The Richmond Family: 3/1/09

Seeing them play together... makes my heart soar.

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Hello.... my name is Chubby

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True Mini

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It's a beautiful day to play at the park.

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Making lunch fun

Who can resist dinasour grilled cheese?!

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NICU Friends!

Jackson, Audra, Hayden, Sara, Evan, Marino

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A little bit of Hayden by my side

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Good morning boys! :)

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An awesome day to be outside!

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This is what we made today...

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...and OH was it good!

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What do you do when the little one needs to be held, and laundry needs to be done?

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Concepts

I've been waiting for the day when Jackson would get the fact that there is sometimes an order in which things need to be done. However, it often feels like I'm constantly telling him "Yes, we can do that, but we must do this first." I'm sure this had to be discouraging for him, so this morning we did something different. I weeded through my morning and figured out what was important to get done first, and what could wait. Then I took three sheets of paper, drew a picture of what needed to be done first, then labled them to help out with learning our letters (must make things educational when possible! lol.. my younger self would totally be rolling my eyes at this!!), and put them on the fridge. Jack and I went over what each meant, and I explained this was the order in which things needed to be accomplished. He was allowed to take off a circle each time something was done - but he also knew what to expect!

Since the kids had been fed, I needed to eat something... badly! So that was the first thing. ;)

Then, it was time for some reading. It was really hard to leave the dishes stacked high, but the little man needed some time together. Especially before the next thing...

Now Jack gets to watch a movie, and I'm free to do dishes and laundry! Of course, I'm blogging instead, but this is the way it goes I guess. :-/

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A Quick Hayden Update

Hayden is now 15lbs! The doctor looked over his growth chart, and is very pleased. Even though Hayden is in the 10th percentile (at least he's on the charts!!), he's following the curve and steadily growing at a great rate! As we were going through the routine 9 mos. visit, the doctor began asking developmental questions... Hayden is doing almost everything a 9 mos. old should be!!! Praise God for him catching up so quickly! He's still not quite "there" yet, but that's really not the goal. He's meeting every goal that has been set (basically a steady incline in his growth and development). As we've been going at Hayden's pace for everything, we're just so grateful that God has chosen to make him move at a good pace. Anyway, in my excitement I'm becoming redundant... so, that's all for now. :)

7:35 PM | Permalink |

Quick Hayden update

Hayden is now 15lbs! The doctor looked over his growth chart, and is very pleased. Even though Hayden is in the 10th percentile (at least he's on the charts!!), he's following the curve and steadily growing at a great rate! As we were going through the routine 9 mos. visit, the doctor began asking developmental questions... Hayden is doing almost everything a 9 mos. old should be!!! Praise God for him catching up so quickly! He's still not quite "there" yet, but that's really not the goal. He's meeting every goal that has been set (basically a steady incline in his growth and development). As we've been going at Hayden's pace for everything, we're just so grateful that God has chosen to make him move at a good pace. Anyway, in my excitement I'm becoming redundant... so, that's all for now. :)

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