0-3 in one week!

This is a be careful what you wish for post.  Tacy turned 9 months officially on the 8th and still had no teeth.  Normally kids cut their first tooth between 6-8 months so I was really feeling like she was behind, especially since she has been a major drooler since she was 4 months.  Brad and I made the decision to discontinue her  constant bib wearing because they were irritating her poor neck.  So now she just drools on her clothes, the floor, you, etc.  With her lack of teeth, I kept saying that with all her drooling I hoped that she had multiple teeth pop out at the same time.  Well, last week Tacy had a bad night's rest (meaning she woke up twice) and woke up on Mother's day to discover that she had a tiny bit of a tooth poking out.  After another bad night, she had a second bit of a tooth poking out.  So she now has both of her front two bottom teeth and we think she is cutting another one now (but it is taking it's time and lots of bad nights).  Needless to say, we are almost out of baby Tylenol, so time to buy some ibuprofen for the babe.  Almost 3 teeth in less than a week is pretty quick.

 Other than that, Tacy's new 9 month stats are that she weighs 18 pounds 7 ounces and she is 27.75 inches long (about the 50th percentile for both).  I feel like she is a pretty big kid and every time Brad and I look at old pictures/videos of her we really see how much she has grown.  It's hard to remember a time when she fit so nicely in my arms.  Tacy is officially crawling.  She does not stop moving now.  She has perfected her crawl to on her hands and knees and sometimes army crawl (her belly is pretty big so I don't blame her).  She also will try to get a foot in on the crawl so it looks like she is trying to stand up, but then she will look at her leg, realize that she is not moving so well with her leg up like that and go back down on her knee.  It's pretty funny to watch and makes for an interesting crawl.  I need to get a new video of it.

Other new Tacy stuff:

She points her finger all the time now.

She tried cheese for the first time today.  She liked the first bite and had a funny face on for the next piece and refused anymore (we won't try medium cheddar again for a while).

Tacy loves peek-a-boo and patty cake (she is great at clapping her hands together and throwing them in the air sometimes)

Tacy still loves to talk and her doctor even heard some talking today

Tacy loves door stops - our doors have the coil door stops and she has discovered these and loves to grab onto them and close/open the door by pulling/pushing on them.  She had a lot of fun doing this in her bedroom the other day when I was on the other side of the door and had to keep trying to open it again only to have her shut it in my face and start laughing hysterically

Tacy does not like swinging.  We had tried twice in a baby swing, and both times she makes a sad/scared face in about a minute.  Hopefully she grows out of that otherwise she is more like her daddy than just her looks

Tacy loves to play with the junk credit cards you get in the mail.  We have a unused wallet that had one in it and Tacy found it.  Now she plays with it all the time, crawls with it, bangs it on things/people etc.  She is a girl what can I say

Tacy has discovered how fun it is to make loud noises, she has started crawling to the linolieum/tile in bathrooms, the kitchen, front entryway etc and slapping her hands on the floor or the toy she is carrying with her.  She laughs and thinks it is so funny.  She broke a flashlight doing that today (no worries, it was a junk one that was already broken)

Now that she is a crawler, changing her diaper/getting her dressed are interesting and usually require at least one toy to distract her or for someone to hold her.  I might be able to get her to be still long enough to get on a new diaper but am improving on dressing a moving baby.  Good things its getting warm because putting pants on a crawler aren't easy.

Other than Tacy, Brad broke his right pinky finger in his softball game last Monday.  He tried to catch a softball and brought his right hand up to help catch it in his mitt and the ball came right down on his pinky and crushed it.  His finger got really swollen and turned a beautiful blue/purple black.  He is proud to say that he finished the game batting lefty and he managed to get on base both times.  We saw the doctor, had x-rays, saw how his bone was in three pieces and the hand specialist told us he would need surgery to avoid severe arthritis and to be able to move the joint again.  He saw a specialist in Salt Lake today was told him he could get surgery or just let it heal but most likely either way he will have stiffness.  Not exactly the definitive answer he was looking so, so we are waiting a week to see if it improves and if not then he is getting surgery.  Yay.

I'm done with school for the year.  I missed my graduation ceremony due to Tacy being really tired and not getting someone to watch her when we needed to go.  I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal cause I think graduation ceremonies are boring plus I'm not getting a degree this year, just a certificate.  But afterwards I did regret not being there with my classmates to celebrate surviving our first year of nursing school and being halfway to having our RNs (even if the speakers were really awkward).  Oh well.

Now i'm just waiting to get the clearance from DOPL and the state board of Nursing to take my licensing exam.  Hopefully soon so I can start working as an LPN.  In the mean time I'm working at Ross part time (yea exciting) the hours when Brad is home (so evenings and weekends).  I'm also taking my lame intro to psych online class that Weber requires. 

That's our life.  Brad is taking the GRE the first week in June.  Hopefully I will be taking the NCLEX around then too.

The Wedding

My gorgeous sister and new brother-in-law Mark!

This weekend we went out to California for my sister's wedding!  We are so happy for Katie and Mark!  They are so cute and so good for each other!  I have been a little apprehensive about the trip because we flew from SLC to Reno and then drove from Reno to Sacramento (4-5 hours total trip).  I had no idea how Tacy would handle all of it.  My little sister, Robyn, came down from Rexburg, Idaho and flew out with us Thursday morning.  It was nice having three adults to one baby.  Well after getting through security (thank you to the patient TSA agent as I struggled to get the stroller, carseat, diaper bag through the x-ray and almost forgot to take my shoes off too) we then waited a bit in the airport to board.  Tacy was happy the whole time!  Then on the flight, Tacy loved our stewardess.  She sat on Robyn's lap (who was in the aisle) and watched the stewardess go through the safety routine with complete attention.  The stewardess loved it and kept smiling at Tacy.  

Tacy in the pool!

The flight did go well, we gave her a bottle for take-off/landing and it was over before we knew it.  She fell asleep during our drive to Sacramento and only woke up when she had a poopy diaper (which sadly ruined the outfit she was wearing that I had picked out for my sister's rehearsal dinner).  We showed up just in time for the rehearsal.  Golly, it was hot!  We went from cold and snow to the 90's!  Tacy just wore a onsie and luckily rehearsal was pretty quick then we went off to my new brother-in-law's parents house for the dinner. His parents had a pool and I took Tacy over to it and took off her shoes and socks and stuck her feet in.  Boy did she love it!  Her poor cheeks were bright red from the heat so I'm sure the water helped her feel better.  We stood her on the top step of the pool and she kept trying to sit down in it.  The dinner was very nice and yummy and Mark gave a great speech at the end.  I was impatient to get to my parents because it was 8 something by this time (9 to us) and poor Tacy was tired.  She was champ and was just a little fussy but I wanted to get home fast.  However, we had to drop my aunt off and take surface streets to get home so it took a LITTLE longer than I would have liked.  Tacy passed out pretty quick once we got her bed up and fed her.  

sisters! And Tacy

Friday was the wedding.  Tacy slept in until 7.  Brad went golfing with the guys that morning while I showered, curled my hair, and waited for my mom to hurry up and get back so Robyn, Mom, and I could go over to Katie's to get ready and support her while she got ready for her wedding.  Brad got back before my mom which was nice so he could bathe her and I didn't have to worry about bringing Tacy to Katie's.  Katie's apartment is so nice.  It was fun having all of us girls together to get ready.  Katie had her hair and make-up done at her apartment so we watched her getting ready.  I did Robyn's hair and the other 3 bridesmaids had gotten their hair done that morning.  Once Katie was ready we all put on our dresses and left for the vineyard (Old Sugar Mill) for our pictures.  It was 99 that day and so hot, thank goodness Katie's event planner was great at making sure we had plenty of water and the room we stayed in while waiting for pictures and flowers was nice and air conditioned.  Katie looked absolutely gorgeous.  It was fun taking pictures.  We did it in this old warehouse and we had to climb over re-barb to get to the spot of concrete where the photographer wanted to do pictures.  My mom was laughing at all of us girls trying to not trip while walking through sand and over re-barb in heals.  

getting ready at Katie's - Morgan, me, and Robyn

When we took pictures with the guys (Katie and Mark did a "first look" picture thing before the wedding) Brad, Tacy, and my dad showed up.  So Brad got Tacy all in her cute outfit and she took some pictures with the whole wedding party.  Pictures were so much fun and from the ones of I have seen my sister looks so beautiful.  Katie got really nervous for walking down the aisle for the wedding so I kept trying to calm her down and told her to just look at Mark.  Between me, Vanessa (her maid of honor) and my dad Katie made it down the aisle smiling.  She looked amazing and her and Mark were so cute.  I was so happy I could be there with her to help support her.  The ceremony was nice.  No kids were invited except for our 4.5 year old cousin, Brady, who was the ring bearer and Tacy (since she is Katie's niece).  Tacy decided to start talking during the ceremony.  She loves to talk.  I felt bad for Jon Wilson (the pastor) but Katie told me that she thought it was fine/cute.  I figure Tacy just wanted to get in on giving Mark and Katie some marriage advice.

It was another long day/night for Tacy.  I told Brad that I wanted to at least stay through dinner.  By that time it was 8pm and Tacy was tired.  I was sitting at the head table with the bridal party and Brad was sitting with Tacy with my family.  I took her so he could eat and we walked around the head table.  Tacy flirted with the best man and then kissed/tried to eat her Uncle Steven's arm.  She was so tired.  But everyone said that she was so cute and she really was being so great.  After dinner (right before toasts) I told Katie we had to leave.  Thank goodness my sister is so awesome and told me that was fine (we had talked about it before).  We said bye and drove home.  I'm sad we missed the toasts and speeches.  I'm also sad I missed Mark's sexy dance because I hear it was pretty funny to watch.  Oh well.  

Saturday my dad made an amazing waffle breakfast and then the whole family went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.  It was another hot day, the lines were long, and with the baby Brad and I decided to not go on any rides but to just walk around to see all the animals.  We watched the dolphin show (Tacy loved watching the dolphins jump), we saw elephants, lions, a cougar, snakes, tigers, a walrus, penguins, a sting ray, and sharks and fish.  Tacy loved the sharks and fish because it was in a dark room with a conveyor belt you road that had the tank all around it.  Once of that conveyor belt you could go stand by some windows to watch the sharks and fish swim.  Some of the fish swam by really close and Tacy loved it!  We had covered Tacy in sunscreen and had her in her stroller.  The poor kid was so hot and tired.  She drank so much water this weekend (she is now so good at drinking out of her sippy cup).  By 2:30 she was huddled back in the far corner of her stroller to try and stay out of the sun.  So we decided to leave.  The rest of the family stayed and we went home, gave the baby a bath and put her to bed.  I think she went to bed at 7pm (so 8 Utah time) that night so her earliest night.  Tacy is a trooper!

We flew back Sunday and Tacy slept on the flight.  This was amazing because she has not slept in anyone's arms since she was 4 months old.  Poor kid.  She was so amazing this trip even with her late bed times, the heat, and her tiredness.  We are so blessed to have a great baby.  She was so social too, she warmed right up to everyone and smiled so much at strangers.  We love Tacy Lou and are so grateful we were able to go and be at Mark and Katie's wedding!

My whole Cramer family!