Dress up with Daddy

Nina's fav video.

This is from Christmas morning. Nina loves it so much, as do I. I had tears in my eyes as I was taping it. I love the song they are dancing to.

She loves her Daddy to pieces!

Neo-Nat Follow up

Today was Nina's 18 month(adjusted) follow-up visit with the neonatal Dr's at CHOP.

First we did the development eval where they use the Bailey scale to rate her.
She was on the 18 month level for everything except gross motor where she scored higher age level and speech where she scored actual age level! (yeah Nina!)
Nina had to do such things as place pegs in a board and watch a car go into a clear "garage" and get it out, match shapes, stack blocks, point to different items in a book, draw a line. So with that said she scored at her adjusted age.
She had to kick and throw a ball, climb stairs, and bring her knee to her chest while standing.
And she was talking a lot (as usual)

Second was the physical exam. Nina is 25.4 pounds and 30 1/8 inches(based on height not lenght)Her height is a direct cause of her very low birth weight. Doc said she is following her curve for height and not to be concerned.

So that's it. They are really pleased with her progress and we go back at her 24 month adjusted appt which is in 6 months.

snow bunny.

Finally! It snowed! Nina loves it! She really liked making fresh tracks in it.

Today I signed her up for 2 year old preschool starting in Sept. She'll go every Wednesday from 9-11:30. We met with the teacher and hung out in the class today for a few minutes. The kids were really sweet to Nina and showed her their snack, which Nina really wanted.
She played kitchen with some of the kids (only 6 in the class) as I forked over the enrollment fee, and she was sad to leave. I think she will be more than ready to attend in Sept when she will be 2 1/2.

A Brother For Nina

We have news! We are expecting a baby boy in May! Yep! I am half-way through the pregnancy and so far so good.
Hopefully things will remain cool with me and the babe and we will not be seeing him until May!

We, of course, are super excited and thankful!

who knew?

I had no idea that if I wanted to enroll Nina in a 2 year old nursery school program, that I needed to do that NOW! AUGH! Classes don't even start until September! But yes...so I found this out today, and am on the case.
So far we have an appt for a school that offers one day a week mornings. We are going to check it out mid month.
I think it will be great for Nina to go to school once a week.
She's growing up so fast!

Nina's Santa

Nina loves Santa. We go to the mall and just watch him with the other kids. She loves to read "The Night before Christmas" and her favorite part of the book is when Santa lays his finger on his nose and goes up the chimney. She will put her finger on her nose and smile with delight when we get to that part!

Today we went to the mall and watched Santa and decided to see him up close. She walked over to him and looked up wide- eyed. I asked her if she wanted to sit on his lap and she said no,
she preferred to just stand in front of Santa. So Santa actually got down and knelt in front of her and talked to her, then he sat on the floor in front of his throne and asked her if she was a good girl this year and gave her a little gingerbread man and asked for a high five (which she declined) I wanted to kiss and hug Santa and tell him thanks for making this memory for ME! So yep that's Santa visit # 3 for us this year.

These pics are from our JC Penney photo shoot!