12 Month Appointment

Earlier this week we had Piper's 12 month appointment. I'm sorry I haven't done a post about it yet but getting my wisdom teeth pulled really gave me no desire to blog. I'm still feeling a little goofy from the pain meds so bear with me...if my spelling and grammar is worse than normal blame it on the drugs.

She had a really great appointment for the most part. The Doctor was super impressed with how Piper's grossmoter skills have improved. She's right where she need to be in that department. She also is doing great socially. She knows way more words than she's expected too.

The thing the Doctor was concerned about though was Piper's weight. She only weighed 17.9 lbs which means she has fallen off the growth chart. The Doctor wasn't super concerned because Piper is so healthy and eats anything but it is something we have to keep an eye on.

The one thing we are struggling with getting Piper to drink is milk. At her age milk provides a large part of the fat and protein little ones get. Our doctor is great and discussed lots of different ways to get her to drink milk and she gets to eat lots of yogurt. As a parent you always get a little concerned when something about your child isn't "normal". I have an extremely skinny husband so it shouldn't be a surprise that my daughter is also very skinny. So while I still work on getting the last of my baby weight off I will contine to try to fatten up my husband and daughter:)

I'm little less wise

I had my all four of my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. Yuck!! I had a lot of anxiety over having them pulled. I don't know why things like minor surgery freaks me out but it just does. Now I'm on day two of the healing process. I actually felt better yesterday than I do today. I was all nice and numb from the novacaine and now I'm trying to stay on top of the pain pills. I've never been a fan of pain pills.

Piper was not a fan of how I looked coming out of surgery yesterday. They wheeled me out of the recovery room and into the little waiting room where Josh and Piper were waiting. My mouth was stuffed with gauze, I had my fancy head dress on, and an IV still sticking in my arm. Piper took one look at me and just started bawling. Poor little thing...her mom did look pretty scary.

I'm happy It's over with and I can't wait to start eating normal food again.

Baby Brennan

I'm skipping wordless Wednesday this week and instead I'm going to share a photo shoot I did while I was back in Minnesota. This family had learned about my work through word of mouth. It's always a little scary meeting up with some one you've never met before to do something so personal as taking photos of them. I have to say baby Brennan's family was a amazing. They were super a relaxed and willing to try some of my crazy ideas. Brennan was also the smallest baby I've ever taken photos of and he was about as precious as a baby can get.

We went on a duck hunt

As you may remember from this post Piper is on a bit of a duck kick. Since every other word out of her mouth lately has been duck we decided it would be fun if she saw some real ducks.

We found some in a park here in town and she was so excited. They quacked, they swam, and the ducked their heads in the water. She probably said duck at least 50 times on our walk through the park.


Even though it was a bit chilly out we made time for a quick swing on the swings. For some reason Piper felt it necessary to stick her arms through the leg holes. I don't know about you but I think she looks a little like an Easter egg.

I Heart Shadows

Actually I really don't care for shadows and it's something I try to avoid in most of my photography. The thing is shadows can add to a photo if done correctly. This weeks challenge at I Heart Faces is Shadows. I had to go through many of my photos to find one with a person and their shadow.

I ended up finding this photo of Piper that I took a few weeks ago. Her shadow isn't perfect..but it's there. I'm going to try to challage myself this week to see if I can get at least on good shadow shot. Hopefully the sun will come out to help me with this challenge!

Guess what the sample lady was giving a way at the grocery store?

If you guessed chocolate frozen yogurt you were right!

In the words of Piper "num num"!

Wordless Wednesday....a day late