Year One               Year Two                 Year Three                Year Four

   The First Year  (May 96- May 97)

Day 1: Born at 7:19pm

Day 2: Arrive home at 8:30pm (don't you love hospitals?)

Day 3: First Dr. Visit. 8lbs 6 oz, 20 1/2 inches

3 weeks: First noticed mobile above crib

          : 10 lbs 1 oz, 21 1/4 inches

June 13: First trip to Pittsburgh!

        15: Grandma gets married! (Go see Photos!)

        16: Pumpkin gets baptised! (Go see Photos!)

2 mos 2 weeks: 16 lbs 3 oz, 25 1/4 inches (95 percent hight and weight)

July  10: Pumpkin smiles! (Go see Photos!)

        14: Our first family trip to the beach! Pumpkin is on a ferry!

        16: Rolls over onto stomach. Which he hates!

Aug.  5: Our first day at daycare!

        24: First cold! (Way to go, Dad!)

4 mos  : 19 lbs 11 oz, 27 1/4 inches

Sept. 26: Our first plane trip (to Cincinnati!)

        27: Pumpkin finally finds his thumb!

        28: Pumpkin meets his great-great grandma! (See Photos!)

Oct. 20: The first dreaded ear infection!

        26: Sits up on own! (Like a leaning tower of piza)

6 mos  : 20 lbs 14 oz, 28 1/2 inches

           : Notices Cats for the first time, 2 lower teeth come in

Nov.  4: Gets first cereal. Messy messy (See Photos!)

         5: Says Da-da and knows who that really is

         7: Another plane trip! (Cincinnati Again!)

        14: Up on hands and knees to crawl

Dec 12-14: Teething yet again

        15: First succussfully crawls after something out of his reach

        25: First Christmas!! (See Photos!)

        26: Another Plane trip - Now lets go skiing in Vail!

9 mos : 23 lbs 6 oz, 28 7/8 inches

          : Recognizes own name, feeds self

Feb. 15: Crawls up and down stairs

        20: Can push toy cart across the room

        25: Learns how to swing feet of the edge of the bed to get down

        28: Drinks from a straw

March 2: We buy our first pair of shoes

        10: Pumpkin gets bronchitis

        13: Takes 2 unassisted steps

        27: ANOTHER plane trip (Guess where!)

        30: The first Easter (See Photos!)

12 months: 25 lbs 5 oz, 31 1/8 inches !!

One Year Birthday Party -  Lets Cut to the Photos!

The Second Year  (May 97 - May 98)

May 17ish:  Pumpkin gets the chicken pox.  Ack!

Aug. 9:  Pumpkin is weaned. (Mommy is a little sad)

The Terror turns Two!

 

The Third Year (May 98- May 99)

June:  The Terror becomes a big brother.

The Fourth Year  (May 99 - May '00)

May ?? - ??:  Plane trip to FLA!  Pumpkin can say Manatee.

May 17:  Start lightly potty training.

July 6  :  Finally, totally potty trained!

Aug. 15:  First allowed to go to a friends house to play without mommy right there

Aug. 30:  Now sleeping in Underwear!   Yippee

Sept.   :  Begin taking swimming lessons!

Oct.     :  Counts to 12, Knows most of ABCs

Dec. 15:  Puts on jacket by himself and can zip it all the way up

Dec. 24:  Our 3rd Christmas!  (Photos!)

Jan. 10 '00:  Seems to finally understand that mommy is having another baby.

Begins to carry around 2 stuffed animals, calling them his babies.  Wants mommy to breastfeed one while he breastfeeds the other (Too Cute!)  Begins demanding that he, too, has a baby in his tummy.

Jan. 22: Sleeps in his new bedroom!

Sometime in March:  Becomes a big brother times 2!

 

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Last updated: January 24, 2000

 

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