Swingin' on a star

Well, update on the crazy Ains.. she had her 15 month appointment recently. She's still in the 75th percentile for height. However, she has totally fallen off the scale for her weight, less than 1 percentile! She is a skinny minny! Her Dr. thinks it is partly to do with my family's tiny baby genes, and partly to do with the fact that the girl WON'T drink milk. Seriously. I've tried regular, soy, lactaid, chocolate, strawberry, banana and orange flavors. She just doesn't like it. If I give it to her in a cup she can't see thru, she will take one sip, make a face and push it away. If I give it to her in a cup she can see into.. she won't even try it. She does like yogurt and ice cream, so I'm focusing on trying to getting as much of that into her as possible. (I'm open to any and all suggestions)

Besides that, she's doing great. Developmentally, she's doing everything she's supposed to and more. She's a little monkey that climbs all over the place. She's also picking up new words. As of today she says 'Mama, Dada, Uh-Oh, Shoe, Juice, Ball, Wee!, Woah, No, Hi, and Bye'. She also says a lot of craziness, that sounds like gibberish to us, but I'm sure she takes very seriously. Well, there's the baby update for those inquiring minds that wanted to know.

Ainsley LUVS swinging. What little kid doesn't??



Hangin' with her Peeps. Sadie and then Sadie and Ethan

Silly Video

Family Pictures

Once again, I must bow to the amazing talent of my sister in law Anna, the photographer.
She took these when she was up visiting in July, all of them were taken in our neighborhood. I love my neighborhood. :)

Here's my favorite 'artsy' kind of shot :)


I also LOVE this one. Probably one of my favorite pictures of Tom and I in a long time.




The next 3 show the true essence of my happy silly girl






Here's us in front of our new house




Okay, how about a vote on favorite family photo of the next 3?






Tickle-Fest!


Daddy-Daughter


Just us girls

The City so Nice they Named it Twice..

That's right.. New York, NY!

As spoiled as ever, I just got back from another fabulous Christensen trip. It was a couples trip this time, all the married members of the fam, and none of the kids. THANKS KIRTY for watching Ains while were there. She had a great time, and hardly knew I was gone.

We got there Thursday afternoon, checked into the penthouse apartment we were staying at, changed, ate at the yummy restaurant Puttanesca, that we had tried out when we were here last year for the girls trip. Tommy and I ditched dinner a little early, along with his sister Anna and her hubby Allen to catch a show. WICKED!! Fabulous, fabulous fabulous.. I only wish I could've seen the original cast, which included Kristen Chenowyth (who is now playing Olive in my new favorite TV show Pushing Daisies, awesome show!) as Glinda.

(us in the theatre)


(us outside the theatre)


and Here's Anna and I being silly... if you can't tell she's supposed to be the Elphaba (the Wicked Witch) and I'm supposed to be Glinda the Good :)


On Friday it was nice to see some great parts of NYC. Tom thought most of NY was dirty and smelly, but there were some really pretty parts too. Our favorite parts of this trip were the neighborhoods near Battery Park (where you take the ferry to the Statue of Liberty), Chelsea and this nice end of Brooklyn.

(on our way to Battery Park)


Chelsea


We got a lot of exercise, I can't believe how much we walked. We were a lot further from a subway station than last time, and with so many more people cabs weren't really feasible. I didn't feel bad about any of the yummy food we had there, cuz it felt like we walked it all off!
Here's Tom chillin' on the Subway.


In Brooklyn we saw a place called One Girl Cookies whose treats all had girl's names.. this one looks pretty tasty :)


We had the yummiest mozzarella sticks of my life in this place in Little Italy. Such a cute little restaurant.


It's hard to believe, but this was view from the bedroom where we stayed. I took this myself the night before we left by sticking my camera out the window.


On our last day we found my favorite restaurant ever.. Max Brenner's, any place who's dessert menu is bigger than their food menu will always have my heart.. I'll definitely have to find it again if I ever make my way back to New York.


Thanks so much Thom and Kathryn for always being so great and taking us on such a fun trip! Tom's parents are fun crazy people.
Here's Kathryn and I during out shopping day, after our lunch at Rockefeller Center.


and here's Thom.. the crazy head of the Christensen household. And in case you are wondering, I had a glass bracelet i dropped and it broke... and the pieces that survived are what he has hanging in his ears, lol.


It was a great trip.. but it was nice to be home too, I missed my little girl.
I brought home Dunkin Donuts for Kirty, and had to grab some donut holes for me.. Ains helped me finish them off the next morning.

Tagged Again - High School

This was on Lavinia's Blog.. now it's on mine..
Anyone who reads this is automatically tagged, so I expect to see your blog answers soon!

The questions below are all about your high school experience.

1. Did you date someone from your school?
yeah, I had one high school boyfriend for a few months, Karl. :) A sweetheart of a guy
2. What kind of car did you drive?
a Chevy Celebrity.. a really classy car ;)
4. Were you a party animal?
not really.. I was fun.. and not shy, but parties usually involved drinking, and I was pretty much the only one who didn't drink.
5. Were you considered a flirt? Totally.
6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I sang in the choir they had once a year for veterans day.
7. Were you a nerd? I was a drama nerd
8. Were you on any varsity teams?
There really were only varsity teams, it was too small to have JV. So I did Varsity Track and Cross Country.. though there was a jv basketball team for one season.. it had 6 members.. I was the one who sat out...
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? Nope
10. Can you still sing the fight song? hmm.. something about "Dear Old Adrian High"
11. Who were your favorite teachers?
I liked Mr. Hight a lot.. kinda crazy eccentric old man, taught Speech and Drama
12. Where did you sit during lunch?
there were only like 3 tables.. so I sat with my class mates at whatever table was free.
13. What was your school's full name? Adrian High School
14. School mascot? Matador
15. Did you go to Homecoming and who with? It wasn't really like that.. the only formal dance was Prom.. I was a Homecoming Queen Candidate my Senior year.
16. If you could go back and do it again, would you? High School was hard.. I wouldn't want to do it over again, but I would definitely do things differently
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
the slide show of pictures of everyone growing up and the songs they all picked.
18. Where did you go on senior skip day? I don't think we did that..
19. Were you in any clubs? I was on the Speech Team, and helped with the Yearbook
20. Have you gained some weight since then? hasn't everybody?
21. Who was your prom date? Trevor Criner, one of the coolest guys around
22. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? Adrian is too small to have those, they have 1 reunion every 4 years and everyone who ever went there is invited. There is one this year, and it will be 11 years since I graduated.. i don't think we're going tho.. they always have it over Thanksgiving..

for those of you wondering.. Adrian High had about 30+ people total.. I graduated in a class of 14.. biggest class to ever graduate. The year i moved there, there were only 2 seniors. :) I dare anyone to beat that for smallest High School! ;)