9 Month Pics

Layla had her 9 month pics on Saturday at Tracy's. I think Layla just doesn't like photo shoots. I guess she probably won't ever be a model:-). She hasn't been real happy for any of her pictures, but as long as there are a couple good ones that's all I really care about. To see a sampling of her pics visit http://tracyvdmphotography.wordpress.com/. Tracy always does a great job despite Layla's moodiness!!

Little Dutch Girl

Last week Em and I waited in line at the Dutch Costume sale at the Civic Center to get a costume for Layla to wear at this year's Tulip Time. We were the third group in line so we had our pick of costumes for Layla (and for Gavin for next year). I would imagine that people further in line didn't get one if they were looking for a baby girl costume as there were only maybe 5-7 of them there. Well, I showed Joe's mom the cute little costume and she told me that she thought she still had one from Joe's sister. So now we have two! She's going to wear Joe's sister's old costume this year, but wanted to try them both on since they're both so cute!!!

I clap b/c I'm so excited to dress up in my Dutch Costume!!

Poor little Dutch girl:-(...

I want the camera!!

This is the one we bought at the sale...

I had thought that Layla would be able to wear some of the costumes that I wore growing up once she gets older, but unfortunately we can't find them:-(. Em looked at my dad's house the other day and they are nowhere to be found. My mom was ultra organized, so I don't think we're overlooking them in the house. I don't think my mom would have gotten rid of them, but she may have loaned them out to some people or something. There are three of them that I can think of that are missing:-(. It is times like this that I really wish I could ask my mom where they went!!

Little Drummer Girl

Parents' Weekend/Man Olympics

This past weekend we all headed to Brad's parents' cottage for a weekend away WITHOUT kids!!! The girls had a good time relaxing and the boys had Winter Man Olympic Games. We all got there Friday night, except Jamie and Curt--they drove up Saturday morning.

One of the games that the guys participated in was a Mad Gab competition.
Another game was blindfolded beer tasting. They had to guess which beer they were tasting. A couple of us girls decided to play too (just for fun of course--we weren't allowed to participate) and I'm happy to say that I tied with Joe--4/6 correct.

Another game was a Wii sports challenge. They played a variety of sports and at the end it told them their age based on their fitness/athletic ability. Joe came in last with an age of 64:-(.

They also played lawn darts and shot pallet guns. Joe won both of those games which made up for not doing so well in the other games. In the end it was a 3-way tie between Joe, Brad and Darrell. The girls then decided on a tie breaker game of "Newlyweds". Joe and Darrell both got all the questions correct but then Joe ended up winning after a couple more bonus questions. Guess he does know me pretty well! :-)

This wasn't a game, just the boys playing on the ice. Boys will be boys:-). Joe said it was really thick, but I think he may have just said that to make me feel better:-).

We ate lunch in Saturday and went out Saturday morning and night. We ate at some local greasy spoons. Breakfast was good, however dinner was, well, there was just a lot of fried food! Let's just say that I don't know why Jamie and I felt the need to "get ready" to go out.

Group guy pic (Curt, Jim, Darrell, Brad, Joe)...

Closing ceremonies--yes that's their "trophy" Joe is holding (unfortunately Jim and Julie had left already so Jim missed this final pic).

Jill and me...

Jill and Jamie

The girls had quite a bit of time to relax and watch movies. It was great! That was exactly what we wanted to do! One of the movies we watched was "The Jane Austin Book Club". We decided that since we don't have time to read books that we should just start a Movie/T.V. Club. Pretty much half of our conversation is about t.v. and movies anyway (when we aren't talking about lactating and blow out diapers:-D).

This girl pic was from Friday night so Jamie and Curt weren't there yet. (me, Jill, Julie and Lindsey). My head is tilted up weird...I swear Joe took another one, but apparently not.


And one more group photo, unfortunately missing Julie this time!

Gavin Update

Since Gavin's mommy never updates his blog, I thought I would. He got his hair cut pretty short a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't his first hair cut, but it definitely was shorter than he's ever gone. I think Em was afraid to go too short before, but it grows so fast and Gavin doesn't exactly love getting his hair cut, so she decided to go pretty much as short as possible!

Here's his hair at Christmas. Not a great pic, but you get the point. This might be before any cuts...I'm not really sure as I don't remember when his first one was.
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After...

It's not even long enough to spike...

Gavin's been doing well. Him and Layla have fun playing together. He loves helping her by giving her her pipe when she cries and handing her toys...and of course sometimes stealing her toys and hitting her on the head with them. He also loves saying, 'Hi Lala' and is teaching her to wave (he's the only one she waves at). It's pretty cute:-).

9 Month Stats

Layla had her 9 month appointment today and her doctor said she's doing well. She needs to work on learning to crawl and pull herself up on things, but that will come with time I'm sure. She's not meeting many of the 9 month milestones, but they do take into consideration that her adjusted age is 7 months. Over time, as she approaches age 2 she should catch up more with a full term baby her age.

Here are her stats (based on a full term 9 month old):
Height: 27" (25%)
Weight: 14 lbs 13 oz (less than 3%--really close to being on the charts)
Head Circ: 44.1 cm (50%)

Since I compared my 6 month stats with her 8 month, I'll do it again:-). They're pretty close again. At 7 months I was 14 lbs 7 oz and 26.25".

Found

I had thought that I had lost one of Layla's bottles in Michigan City a few weeks ago. Well, Em found it in her lawn this weekend...after it had apparently gone through the snow blower:-(.