Paisley 10 months old.
Words: Dada, Mama, dog, cat, touch, bye bye with wave. hi, bababa just babbled all the time, and whats that; said "whas da"
Pulls up on everything that stands still, stands holding on, crawls fast, likes music to dance to, makes kiss noise close to blowing kisses. Were working on signs; more, all done, and milk. she doesn’t do them but when you do she wants to touch your hands. She loves to do upside down baby.
Favorite toys: Minnie mouse airplane, washed empty coffee creamer bottle, balls rolled back and forth with someone, and books. Walks holding onto rolling toys, walks on tippy toes.
Has 4 teeth, 2 top 2 bottom. Shes getting some new hair, it's all spiky in the back.
Favorite food: cinnamon coconut pears, carrot, sweet potato, banana, she basically likes all foods so far. She doesn't like the beet lentil mixture I made for her, unless you sneak it into something.
When she waked up from a nap or in the morning, she stands in her crib and talks, coos, sings, or says "ah, ah, ah" that last one is said loud enough it sometimes causes feedback in the baby monitor. Everyday is a new a different adventure with Paisley. Shes such a fast learner and is fearless. She wants to try everything and she doesn’t succeed she will keep trying. She persistent and assertive, she knows what she wants. She loves to give us kisses, open mouth slobbery kisses of course! We love them!
About Us
- Meredith,Chad & Paisley Star
- Chad and I met in October 2006 and we haven't been apart since! We have 3 cute animals Kuma Bear, Marley, and Biscuits they are all so much fun! In May 2013 our daughter Paisley was born. She is just the most spirited, persistent, sweet hearted little girl and everyone that meets her falls in love. We have been many fun places and love to go camping, hiking, go to Snowbirds Oktoberfest, movies, and spending time with friends and family to name a few. This blog is keep friends and family updated on our adventures and experiences. So enjoy!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Random thoughts about Paisleys milestones over the last 10 months
I want to update the blog to the best of my abilities, and I didn’t want to miss anything. But the thought of remembering everything from the last 10 months was overwhelming. So here's a couple thoughts about things that have happened since Paisley was born.
- 3 months Paisley laughed for me when I tickled her.
- 3 months rolled over for the first time
- 5 months sat up unassisted and sat up on her own
- 8 months held her own bottle
- 7 months waved and said bye-bye, although it's often after the fact
- 5 months crawled with just your arms, "army crawled"
- 6 months crawled with tummy off the floor
- 9 months likes to play peek-a-boo with anything
- since Pais was 5 months old she had loved coconut cinnamon pears and carrots
- 6 months she said her first word, it was Dada, Chad loved it!
- 7 months Mama followed her vocabulary, along with cat, dog, duck, bye-bye, and hi
- 9 months she says touch and will continue to say it until she touches the item shes pointing to
- She likes to pet Kuma while shes eating a bottle
- loves cats
- has slept through the night since she was born, we are counting our blessings here, we know were pretty lucky
- at 10 months she has 4 teeth, 2 top front, 2 bottom front
- at doctors appointments she has always been in the 97% for height and 20% for weight, tall and skinny
- since the first week Pais has sucked on her fingers, she didn't used to have a favorite until recently, she favors her left hand forefinger and middle finger
- She has always loved it when Dad hums to her, even when I was pregnant
- Kuma has protected her since we got home from the hospital
- at 10 months, she is so assertive and independent, knows what she wants and is determined to accomplish things even if she can't or knows it's a "no no"
- Chad calls her little Meredith :)
- 3 months Paisley laughed for me when I tickled her.
- 3 months rolled over for the first time
- 5 months sat up unassisted and sat up on her own
- 8 months held her own bottle
- 7 months waved and said bye-bye, although it's often after the fact
- 5 months crawled with just your arms, "army crawled"
- 6 months crawled with tummy off the floor
- 9 months likes to play peek-a-boo with anything
- since Pais was 5 months old she had loved coconut cinnamon pears and carrots
- 6 months she said her first word, it was Dada, Chad loved it!
- 7 months Mama followed her vocabulary, along with cat, dog, duck, bye-bye, and hi
- 9 months she says touch and will continue to say it until she touches the item shes pointing to
- She likes to pet Kuma while shes eating a bottle
- loves cats
- has slept through the night since she was born, we are counting our blessings here, we know were pretty lucky
- at 10 months she has 4 teeth, 2 top front, 2 bottom front
- at doctors appointments she has always been in the 97% for height and 20% for weight, tall and skinny
- since the first week Pais has sucked on her fingers, she didn't used to have a favorite until recently, she favors her left hand forefinger and middle finger
- She has always loved it when Dad hums to her, even when I was pregnant
- Kuma has protected her since we got home from the hospital
- at 10 months, she is so assertive and independent, knows what she wants and is determined to accomplish things even if she can't or knows it's a "no no"
- Chad calls her little Meredith :)
Paisley Star arrives
05-15-2013
Paisley Star finally decides to grace us with her presence! On Tuesday I had an appointment with our midwife to see hoe we were doing, at this point I was 43 weeks and 2 days along and still only dilated to a 3. She informed me that if I didn't go into spontaneous labor before Saturday they would induce me on Sunday. Chad and I talked about it and decided that we were done waiting and made the appointment to go in on Wednesday to be induced. The night before we got things ready; Chad made dinner and threw in a load of laundry, while I painted my nails pink! We watched a movie and ate dinner, enjoying the our last quiet night together for a while. We got to the hospital on Wednesday morning at 7am and they got me hooked up to some fluids and checked me, i was at a 4 now! So we made some progress overnight, but not nearly enough. They broke my water and I walked around for the next 2 hours trying to kick start labor. But no, not happening. They started me on the pitocin, started it on a really low dose. At this point I was still trying to do this with no epidural. I labored for 9 hours and finally gave in and got the epidural; it only took blacking out from the pain to convince me. A wise ex labor and delivery nurse once told you know you are ready for your epidural when you are in mortal fear of your next contraction. I thought that was funny and didn't fully understand, until that moment. After the epidural things slowed down. Chad went and grabbed dinner from the cafeteria and brought it back to eat, our midwife Angela came in and we chatted for an hour. She decided to check me see where we at, and it was time to push. Chad finished up his salad; and 40 minutes later little Paisley Star got to make her appearance. She was 7lbs 6 oz. and22 inches long. She had very dark eyes and very little hair. She immediately loved to play with her tongue, from the moment she was born she was alert and looking around. We unfortunately had troubles feeding her and worked tirelessly for 2 days. In the middle of the night the nurse came in to help me; we couldn't wake Paisley up. They decided to test her blood sugar, it was only 20; 50 is normal. She was slowly slipping into a come and was headed to the NICU (newborn ICU). They took her away from me to preform a suction procedure on her lungs and stomach. She had too much amniotic fluid in her stomach still and had aspirated some of it. After that we consented to give her formula to get her sugars up and avoid the NICU. The gave her 40 CC's of formula and her blood sugar came up to 75. And she finally woke up and was alert again. That was the scariest moment for us. I didn't sleep all night. I felt terrible that I couldn't be there with her in the procedure. It would have probably been much harder watching them suction her, though. From then on they checked her blood sugars every couple hours. Her poor little heals were covered in prick marks. She didn't cry once, she's a tough little cookie. And then we finally got to go home.
Paisley Star finally decides to grace us with her presence! On Tuesday I had an appointment with our midwife to see hoe we were doing, at this point I was 43 weeks and 2 days along and still only dilated to a 3. She informed me that if I didn't go into spontaneous labor before Saturday they would induce me on Sunday. Chad and I talked about it and decided that we were done waiting and made the appointment to go in on Wednesday to be induced. The night before we got things ready; Chad made dinner and threw in a load of laundry, while I painted my nails pink! We watched a movie and ate dinner, enjoying the our last quiet night together for a while. We got to the hospital on Wednesday morning at 7am and they got me hooked up to some fluids and checked me, i was at a 4 now! So we made some progress overnight, but not nearly enough. They broke my water and I walked around for the next 2 hours trying to kick start labor. But no, not happening. They started me on the pitocin, started it on a really low dose. At this point I was still trying to do this with no epidural. I labored for 9 hours and finally gave in and got the epidural; it only took blacking out from the pain to convince me. A wise ex labor and delivery nurse once told you know you are ready for your epidural when you are in mortal fear of your next contraction. I thought that was funny and didn't fully understand, until that moment. After the epidural things slowed down. Chad went and grabbed dinner from the cafeteria and brought it back to eat, our midwife Angela came in and we chatted for an hour. She decided to check me see where we at, and it was time to push. Chad finished up his salad; and 40 minutes later little Paisley Star got to make her appearance. She was 7lbs 6 oz. and22 inches long. She had very dark eyes and very little hair. She immediately loved to play with her tongue, from the moment she was born she was alert and looking around. We unfortunately had troubles feeding her and worked tirelessly for 2 days. In the middle of the night the nurse came in to help me; we couldn't wake Paisley up. They decided to test her blood sugar, it was only 20; 50 is normal. She was slowly slipping into a come and was headed to the NICU (newborn ICU). They took her away from me to preform a suction procedure on her lungs and stomach. She had too much amniotic fluid in her stomach still and had aspirated some of it. After that we consented to give her formula to get her sugars up and avoid the NICU. The gave her 40 CC's of formula and her blood sugar came up to 75. And she finally woke up and was alert again. That was the scariest moment for us. I didn't sleep all night. I felt terrible that I couldn't be there with her in the procedure. It would have probably been much harder watching them suction her, though. From then on they checked her blood sugars every couple hours. Her poor little heals were covered in prick marks. She didn't cry once, she's a tough little cookie. And then we finally got to go home.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
I have made a goal this year to update this blog. This has become especially important to me now that I'm the only one of my immediate family left in Utah, and now that Paisley Star has joined our little family. So, I apologize up front if the posts are confusing, I'm going to try to go back through the last 10 months and fill in the details of what we have been up to. I will do my best from here on out to keep everyone updated on Paisley's happenings and if you want to hear about us, we'll be in there too! :)
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