9 months

Today we had Esther's 9 month check up and everything looked great. She weighed 19 pounds 2 ounces (53%) and was 29 inches (90%). She is growing so fast I can hardly stand it! It seems like she should only be like 4 months right now but she is NINE! She is getting more and more active everyday. She loves to stand by herself. She started this several weeks ago but she is able to stand for longer periods of time and she loves it! She is eating anything these days, except nothing too sweet- unless she's at gramma's =). Her favorite foods are blueberries, peach yogurt, pears and peaches, graduates arrowroot cookies ( thanks nanama!), any and all bread, cheerios, baked potato, apple slices, we give her anything off of our plate and she normally tastes it but doesn't ask for more. She is still content with her milk. For some reason I am always pushing for her to drink her milk, or so it seems. She doesn't like to drink in front of other people. So when we are at my moms house it always looks like I struggle to feed her cause she would just rather play. And at the church nursery, there is no way she will drink a bottle there... she is just too interested and too active. She is sleeping so good I am so incredibly thankful. I normally tuck her in before 8 and she wakes up right around 8. Thank you, Lord! Lets pray this keeps up for when the new baby comes! speaking of new baby, tomorrow i will update you about him/her!

Pravin is the best dad ever. Really. He deserves some sort or prize. I love watching him with Esther. It is just the sweetest thing to see him walk in the door and Esther's face lights up and she crawls as fast as she can to get to him. Oh, i love my family! 

Pics from the doctor today:

LOVE

baby #2

Today I had another doctor appointment for our little babe. I am 15 weeks and everything is going wonderful. I have felt great so far and am so grateful for that. The baby's heartbeat was 152 and hearing that noise on the doppler is the sweetest thing I have ever heard. I can't believe we are going to have another precious blessing! Thank you Lord! At our next doctors appointment, on August 3rd, is our big ultrasound. We are still trying to decide if we want to find out the gender or wait until his/her birthday!? What should we do?! After our next appointment I will post some ultrasound pics of the babe. December, hurry up!!

4 July 2011

loved these strawberries! found this idea at familyfun.go.com

blueberry crumb bars made by mom

corn and black bean salsa= YUM! 

festive drinks i found at familyfun.go.com

Happy Birthday, America!

to beaumont we go!

Tomorrow Esther and I are going to beaumont to visit Prav's family! We are so excited I just had to post pictures of the last time we were there!

playing dress up in our new indian dresses!

see you all tomorrow!

playing in her room

Lots of evenings before bedtime, all three of us get on Esther's floor and play. Esther loves it and I do too! It is so fun to watch her crawl all over her room playing with everything. She crawls to the changing station and digs everything out of the baskets, and then to the bed to stand up and walk alongside it, and then to the dresser to play with the pull handles. I am cherishing each and every moment with her cause she is the absolute sweetest!!!

her legs!! =)

7 months/my tootsie roll

Happy SEVEN months, Esther! Can you believe it? I can't! You are growing so fast it's unbelievable. You have started crawling and you can go anywhere and everywhere. You are a determined little girl. You know exactly what you want and most of the time (let's be honest.. all the time) you get whatever it is you want. When you wake up in the morning you stand up almost immediately. I will go in there and sometimes you are still half asleep but your just standing there waiting for someone to come get you. Aunt Chaiss suggested that we pull out our pack and play and put some toys in it and you love it! Why didn't I think of this earlier? duh! You are playing by yourself more and more these days. You are eating crackers, toast, blueberries, puffs, and that is about it. You are very content with just your bottle. Speaking of bottle, anytime daddy or I say "do you want a bottle?" you make this certain noise almost like a laugh and you open your mouth and get ready for the bottle. Just something cute/sweet I want to remember. Your favorite word is "dada and dadada" even though I am trying my hardest to get you to say "mama" all you say is "dada". You are so special Esther. I love you more each day. My prayer for you is that you grow into a woman who loves the Lord with everything, that you love your family, that you dream big dreams (i'm dreaming big for you!), and so so much more. You bring joy to everyone around you. 

I love you precious girl.

Mommy

here our some pictures my mom has been wanting to take for weeks and we finally got around to taking them! our little tootsie roll! =)