Cinder's Family - not anymore

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas Time 2012

Pre-Christmas Family Pictures

Meeting Santa

Maylee told him she wanted a pink bike...

Christmas Cruise to the North Pole

Reading the names of good boys and girls...

Christmas Eve
Papa and his girls...

Take One...

Take Two...

Take Three...

Headed to church...

Great-Grandma Doris ("Big Ammie") and Kaleah

Getting milk and cookies ready for Santa...

Christmas Morning
Kaleah's gift to us was sleeping from midnight to 9am!

Luckily, I finished Kaleah's stocking in time for Santa...

Maylee's Santa gift...a new helmet and bike!

Kaleah's Santa gift...a new toy and activity mat!

Ammie and Papa gave Maylee new snow boots, "rock star" shirt, and bendable microphone.

I love this pictures of Maylee rocking out with her new Christmas presents...

Christmas Day out at Aunt Connie's
Usually about 60 relatives are out at Connies, but this year we only had about 40. We still had a great time!

Big Ammie made Maylee a baby doll blanket...

Maylee and Lily help open Kaleah's presents...

Dec. 26th

The girls visited their Great-Great-Great Aunt Ruth and Uncle Don,

then we traveled down to see Kevin's side of the family in Kamiah.

Kaleah's first trip to Nana Jo and Papa Dean's house...

Aunt Tabitha with very tired Kaleah...

Christmas in Kamiah

Uncle Craig and Kaleah...

Great-Grandma Linda and Kaleah...

Excited about Dublo blocks...

Helping Kaleah open her present that Maylee picked out for her...

Kevin's Uncle Mark and Aunt Lorraine with the girls...

Roach girls...

Our Christmas Goofball...

Maylee is pretending to be Rapunzel...

Maylee is very interested in Nana Jo's village...

Great-Grandma Linda and the girls...

Great-Grandma Helen and the girls...

Great-Grandpa Emmett and Kaleah...

Great-Grandpa Emmett and the girls...

Christmas with More Relatives in Moscow

Uncle Kevin, Aunt Shelly, Aunt Jan, Uncle Pat, Derek and Connor arrived in Moscow

between Christmas and New Years.

Great-Aunt Jan and the girls...

Grandma Doris and her daughters (Jan, Connie, Karen, and Julie)...

Grandma Doris with her brother Butch and sister Betty...

Friday, December 21, 2012

Kaleah had to have her tongue clipped when she was a day old in the hospital because she could not extend it past her lips. I was still having latch difficulties that I did not experience with Maylee. I set up an appointment with the hospital's lactation consultant. She discovered that Kaleah's tongue muscle was tight and refered us to physical theraphy for her tongue. I didn't know something like that existed! So we took her to physical therapy too. I am happy to say her tongue works great now!

Due to Kaleah being breech (even though it was only for one week and she was not fully breech) it is common procedure for our pediatrician to using imaging to check hips...so he put in an order. One day we got home to find a message on our answering machine that Kaleah will need an MRI for her hips and they left us the day and time of the appointment. I was concerned that my little one would have to be in an MRI machine at such a young age. An hour before that appointment, a nurse at the imagining center said that they didn't notice that she is not 30 days old so they rescheduled for Dec. 21st. When that day rolled around, we took her in and learned that the new nurse also should have said it was an ultrasound on her hips, not an MRI. I was a little nervous when the doctor came in to check again a second time with the technician...but relieved when he said everything is great.