9 Month Checkup

Ashlyn had her 9 month check up yesterday, she is doing great. Her ears are looking good, so her crabbiness and eating issues are due to her eye teeth coming in......FUN. Hopefully those little buggers pop through soon.

Here are her stats:

Height: 30" 99% - Woo Hoo! She is almost half as tall as me!
Weight: 19 pounds, 7 ounces 67%
Head: 18 1/4" 96%

Her next appointment in 3 months will be her 1 year checkup. I can't believe her fist birthday is almost here!

We are all moved into our new house, but not completely unpacked. Once I get the place cleaned up a little bit I will post some pictures.

Ashlyn has been up to......

Ashlyn has been a busy little girl lately! I finally have a chance to catch up on things, in between packing of course!

Ashlyn's first parade - Friendship Days in Nicollet - June 28thJust chillin'Ashlyn's first horse race - July 4th. She loved it! She stayed awake the whole day......

And then crashed after the last race...... Only to wake up again about 15 minutes later to have supper with some friends.....Becky made a makeshift hat for her, I forgot her other one in the car. So cute! She crashed again in the car, waking up just in time to stop and watch her first fireworks show in St. Peter

She was in awe of the lights, mostly the taillights on the cars driving by! LOL! She didn't mind the noise though.


I think she was quite amazed at all the lights around her and the booms!


Kylee reading Ashlyn a story in the pool - which has still not seen water yet! They both walked in the North Mankato Fun Days parade with us for Coldwell Banker. Ashlyn enjoyed the stroller ride and Kylee loved handing out candy. We were at the beginning so Kylee had plenty of time after to collect a big bag of candy and goodies!


And finally, she holds her own bottle! She has been able for awhile, but she just didn't think it was necessary since there was always someone else around to do it.

Hamming it up after seeing Mom taking pictures

House Progress.....

Our house is coming along pretty fast now. They have all of the sheet rock done, the ceilings are almost all sprayed, and the driveway is almost done. Woo Hoo! Less than 2 weeks to go!

Our blue prints
The basement - Rec Room

The Garage - Looking out the entry way door

The Basement Bathroom and Laundry Room

Bedroom - I can't remember which - but I think it might be Ashlyn's

Master Bedroom looking through the doorway

Bathroom

The Entry - minus the scafolding.....

The living room - view from the kitchen

Dinning Room

Kitchen

Our ceiling that the contractors whine about. Can't really see the extra peak in it. I think it looks fine, it gives the living room a little more character. Kind of hard to see in the picture.

Another attempt at showing the crazy ceiling.....

Looking up into the living room from the entry way

Living room window - I LOVE IT!

Almost done with the drive way!

This one got out of order! This is the future bedroom #3

Another one out of order - Living room....

We have a roof!

Of course I had to put a picture of my lil monkey first! Look her outfit matches her favorite toy!
We have a roof!

Our garage looks bigger than our house, but really it is not, or at least I don't think it is! A bigger garage holds more 'stuff', which I am really good at accumulating. Ha, and Chad thinks he is going to keep a boat in there!

I can't wait until they get to the siding, I am still a little nervous about the Light Blue siding, but it does actually look a little more gray than blue. Hopefully it will look ok, at least our house will look different the all the other various shades of tan and sage green.

4 1/2 weeks until closing.....on our house and hopefully the new one!

Ashlyn is 8 Months! and House Progress

Living Room side of the house
Garage side, the garage is framed as of yesterday, but I didn't have a chance to take pictures

My little ham! Isn't she the cutest? I love the little personality that is coming out of her.

Ashlyn can sit ALL BY HERSELF now!

No time to write much right now - like anyone wants to read it anyway - haha! More to come later.

House Progress.....

It is starting to look like a house. It is wierd how small it looks at this stage!

Thinking about Biter Biscuits?

Think again! I have given them to Ashlyn three times now. The first time she bit it in half and I got the chunk out of her mouth before she got it all the way in. The second time, messy but successful, she LOVED it......and so did Buddy, he got the remainder when she threw it on the floor. The third (and last) time, not good. In fact it scared the crap out of me. She was chomping away on it and then all the sudden she was choking. I had to dig a small chunk out of the back of her throat and she was still gagging so I took the highchair tray and dropped it on the floor (MESS) and tried to get her out of the chair just to realize she was fine. She probably just gagged from my finger being jammed in her mouth. She had a drink of water and she was happy. I, on the other hand, was completely freaked. The Biter Biscuits went straight to the garbage can. I guess we will stick to saltines from now on.

On a better note, when I went to check on Ashlyn this morning, she was soundly sleeping with her little butt up in the air! Do you think she will be crawling soon? I wanted to take a picture, but I didn't want to wake her up. I was hoping she was still sleeping like that when I was ready to get her up, but Daddy beat me to it. So no pictures, maybe she will do it again?