Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A How-To

Wren wanted to share with everyone how to sit down on a potty seat.  Here she gives clear, step-by-step instructions.  Like an Ikea instruction booklet, no text is needed.  Follow along at home! 
(Hat wearing, especially sideways hat wearing, is optional.)
 




Wednesday, January 16, 2013

15 months!

At 15 months Wren is still topping the growth charts.  She is 33.25" tall (99th percentile) and weighs 25 pounds, 8.5 ounces (92nd percentile).  Wren still has a healthy belly but her little legs are getting skinny, which really amplifies her cloth diaper booty!  She now has 11 teeth, thanks to her lower right lateral incisor cutting through in the last week and after a rough night last night we are anticipating her 4th first molar breaking through.  She has a pretty big vocabulary (though No, Mine, and Thank you are most often heard) and just started saying "All done" when she wants to get down from the table. She now puts stuffed animals away in the cupboard and says "Night Night".  She amazes us with how much she understands and can go to her room and get a hat or socks from her dresser if asked.  We have the same bedtime routine that has been in place for many, many months and after reading stories as a family Wren decides who gets to put her to bed.  Wren loves milk from a bottle....we are still on the bottle.  Our hope was to have transitioned by now to cup/sippy/straw but we aren't there yet.  We leave for our Hawaiian vacation in a few weeks and plan to really attack this bottle issue when we return.  Hey - we all want peace and joy on our vacation and flight, right?  Wren likes to climb and in no time will be getting up on the couch on her own.  She really likes to sit in grown up chairs at the table and color on paper/newspaper/table top.  She has recently started singing little songs made of a string of "ba ba ba" and sweetly serenaded me one evening as I danced with her in my arms.   Her hair is getting pretty long and still has an adorable mullet quality to it, but s/he who dares approach Wren with scissors will surely feel my wrath.  It may be years before a first hair cut! 
Here are a few pictures from a recent sunny afternoon of packing up Christmas decorations.
 
This is my newest favorite picture of Wren. 



Waterbaby portraying Narcissus

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Around town

Jay recently had a change in his schedule which has freed up some weekends for family time!  Over the last few weekends we have enjoyed bundling up and taking rides around town on our bikes with Wren in the trailer.  Two weekends ago we met up with Wren's almost-birthday twin, Geneva, at the grade school playground near us.  Wren took cues from adventurous Geneva and tried climbing up the slide.  The two gals wanted to be in the spot the other one was in and there was some hugging/wrestling at one point!  
This past weekend was very chilly here (today's high was 30!) but that didn't stop us from getting our ride on!  For our first adventure we rode across town to the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market at the fairgrounds to pick up a couple pounds of our favorite squash - Ambercup.  We rode through the OSU campus to The Beanery to warm up with a hot drink and a snack before returning home.  Later in the afternoon Jay and I rode downtown for happy hour while Wren enjoyed some time with Grandma Brynn.  Today we all hopped back on/in the bikes for grocery shopping and again later to grab a bite to eat downtown.  Overall we logged just about 21 miles - thanks to Jay's handy Garmin Edge for tracking our travels!








Bundled up on a sunny but cold day
All smiles here....no smiles when it was time say goodbye to the bike....
Helping Daddy in between rides!  

Saturday, January 5, 2013