Silly Stille Family Collage

It's a girl! & new discoveries

Sorry- we're a bit behind. The big news is that Tatum will have a little sister to welcome in December. That's right, it is another girl! (Yay pink!). Also, she has developed a liking for the taste of O'Douls and so this collage celebrates this discovery.

footloose!

Baby Stille is learning to use those legs already at 16 weeks. I know it is unlikely that I'm able to feel those kicks already, but I've had one definate kick yesterday and one also today. Today is a wonderful day too, because I can report no nausea yet today. This will be the first nausea free day in 15 weeks, YIPEEE!!!! Now that is something to definately celebrate!

Beating the Omaha Heat!

We've been at the sprinkler park, or at a pool 3 of the last 5 days.
Some days Tatum is even lucky enough to go swimming at daycare and also with mommy and daddy in the same day!
This weather reminds me of the day Tatum was born- 102 degrees and steamy!!!
She likes to find her swimsuit or sunscreen and say "SWIM!!!!"
It is pretty safe to say that she will be living in these croc sandals this summer.
Somehow there is turquoise in nearly everything she wears, and she wants the "blue shoes" even if she is wearing pink!

New words the past few days:
Delicious
Dark
Drip
glove
frog
hamper (I have no idea where she got this, pointed out one at daycare!)

Vocab explosion begins!

So Tatum has steadily been using new words, on her own each day. I've even begun to keep a pen and paper handy so I can jot down the newsest words. I've used a little "communication inventory" to log the words she understands and then the words she understands and says. So for me to count the word, she has to say the word without my prompting. Imitating something she just heard doesn't count. Most of the time they are used in the correct context, and she is just learning so much each day.

Okay, here is the current count.... Drumroll please!!!

168 words (not including any names!)

A sampling: walk, park, swing, battery (she knows when a toy needs these!), massage (sssage!), mess, hole, straw, copter (can tell between airplane and copter sounds!), sticker, I love you, trash, stuck, fly, ant, bee (everything that is crawling on the ground is an ant, and everything that flies is a bee), noodles, dip, step, bite, Mickey, Dora, George (curious george), seal, octopus, dirty, ice cream

First Belly Pics

There is no snazzy title, just the first belly pictures at about 14 weeks. Still feeling nauseated at odd times during the day, but getting along just fine. Not the most enjoyable pregnancy, but I'm hanging in there. Baby and I are going to be together for a long while yet!

Snaggle-tooth

A few weeks ago we visited the famous Rosenblatt Stadium for a Omaha Royals Baseball game. 2 minutes after we took our seats, Tatum did a header over a row of seats and chipped her tooth. She cut her lip a little, but was such a trooper. So she made a trip to the dentist a few days later and they sort of took of the ragged edges. Here, she sports her cheesy smile, which now definately has some character!!