SPECtacular in specs! :)

Miss Wynners got her fancy pink Dora glasses today! I am amazed at how well she is keeping them on. The poor kid is blind as a bat without them. Her prescription is very strong and I can't believe she's been wandering around without them for this long. She looks like such a BIG girl in them and if I do say so myself she looks ADORABLE!!! I gave her some Tylenol before bed thinking that she may have a headache from the HUGE change in what she is seeing. I hope she's not nauseous too but of course I wouldn't know it even if she was. She is being such a good sport about this. I'm so lucky to have her as my daughter. We are so blessed. Here's our gorgeous girl....

Eye doc update

Well folks, it's official. My gorgeous girl needs glasses. We were very surprised by this honestly because we thought she just had a lazy eye type condition and would need something short term or surgery. Turns out that she is significantly far sighted and the poor thing has been trying so hard to focus that her eye is turning in to do so. There is a good chance that the glasses will correct the cross eye but if it doesn't then she will need surgery. We're not sure how long she will have to wear them, it could be forever, but I'm just grateful that nothing more serious is wrong with her. I had a very hard time dealing with this initially but I can come to a point of acceptance where I can't change the situation so I have to move on and make the best of it. I'm sure you are all eagerly awaiting a pic of her in her new specs so as soon as they come in I'll get one.

On a different note last night when I put Wynn to bed (before our furnace went out on a 10 degree night) we went through all of her words saying "night night cow", "night night brush" and so on and I counted 31 words!! I think I may have even forgotten a few but we'll work on that tonight. It was so cute because she said each word right after I said it. My sweet smartie :)

Eating with a fork and my new word!

I finally got some new video of Wynn feeding herself with a fork because the last video was too big and it wouldn't upload. She also has a new favorite word that she says all the time....brush! She's obsessed with brushing her "ho" (hair) and walks around saying brush and backpack (her favorite word from Dora that she says ALL day long)while she brushes her "ho".

Enjoy!

Feeding herself with a fork:



Saying brush:

Doc Update

Wynn's 15 month well baby check went great today! She said that her vocabulary is exceptional and developmentally she's right on track if not ahead in a few areas (must run in the family, Ha!). She has had a bit of a crossed eye for the last month or so so I was really concerned about that. She never had it before that so it was so weird that it just came on like that. Apparently it's really common and she referred us to a pediatric ophthalmologist so we'll see what they say. She could end up having to wear a patch (this makes me so sad :( ) or having to wear glasses. There is a small chance that she would need surgery to correct it but we're hoping not. Other than that she is doing great! And she actually has two more molars pushing their way through and not just the one I felt. She said that's a little early because those are normally 18 month molars. Who knew the kid who didn't get her first tooth until she was 10 months old would have 11 teeth so soon! Here's her stats:

Height: 31" long (75th percentile)
Weight: 22 lbs. 5 oz. (55th percentile)
Head Circumference: 15th percentile (she's still my little peanuthead)

What a big girl I am!

We haven't had a whole lot going on since Christmas (thank goodness!) so there's not been a whole lot to share but we had a new development a few nights ago. Wynn fed herself with a big girl fork!

She has really started to become much more independent lately. Here's Wynnie at a glance at 15 months:

- She LOVES books. She reads them all day everyday. She'll either sit in her rocker and read them by herself or say "up" to me or Sam to come up on our laps so we can read to her. She is much more interested in getting through an entire book then she used to be.

- She has about a 25 word vocabulary. Granted some of the words sound like each other but she "thinks" she's saying them so I think that counts. Here are some of her words although there's more I just don't feel like typing them all:

Hi
Bye
Up
Stinky
Mom
Dada
Dog
Cow
Moo
Cat
Jojo
More
Hot
No-this is her favorite right now :)

- She LOVES LOVES LOVES Lucie! I couldn't ask for a better dog with Wynn. They are truly best friends and her new thing is as she's walking and Lucie walks up to her she'll lay her head on her and say "dog" so sweet and hugs her.

- She's recognizing some animals and their sounds. Her fave is definitely cow and moo but she's getting there with the other ones.

- She climbs stairs like she's in a race and she's learned to climb down them backwards. Of course we're always right behind her when she does it but it's an improvement from her old way where she would try to walk down like me and wipe out.

- She has gone on the potty once or twice more but doesn't seem as interested in it lately so we're going to lay off of it until she's a little older so she doesn't get irritated.

- We brush her teeth before bed each night now and she loves to bite my finger when I do it.

- She wears a size 5 shoe!

- She climbs up on EVERYTHING including trying our dining room table and from chair to chair in the family room. She is such a monkey lately and has NO fear.

- We're going for her 15 month well baby visit today so I'll post her stats later but I know she's gotten taller recently as her 12 month clothes are too short on her now. :(

- She has a molar coming in and one more molar that's are trying to pop through. Right now she has 10 teeth now including those two molars!

- Her hair is really growing and she's getting alot better at keeping her hair bands and barrettes in. This was driving me insane so I'm glad she's starting to cooperate. :)

- She's very into body parts now. She knows where her nose, eyes and belly are and we're working on the rest!

Look at how big my girl is!!

Wynn's little secret.....

She's getting her mama's curls!!! After her bath her hair is always super curly and I just love it! I hope as it gets longer it gets curly and stays that way as it gets longer. The last picture is just because I think she looks like such a big girl now. How bittersweet.

Christmas Day with the fam!

Just a bunch of pics from Christmas! We had a great day with family and Wynn had a ball. She was much more interested in sitting on the packages than opening them. :)

Christmas Eve Fun!

Christmas Eve and of course, Christmas, was fantastic! Mom (Gigi) came over for pork roast and potatoes and visited. We put Wynn in her Christmas pj's and read the Polar Express before bed. We also set out some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for Santa and spread some magic reindeer food out in the lawn right before bed. She loved it!

In case anyone's interested....

I had alot more pictures but obviously I couldn't post them all. If you want to take a look at them you can go here:

http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pictures/slideshow?site=themcfam&page=themcfam&album=91

Baptism Pics

Wynn and I were baptized together on Sunday at our Presbytarian Church where we are members. We had a wonderful day and really enjoyed spending the day with our friends and family. I made, from scratch, cinnamon cupcakes with cinnamon buttercream frosting and cookies. They were fabulous! Well, the cookies were Pillsbury but they were still great. My sister, Amy is her Godmother and one of Sam's brothers, Spencer is her Godfather. It was a great day!

Going potty!

I'm sure Wynn will kill me for posting this someday but my big girl sat on the potty for the first time on Friday! She thought she was so big and grinned ear to ear. :) She said "pee pee" and then she actually peed in the potty!!!

Christmas with Papa and Nana!

Saturday we celebrated Christmas with my dad and Janette up at Amy and Reds' house. It was so fun!! Wynn had a blast playing with her cousins and had so much fun with Papa and Nana. She even said "papa" and "nana" for the first time that day!!! Amy and I also took the kids to see Santa. I was so excited because we got a picture of the cousins together! Wynn was NOT thrilled with Santa. She was very stoic about it though. She made a face like she was going to cry but did not shed a single tear! My big girl!

Snow Leopard!

We had about two inches of snow last week so I took the opportunity to dress my kid up like a sumo snow leopard and take her out to play! At first she stood there like she couldn't possibly move but eventually she warmed up and started running around. Her last face plant into the snow was enough for her though and we went back into the warm house after that! We played with C down the street, one of very good friends, and Wynn and C had a standoff. Neither one of them would move for a good five minutes because I don't think they realized that they could actually walk in their snowsuits and snow boots!! It was hilarious!

My little snow leopard:



Playing on C's backhoe:



Face plant:

This weekend!

My cousin, Melany, and her husband Anthony came to visit us on Saturday and it was so much fun! Amy and her husband brought the twinners down to mom's and we had a yummy lunch and visited with them and the kids. Then we jetted off to my company Christmas party and had a GREAT time! We didn't get home until midnight (which for us is super late!) so mama was tired at 6 am when Wynnie got up on Sunday but it was worth it!

Melany and Wynn:



My work chicas!




Sam and I:

It's been forever...

What a bad, bad blogger I am!! I haven't posted in nearly two weeks. We've been running nonstop so I honestly just haven't had much time. Wynn had two birthday parties for her friends C and J. One was last weekend and one was this weekend and she had a ball playing with her friends! The one this weekend was at Gymboree Play and Music and she LOVED it!! Here'a few pics of her playing:

C's First Birthday Party:




Having a ball at Gymboree at J's first birthday party:



Playing in the tunnel






It's so cool now that she's old enough to really play with other kids and climb and jump and laugh and sing! I think Sam and I had as much as she did. I even ate pizza :)!!

Thanksgiving and tree decorating!

Our Thanksgiving was great and we were so blessed to have my sil, Leah's, family take us all in for a lovely dinner! The food was fabulous and the company was even better. They live on a farm on the side of a mountain and it was so cozy! It had snowed there so I had to snap some pics and I snapped this super cool one of a mule:



We came home Friday night and spent Saturday afternoon decorating our Christmas tree. It was so fun and gorgeous and Wynnie liked checking out the tree. She even tried to eat it. :) What fun a toddler is!!



Eating the tree:

Walking and talking...

Wynners is basically an old pro at walking lately. Yeah, she still wipes out every once in awhile but she gets herself back up and keeps on trucking. She also LOVES to sit in her rocking chair and read her books. It's her favorite thing to do. I'm glad she loves it because I love reading but she doesn't love to sit in my lap to read my books. She's more content to do it on her own. Little Miss Independent. Don't tell her but Santa is bringing her her own "big girl" rocking chair for Christmas so that she'll be super comfy when she reads. :)

Walking like an old pro:



Reading books in my chair:

Fun stuff!

It's so funny to me what Wynn thinks if "fun"! Last night she played for a good 15 minutes in the box that her diapers came in. What a blast!

New videos!

Just a few vids of Wynn talking... Saying hot and night night


Saying Cow and moo


Hugging her baby and kissing mama!

She's getting so big

I also caught her in the fridge drinking a milk bottle that she found in there. It was hilarious! She was literally laying with her head in the fridge just lounging. This is how I found her....



Her new Sesame Street toothbrush!