Showing posts with label milestones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milestones. Show all posts

10/26/15

Dominic's 1st trip to the Dentist.

 Dominic was such a trooper on his first trip to the dentist! I was getting my teeth cleaned at the same time but little mommy Layna made sure everything was going just right for little brother! :) 
 He did awesome and his teeth look great!! Too bad they can't get rid of the little sweet tooth he has! Ha ha ha :) 

6/12/15

Toothless!

Finally on April 10th, Elena's tooth that was just barely hanging on decided to come out! All it took was some chewy candy sent with her at lunch. (Why didn't I think of that sooner!) ;) She was so excited to come home with her tooth necklace that you get when you lose a tooth at school! Yay!
 My goodness - what a difference a tooth makes! Her smile looks so different now! I made her take a couple more pics to document it. :)
Now that I am getting used to this toothless smile - she is going to look so different when her grown up teeth come in!

9/4/14

Kindergarten!!

Elena is officially a kindergartener!!! She was beyond ready and excited for this day - and nearly two weeks later she is still just as excited as she was on day 1! Yay - so happy that she is enjoying it so much!!
She rides the bus to school and Dominic (when he wakes up in time) loves watching her drive off in the "cool bus"! Hard to tell who was more excited on the first day!!
 I couldn't just send her on her way and be done with it on the first day of school - I packed Dom up and we met her at the school and made sure she was good to go! ;)
 Dominic did not want to leave!
 The best part of the day was Elena jumping off the bus and running to us to give us big bear hugs!! Then she chattered on and on about how much she loves school, her teacher and all her new friends!
This is going to be a great school year!!!

8/28/14

Two.

Two? That can't be right?? But yes, my little man is officially two!! I cant believe how fast these past two years have flown by and how much Dominic has changed! Look at this handsome guy!!
He absolutely has an obsession with the Disney movie Planes. He loves it! He will watch the movie 100 times in a row if we let him and he plays with his toy planes for hours on end!
He has become very independent! He wants to try and do everything on his own!
He is his sisters little shadow - following her around and wanting to do everything that she does. He is going to be lost when school starts!
His vocabulary has exploded the last couple months! He uses his words very well and even in complete sentences most of the time! He is turning into quite the chatter box!
He can also count up to 10 and will go all the way to 20 with help.
He has started asking Why? - a lot. All the time really! If you tell him something you will most likely get Why? as his response. (I didn't think that started until 3?!)
If why is his favorite word the next one would have to be mine. He says that for any toy that he is playing with or any toy that he sees and decides he wants to play with. Elena is having to learn a lot of patience with him while we work on that whole sharing thing! ;)
We haven't really started potty training yet. You can totally tell when he is going to the bathroom and when I say hey Dom, want to go in the potty? He yells back Nooo!!! So I think we will keep asking and wait a few more months until he is more ready!
He likes to refer to what we are doing with the word time behind it. Obviously we have nap time, but he will also tell us when it is eat time, pool time, play time, bike ride time...etc. :)
He is a big guy. People always think he is closer to 3 at first! We had his checkup and he is 36.5 inches long - 95th percentile, 32.5 lbs - 90th percentile. No wonder he looks almost 3!! Love my big healthy boy!
He is really a sweetheart. So snuggly and loves to give hugs - I hope he is always like this!
He adores his mama and I must say that I love it!
He loves the water - pool, splash park, bathtub, sprinklers - any kind of water he loves it.
He has gotten especially fearless in the pool too. He puts on the life jacket and is off to the races swimming away! He loves jumping in from off the side too. We will definitely be having some serious swimming lessons before next summer!
He is a great sleeper. He sleeps from about 8:30 at night to about 8:00 the next morning and takes a 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon.
He wants to be his Daddy - he wants cologne if Robert puts it on, wants to wear the same shoes as him, everything that Daddy does. He even wants to have a beard like him! He felt Roberts face and said Daddy me too - and pointed to his face. So adorable.
Although planes are his absolute favorite he also loves cars and trains too. He loves anything with wheels really.
 When he asks for something and you tell him no he immediately cocks his head to the side and says awe... (Like awe man - darn it!) Its pretty adorable.
He loves to dance! He will stop everything and start dancing if there is music on! He also likes to sing and his current favorites are Rain, Rain Go Away and Happy Birthday to You (imagine that!)
He is quite possibly the cutest little guy ever!! :) But you know I'm slightly partial. ;)
So excited to see what adventures you are going to have as a big 2 year old!!
 
*these amazing pictures of Dominic and our family are courtesy of my amazingly talented friend - Sarah Kaiser Photography

8/12/14

First Tooth is Gone!!

Well back a few months ago Elena started to get a wiggly tooth - and was so excited!! I warned her that it takes awhile for teeth to get loose and sure enough on July 13th (am I seriously that behind on blogging?!) that little tooth came out! Elena was beyond excited!! :) 
I told her to celebrate she could pick where we went to dinner and she chose the little Mexican place right around the corner. Why? So she could have a kids margarita!!! :) Ha ha! This crazy girl!
After dinner she found a cute little box that she wanted to put the tooth in and insisted on brushing it for the tooth fairy!! Side note -- little brother managed to pick up this little box and lose the tooth on our living room carpet! You should have seen us on all fours searching for that darn tooth! Luckily we found it - and were able to avert some major crocodile tears that were forming from Miss E!
The next morning there was some magical money with fairy dust (glitter!) under her pillow and she was so excited!!
Daddy was out of town and we discussed how much the fairy should give her - I think he was feeling extra generous since he was away during this milestone! Ha - Don't worry the price of teeth goes down considerably after the first one! ;)
Like I said - so excited!! 
She couldn't wait to go pick out a toy with her money and after scouring the isles she finally decided on a new Polly Pocket toy! 
My little lady is growing up!!

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