From Amber to Taryn

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Our little graduate!

I (Sandi) am making a guest post on the blog.

Amber celebrated her first graduation today from the new moms' (and babies') group.

We've attended the group through St. Vincent Hospital since late October. Amber was 10 or 11 weeks old when we started. The group technically spans birth through 6 months but the facilitator Mary is flexible with the graduation date.

I've really valued the weekly Thurs afternoon sessions to voice questions and learn from other moms. For the first month and a half Amber slept in my arms the entire two hours each week. Contrast that to today where she was playing and rolling around on her blanket and only wanted to be in my arms for her bottle.

They provide a cap and gown for each little graduate to snap a picture. This is the biggest smile we could get out of Amber. We decided that she was taking the graduation to heart and marking it as an important milestone in her life, hence the reserved demeanor.

I'm hoping that continuing with the playgroup will keep us social and give both Amber and I some new friends! We already walk each Wednesday with a few of the moms.

Monday, March 28, 2016

I'll do it myself!

Easter Dress

Easter Eggs

Since we live in Oregon, we have to dye our eggs with natural food products. It was kind of a fun science experiment. We're not sure how well Amber will like it because it required leaving the eggs in the dye over night. We have a couple years to figure it out...

Yellow (top right) - turmeric
red (4) in the center - beet
upper light one - berry tea (blah)
concrete colored at lower right - grape juice
light orange on the left - red onion

Happy Birthday Day Scott

Sunday was Scott's birthday (schedules being what they were, we celebrated Thursday evening). Fortunately for us, it was OSU's Spring Break so we were able to host the party. It was a lot of fun and Amber was in rare form singing to Scott all through out dinner.

Happy Birthday!

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Sandi't Half-Birthday

For the last several weeks we've been asking Amber to sleep in until 7:00 (preferably 7:30) in the morning. She doesn't listen and wakes up around 6:00. We totally understand that many parents would love their babies to sleep 8 hours, but we really want Amber to sleep more than 10 hours at night.

At 6:45 this morning Amber still hadn't made any noise.

Me: "Sandi, it must be your birthday."
Sandi: "If it was my birthday, I would still be asleep."
Me: "Then it must be your half-birthday."
Sandi: "What day is it?
Me: "The 24th."
Sandi: "It is my half-birthday."

Sure enough, March 24th is Sandi's half-birthday.

About 6:50, Amber woke up to wish mommy a happy half-birthday.