Hello Again Everyone!
I finally downloaded some recent pictures of Natalie and made another slideshow. I'm in love with smilebox, you can download all your pictures on it so quickly. I know I always say that but it's so great and people can see how she changes and grows. This slideshow has pictures from January till now. She is still pulling herself up on everything, she's discovered the steps, she's had her first injury that drew some blood, she laughs when she sees us, and she is extremely quick. She didn't even cry when she hit her chin on the corner of the stairs. We truly believe in the whole "it's all how you respond" theory. She will completely fall over, hit her chin on her toybox, hit her head on the floor, and as she's rolling back over she'll look at us for a reaction. We avoid eye contact with Natalie, often say to eachother, "Oh man, that was a HARD fall, that had to hurt," and then look at her and say "YIPPEEE, you're such a big girl," and she's on her merry way to bonking another part of her body. When the blood incident happened I was actually downstairs doing laundry, I heard a loud bang, a uhhhhh, uhhhhh, and that was it. When I came back up I was surprised that there was blood because I would have thought she would have let out a loud scream. No reaction, no tears I guess.
Is everyone able to view this smilebox slideshow, I just realized that maybe you have to download something in order to view it. If you could let me know that would be great. You can leave a comment if you want, I only have 2 people that ever comment, Kerri Young & Christi Jensen, you two are so sweet.
Here is a little slideshow from yesterday, we took Natalie sledding. She was not sure about the whole experience. It didn't start off so great, the first tug on the sled sent her flipping over backwards landing in the snow, kind of high centered on the sled with her head in the snow and her legs on the sled. We picked her up, held her for a bit, put her down, and off we went. Then James buried her in snowballs, we fed her some snow which she kept eating, and had her touch it. All in all, not too bad, we had fun. Enjoy and everyone have a great day.
Love, The Chalmer's Family
28 degrees and dreary
Monday, February 26, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Halleluia!
HELLO!! Here's a little slideshow for those of you who haven't seen or barely see Natalie.
Well, in my last blog I mentioned that Natalie was sick and getting better after 5 days, well, I was wrong. She didn't get better for quite some time. Now, she is finally back to her self again and we are so thankful for that. She was sick for 2 WEEKS!! She had some nasty virus and was in to see the doctor twice, which, for those of you who know us well know that's huge because we never go to the doctor. It started with a day of diarrhea, followed by a night of throwing up and diarrhea, and then ended with another 13 days of diarrhea. Sorry if that's too much information for some of you, but hey, she's a baby. It was so sad, she would just cry and cry all day. I would put her down and she would scream. She wanted to be held for about a week and half straight. She wouldn't smile or laugh,just lay and cry. It was terrible, she would only smile when James got home from work because she apparantly thinks he's the funniest person alive. Then, in the midst of it she got a cold!! Ughhh... We had to go to the doctor because she had one wet diaper in about 28 hours and dehydration was becoming a major concern because she was only eating about 10 ounces of formula in an ENTIRE day. She was losing weight and dropped from the 10th percentile in weight to the 3rd, so now 97% of babies her age are bigger than her. Oh well, she's just our little peanut and we love her. We feel that it was only because of God's protection that she didn't have to go to the hospital for dehydration, somehow 10 ounces total was enough for her little body and she fought through it. Praise God!
Now she is making up for it and eating like a mad women, the picture above is her first time eating carrots, she's not quite sure. She is actually finishing her bottle without us having to force her to and she's crying when it's done because she wants more!! That has never happened in her 8 months of life. It's crazy! She's also eating a ton more solids which is encouraging, she's making up for lost food I guess. She is also practicing her new skill of standing up on her own. She crawls all around, following us from room to room and then she pulls herself up to standing if she's able to find something that's the right height. It's so amazing how she learns a new skill and then it kind of consumes her, that's all she wants to do. She is also great at catching herself when she falls. :) Other than that, we're doing great here at the Chalmers' household. On another note, James was recently promoted to a Franchise Support Manager at his job! He is very excited and I'm so proud of him, he's only been there 6 months so it's great to have people believing in him and his abilities. The church we are a part of, Coram Deo, that started about a year and half ago with 40 people has now grown to around 150. We are so excited about that and actually "multiplied" our current Missional Community (small group) into two seperate ones. There was a need for one to meet downtown and we are currently heading that up with other people that live downtown. We are really enjoying getting to know some new people and digging into Romans together. That's about it, everyone take care and all you teachers enjoy the snow day today!! YIPPEEEE!!!!
14 degrees and 4 inches of snow here in Omaha
Well, in my last blog I mentioned that Natalie was sick and getting better after 5 days, well, I was wrong. She didn't get better for quite some time. Now, she is finally back to her self again and we are so thankful for that. She was sick for 2 WEEKS!! She had some nasty virus and was in to see the doctor twice, which, for those of you who know us well know that's huge because we never go to the doctor. It started with a day of diarrhea, followed by a night of throwing up and diarrhea, and then ended with another 13 days of diarrhea. Sorry if that's too much information for some of you, but hey, she's a baby. It was so sad, she would just cry and cry all day. I would put her down and she would scream. She wanted to be held for about a week and half straight. She wouldn't smile or laugh,just lay and cry. It was terrible, she would only smile when James got home from work because she apparantly thinks he's the funniest person alive. Then, in the midst of it she got a cold!! Ughhh... We had to go to the doctor because she had one wet diaper in about 28 hours and dehydration was becoming a major concern because she was only eating about 10 ounces of formula in an ENTIRE day. She was losing weight and dropped from the 10th percentile in weight to the 3rd, so now 97% of babies her age are bigger than her. Oh well, she's just our little peanut and we love her. We feel that it was only because of God's protection that she didn't have to go to the hospital for dehydration, somehow 10 ounces total was enough for her little body and she fought through it. Praise God!
Now she is making up for it and eating like a mad women, the picture above is her first time eating carrots, she's not quite sure. She is actually finishing her bottle without us having to force her to and she's crying when it's done because she wants more!! That has never happened in her 8 months of life. It's crazy! She's also eating a ton more solids which is encouraging, she's making up for lost food I guess. She is also practicing her new skill of standing up on her own. She crawls all around, following us from room to room and then she pulls herself up to standing if she's able to find something that's the right height. It's so amazing how she learns a new skill and then it kind of consumes her, that's all she wants to do. She is also great at catching herself when she falls. :) Other than that, we're doing great here at the Chalmers' household. On another note, James was recently promoted to a Franchise Support Manager at his job! He is very excited and I'm so proud of him, he's only been there 6 months so it's great to have people believing in him and his abilities. The church we are a part of, Coram Deo, that started about a year and half ago with 40 people has now grown to around 150. We are so excited about that and actually "multiplied" our current Missional Community (small group) into two seperate ones. There was a need for one to meet downtown and we are currently heading that up with other people that live downtown. We are really enjoying getting to know some new people and digging into Romans together. That's about it, everyone take care and all you teachers enjoy the snow day today!! YIPPEEEE!!!!
14 degrees and 4 inches of snow here in Omaha
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