It's a cute outfit... too bad it's a sad baby!Happy (belated) Valentine's!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Dog Food-- The Great Motivator
Eliza finally has mastered crawling. What was it that finally gave her the motivation to take the plunge and conquer this skill? None other than Iam's Dog food...
I guess it's good we're not raising a picky eater, right?
Check it out:
I mentioned in my previous post that we had the privilege of a visit from my mom this week. Yay! I finally found the camera where we had a couple of pictures of the visit. I wish I had taken more!
What do you think? Do we look related?
What do you think? Do we look related?
Poor Mom, Eliza wanted to nurse, and I made her pose for the camera!
She's been quite the social kid waving at and clapping with everyone. She got to show off her skills at the pediatrician's office for her 9 mnth check up this week. My mom and Katy were nice enough to take Eliza to the appointment and met our awesome pediatrician, Dr. Schauer-- They thought she was great just like we do (which is saying something with Mom's expertise and Katy's selective taste ;))
Eliza got cleared to add some great foods to her diet! She can basically eat whatever we eat now with just the few exceptions of nuts, shellfish, cow's milk, and honey!
Her favorite dinner this week was spaghetti! I wish we had taken a picture. By the time Eliza was done, she was a completely orange kid! Orange cheeks, nose, hands, shoes, pants, floor, high chair, etc. But she LOVED the pasta. She was just slurping the noodles up like a pro!
She was eating some of our baked Ziti earlier this week too, and she was inhaling the noodles at such a rate, Steve and I were looking around to see where they had gone. We thought that maybe she had been throwing them down somewhere and the dog was eating it, but it was all her! She's a pasta-fiend!
She seems to not really care much for meat or cheese. She likes throwing it to Mika (the dog) more than eating it (which he's in puppy heaven about). I haven't tried any of the baby canned meat yet. It just looks too disgusting to me. Maybe we'll try it later. I just figure that it looks gross enough in the jar, I don't want to see what it's gonna look/smell like in diaper form later! Sorry if TMI.
Eliza's other recent favorite food is cooked broccoli. Steve thought she was throwing it down too since it was disappearing so quick! She packs the whole little floret in her mouth and devours it! I think it's great to have a broccoli fan at such a young age!
Some of her other strange food affinities include lettuce, tamales (from Aqui Es Mexico), rice that she picks up like 2 or 3 at a time, and any other form of carbs.
But apparently Eliza is becoming a tall, skinny kid.
Her stats are:
Height: 28 1/4 in
75%
Weight: 18.14 lbs.
50%
Eliza has also been having fun pulling herself to standing. She did it tonight in the bath which was a little frightening. That's my baby!
I was so excited to have this Sunday off of work. It feels like such a treat to have a whole free afternoon to spend with Steve and Eliza! We took a great family nap- all 5 of us were passed out on the bed by 2:30: dog, cat, baby, mom, and dad! So much love.
And on the subject of love, I hope everyone has a great Valentine's week! Happy Birthday, Mom- one of my favorite Valentines!
Here's a pic of me and ELIZA from last Valentine's day! Eliza's come a long way!Saturday, February 9, 2008
A Picture w/ a Thousand Words or Less: Mommy and Me!
I'm in the middle of being certified as a "Med-Tech" by my work. It's a four day training, two this week and two next week. My mom (Eliza's Oma!!) was SO nice and drove all the way up from SC, taking time out from a busy life of pediatric nurse practitioner-ing masters program, seminary teaching, mothering a 9th grader, and a newborn nursery nursing job to come babysit Eliza for two days!
I don't know what I would have done without her!! THANK YOU, MOM!
Eliza thought Oma was a blast, and it was SO great for me to get to see Mom. It was also nice to get to see Kate a little more than usual too!
Above is a picture of all of us Meldau girls on a hike in Charlottesville Wednesday afternoon! So fun!
Part time lover and a full time friend
I was at the gym on Friday and had just come out of my step class when I heard a band playing over the loud-speakers that I would never have expected to hear at Gold's Gym. The Moldy Peaches.
Any of you who are already familiar with this band know just how awesome they are. Those of you who haven't had the privilege to become acquainted with their music might have heard their stuff in the movie, Juno. Theirs is the closing scene's guitar duet.
Apparently the director of Juno asked star Ellen Page what she thought her character would listen to. She mentioned The Moldy Peaches, so Reitman got in touch with Kimya Dawson and Adam Green and asked them if he could use their song "Anyone Else but You."
Later, after Dawson thought the movie was wrapped, Reitman asked if he could hear some of her more recent work. She obliged him with some songs she'd been writing for her toddler, and those songs also ended up in the film.
Dawson said she was happy to see the movie's characters singing "Anyone Else but You." "Those kids are so cool and weird and sweet," she says. "They're nice little freaks. I felt like they were not too far from the kids we were when we wrote that song." At the time, Green was 18 and Dawson was 27.
Anywayz, you can and SHOULD check their stuff out here. Or check out their pretty crazy website here.
I've been listening to them since like middle school or high school thanks to my ever-so-hip and trendy older sister Katy who always seems to know who's about to hit it big. She's also the one who introduced me to Radiohead, Feist, and Ani DiFranco before they become the hit sensations they are now. Thanks, Kate.
Any of you who are already familiar with this band know just how awesome they are. Those of you who haven't had the privilege to become acquainted with their music might have heard their stuff in the movie, Juno. Theirs is the closing scene's guitar duet.
Apparently the director of Juno asked star Ellen Page what she thought her character would listen to. She mentioned The Moldy Peaches, so Reitman got in touch with Kimya Dawson and Adam Green and asked them if he could use their song "Anyone Else but You."
Later, after Dawson thought the movie was wrapped, Reitman asked if he could hear some of her more recent work. She obliged him with some songs she'd been writing for her toddler, and those songs also ended up in the film.
Dawson said she was happy to see the movie's characters singing "Anyone Else but You." "Those kids are so cool and weird and sweet," she says. "They're nice little freaks. I felt like they were not too far from the kids we were when we wrote that song." At the time, Green was 18 and Dawson was 27.
Anywayz, you can and SHOULD check their stuff out here. Or check out their pretty crazy website here.
I've been listening to them since like middle school or high school thanks to my ever-so-hip and trendy older sister Katy who always seems to know who's about to hit it big. She's also the one who introduced me to Radiohead, Feist, and Ani DiFranco before they become the hit sensations they are now. Thanks, Kate.
But the Moldy Peaches song, Anyone Else But You is a lovely little ballad that I hope I am cool enough to call "Our Song" for Steve and me. Haha!
You're a part time lover and a full time friend
The monkey on you're back is the latest trend
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
I kiss you on the brain in the shadow of a train
I kiss you all starry eyed, my body's swinging from side to side
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Here is the church and here is the steeple
We sure are cute for two ugly people
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
The pebbles forgive me, the trees forgive me
So why can't, you forgive me?
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
I will find my nitch in your car
With my mp3 DVD rumple-packed guitar
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu du
Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
You are always trying to keep it real
I'm in love with how you feel
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
We both have shiny happy fits of rage
You want more fans, I want more stage
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Don Quixote was a steel driving man
My name is Adam I'm your biggest fan
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Squinched up your face and did a dance
You shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu du
But you
I like one of their other songs even better, Nothing Came Out.
Just because, I don's say anything,
Doesn't mean..
I don't like you.
I opened my mouth, and i tried, and i tried,
But no words came out.
Without 40 Ounces of social skills,
I'm just an ass,
In the crack,
of humanity...
I'm just a huge manatee...
A huge manatee.
And besides you're probably holding hands
With some skinny, pretty, girl that likes to
Talk about bands, and,
All i wanna do is ride bikes with you,
and stay up late,
And watch cartoo--oons.
...Duc tails, shirt tails, tail spin, sailor moon... (keeps going)
I just wanna watch cartoons with you.
Josie and the Pussy Cats and Scooby Doo,
I want you to watch cartoons with me:
He-man, Voltron and Hong Kong Fooey
I tried to ask,
you to your face
but no words came out.
Put on my hood,
and walked away,
that dosnt mean I don't like you
And besides you're probably holding hands
with some skinny, pretty girl that likes to
talk about bands, and
all I wanna do is ride bikes with you.
and stay up late and maybe spoo--oon.
Just becase I don't say anything
doesnt mean I don't like you.
..no..
I opened my mouth and I tried and I tried.
And besides, you're probably holding hands
with some skinny, pretty girl that likes to
talk about bands, and
all I wanna do is ride bikes with you.
and stay up late and watch cartoons.
I'm just your average undercats host.
Doesn't mean..
I don't like you.
I opened my mouth, and i tried, and i tried,
But no words came out.
Without 40 Ounces of social skills,
I'm just an ass,
In the crack,
of humanity...
I'm just a huge manatee...
A huge manatee.
And besides you're probably holding hands
With some skinny, pretty, girl that likes to
Talk about bands, and,
All i wanna do is ride bikes with you,
and stay up late,
And watch cartoo--oons.
...Duc tails, shirt tails, tail spin, sailor moon... (keeps going)
I just wanna watch cartoons with you.
Josie and the Pussy Cats and Scooby Doo,
I want you to watch cartoons with me:
He-man, Voltron and Hong Kong Fooey
I tried to ask,
you to your face
but no words came out.
Put on my hood,
and walked away,
that dosnt mean I don't like you
And besides you're probably holding hands
with some skinny, pretty girl that likes to
talk about bands, and
all I wanna do is ride bikes with you.
and stay up late and maybe spoo--oon.
Just becase I don't say anything
doesnt mean I don't like you.
..no..
I opened my mouth and I tried and I tried.
And besides, you're probably holding hands
with some skinny, pretty girl that likes to
talk about bands, and
all I wanna do is ride bikes with you.
and stay up late and watch cartoons.
I'm just your average undercats host.
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