Showing posts with label Coda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coda. Show all posts
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Long Time, No Blog
I realize it's been almost a month since I've written anything. The long absence is pretty easily explained: I've been too busy to write, and the things I've been busy doing have been too dull to write about. :) Not that they aren't important--I think every diaper change and load of laundry is significant--they just make for boring narrative.
Ella will be six months old on the 27th. Hard to believe! It's gone by so fast. We just started her on cereal on Monday, and she loves it. I've also been making and freezing all of her baby food. It's actually a LOT of fun. As far as savings, I haven't worked out an overall number yet, and it varies from item to item...but compared to $ 0.50 a serving for jarred baby food, the homemade food has been anywhere from $ 0.10 a serving to $ 0.40 a serving. So it is cheaper. Of course you have to put in a little time, but it hasn't been that hard. Once or twice I've strapped Ella into the carrier while I work on it...she's quite fascinated with the blender. Anyway, she's a lot of fun these days. I'm uploading some videos--one of her laughing at Coda (she LOVES her dog and laughs at everything he does), and another of her squealing--that I hope to share with you tonight or tomorrow.
Johnny and I had a low-key but fun Valentine's Day. My mom watched Ella, and we went out to eat at On the Border, where I succeeded in spilling a whole bowl of some sort of sauce all over myself, the seat, and the floor. Ha. Actually, I remember thinking how big of a deal that would have been to me on any Valentine's Day date before I married Johnny...being married sure does take the pressure out of dates. :) After dinner (which, by the way, included a very helpful and candid discussion about how each person could be a better spouse), Johnny took me to Borders to pick out some books. I bought Emma by Jane Austen (which, I'm ashamed to say, I've already finished, in spite of having many other things I could have been doing) and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. After that, we ended up just running some errands at Target and going to pick up our baby girl. We did watch part of a movie after she went to sleep for the night. Like I said, low-key, but very enjoyable.
A whole month without writing, and I've already run out of new things to say. :) I'll have those fun videos up soon...and before too long, I'll be posting her six-month pictures. Crazy!
Ella will be six months old on the 27th. Hard to believe! It's gone by so fast. We just started her on cereal on Monday, and she loves it. I've also been making and freezing all of her baby food. It's actually a LOT of fun. As far as savings, I haven't worked out an overall number yet, and it varies from item to item...but compared to $ 0.50 a serving for jarred baby food, the homemade food has been anywhere from $ 0.10 a serving to $ 0.40 a serving. So it is cheaper. Of course you have to put in a little time, but it hasn't been that hard. Once or twice I've strapped Ella into the carrier while I work on it...she's quite fascinated with the blender. Anyway, she's a lot of fun these days. I'm uploading some videos--one of her laughing at Coda (she LOVES her dog and laughs at everything he does), and another of her squealing--that I hope to share with you tonight or tomorrow.
Johnny and I had a low-key but fun Valentine's Day. My mom watched Ella, and we went out to eat at On the Border, where I succeeded in spilling a whole bowl of some sort of sauce all over myself, the seat, and the floor. Ha. Actually, I remember thinking how big of a deal that would have been to me on any Valentine's Day date before I married Johnny...being married sure does take the pressure out of dates. :) After dinner (which, by the way, included a very helpful and candid discussion about how each person could be a better spouse), Johnny took me to Borders to pick out some books. I bought Emma by Jane Austen (which, I'm ashamed to say, I've already finished, in spite of having many other things I could have been doing) and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. After that, we ended up just running some errands at Target and going to pick up our baby girl. We did watch part of a movie after she went to sleep for the night. Like I said, low-key, but very enjoyable.
A whole month without writing, and I've already run out of new things to say. :) I'll have those fun videos up soon...and before too long, I'll be posting her six-month pictures. Crazy!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
What REALLY happened
So, I thought what happened in that last picture was fairly clear...maybe just because I know that guilty, head-down "pose" Coda has in the picture. I thought it was funnier to post it without an explanation, but I've had some questions about it.
What really happened: Coda is a major watch dog and he HAS to look out the window pretty much anytime anyone (or anything) stirs outside. We've stopped trying to discourage it, because we want him to be a watch dog, and this is the ONLY window in our house that he can see out of. But sometimes he catches the curtains on his way up or down the couch...usually without much damage...until now. He got so tangled in the curtain that his weight just destroyed our cheap-o curtain rod--hence, the results you see in the picture. :)
I've been way too busy enjoying Ella the past few days to take any new pictures. :) Our new favorite game is a sounds game--she finds any kind of blowing, spitting, "raspberry," or clicking noises hilarious. She tries to imitate them...sometimes her imitations are funny because they're way off, but other times she gets it pretty close. She LOVES this game. Her laughs are getting cuter all the time.
She'll be four months old 2 days after Christmas...I can't believe it!
What really happened: Coda is a major watch dog and he HAS to look out the window pretty much anytime anyone (or anything) stirs outside. We've stopped trying to discourage it, because we want him to be a watch dog, and this is the ONLY window in our house that he can see out of. But sometimes he catches the curtains on his way up or down the couch...usually without much damage...until now. He got so tangled in the curtain that his weight just destroyed our cheap-o curtain rod--hence, the results you see in the picture. :)
I've been way too busy enjoying Ella the past few days to take any new pictures. :) Our new favorite game is a sounds game--she finds any kind of blowing, spitting, "raspberry," or clicking noises hilarious. She tries to imitate them...sometimes her imitations are funny because they're way off, but other times she gets it pretty close. She LOVES this game. Her laughs are getting cuter all the time.
She'll be four months old 2 days after Christmas...I can't believe it!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
The Blog Venture Begins...and the story of Ella
I'm not very web-savvy. I don't really know how to do this whole blog thing. But recently I've heard a lot of remarks like, "Now, I sure haven't seen any pictures of Ella in awhile!" Well, the original solution was to send emails...but with all our family and friends, that's about a billion (give or take) email addresses, and we only seem able to send about 3 pictures at a time, out of the thousands (give or take) that we have...so, the Vogt family blog was born. I'm sure it will be great fun eventually, but right now it's rather daunting. How do I begin? Perhaps with a story...
Really it begins long ago, when the Lord had written my days in His book before I had lived one of them (Psalm 139). Those ordained days included a moment when He took away my heart of stone and gave me a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36), wiping clean my record of sin (Colossians 2) and justifying me by grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3). Those ordained days also included a wonderful wedding: May 13, 2006, I married my amazing husband Johnny.
...and now, of course, we know that those ordained days included bringing another life into the world. The day after Christmas 2007, I had a positive pregnancy test, confirmed 2 days later by my doctor, and my whole world was happily turned upside-down. I'll never forget hearing that little heartbeat for the first time! Well, the doctor said September 4, and the sonographer said August 22, but my little sister Elayna said, with absolute confidence, that my little girl would be born August 27--a Wednesday, the same day of the week that Elayna was born 14 years ago. I laughed at her prediction and joked with her about it, but never thought much of it. Tuesday, August 26, very pregnant and uncomfortable and hot, I drove to JGI to pick Johnny up from work (one of our cars was being worked on), and we stopped to pick up 2-for-$1 tacos for dinner. I think I ate four or five...a decision I would come to regret. About 10pm, I started having contractions--not very strong yet, about 10 minutes apart. About 12:15am, I was in a heap in the floor, with contractions every 2-3 minutes. About 1am, I started vomiting and I told Johnny I didn't care how long the doctor said to wait; we were going to the hospital. We checked in about 2am on Wednesday, August 27, and Ella Christine Vogt was born at 9:13. My sister is so smart. ;)
The first 2 weeks, Ella slept nonstop. I usually had to wake her up to feed her. The waking up process usually took about an hour...haha, she's a heavy sleeper. Then at about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks, the crying started. I've never experienced anything like those evenings of pacing the floor while she sobbed, fussed, even screamed, for reasons entirely unknown to us. It was a crazy time...but there were still so many fun and wonderful moments. I'm not even really sure when the crying stopped...but at 10 1/2 weeks, she's much happier and calmer, smiling and cooing a lot, and absolutely adorable. She used to cry if she wasn't being held; now she cries if you try to pick her up during what we like to call "wiggle time." She kicks those feet so high, I've often joked that she's going to learn to do backwards somersaults before she learns to roll over!!
Well, most of you probably knew all of that already, so I'll skip to the part you're really interested in: pictures!
We took this one when Ella was about 1 week old. Pretty, isn't she?
Here she is at about three weeks, sleeping soundly:
The middle two were taken between 5-6 weeks; the bottom four are recent--about 10 weeks. In these last two, she's stretching--Johnny took a whole bunch of shots while she was waking up. As you can see, she's quite animated when she first wakes up. ;)
And, just for fun, because he's adorable and because we haven't forgotten about him: Coda at bathtime!
Really it begins long ago, when the Lord had written my days in His book before I had lived one of them (Psalm 139). Those ordained days included a moment when He took away my heart of stone and gave me a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36), wiping clean my record of sin (Colossians 2) and justifying me by grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3). Those ordained days also included a wonderful wedding: May 13, 2006, I married my amazing husband Johnny.
...and now, of course, we know that those ordained days included bringing another life into the world. The day after Christmas 2007, I had a positive pregnancy test, confirmed 2 days later by my doctor, and my whole world was happily turned upside-down. I'll never forget hearing that little heartbeat for the first time! Well, the doctor said September 4, and the sonographer said August 22, but my little sister Elayna said, with absolute confidence, that my little girl would be born August 27--a Wednesday, the same day of the week that Elayna was born 14 years ago. I laughed at her prediction and joked with her about it, but never thought much of it. Tuesday, August 26, very pregnant and uncomfortable and hot, I drove to JGI to pick Johnny up from work (one of our cars was being worked on), and we stopped to pick up 2-for-$1 tacos for dinner. I think I ate four or five...a decision I would come to regret. About 10pm, I started having contractions--not very strong yet, about 10 minutes apart. About 12:15am, I was in a heap in the floor, with contractions every 2-3 minutes. About 1am, I started vomiting and I told Johnny I didn't care how long the doctor said to wait; we were going to the hospital. We checked in about 2am on Wednesday, August 27, and Ella Christine Vogt was born at 9:13. My sister is so smart. ;)
The first 2 weeks, Ella slept nonstop. I usually had to wake her up to feed her. The waking up process usually took about an hour...haha, she's a heavy sleeper. Then at about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks, the crying started. I've never experienced anything like those evenings of pacing the floor while she sobbed, fussed, even screamed, for reasons entirely unknown to us. It was a crazy time...but there were still so many fun and wonderful moments. I'm not even really sure when the crying stopped...but at 10 1/2 weeks, she's much happier and calmer, smiling and cooing a lot, and absolutely adorable. She used to cry if she wasn't being held; now she cries if you try to pick her up during what we like to call "wiggle time." She kicks those feet so high, I've often joked that she's going to learn to do backwards somersaults before she learns to roll over!!
Well, most of you probably knew all of that already, so I'll skip to the part you're really interested in: pictures!
We took this one when Ella was about 1 week old. Pretty, isn't she?Here she is at about three weeks, sleeping soundly:
The middle two were taken between 5-6 weeks; the bottom four are recent--about 10 weeks. In these last two, she's stretching--Johnny took a whole bunch of shots while she was waking up. As you can see, she's quite animated when she first wakes up. ;)And, just for fun, because he's adorable and because we haven't forgotten about him: Coda at bathtime!
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