Tanner's new tooth

Tanner now has a front tooth on the top! We have waited a long time for one of those and we are very excited!!! She is growing so fast!! I officially stopped working in December, and I am now home with her full time. We have been having a great time, and it has been really great to be with her so much. We get to play every day, and it has been fun just to spend more time together. Here are a few recent pictures:


Sesame Street was on one day and Tanner had been watching on the living room floor. I looked over and didn't see her on the floor, then I noticed where she was. She had crawled up into this chair and was watching like a big person!


Playing in Daddy's uniform shirt


Climbing a tree

This was New Year's Eve and she was so tired!!

Playing games New Year's Eve at Tawny's house


Helping Daddy babyproof something

Clinton made Tanner a hat out of the newspaper
Fetching the paper on Saturday morning
Playing in the water hose

We're Back!!!

Yes, we are finally back from our very very long blogging hiatus! I haven't posted pictures forever!  Don't worry, though, I have some today.   Tanner is doing so many things these days, it is hard to remember what is new. She says so many words now! She says Mama, Dada, eat, dog ("doe"), cat(dat), hi!, bye, uh-oh, ball, down (dow), eye, nose (no), mouth ("mow"), Bobby (baba), no no, and she still tries to say "I love you" but it never sounds like that!  When we were home for Christmas, she tried to say GiGi and she said "Ee-Ee".  She hasn't said it on her own, though. She only said it when we were trying to get her to.  She loves playing outside these days. It is really fun to watch her explore. She is also IN LOVE with Sesame Street.  She will sit and watch an entire episode. It is really amazing! Elmo is her favorite. She gets very excited when they play Elmo's World.  

She got a new playroom this week.  We moved our house all around and repurposed some of the rooms.  The office is now Tanner's playroom.  This is great, because we can put all of her toys in there and shut the doors so they are out of sight. We moved the office furniture to the dining room and the dining room table to the breakfast room. It looks a little big for that space, but it fits fine.  We are really enjoying the new office and playroom, though.  The window in the dining room is bigger, so it is nice to sit on the computer now and be able to look out the window.   Tanner got a giant zebra tent for Christmas from her Gammie and Mac and we set it up in her playroom. She sits in it and watches Elmo.  She loves it!! 

Well, on to the pictures.  I have some from Christmas, but Erin and Haley took a lot more than I did so if you want to see them you can check out their blogs and scroll down to the Christmas portion.  Erin's is www.babyhubert.blogspot.com and Haley's is www.babymitschke.blogspot.com .  They have a lot of good ones, so you should check it out!

Here are ours:

Christmas morning

Daddy and Uncle Jason in their pjs from the pajama swap

Being a kid again!

Tanner got some bandaids with monkeys on them so she was trying them out


Uncle Daniel in his pjs



Uncle Brandon in his pjs and Tanner in her new stroller


Daddy stuffing a stocking
Tanner wasn't so fond of Santa this year!
Our Christmas tree
Tanner and I had breakfast in bed the morning that we left for Lake Jackson. Thanks Daddy!

Tanner in her hat that one of her friends' grandmother made. She obviously hated it! These are her daycare attendants.
Christmas lunch at daycare.

Little drummer girl


Me and Tanner in our Christmas pjs
Amy and I at the Pleasanton Christmas party
Decorating our tree
Tanner was a big help!!!

Tanner's 2nd Christmas

We hope you had a great Christmas! We certainly did!  We went to Lake Jackson the day before Christmas Eve and stayed until the day after Christmas.  On Christmas Eve, we had a pajama swap where everyone drew a name and bought that person pjs to wear on Christmas Eve. The deal was, you had to wear them whether they fit or not! Then, on Christmas, we all got up to see what Santa had brought us. Luckily, Santa made signs for each family so that we would know which gifts were ours.  After we opened presents, we had an ugly Christmas sweater/attire contest. Everyone found ugly Christmas clothing before heading to Lake Jackson and we all put ours on and modeled.  We voted, Survivor-style, and Jason won.  He won an ugly hat! We headed to Clinton's grandparents' house after that and Tanner got to see her Gammie and Mac.  Gammie gave Tanner a ring that was her mother's.  They share a birthstone, and it was her birthstone ring.  It is very special, and Tanner will enjoy having it one day.  We had an awesome Christmas dinner and a Guitar Hero tournament that night. The next morning, we got up and headed to our family photoshoot to have some pictures done. Mr. Roznovsky did them for us, and they turned out great!  Here is the link, if you would like to check them out: http://lifeexpressionsphoto.zenfolio.com/p964587343

After that, we headed to Pleasanton for the night, then it was New Braunfels and home.  Incidentally, Tanner and I got sick AGAIN and stayed in bed all day Sunday and today. We went to the doctor this morning and got on different antibiotics. Hopefully they will nip this in the bud!  I will post pictures tomorrow. I am not feeling very well and want to get back on the couch!!

New Tooth!!!

Tanner is getting another tooth! Yay! This will be number 4. The thing is, it's another molar. She has two of those now. She has her front two bottom teeth and two upper molars. I guess she just likes to do things differently! We don't have a whole lot of news to report. We finally got our Christmas tree, and we are going to decorate it tonight and watch a movie. Tanner is growing up so much. She has gotten to the stage where she throws a temper tantrum if she doesn't get what she wants. This is so much fun. She will roll around on the floor and cry if we don't hold her when she wants us to, or if we don't give her something she wants. Storytime at the library the other day was a mess! She fought with the other kids over books and chairs and threw tantrums when the other kids had something she wanted. It was a difficult 45 minutes to say the least. We are really starting to have to discipline her. It's so weird for her to already be big enough for that! She is at a very cute stage, though. She loves to copy us, and it's hilarious! We say, "No, no" when we don't want her to do something and she will shake her finger and say, "No, no". It's hard not to laugh. She also says "I love you", but it sounds more like "uh do do" or something along those lines. She likes to put things in the trash can now, also. We will tell her to go throw something away and she will do it. Pretty neat! She loves to pet Bobby now, and she calls him "Ba-Ba". He actually lets her pet him sometimes. I guess he is getting used to her. Another one of her favorite things to do is point at your facial features and call them by name. She loves to say "nose", or "no" as she puts it. She can also say "eye" and "ear", or "eee". She loves giving kisses, too. She says mmmmaaaa. She blows kisses, too. It is really sweet. I think I also failed to mention that she no longer takes a bottle. She has been drinking from a cup since she was 13.5 months. I just wanted to put that in there in case I ever wonder when she stopped and can't remember!

Update

So, if you remember from my last post, I couldn't upload pictures for some reason. I can now, so I am going to post a bunch of seemingly random pictures and narrate as I go along. Here we go:

 Tanner playing with her friend, Channing, at the library during storytime

   Tanner and her Gammie at the Sea Center over Thanksgiving. Me and Tanner at the Sea Center
 Looking at the sea animals
Watching them feed the fish
Tanner's Grandpa Mac kept playing "Put Down the Ducky", a Sesame Street skit, on the computer for her and she loved it! Anytime he would sit at the computer, she would make a beeline for his lap!

 "Put Down the Ducky" again
 Tanner fed herself an entire meal!
For Thanksgiving, her school had a feast and invited the parents. Clinton took off and came, and we had a great time. The food was delicious, too!  They had place mats for all of the children, and the older kids wore Pilgrim and Indian hats.

Tanner grabbed Clinton's hat and was walking around the house in it. It was really cute! She had it over her face, though, and walked right into the wall that you see in the picture! She had a red mark on her forehead all day!

Tanner and Madison were fighting over the Cozy Coupe. They were both in it at the same time, because neither one would give in.