Elsie had her 9 month check up this morning. She is 17 lbs exactly, 28.5 ". She is in the 75th percentile in height and still 25% in weight. She is healthy and happy (same words I hear every time)
She finally has a bottom tooth poking through! I say that with excitement but then in the back of my mind it saddens me...deeply. She will now look somewhat older with teeth and with her trying to walk all over the place it's like she is spitting on her own pre-toddler stage and saying "Toddler stage, here I come" I almost can't handle it. When I go into her nursery and watch her sleep she looks like this tiny little bundle, but when she is awake and active it seems completely different.
On another note, I have decided to start working out again. I still haven't decided which gym I will rejoin but I'm kind of excited to do it. (actually not at all but I know I need to) For a healthy mental state and to have a healthy second pregnancy. No, no I'm not preggers yet, but hope to be soon, which is the main factor in me choosing to work out again. Plus I need to get some kind of figure back, I've been looking pretty stick figure-ish lately and need to bulk up a little. We shall see how this goes and I will keep you posted.
Not only because I have amazing friends and family who got me amazing, thoughtful not to mention very original types of gifts, but because we had Elsie to celebrate it with. It is seriously so different having your own child to experience life with now, everything is better, especially the Holidays!
Elsie was so precious opening her gifts. She surprised me really, I mean I thought she would just try eating the gift wrap, but she actually opened each gift, with the help of others of course. She would tear a bit of paper and then once she realized that something was beneath the gift wrap she would try her hardest to get to it.
Ok on to the pics which is what you were wanting anyway.
This is a pic from Micah's company's christmas Party
...and this is me loving the creme brulee at the party!
Elsie was big enough to fit in her bath robe, so stinkin' cute!
Christmas Eve brunch w/ Nat & Trish, unfortunately the Aunties were unable to see the Pearl because she came down w/ a cold, but don't worry we poured out some coffee in thoughts of her. You can't tell but our hands are full of bags with all the loot we made out with. There was quite a bit given between just us three. They even sat us at a table that sat six just so we would have rom for our gifts. HAHA!
Trish trying on her new digs I made her
...later that evening we had our traditional Quigsor christmas Eve extravaganza
this was the spread of food, then later that night when the babes were tucked in tight we played a round of Buzz(PS3 game) and and then watched a Christmas movie before calling it a night
Then Christmas morn... Micah, Elsie and myself oh and Don of course woke up about 7:30 and did our stockings and together and then saved the rest of our gifts for later because we went next door for our amazing gift exchange withe the Q's. Here is Elsie opening her 1st Christmas day gift! I'm opening one of my favorites of the season! Davey made my life's motto into a work of art! The Q's really spoiled us this year! Oh and yes that is one of Elsie's gifts (from Shan's mom actually) and it read To: Elsie From: Baby Jesus..."classic"
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Then we went back to our house where we finished our exchange and then my fam came over where we had another exchange! Grandma and Grandpa not only spoiled Tiny E but spoiled us as well. As you can see from these pics we all had a fabulous time. After the gift exchange and we laid Elsie down for her nap, then Quiggle's came over and we all enjoyed Christmas lunch together, which was fabulous! It was a fantastic Christmas, it couldn't have gone better...well actually it could have if my brothers were here and we could see all of the Ensors' but you know what I mean, it was awesome!
Ok so this is me petting my new purse Micah got me. There is a really long story about this, which I won't go into, but basically I saw this bag while visiting the fam in Ruidoso a few weeks back, I really wanted it but didn't want to buy something for myself when I still had people to buy for. I told Micah about it and so we went back to the little boutique to get it but they had sold it and weren't very helpful with knowing the brand name or whether they would ever get more. So I was bummed. After weeks of scouring the net for this exact bag I basically gave up hope, until I opened my last gift from Micah. Mind you this was just one amazing gift from Micah, most thoughtful by far but just one of many. He seriously spoiled me too! The video wouldn't upload but I posted it on Facebook for only the chosen few to see.
This is a video of Elsie riding her newpony Grandma and Grandpa got her. Uncle Josh named the horse Sprinkles so that is what we will continue to call it.
So I totally skipped blogging about Thanksgiving but that is only because Christmas snuck right up on me, that and the fact that I have a very mobilized baby and much less free time on my hands. I am only going to post one pic of Thanksgiving so you can see how sweet Tiny E looked and then I'm moving on. I know, I know you are totally getting ripped off but I promise to be more diligent with my postings and start doing a weekly update.
Here is my little butterball
A week after Thanksgiving we flew out to Ruidoso, NM to do an early Christmas with the Ensors. It was wonderful. It snowed which made the trip magical and very wintry I might add. Definitely contributed to the warm fuzzy holiday feeling we all need. Elsie loved playing with her cousins, she would get so excited to see them every day and after every nap. Of course she loved seeing her Aunt Jenn, Uncle Mo(Matthew) and her Jammie & Papa as well. We were able to do a walk through of Bethlehem which was a live nativity plus so much more. We also experienced the Festival of lights parade for the first time (well Elsie and I did at least) It was such a wonderful trip and I was saddened to leave... so was Elsie.
This is the view off of Micah's parents back porch!
Cousins! These two look up to something
Elsie trying to be a big girl too
awww
Although my face shows otherwise, she smells really good
All bundled up
Jammie and Papa
Speaking of Elsie she is growing up before my eyes. She is standing up on her own, crawling every where, waving hi and bye. She says, "Hi Don" every morning, afternoon, evening ok well all day, everyday. She is starting to say ba-ba-ba when waving good-bye. It's too much...way too much. In three months she will be a year old... which means basically I have less than three months to plan her 1st birthday.
Ok I have so much more to write but I will leave you with these photos instead and will update more next week. After Christmas of course.
I would like to regret that I had a baking slumber party with Nat (aunt Nat) and have no pictures to show for it, very unlike me, very unlike me indeed. I will say, however, that we made some fabulous baked goods and it was a very productive visit, which I doubted it would be because when we are together we laugh and get off track on about a hundred other things going on in each others lives. Now that I think of it, it was best there are no photos to share, we were both slumming it with ghetto pj's and no make up the whole time, so ya. Oh Nat when you read this know I adjusted the coconut oatmeal cookies. Like you said it was lacking something so I added the walnuts it originally called for but put them in my hand held grater and shaved a full cups worth of walnuts, just to disguise them you know but to add that rich flavor it needed, then I added 1/2 C. more of coconut and substituted 1 C. of M&Ms for the choc. chips and OMG, AMAZING! So Good. For all you out there that love baking something new, I would say whip up this lil number. Rich in flavor and perfect with tea, coffee, milk, breakfast, lunch or dinner.
REVAMPED Oatmeal Chocolate Coconut Cookie:
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup M&M's
1 cup grated/shredded walnuts
1 1/2 cup shredded coconut
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the sugar mixture until well blended. Stir in the oats, M&M's. walnuts and coconut until evenly distributed. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 9 to 11 minutes in the preheated oven for a chewy cookie or 14 minutes for a firmer cookie.
Cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet and then remove to wire rack. Cool completely and then store in tightly sealed container.
