UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

We have a tooth :-)...

You can't really see it yet, but you can sure feel it!

Auntie Jordi comes to visit!!!

We had a wonderful weekend with Jordi. Ainsley and Dagny fell in love with her!

We miss you already...


Jordi and Ainsley all smiles!



Chiqui and Popeye with Ainsleya and Dagny.



Jordi with the girls!


All of us...

Daddy's mid life crisis :-)...

Karl took a rare night off of daddy hood to go back in time...

On January 15, 2009, Karl and friend Brian went to see...

METALLICA!!!

Dagny is 8 months old!

... and still no teeth :-)... but she is beginning to CRAWL!

*She is beginning to make consonant/vowel sounds.
*Dagny is crawling a unique crawl using a foot to push her along :-).
*Dagny is all smiles.
*She is almost pulling herself up.
*She is more solid food and working on her pincer grasp while reaching to eat her stars.

No vaccinations this month! YEAH!

"What r u lookin at"




"More presents please!"




"Peek a Boo"




Big smiles... NO teeth

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Karl turned 34 on January 4th! he had his favorites, burritos and lemon ice box pie... yummmm...

Ainsley and Savannah!

To give the girls something to do and visit with good friends, Chris and Roberta, the four of visited Savannah and her new baby brother Cameron! Ainsley and Savannah had a great time playing! Karl even held his own in conversations with Savannah... barely

Enjoy the pictures...

Dagny checks out Cameron


Ainsley and Savannah playing...

All dressed up for the holiday!

Two years apart in the same cute Christmas outfit :-)

Merry Christmas!

Chiqui and Popeye cooked Christmas dinner at their place...

Kristen, KC and Koehn joined us for dinner... Ainsley and Koehn played very well together!



The four of us on Christmas day...



The family on Christmas day...



All the cousins...



Hanging out after dinner.

Baby Caiden comes to visit...

Aunt Stacey and Uncle Chris did too...

Melissa rocking Caiden and Dagny as they check each other out.




Chris and Ainsley bond.




Stacey giving Caiden some tummy time.

PRESENTS!

Thank you to Santa and all the other friends and family that spoiled my little girls this Christmas... they loved it, we loved that they loved it. By the end Ainsley kept asking for more presents!

Opening presents at home...




Opening presents at Chiqui and Popeyes

Decorating...

This was Dagny's first Christmas, and Ainsley's first Christmas that she could understand and help out. So we had to go BIG :-)! Ainsley was sad to see the tree go and even said "bye bye Christmas Tree", "Tree go home". And when asked what she got for Christmas, she said tree. We can tell the other gifts made quite an impression.


The girls posing for a picture...




Ainsley decorating the tree with mommy and daddy.








The family in front of the fire place.



The girls with Chiqui and Popeye.

Welcome Back Rachel...

Welcome back from Togo!

Happy Holidays!

Here are the girls in their dresses...

Good Morning!

Ainsley and Dagny hang out on the couch weekend mornings...

Ainsley is 2 1/2...

Little Ainsley Lee had her 2 1/2 year appointment. She is progressing beautifully!

*Ainsley is saying 3 to 4 word sentences and follows spoken English and ASL brilliantly.
*Ainsley loves jumping and running and dancing.
*She loves to say MINNOW... the class she is in at the River School.
*She loves to go to school and knows where we are going before we are even there.
*She loves to count (almost up to 20) and saying her ABCs.
*Ains has a bff at school (Violet) and the two of them get into lots of toddler trouble... the other day they were holding hands and taking turns yelling out loud.
*She loves singing the 'Signing Time' song Colors of the Rainbow... she sings all of the colors and "mommy knows the colors of the rainbow too" :-).
*Ainsley drew an almost perfect face! Little round circles for eyes, a little round circle for a nose and a wide v shape for a mouth... we were impressed :-)

No height and weight update... that will have to wait until she is 3.

STILL NO TEETH! Daddy is distraught...

7 months and counting... Our 6 month check up is a little late (now that she is over 7 months)... so here is your latest update, the major news that Dagny is still TOOTHLESS!
This is of huge concern to daddy who knows she needs teeth to go places in life.

Besides being toothless, here are some other stats...

*Dagny's head circumference is still in the 75th percentile... but we feel she is awaiting a growth spurt since she is waking up to eat every night and her height and weight dropped to the 50th and 25th percentile...
*She is sitting up like a pro!
*Dagny is cooing a lot and squeals with delight.
*Dagny has a fond attachment to mommy and no one else will do at night!
*She is starting to scoot to get items out of reach.
*She loves food, except for vegetables... well she does love sweet potatoes.
*She is great at standing and is starting to pull herself up.
*Dagny is starting to bang toys together and passing them back and forth between hands.

They did hear a little click with her hips so we'll have to follow up with that, but overall she is doing GREAT!

Dagny is such a delight! Her smiles lighten up any room :-).

Enjoy the pictures of our 7 month old.

Our young artist... Dagny experiments with color :-)




Dagny having some box time :-)... she doesn't quite understand that she needs to play with the toys in the box, not put her self in the box to play.

Ainsley's crush...

We had a fun dinner party with friends, Cecily and Mike (wonderful hosts), Cecily's parents and Chip and Stephanie. It became apparent through out the night that Ainsley has a little crush. We first noticed it at a school function a couple of weeks ago where the two would follow each other around the gym and it was only confirmed at the party :-)... the two would copy each other, follow each other and even scoot closer together! Luckily, the other boys, Wesley, Wyatt and Willem, didn't show any jealousy, but they're still young... and there is always Dagny (who we noticed was the only hearing little one in the bunch).

Enjoy the pictures -

The kids decide it would be really fun if everyone layed down on the floor.




Dagny is all smiles... as always.




Wesley, Willem, Wyatt, Ainsley, Jonah... all dancing and hanging out.




Ainsley and Jonah dancing

Gobble, Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving! The four of us went to Chique and Popeye's house for some great food! The girls were all dressed up and enjoyed lots of grandparent time.






Ainsley refused to eat the traditional meal and had some fruit and Alfredo pasta, but Dagny, being more adventurous in the food arena tried her first mashed potatoes (wasn't so sure about it) and loved her doctored up sweet mashed potatoes.


After nap we went back to enjoy left overs and desert... Ainsley and Dagny had bath time and Ainsley had her first experience with curlers :-)!