18 months old check up and Christmas fun.

Yesterday, Anaïs had her 18 months old visit with her pediatrician. She is doing good. :)
Here are her stats:
Weight: 19lbs3oz (8,8kg)
Height: 26 1/2 inches (67cm)
Head: 20 1/4 (50cm)
She is right around the 50th percentile on the achondroplasia chart with all these measurements.
Things she likes to do at 18 months: crawl EVERYWHERE, pull herself up, play in her sister's room, wave "bye bye", watch Baby Einstein dvd's, eating raisins and above all: play with my cell phone! lol

Yesterday was a very busy day. After the pediatrician's visit, I went to Sam's classroom's Christmas party. They had a pinata that they got to hit each 3 times while being blindfolded. They were so funny, they were cheering whoever was hitting the pinata with so much passion! lol

Sam's turn! :)

I was very pleasantly surprised when all the candy fell out with how well behaved they all were. I guess the teacher had told them in advance that they should only take 3 pieces of candy each and they did just that, very calmly and respectfully.

Then it was snack time. They had cookies, fruit salad, vegetables, pretzels and milk to drink.

Then, in the evening we had our Christmas LPA event. We went to the magical Christmas forest. We went on a train ride, on a carousel, a big slide and got to see the holiday lights. Anaïs was so hyper the whole time we were there!!

Look at her face, you can just tell how excited she was! LOL

This was on the train ride.

WOW...what a busy day!!!

We leave for Salt Lake tomorrow to spend 2 weeks there. I will update the blog from there. ;)

Children's museum.

Today we took the girls to the children's museum. We hadn't been for so long...probably over a year. It used to not be good at all, but they changed it and it is now better and cleaner. Sam had a blast.

Anaïs and Jeff spent most of the time in the baby area where Anaïs could crawl around and play she really enjoyed it I think.

Sam's favorite part was the pretend grocery store. She loved pretending she was the cashier and I was her customer.

She took her job very seriously.

Here she is making big bubbles:

They had a trivia game about gross stuff the human body does...Jeff and I had more fun than Sam playing it I think! lol

My mom asked me to post more videos of the girls...so here is one of Anaïs standing on her high chair. She hates it when we tell her to sit back down...lol

Another fun birthday party.

Today was Sam's friend Addy's birthday party. Sam had A LOT of fun. The party was at Little Pastry Chefs so the kids got to make their own pizza and decorate a cake. Anaïs did ok but it was hard for her to not be able to crawl around. Here is a shot of her and I right at the beginning of the party before she got too tired. Here is my little pastry chef, Sam.

Sam and the birthday girl.

Anaïs loves balloons. When I told her to be careful with all those balloons she gave me the worst dirty look! LOL!!

There is no way she was going to miss out on any of the action. She wanted to crawl on the table the whole time.

Finally, she got ahold of a pepperoni...lol

Good thing Sam shared her pizza with her. Sam is always pretty good at sharing with Anaïs.

Here is Sam frosting her cake.

What a fun party!

Winter Program

Last night Sam had her school winter program. She did really good and we were very excited to go see her perform. Since the kindergarteners are the oldest kids in the school they went last and got to watch the other kids perform. Here is Sam watching the show with her classmates.

Anaïs was very excited to see her sister. ;)

The only bummer was that Sam was standing in the back row behind this big kid so you could barely see her.

Here are a couple videos:

This year was kind of bitter sweet because it's the last time Sam is doing a winter program at this school...This school has been amazing!

Fun moments...

On Friday, we went to Sam's good friend Merrick's birthday party which was at Pump it Up. That place is always a blast! They have huge inflatable slides, bouncy houses etc... Anaïs enjoyed going down the slide with Jeff the first time but when he took her a second time she wasn't too sure anymore. LOL

It was a pirate theme party, the hats were really cute.

Also, I don't think I've posted pictures of Anaïs pulling herself up yet...these were taken today.

And here is a little video of Anaïs playing with one of her toys tonight:

New slippers.

On Friday, Sam has to wear a pair a slippers at school. She usually doesn't wear slippers at home so I bought her a pair at Target today. She was SO excited when I gave them to her after school!

Well, that's it for today! lol

Chillin in her high chair.

Well here is another example of the legendary flexibility associated with achondroplasia...LOL
Here is how Anaïs was eating her dinner, check out her foot.