o/~ So tell me how to stop the years from racing

It's only been seven months, but good LORD....

It's so wild to think that it was just the start of this year, hasn't even been a year yet, when we got our first look at her. So tiny and red, not even really able to make her eyes focus right. We spent three days in the hospital, getting all cleared to leave. Daddy was a trooper. :)

And the funny thing was that even this young, you could see bits of her personality already coming through. She wasn't awake very long those days. Maybe an hour or two at a time, but that was opposed by the fact that she never really slept for any length of time. She'd just nap. It was really hard at first. But then we got home and into a routine... And now, Let's take a look and see just how she's grown, shall we?

Birth report: Jan. 8th
Height: 19 3/4"
Weight: 8 1/2 #
Currently wearing: 0, 0-3, 3
Favorite food: Mommy's milk

Most current report: Aug. 15th
Height: 28"
Weight: 17 1/2 #
Currently wearing: 6-9, 9, 9-12, 12
Favorite food: Gerber pear puree

Wow.

LORI BLOG: What a week!

What a week! I'm not even sure where to start, I've been up to SO much! I guess I'll start with my most recent visit to Gramma Tere's house.

Here I am! hanging out with Gramma Tere! Well, I'm not hanging with her in the picture, but I AM at her house and I am playing with one of teh swords that my cousin Nico was playing with earlier. Apparently, this hang out day was the same day as some sword-swinging festival that Mom and Dad wanted to go to. I'm swinging foam just for them! :)

I'm getting really good at raspberries! See? :pPpPpPpPpPbt!

And here's Gramma Kathy getting busted by Mom feeding me an Oreo Cookie. I was SO sugar high!!!! *giggle*

But the most interesting and funnest thing I did was stand UP!

o/` Will the cute little Lori please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up?

I was in the living room, and I pulled myself up on the little rocking chair of mine, and Momma RAN to grab the camera. Sadly, there are no pictures of me standing like this, because the flash scared me, I let go, and fell down go boom on the floor. I bonked my head SO hard, I was crying and crying and crying. That really hurt, Momma! No more flash photography.

...for a while, at least. O:)

Edit: Momma loves that stripey shirt, don't she? I seem to always be wearing it recently. Ah well. It's all good.

Nightmares

I just woke up from a nightmare, and with Josh still snoring pleasantly, I needed someone else to protect me. Tonight, my friends, that someone else is you.

The world was coming to an end. There was a virus like Hepatisis or something that brings people that were affected by it in life back from the dead as ultra scary flesh eating zombies. There was a leader, and she'd found a 'cure' and was trying to save everyone, but the paranoid living came into her school and starting throwing napalm everywhere and she was captured and was gonig to get strung up bone by bone.

And my mommy was gunned down by them. I don't know where Lori went, and Josh droveme to safety by running over a zombie.

I want my mommy.