Christmas and New Year Blog

Our Anni got spoiled rotten at Christmas with toys from everyone! Grandma and Grandpa Paskett were very happy to spend Christmas Eve and morning wit her and got to see her open her first presents. Mostly we just started a corner and she held on to the paper while we pulled on the box. She's still too little for most of her toys, as she can't quite sit up on her own yet, but she still likes to play with them while she sits in her high chair that Great Grandma Sonia got for her. Everything makes noise and lights up, which she loves.

I forgot my camera on Christmas day.

She napped through most of Christmas afternoon at Great Grandma Sonia's, but got to play with Great Grandpa Tom and Aunt Natalie a little. Cousin Blaike got to meet her and said she was a cute little squirrel.

She was passed around at Great Grandma Doris's on Christmas night, and was starting to get pretty cranky by the end of it. After, we went to Grandma Cindee's and opened the last of the presents. The storm blew in and was getting bad, so we didn't stay long. She fell asleep on the way home.

Her first New Year was pretty low key. She saw her cousin Addie and Uncle Ryan and Aunt Megan. We visited for a little while and went home at about 1030. She fell asleep on the way home again. We were in bed when midnight rolled around.

We played games and visited on New Year's day. Addie was pretty sick and didn't want to do much socializing.

Favorites

3 Favorite Purchases:
Our Computer
Mine and Kelly's wedding rings
Our Wii

3 favorite movies:
Sweeney Todd
Lucky Number Slevin
Serenity

3 things I haven't done yet:
Bought a house
Lived in another state
owned a brand new car

3 favorite dishes:
Chicken Parmigiana
Raspberry Pie
Kelly's Tacos

3 favorite shows:
Chuck
Two and a Half Men
Firefly (I don't care if it's not on the air anymore, it's still a favorite

3 activities you enjoy:
Playing with Anni
Playing Wii
Visiting with family

3 places I have traveled:
Germany
England
Caribbean

3 favorite treats:
pomegranates
chocolate oranges
Haribo frogs

3 things I would buy if money were no issue:
A nice house with lots of land
A restaurant for Kelly to run
A new car

3 people you want to tag:
Sid
Grandma
Meg

Baby's First Christmas

This was Annika's first Christmas. We spent Christmas eve and Christmas morning with Kelly's parents. They were so happy to see her.

Here's a video of Anna opening her very first present.

5 Months Old

Anni is just getting smarter everyday. She's likely going to learn her name this month, start raising her arms when she wants to be picked up, and giving us hugs and kisses back. I'm betting she's going to figure out sitting on her own too. Crawling is just around the corner!

We're excited for her first Christmas, even though she won't be able to do much, it's going to be fun.

A New Pediatrician

We've been arguing about Anni's puking and the lack of anything the pediatrician is doing about it, so we made an appointment with a new one, and are going to start seeing her instead. I like the doctors equally, but Kelly prefers Dr. Boehm (pronounced Bame, in case you care) and her office is much closer to home, 12th Street instead of at Ogden Regional Hospital.

She looked Anna over, who now weighs 13 pounds and 3 ounces, and said she's healthy and a happy baby. We described the problem and she said that it's definitely reflux. She gave us a sample of baby Prevacid to give her and made an appointment to see her again in 2 weeks to decide if it's helping or if we need to try Prilosec instead. She says that it probably won't help her to throw up less, but it will decrease the acid in it, so she's more comfortable and it's less irritating to her skin. We have to hold the pill inside her cheek until it dissolves. We tried that the first time and she wasn't happy about it. Today I tried the other method, dissolving it in water and giving it to her in a dropper. That worked much better, so we'll stick to doing it that way.

Thanksgiving

I forgot my camera, but I got some pictures from the weekend at least.

There were just shy of 30 people packed into Mom and Dad's new addition. It wasn't a tight fit really. The older kids were playing in the living room and basement with the TV's, the younger kids ran circles around the tables, and the adults just chatted in the great room and passed around the babies. Well, they passed around Annika. Josh didn't want anything to do with anyone beside Kelly or Sarah.

He's just a big baby, still much bigger than Anni. He seems like he should be older, except they make the same noises and that gives away that they're the same age. Josh liked her. He stopped fussing at one point because she was right there by him.

Mom, I think he's going to eat me...

I didn't get to spend much time with family because I had to work, but I've got more time off around Christmas, so I should be able to visit everyone.

Mom and Dad seemed to enjoy having 3 of the 4 grand kids there.

There's nothing more tiring than packing babies around though.

Sitting

Anni is working out the kinks of sitting on her own. I think she likes the new sensation of tossing herself backwards.