It's Tatge-tastic!!: November 2012

I completely slacked last month. It's November and I still haven't written about Ireland!! Or Natalie's 18 month check up!

A quick overview, she is doing great, growing well, and a happy girl. She needs to put on a little more weight, only 15th percentile. Height at 50, and head still huge. She is doing much better with speech. On average picking up a word a week now. Still a bit picky with dinner, and she is on an anti-sandwich kick for lunch now. But she still has a pretty balanced diet, and loves her milk. Nick took Nat to her checkup this time! I was so proud of him to totally offer to take her, and asked Dr. Gina lots of questions! Very impressive daddy skills, I must say :)

Ireland was amazing!! We had such a wonderful time. Natalie was so good, she completely blew me away. I, of course, was way over worried about EVERYTHING. The flights were very long, but we kept her busy, read books, she slept some, and watched lots of Lorax (still her only movie of choice). The first day in Dublin was a lot of adjustment! We were quiet tired, but kept ourselves up and tried to get on a regular sleep schedule. The ONLY thing we had a hard time with in Ireland was miss Nat's sleeping. She would wake up during the night and want to hang out for a few hours before going back to sleep around 4 or 5. Except, of course, for the two night she spent with Nama and poppa Gary...she slept perfect for them! Other than that we had no hiccups. She was great on the bus trips, was fine with snacking lots, missing naps, and by day 4 was BFF's with our tour guide/bus driver. The wedding was absolutely gorgeous. The castle was out of a story book, the wedding party (3 of us included) looked super! Eric and Marissa did a phenomenal job with every little detail! The whole trip was mapped out perfectly, they totally rocked the destination wedding thing! Trip of a life time, so glad we brought miss Nat. So happy we got to spend time with family, across the atlantic, celebrating Uncle Eric & Aunt Marissa :)

Natalie is still my favorite little person. We have so much fun with her. This age is a blast! She is so funny and has the most entertaining personality. Currently she is cutting her eye teeth and quiet honestly, she is such a trooper. She was a dream most of the day today (i've seen swelling since friday). By 4:00 she was a hot hot mess. Felt in her mouth and one toofer broke the skin, OUCH! Poor baby. After some teething tabs and a mushy dinner, by 7:30 she was snuggling with me on the couch ready for bed. Such a tough kiddo (ehem...gets it from me...obvi). She has also developed several fancy dance moves in the past few weeks. She is getting really good, and even added some spin moves. The dance skills daddy can take credit for, I'm horrible lol. She is such a love, and gives the best hugs EVER.

Nick was home the entire month of October so that was amazing. His travel schedule seems to be simmering down a bit. Very happy about that. Holidays are fast approaching, can't wait to play Santa this year! I think daddy is more excited then I am, its cute :)

We went to Orlando for UCF Homecoming last weekend, and Aunt Jo came in town to visit with us as well. She was here for a good 5 days, and really got to spend some quality time with her God daughter. It was a bitter sweet HC this year. We were missing one of our closest friends, Tiff. It was not the same without her there, but she was most definitely there in spirit. It was great for all of us to get together, reminisce, laugh, cry, & tell stories. We miss Aunt T very much and will always keep our memories of her close to our hearts. Love you Tiff!

LOTS of photos to share this post. NOT in order. And the rest of the Ireland pics are on FB (we barely took out our camera)!