Ouida Mae

Happy father’s day

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:34:17 +0000

Today, malachi took ouida mae to the zoo. It was late on the afternoon, so they almost had the place to themselves.

Spring into Easter

malachi — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:58:21 +0000

Today we’ve been practicing gathering Easter eggs with Ouida Mae in a cute spring dress. It’s a bit long, so she’s tripped on it a couple of times.

Busy weekend

malachi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:15:46 +0000

Yesterday Malachi was teaching origami at the Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival, so Kimberly and Ouida Mae came out. Ouida Mae got to play in the fountain a bit at the courthouse square.

This weekend was also free weekend at Cheekwood, so we all went there and wandered around for an hour or so.

Toddling Fool

malachi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:49:51 +0000

Kimberly got some good video of Ouida Mae walking around the local fabric store this week.

Long time, no posts

malachi — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:07:06 +0000

Sorry, we’ve been slacking at this again. Ouida Mae had a grand birthday in December, and a great Christmas (maybe Kimberly will links to pictures later).

More recently she’s been a little under the weather, as have I. This weekend we got some snow, though, and she got to touch it. At first she was kind of upset that she had something on her hands, then she didn’t like that it was cold.

Also, after a month of intermittent runny noses and watching me all week, last night she took a tissue from the box and then rubbed it on her nose before trying to give it to us and then pulling it apart in little bits. Very cute.

Momma’s taking us to the zoo today…

malachi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:12 +0000

Because it was a nice day out and some friends from church were going, Kimberly decided we should all go to the Nashville Zoo today. We set out at around 10am and walked around until almost 3pm. Ouida Mae had a good time and was generally engaged the entire time. She showed a lot of interest in the various types of animals, but she loved the aquariums the most. I think she could sit and watch the fish for hours.

meeting up with friends at the zoo

watching the elephants

Her favorite by far were the camels at the petting zoo. She grabbed the fence, jumped up and down, pointed at a camel and said “Doggie!”

Ouida Mae checks out the camel

We also got a membership while we were there, so expect more zoo pictures in the future…

An update? Shocking!

malachi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:16:51 +0000

We really are terrible about updating this. If you want that to change, you might email Kimberly and ask her to spend a few minutes on here instead of MDC each week…

Anyway, I won’t be able to due the missed time justice. Here are some high points.

Ouida Mae has six teeth. Four upper and two lower, but they seem to just keep coming.

Ouida Mae crawls like lightening and cruises a lot, but doesn’t quite stand by herself.

She’s learned a few words, notably “doggy”, but she mostly babbles in her own language only she understands (maybe).

She was dressed as Chewbacca for a few Halloween events.

She’s currently recovering from a bout of bronchitis.

For the 4th of July we went to East Tennessee to visit with family.

Kimberly, Ouida Mae, and Rosa at The River

Ouida Mae in the 4th of July dress from Happy and Joyce

JB, Ouida Mae, and Dar at The River

Malachi, Ouida Mae, and JB in hippie attire

This summer Kimberly took Ouida Mae to her first set of swim lessons. She had a good time.

Ouida Mae at swim lessons

Ouida Mae and Kimberly at swim lessons

Toothy says hello

We took a trip to the Wilson County Fair.

At the petting zoo

watching the animals at the petting zoo

Sleepy in the sling

Later in the summer we took another trip to East Tennessee to visit with JD and Arlette.

riding on JD's boat

At 9 months, Ouida Mae was going to town on goldfish.

OM NOM NOM

In October, Ouida Mae went to a fiend’s birthday party. There were a lot of babies there, and one dog (part border collie). Ouida Mae seemed most interested in the dog.

party hats for all!

Anyway, that’s a quick recap. Hopefully we can do better in the future…

Fun in the sun

Kimberly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:14:35 +0000

I hate that I so seldom get a chance to update this journal. Ouida loves to play with my lap top, so it’s very hard to get anything done on it when she’s awake as she’s climbing all over it and trying to pull the keys out.

She was six months old on June 11 (there is a video in the works). Last week at the doctor she weighed 16 pounds. She is sitting, crawling, pulling up, and eating solid food. I believe she slept through the night last night, but it’s possible I just slept through nursing her. She continues to act like she’s cutting a tooth with no evidence to support it.

We try to take her out and expose to new experiences as often as possible. Here she is in her new sun hat:

At the American Artisan Festival in Centennial Park:

And at Percy Priest Lake at Long Hunter State Park:

Splish Splash

Kimberly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:05:38 +0000

Since Ouida Mae was only a few weeks old I have been putting her in the garden tub with me and letting her float in the deep water. For the most part she has always loved her baths, and she has learned to kick and play in the warm water. Last week I tried supporting her on her belly for the first time and she smiled and giggled as she tried to lick the water.

This week we took her to the pool for the first time. I knew she liked to be in the water, but was more than a little apprehensive about how she would react to the temperature difference between the hot bath and the cool pool water. Turned out it wasn’t so bad…

A little nervous at first...

But with a little encouragement from Mom...

all was right with the world again!

All dry again:

Our little Oompa Loompa

Five Months

Kimberly — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:26:09 +0000

Ouida Mae was five months old on Monday. Here is a little video we made to commemorate the day:

We got a couple of decent photos from the event too: