I bet you can't recognize this preschooler...

Turning 3 today sure has changed her looks :)

 

Willa is 1 month !!

Willa did not let the camera slow down her calisthenics.
Getting a good workout every day is important, even for babies!

 

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Willa signaled that the photo shoot was nearing its end by attempting to remove her sticker :)

 

Our turtle has torticollis

Willa reminds me of different kinds of animals at different times. A turtle when she scrunches and stretches her neck. A kitten for her snuggly sleep habits. Etc. Anyways...

At her two week Dr appointment I mentioned that she gets hiccups a lot, and also that she turns her neck to the left but not often to the right. She immediately diagnosed it as torticollis and referred me to a local chiropractor who specializes in infants and children.

It ends up I get kuddos for observing it this soon, because cases that are caught & treated earliest usually respond the quickest to treatment. It also ends up, bizarrely enough, that the hiccups are related to the torticollis!

We had our first chiropractor appointment yesterday and I found it pretty fascinating. By gently touching Willa's body, she could tell so much! She is the one who brought up the subject of hiccups, and said that  frequent hiccups are associated with the stiff muscles of torticollis. As she gets treatment they should become much less frequent. I had also observed, but not brought up, that Willa almost always has her fists clenched instead of her fingers open. This, as well, is associated with stiff muscles and will reduce over treatment. Willa's pelvis and spine seem fine, as well as her shoulders. She is tight in her abdomen, on the side of her neck, the back of the neck a bit and she has tightness & a small  indentation on both sides of her face if you follow the eyebrows back to the hairline. This last spot should be worked on gently both for health/flexibility and for cosmetic reasons (so she can have a symmetrical head). We want to start work gently on all these spots so her neck can have normal flexibility and so she can get strong muscles in all areas before she is missing milestones on things like crawling. A precursor to crawling is getting strong muscles through tummy time, and she will not have uniform strong muscles if her head always goes to the one side. Plus we don't want her to get a flat spot that would then potentially need a helmet to protect & correct!

A & E love W!

While batting at things on her play-mat, Willa acquired a bracelet on accident :)

Etta loves holding her "missy baby"

The girls have loved time with grandparents the past few weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bouncy good time

 

We went to a friends birthday party at The Little Gym a couple weeks ago.

The girls sure love to bounce:

 

 

 

 

 

Parks & Outdoor Play

Some of these pictures I may have already posted a few weeks ago,
but I honestly dont remember :)

 

 

 

 

This one, obviously, is from more like 2 months (not 2 weeks) ago.

Addie knows we have our smart phones with us at the park...
which means we always have a camera with us...
which means she can request a picture on every cool rock!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mommys Little Pumpkin

We have started to get some rain here in Seattle so tentatively planned to visit the pumpkin patch on Saturday morning but were not sure how muddy or rainy it would be.
Despite a crummy night of sleep for Matt, Willa & I we decided to go.
And we are glad we did! I got my first egg nog latte of the season!
The big girls had a lot of fun, and Willa slept through most of it.

horsey swings made from tires

a huge pit of corn to play in

a snoozy little pumpkin

a big slide on the hill made from tubing

rubber ducky water races

hay to climb on and jump from

also a hay maze with slide that we did not get  a picture of

animals, including baby kittens the girls got to hold
(Matt read that kittens sleep for 16 hours per day. He decided Willa must be a kitten!)

super big corn dogs, corn on the cob, cornbread, kettle corn...
did I mention corn?

 

each girl got a pumpkin

We knew my friend Katie & her family would be there & we got to say hi to them,
but we also ran into a few other families we know including a former co-op family,
a current co-op family, and a former bookclub member with
girls almost the exact same ages as Etta and Addie.

To top it off, there were some puddles to jump in but not much mud and it did not rain on us :)