungle gym antics to cease to panic me and threaten her.

While it did take us over an hour last night, she did go to sleep in her own bed and in fact slept there the entire night. I'm honestly not sure if she woke up all night or not. I know once, before I was asleep, I had to untangle her foot from the sheet, but most of the night was a blur to me.