All in a week's work!

It's been a pretty busy week for our little Miss Tennyson. Not only has she been on a few shopping excursions and a Friday night trip to the DQ, she's taught herself a few new tricks!
Trick #1

Hand sucking, or sometimes hand eating. She appears to be quite good at it and it entertains her for hours on end. We're pretty sure she will be able to shove both fists in her mouth any day now. This is her futile attempt at succeeding at thumb sucking, but she doesn't quite seem to have figured it out yet.

Trick #2
Blowing/Making bubbles. Either that or she was bitten by a bat or some rabies infested neighbourhood dog. She sure does have a knack for the bubbles/spit. Perhaps it will keep her lips from getting chapped! The more likely reason for her overabundance of saliva would be that she inherited her Dad's penchant for drool.

Trick #3
Sitting...albeit with the assistance of a large piece if foam. This is her "I'm justchillin' watching my shows" pose. Another thing she inherited from her Dad.




Trick #4

Half rolling. She hasn't made it all the way over yet, but she is working on it! She is pretty good at combining the half roll with the hand sucking though. Only 10 weeks old and already a master at multi-tasking!! ** UPDATE** Only short hours after posting this, T mastered the full roll onto her stomach!! I was more than surprised and of course spent a good hour trying to catch it on film, but I will say she did it three times this afternoon! I don't know if she actually meant to or if the weight of her head just tipped her over, but I think we might have a prodigy on our hands!

Who knows what she will accomplish in the next few weeks! Maybe how to pair a dress with the appropriate heel? You just never know!!

Jive Talkin'

We're not sure if T's first word will be in her native American or Canadian, but she is already jabbering away!

It's cold outside...and there are wolves

So it wasn't cold outside, but there were some wolves!!

We took T on her first trip to the zoo this weekend. We have wanted to go to the Minnesota Zoo since we moved here but we are just getting around to it. We met some friends there bright and early and started our adventure. Tennyson was more than excited to be there, so excited that she just couldn't bare to stay awake. In fact she couldn't even bare to stay awake to see the bears!! There is an exhibit called Russia's Grizzly Coast, and they have 3 bears at the zoo. It was quite fun to watch them swim and play. They are HUGE!

We also saw sea otters and wolves and monkeys and wild boars! Tennyson told us later that her favourite exhibit was the tigers.

The zoo didn't have as many exhibits or animals as other zoos we have been to, but they have a really nice zoo with lots of room for the animals that are there. There were no polar bears or penguins, but they did have prairie dogs, and who doesn't like a prairie dog? They also had some bison, but the bison were too busy "playing" with each other to entertain the spectators...although Mark was quite entertained, but he wasn't quick enough to capture it on film. Maybe next time!

We did get some cute pics of T in her rockin' sunglasses, but we're not that technically savvy to get them off of the camera phone...we'll get there, just not today. So here are a couple pics of T around the house, and one of the prairie dogs, because everyone loves prairie dogs!

2024 here we come!!

We've reached another milestone...2 months! Tennyson had her well check-up yesterday and here are the results.

While T is far from winning the gold medal in weight gain, she's catching up to the crowd. She happily weighed in at a whopping 10 pounds 10 ounces (41st percentile) - up almost 3 pounds from her 2 week check up. Everyone still says she is pretty small though.

On the other end of the scale, T is in good contention for gold in the category of height. At her last check up she was 21.5 inches and we are happy to report she now stands at a staggering 23.5 inches (89th percentile). We've heard the Harlem Globetrotters, the US Olympic team and the Canadian Olympic team have been asking about her already. You can see that she's already started entertaining offers and will let us know as soon as she's made a decision. And even though we can't get her hats to stay put, her head is measuring in at 39.5 centimeters, or the 68th percentile.
Little T also put on a very brave face for the 3 shots she received..okay well it was more like a beet red, open mouth scream that any passerby could very well have mistaken for murder, but she was a little trooper and calmed down pretty quickly. We'll see if she remembers that mean old nurse when we go back in 2 months for the next round.

Overall the Doc says she is healthy and growing well, so we are happy with that.

T has now had her first prescription filled through Target and seems to be doing okay with Mom sticking a dropper in her mouth four times a day to get rid of a little bit of thrush, and also for some daily vitamin D.

She is a happy baby (as evident by the picture - obviously not taken right after the shots!), and I am a happy mom now that she seems to have mastered the sleeping 7 hours in a row at night! I don't know how long it will stay that way, or if we will be up every 3 hours tonight, but I will take what I can get when I get it!

Oh Bless You!

Today we blessed Tennyson. Mark has always kind of jokingly threatened that during any child's blessing, he would change whatever name we had given the child if he didn't really like it. I figure this may happen if we have a second child, and if said child is a boy since Mark is stuck on naming some poor little boy John Rambo and I would never let that happen.

Luckily no such thing happened today as he blessed our little T...probably because her name was his idea.

It was a beautiful blessing, and our Bishop told the whole ward that Tennyson had her eyes fixated, as big as can be, on Mark the whole time. I could make some sarcastic, inappropriate comment about staring up nostrils the size of crator holes, but I would only be making funny of T as well, since she definitely has her Dad's nose, and we don't want to make fun of her, do we?
Here are some pictures from today with Tennyson in her beautiful dress that her Grandma Farmer made - she sure looked pretty!