Busy Days

Tinsley has had 2 fun-filled days.  Yesterday, she went and spent some time at Jim and Sherri's.  Kourtnee was in town, so Tinsley got to spend some time with her.  One of Tinsley's favorite things to do at Jim and Sherri's is to chase Rocky.  I am sure that Rocky is absolutely worn out after she leaves. 

Poor Rocky!  If Tinsley is not chasing after him, she is playing on his bed. 

Having an afternoon snack

This morning Grandmom and Tinsley went with Gran to La Vernia to get her haircut.  Mom and Tinsley went to HEB while Gran was getting her haircut.  Mom always laughs about all of the friends she makes when she and Tinsley go shopping.  Last week when they were in HEB, mom said that Tinsley was riding along in the shopping cart waving to everyone as if she were in a parade. 

This picture cracks me up.  Tinsley is not much on sitting still.  She likes to lean over the edge of her chair or stand up in the chair.   This makes mom and I more than a little bit nervous.  Pretty much these days, when we take a picture of Tinsley sitting anywhere, I am waiting and ready with the camera and mom puts Tinsley wherever we want her.  If I don't take the picture at a pace of faster than the speed of light I can forget it. ;-)

When they got back to mom and dad's they did a little bit of swinging.

Tinsley was quite concerned that Eagan did not eat all of his food. 

Such a little helper!

Doesn't everyone just hang out and play with their toys in a pink tutu?

Eagan was much more enthused with the tutu than Tinsley.

Tinsley's hair is getting so much thicker and lighter.  Mom, dad and I were talking tonight about how now that she has started crawling, her "baby rolls" are starting to disappear.  She is growing up so quickly and looking more and more like a little girl than a baby every day.

She is not too thrilled about hearing the word "no".  The phone is on an end table right outside her room.  She loves to try to mess with the table and reaches for the cords.  This is a super convenient place for me to have the phone, but it may have to be moved shortly. 

Bathtime Fun

Tinsley now sits in the bathtub without a seat and plays.  She has so much fun!  She LOVES the water.  I still put her in her reclining seat to wash her hair as it is much easier to rinse her hair that way.  As you can see, she is thrilled to have the freedom to play in the tub.

Of course, she tries to pull up even in the bathtub.  She is a girl on the move!

At the end of this video is the first time that Tinsley stuck her head under the faucet while it was running.  As you can tell by the "Oh my!", it scared me and I immediately turned the video camera off.  I wish I hadn't because it didn't scare her.  She turned around with a HUGE smile that I so wish I had caught!  I am so thankful that she loves the water.  She has no fear!  I wish she maybe had just a little bit of fear.  She definitely keeps me on my toes.  No pictures or video while she is in the tub unless mom is here to help me watch her.  She is just too active!

A Good Night's Sleep!!!!

I hate to jinx myself, but I definitely want to document this morning as it was by far one of the best mornings I have had in a long time.  Tinsley went to sleep last night around 8:30 and slept until 5 this morning!!!!  That is awesome, I love not only that we both got a good nights rest, but I love even more knowing that she was comfortable and content enough to sleep through the night.  The past few months when Tinsley wakes up during the night and even in the mornings, she has been waking up fussy.  Not this morning!  She woke up jabbering away.  By the time I go to her room, she had pulled up in bed and was attempting to chew on the bed(gotta love teething).  She smiled SO BIG when I walked in.  I picked her up and she leaned in and gave me one of her sweet little sloppy kisses.  She then put her head on my shoulder and cuddled for a second.  I seriously thought my heart might burst!!!!  Of course I love every moment I get to spend with Tinsley, but times like this morning are so very special.

Of course we had to brag a little bit, so we sent this picture of our happy girl to grandmom and daddy telling them how great Tinsley slept last night.

Jabber Jaws

Tinsley is all about the da da da lately!  We can't wait for daddy to get home next week to hear it in person!

Daily Updates

I love the updates that my mom sends me throughout the day letting me know what Tinsley is doing.  I especially love them when she sends pictures!  Here are a few of my favorite updates from mom from the past few weeks as well as a few cell phone pics that I took.

8-22-11 @ home reading before she goes to Grandmom and Granddad's

8-24-11  Caption was "I ate all my lunch!"

8-24-11 sent right after the picture above "I am eating too mom!"

8-31-11 Another update that Tinsley ate good :-)

8-31-11

9-1-11  This was one that I took this morning in the process

of getting Tinsley dressed

9-2-11 Granddad and Tinsley

9-3-11 (Grandmom is apparently very funny)

9-5-11 @ the Outback with Granddad, Grandmom and Aunt Whitney

9-5-11 @ home chasing Eagan

9-7-11 Caption read "Lunch was delicious"

9-8-11 @ Grandmom's- note that Grandmom's mobile has now also been removed!

9-9-11 Such a happy girl!

9-12-11

9-12-11 Enjoying gliding outside while Eagan runs around in the yard

Eagan's toys are more fun

Why play with any of this?

 When you can play with this?!?!?!?

When I was pregnant with Tinsley and I was getting her room ready, I made sure that Eagan had a basket of toys in her room so that he would not feel left out when we were in her room playing.  More often than not, Tinsley will go to Eagan's toys before her own.  I had always worried that he would try to play with her toys and I was not wild about the idea of them sharing too much since she would likely be chewing on stuff.  Turns out Eagan was not the one I had to worry about when it came to "sharing toys".

Oh, how Tinsley loves Eagan AND his toys!

Grandmom and Granddad

Tinsley is so lucky to get to spend so much time with Grandmom and Granddad.  They love her so much and the feeling is definitely mutual!

Setting up Grandmom and Granddad's new computer

Poor Tinsley is constantly at work!  She was SO helpful tonight while I was setting up mom and dad's new computer.  She was THRILLED to have the old one to play with.  She is always trying to mess with cords at home and of course we don't let her.  I think she thought she was pulling a fast one on us tonight :-)

Her trusty assistant Eagan

Swingin'

Tinsley is loving her swing at Grandmom and Granddads!

Doctor Visit

Mom and I took Tinsley to the doctor today.  She has not been sleeping too great, which we have attributed to teething.  She is also quite congested when she wakes up.  I am afraid she is going to have to deal with allergies, which is not surprising, but is quite disappointing.  Our biggest concern, however, was Tinsley's eating, or should I say the lack thereof.  I am sure that anyone that reads this blog and sees pictures of Tinsley would wonder why on earth we would be concerned that there is anything wrong with her.  Tinsley is growing like a weed, but still refuses to eat any type of food other than the one type of baby food-apples, bananas and mixed cereal.  She does not even eat that very well quite often.  She is taking 5 bottles of breastmilk per day without issue.  Each bottle is between 5-8 oz.  She normally goes to sleep around 8:30 and sleeps until anytime between midnight and 2.  She then wakes up, takes part of a bottle, goes back to sleep, wakes up again in another hour or so, takes the rest of the bottle,  goes back to sleep and then normally wakes up for the day at around 5:30.  She is an early riser just like her daddy!  Any time that we try to give her any type of food which most kids her age are eating, she immediately begins gagging and will quite often throw up.  We have tried EVERYTHING!!!  Yesterday after another episode, we decided that enough was enough and made an appointment with Dr. Peck to see if we could figure out what was going on.  They checked Tinsley's weight 20.5 lbs (90th percentile) and her height is 28 3/4 inches (90th percentile).  Dr. Peck checked Tinsley thoroughly and we discussed everything that has been going on.  She thinks that it's possible that Tinsley's restless sleeping habits could continue until around the age of 2 which is when babies normally quit teething.  That was not exactly what I wanted to hear, but also not really surprising.  We gave Tinsley a cheerio which is one of the things that she normally has trouble eating.  Sure enough as soon as we gave it to her, she began gagging.  She did not throw up because I removed it from her mouth immediately.  Dr. Peck mentioned that when I tried to give Tinsley the cheerio, she pushed it away twice before finally taking it.  She also noted that Tinsley is gagging immediately when she gets the piece of food in her mouth and not when she tries to swallow it.  She thinks that Tinsley has a "taste and texture aversion".  She is not concerned at all because the gagging is not when she attempts to swallow.  She said the best thing to do would be to stop trying to get her to eat anything different for the next month.  She thinks that by giving her the "month off", when we try to feed her again, she may be past the aversion to different things.  She also said that when we do feed her the one type of baby food that she will eat, if she acts uninterested or does not want it, to not force the issue.  Basically, she does not want us making an issue out of eating for Tinsley and she thinks that the issue will resolve itself.  She assured us that Tinsley is still getting everything that she needs from the breastmilk and that she will begin eating different foods when she is hungry.  She also assured me that Tinsley would not go to college drinking breastmilk and eating baby food.  :-)  We also all got our flu shots while at the doctor. Mom and I are done with ours for the year.  Tinsley has to go back next month for her second one as they break it up into 2 separate shots for the little ones.

Here are a few pics of Tinsley having fun waiting to see Dr. Peck

We took some of the baby food that Tinsley will eat to show Dr. Peck.   Of course Tinsley is not very interested in eating what is inside the package, but she LOVES chewing on what the food comes in!

She is also quite fond of my camera case :-)

I am surprised that they make us wait at all to see the doctor.  I would think they would be concerned the place might be absolutely destroyed!  To say that Tinsley loves tearing up the paper on the table in the doctor's office would definitely be an understatement!