street

here are the kids as they take in the street performers in downtown holland.

krol photography

just had heidi's 6 month pics done by krol photography. she is sweeter than sugar! to view the pics -

go to: www.krolphotography.com
go to 'client proofing'
our password is ELASteenwyk
click on heidi-july 2009

her 3 month ones are on there as well. don't think i posted them before... boden's 3 year pics should be coming shortly as well! along with a post about his 3 year old birthday!!! stay tuned!

love

heidi loves uncle robbie.

splash pad

boden is having a ball at the splash pad park in medina!

albums

for those of you that can't get enough pics, or just want to peek at all the things we've been doing this summer that we haven't gotten around to posting, check the albums on the right. i added pics to may and added a june and july album.

heidi - 6 months!

so, this post is way overdue as heidi will be 7 months this coming weekend, but i thought we needed to record the stats. so here they are:

height - 26 1/4 inches - 60th percentile
weight - 14 pds 7 oz - 25th percentile
head circumference - 42.7 - 50th percentile

she has gone down in height some (if you don't remember :), she was 90th percentile last time), but the dr said that it could be she wasn't stretched out enough and is most likely somewhere btw the last two times' percentage. he said that her weight is steady and that is what they watch first. with 6 month milestones, she is right on. so, she checked out a.o.k!

a few things about heidi (some of these bleed over into her being almost 7 months):

- she has cut her first two bottom teeth.
-she is babbling all the time with all kinds of high pitched coos and 'ba ba ba', 'da da da', and 'na na na'
-she loves her big brother, as he adores her. they can amuse each other for quite some time. it is so precious to hear them get each other laughing hard at the same time.
-she loves to eat! she nurses 5 times a day (though in the last couple days we have tried dropping one. so far so good.) and eats two full meals of oatmeal or rice cereal and stage one veggies and cherrios.
-at about 6 weeks she slept like a champ. and for a long time i would feed her at 8pm and we would not hear another peep out of her until 7am. a couple weeks before turning 6 months, she started waking again in the night. at first we thought that maybe it was a growth spurt, so i'd feed her in the night when she would wake up screaming. this continued on for two weeks or so. decided a growth spurt shouldn't last that long and maybe she just wasn't getting enough to eat. so we started feeding her cereal. she ate this eagerly, but still was waking in the night. guessing it was just forming a habit and/or sleep aid, we did some tough love nights. very hard. the last few nights we haven't heard a peep out of her (except about and hour in. she did that before. cries for a bit and then goes back to sleep). so, here's hoping i didn't ruin it by telling you all about it :)
-seems to have some beginning stages of preferring mommy. don't quite know what to do with this as boden has always been a daddy's boy.
-smiles that make your heart melt.
-wants to grab at everything. i mean everything. especially at the table. she is so interested in what we are eating and doing. boden was not like this at all. boden still does not care what we eat. we'd really like him to :)
-she sits up by herself quite well for several mins. still not brave enough to leave her that way unattended though...
-has started pulling up her butt and knees, but has not made it to knees and hands yet.
-squirms all over the place. she never stays where you put her for long.
-can stand pretty well if holding onto someone or something.
-likes her bath.
-has tons of hair.
-has a little excema (sp?)


below are a couple pics taken the week she turned 6 months. can't believe she has been with us for half a year now! crazy!

wet undies and trees

we were exploring around pokagon state park, and when we got down to the lake boden started taking his pants and undies off so he can go in the water. we made him wear his undies figuring he should be a little decent. in the picture you can see him and uncle robbie play in the water. the other picture is boden checking out an old rotted tree stump we were exploring earlier.

curley

now that boden is 1 day short of completing 3 years and he has taken on a curley slide for the first time!

need napkin!

smelly

boden has really gotten into flowers lately. on our hike today he liked smelling these flowers. he also enjoys getting flowers from grammy's garden, some of which he has in his room right now.

hike

heidi is enjoying her hike by the pigeon river.

paradigm

boden is thinking inside the box.

melatonin

boden fell asleep during our push cart ride. heidi must not have been good enough conversation.

sibs

blue moon

ice cream at the big dipper in cheboygan.

overload

a bridge, river, big ships, and cranky the crane. it is almost too much.

a lake!

exercise

heidi enjoys getting her exercise, outside the camper, on the mat.

2x

two big things are happening in this picture. first, heidi just completed eating her first cheerio. it actually took boden putting one right in her mouth. mom and dad would have waited weeks for her to do it on her own. the second thing that is going on in this photo, is that boden has just completed stuffing one of the cheerios up his nose. when i took the picture i just thought he was picking his nose. but nope, he stuffed one right up in there. hopefully the laughing that we did about it won't encourage him to do it again.

postman

buoy

boden just pulled this buoy in from under the big big bridge.

rocks

boden has fallen in love with rocks.