Happy Columbus Day!

Two months
weight:  12# 6.4 oz (85th %ile)
height:   23.5"  (86th %ile)
head:    15.5" (66th %ile)

Four months
weight:  15# 10oz (86th %ile)
height:   26"  (95th %ile)
head:    16.75"  (85th %ile)

Six months
weight:  17# 7oz (78th %ile)
height:   27.25"  (93rd %ile)
head:    17"   (72nd %ile)

Nine months
weight:  19# 9.6oz (65th %ile)
height:   28.75"  (87th %ile)
head:    17.5"   (66th %ile)

Twelve months
weight:  20# 9.6oz (61th %ile)
height:   30.5"  (89th %ile)
head:    17.75"   (55th %ile)

Fifteen months
weight:  23# (70th %ile)
height:   32.25"  (91st %ile)
head:    18.25"   (67th %ile)

Eighteen months
weight:  24# 9.6oz (72nd %ile)
height:   2'10" (98th %ile!)
head:    18.5" (68th %ile)

Twenty four months
weight:  27# 12.8oz (66th %ile)
height:   2'0.25"  (98th %ile)
head:    19"  (72nd %ile)

Thirty months
weight:  31# 6.4oz (80th %ile)
height:   3'3.25" (99th %ile!)
head:     19.5" (83rd %ile)

I took a *big* hit in the PTO department when I took this new job, but in return I get 10 federal holidays per year, including Columbus Day (today) and Veterans Day (next month). So since I have no PTO to burn, I booked all of our major medical appointments for these two days. This morning Rose and I went to her doctor (she got a clean bill of health!), then we went to my doctor (I also got a clean bill of health!), then I dropped her off at "school" and went to my dentist (no cavities!). I got home, ate lunch, and scheduled Rose's first dentist appointment for Veterans Day. (Time to start brushing more regularly!) Then I got a phone call from Target's fraud department - ugh. I'm thankful that they were keeping a close eye on our account and that we aren't responsible for the bad guy's charges. So I just made some new passwords for our accounts and we'll get our new CC in a week or two. Now I'm making a cup of tea and trying to decide how to spend the rest of the afternoon:  quilt? read? nap? The world is my oyster! Thanks for sailing the ocean blue, Columbus!!

I didn't take any pictures today, but here's one from our "family walk" last night. Rose loves traipsing through the pretty fallen leaves.

Catching up!

I haven't blogged in forever! Between starting a new job and then getting sick, this is the first chance I've had to catch my breath. Whew! So here are a few photos from the last month or two... :)

My new car, Penelope :)

Trip #1 to the apple orchard:

Building forts at home:

Trip #2 to the apple orchard:

Playing dress-up with her winter clothes (and rain boots that are 2 sizes too big):

She still loves to read!

"Put your shoes on, Rose"

Last weekend we went up to Hayward:

On the way home, we gave Rose her very own ice cream cone. She loved it.

I'll try to post more frequently in the future! But please know that it's actually a good thing that I haven't been posting much recently - instead of being depressed (like the last time I stopped blogging), now I've just been really happy and enjoying life :)

you know you're sick when...

1. You go to bed before your toddler/preschooler.
2. Nothing feels as good as some successful neti pot action.
3. You pledge, once again, to never take your good health for granted. (Knowing you'll likely forget  this pledge, once again, by about the third day after  your health returns.)
4. You would give anything to be able to take some Sudafed.
5. TV shows are too mentally taxing so you make silly lists instead.

Rose-isms: counting

Rose has learned to love counting. She doesn't totally get the idea of one-to-one correspondence, and she sometimes skips some numbers, but overall it's just so fun to hear her counting:

One
Toof
Deef
Dife
Dix
Eight
Ten!

Sometimes she throws some "teens" in there too, but she always ends with a triumphant TEN!  And now she also sometimes ends with "ready or not, here I come!" since we've been playing so much hide-and-seek. Definitely her new favorite game. Here's a photo of the pro in action, in case you missed it on facebook: 

Have a great week!

Rose can "read"!

To make up for all the house-related posts recently, here is a video of Rose "reading"! :)

Argh. If it doesn't work above, click here to see (and hear) it on YouTube.

2 bedroom updates

#1.  Remember how excited I was to have matching hangers in my closet? Well, I also just upgraded our curtains to grommet-top black-out curtains, which I've been lusting after for the past five years or so. Mike even re-mounted the hardware so the windows look bigger. Now that we've decided to stay in our house for the forseeable future, I suppose I'm finally ready to do all these "adult" things that I'd been waiting to do until we were out of our "starter" house. Yay for "real" curtains and for matching hangers in our "new" long-term home!

The sun was shining, so it was hard to get a good photo!

#2.  Speaking of hangers (can you tell how excited I am about these hangers?!), I have an awesome husband who finally agreed to switch closets with me. The way our bed was set up before, it made sense for him to have the big closet so I wouldn't complain about having to step over his stuff to get to my stuff. But now that we rearranged with our new bedS, it actually makes more sense for me to have the big closet. Hallelujah! So I spent a couple more hours today organizing my new closet.  :)

At first it looks the same size, but WAIT....

...turn to the left and WOW!! (Storing the suitcases, wrapping paper, kleenex and TP in there is a small price to pay for all that extra space!)

Look at all that space for shoes!! Three tiers on that shelf, plus an additional shelf for boots below. And a box on the ground for summer shoes (and another for our sheets).  Storage galore!

 Tomorrow is my last weekday off before I start my new job on Monday! Have a happy Friday, everyone!

First day of preschool!!

Rose is starting to transition to the preschool classroom at school!!! She's there half the day today, then 3/4 of the day on Thursday and Friday. Then she's there full-time beginning Monday (when I'll also start my new job)!  In honor of all the first-day-of school photos that I've been seeing on Facebook, I made a lovely sign for Rose to hold in her first-day picture...but in typically Rose fashion, she promptly erased my work:

and refused to have her picture taken outside:

She wouldn't smile in the car:

But she did smile in front of her new classroom!

I hope she has a great day today!!