Very First Bow

WOW! How my baby is growing. This was her very first bow, Laura (one of her primary nurses) made it for her. She was 1 month and 5 days old.

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7-25-10

Sweet Little Beautiful

He's wrapped around her finger

She's the center of his whole world

And his heart belongs to that sweet, little, beautiful, wonderful, perfect

All American girl...

Hurry Up Spring

The last warm day we had Avery was hot in her pants and long sleeves so I put a warmer weather outfit on her. She loved looking at her feet and legs. She was so cute (as she always is). We can't wait until Spring and Summer so she can wear all her new cute clothes and we can get her out some.

Standing up is her new favorite thing to do

hello feet

Activity Center

After much deliberation I finally decided to get Avery an activity center that also has a jumper. I wasn't going to get her one because I was afraid it would promote toe walking. Toe walking is very common in preemies who spend lots of time in walkers, and things like this. It takes lots of physical therapy and sometimes special shoes to get them to stop, so I thought I just won't get her anything like that and won't have to worry about it.
I talked to her Dr. and EI teacher about it and they both say she can have one. Walkers are a huge no no but these are fine. Still I wasn't going to get her one because I was afraid it would slow her down developmentally. She's doing so well and right on track I don't want to throw her off with a toy.
Babies develop naturally from head to toe on the floor. Activity centers, jumperoos and things that get babies off the floor tend to delay development because it develops leg muscles instead of trunk and head muscles.
I've done my research and decided that as long as I limit her time in her activity center she'll be fine. I chose to get this particular one for 2 reasons. The first being it doesn't bounce a whole lot. It has a hard plastic jumper at the bottom and it only bounces a little. I like that because she won't burn a lot of calories jumping like crazy. Secondly I chose this one because she can stand flat footed on the jumper and not just on her toes.
Having said all that she loves it and I'm glad I got it for her. She only gets in it twice a day for about 10 minutes each time. I still want the floor to be her primary play time but I felt like she needed something else to stimulate her.

This is her favorite toy on the thing. She is teething like crazy!



This is her second favorite
Looking up at her Daddy
The plastic jumper I was talking about