Mission Trip 2011

Sacramento, New Mexico was wonderful fun! X did well, first night was a little rough, but after that she was a good sleeper, worker, and participated fully!

Of course, her absolute favorite of the week was the dirt piles. She was the filthiest baby ever for a week (We gave her sink baths most nights which did a little good--and one shower which she SCREAMED through)...

She was a good worker. She helped the lumberjack team who were cutting and carrying logs down the mountain.

Cleaning dining hall windows with mama.

Lots of play too! Pastor Lee is taller than Ric or I (but not taller than Tayta), so X has a couple people in her life that lift her Really High.

Swinging with Gramama.

Feeding the fish in the pond with Gramama.

She worked hard, played hard, and slept hard. Although, her pack and play is looking pretty small for her now.

Ricardo's team replaced the roof on this funky pavilion. Weirdest roofing job ever.

Finished roof! Good job Ricardo and Team!

There were also 3 other teams--and lots of projects completed. Since blogging seems to take more time than I have these days, I'm probably not going to post the pictures from all the teams (I would have to sort through over 1,000 photos to do that!)

Twin night. Gramama, X and I wore our new aprons from Alisha.

Diaper hat.

planking

if you haven't heard of it before, it's a senseless phenomenon. Apparently, it is a fad to lay face down with arms at sides in random locations and take pictures of it :)

like so:

While I am not advocating this activity, it was pretty entertaining to watch all the youth on mission trip (not just the youth, actually) having fun and being creative with planking mission trip pictures.

And, of course...everyone was so excited when X learned to plank.

More Mission Trip planking pictures here.

stats

So, last month X had her 2 year well check and she's doing fine!

Her head is plenty healthy, measuring 18.5 which is 45th percentile,

Height is 33.5, 50th percentile (only 2.5 inches she needs to grow before October and Disneyland, so she can go on all the rides :)

and...

Weight.

At least she's over 20 lbs now. A whopping 22 pounds (with clothes/shoes on), which still leaves her at way below the percentile chart. But, she eats a ton and it developing fine, so apparently I still don't need to be worried about it.

And, I'll have my 28 week appt. this week (yay for the gestational diabetes juice....blah), and maybe, just maybe I'll post a belly pic. Several people noticed that I got a lot bigger this past week on Mission Trip (camp food maybe??) So, now I get to feel nice and big while it's 105 outside. We'll not be going outside until September :)

Mission Trip pics coming soon!