haley grace: September 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011

1 year dr appt (Sept 29)

Haley had her 1 year checkup today. She was not too happy a camper because the ladies at daycare had to wake her up from her nap when I picked her up. But we had some milk & goldfish and that seemed to make things a little better.

Dr. Baugh was very pleased with her stats and her checkup.

She is 32 inches long, which was off the charts for 12 months old - essentially equal to the height of an 18 month old, he said.
She is 21 lbs 12 oz, which is in the 60th percentile
Her head is 18.5 inches circumference, which is 90th percentile.

He said that her height to weight proportion is very healthy and where they like it to be.
She has had a runny nose & cough all week and did have a fever yesterday. Unfortunately, Dr. Baugh found an ear infection, so we will hold off on her next round of vaccines until 2-3 weeks from now, when she goes back for her ear follow-up. But they did prick her finger for an anemia test. We started a once-per-day anitbiotic this evening for the ear infection, and are really hoping it does not mess her tummy & bootie up too bad.

She slept for 2 hrs today at daycare and would have likely slept longer had I not come to get her. So, I was very happy to see that. She seems to be adjusting OK to all the new changes at daycare:

No more morning nap
Moved from crib to cot
No more passie at naptime
No more bottles - sippy cup only
No more warm milk - cold
Since we got the OK from Dr Baugh today she will start on whole milk monday.
Moved to the older kid menu (still tiny pieces tho)
No more breakfast at daycare - has to eat at home, then gets a snack at 9:00
Apple juice with a snack

That's about it for now....hopefully she will get to feeling better soon !

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

another photo shoot @ 1 yr old

since kerrie was in town, we decided to try some of her birthday outfits on haley and take some pics. they are so adorable!
.. i don't know why some of these verticle pictures won't stay verticle when i post them!! :-(

kerrie had to give her puffs midway to avoid a meltdown!

ready to tumble!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

melt down!

haley has had some rough times lately...periods of unconsolable screaming...we were in denial that it was temper tantrums - both the doctor and daycare provider said they typically don't start throwng temper tantrums until they are around 18 months. In some cases, she was teeting, and in other cases, didn't seem to feel well, BUT, in other cases, we believe she was throwing tantrums. kerrie pointed out that it might be all the changes that have started taking place at daycare (started shortening her morning nap, no more bottles, cold milk, no passie at naptime)...which makes total sense. hopefully she will get adjusted and not have to go thru them for a while longer! we'll try to keep the changes at home to a minimum until she gets adjusted to daycare. poor thing!

This blog would not be a true representation of haley if we did not show the bad with the good! So, here's miss haley throwing a fit!

most of the tantrums have been lying on her back

passie would not even help

bottle cap didn't calm her either

this is her position before going to the back & kicking her legs.

some 1 year photos

We tried to do another photoshoot, but with her walking now, it was quite a challenge! But, I did get a few good ones.

ending the shoot with a kiss (really just to get her passie tho!)

Birthday Zoo Trip

We also went to the National Zoo so Haley got to see real elephants, zebras, horses, leopards, pandas and monkeys for the first time ever. She was really excited when she could see them, but in some cases, they were asleep so not much activity going on. She did great at the zoo, but due to the drive time she fell asleep in the car for the last 15 minutes of the ride home. Then, when i tried to put her down for her nap when we did get home, she never fell back asleep. Since she missed her afternoon nap, it was a rough night!
Here are some pics from the zoo. Not many animal pics...but still some fun ones!

looking at the elephants from above

pointing to the elephants

stretching her neck to see the animals

looking at the monkey

showing off her goldfish!

It's my Birthday!!! Sept 23, 2011

Haley turned 1 year old on September 23! We cannot believe how fast this year has gone, and how much she's changed. Trey's sister, Aunt Kerrie, flew here on Sept 22-26, so we had a little cake and balloons. She got lots of presents and had fun with them.

We wanted to get her a little cake of her own, but it ended up being chocolate so luckily we also had bought some yellow cupcakes at the mall for her to eat. She was NOT a fan of the icing, but did enjoy the cake part (but only after trey cut it into bite size pieces!) We did not give her any of the chocolate cake - just some icing. I have some videos that I will add in a separate posting.