The Wade Family » Blair http://chaseandcolleen.com Chase, Colleen and Blair Wade Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Blair’s Swim Class http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/10/02/blairs-swim-class/ http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/10/02/blairs-swim-class/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:39:03 +0000 Chase http://chaseandcolleen.com/?p=299 Blair at the poolColleen signed Blair up for swim classes and they went to the first one last week.  Blair loved it!  The classes take place at Utica High School on Saturday mornings.  Last week Blair was introduced to the water and practiced splashing around.  The classes are less about learning how to swim and more about being comfortable in the water.

Above all, Blair was happy to be able to model her swimsuit!

Blair's new swimsuit

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Weight: 16 lbs, 4 oz (54th percentile)

Height: 27 inches (90th percentile)

She had to get a couple of shots which went over pretty well all things considering.  I have my own hypothesis on why the shots were easier this time.

Here is a pic from this weekend:

Blair's crazy hair

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Click here to view larger movie.

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Everybody on the whole cell block...

Everybody on the whole cell block...

I sing to Blair all the time. She loves music. We sing about itsy-bitsy spiders, bunnies bopping field mice, skinamarinks, some lady who’ll be coming ‘round the mountain whenever she feels like it, and plenty of other made up melodies. Good or bad, Blair has even started using a special “screeching voice” when she wants to sing along. Hopefully, that’s not exactly what she thinks I sound like! Anyway, it’s quite possible she will sing well before she talks.

So today, we went to the local library for a kids concert. As usual, our social butterfly was fascinated by the sight and sounds of so many other kids. Musician Bill Donahue introduced the little ones to everything from Beethoven to Elvis. Everybody on the whole cell block – even Blair – danced to the jailhouse rock. We had a great time!

]]> http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/07/22/concert-library/feed/ 1 Blair’s long night and our doctor problem http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/07/21/blairs-long-night-and-our-doctor-problem/ http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/07/21/blairs-long-night-and-our-doctor-problem/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:22:42 +0000 Chase http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/07/21/blairs-long-night-and-our-doctor-problem/ Blair had her 4 month checkup yesterday as I previous noted. While her growth and development were just fine, the downside was that she needed to get some shots of vaccines. I don’t like shots, kids hate shots, and babies despise shots with a cataclysmic passion. Needless to say, Blair was fussy throughout the day yesterday and we had a very long night. There is nothing more heart wrenching than when your infant is looking at you almost apologetically with the look of “please make the pain stop daddy”.

So once the fever started last night we called our doctor’s office to double check that everything was normal and ask what, if anything, we should watch out for in terms of escalating symptoms of vaccine side effects. After about 30 minutes, the on-call doctor finally calls back and refutes the type of thermometer and method of taking Blair’s temperature that our primary care physician recommended. Did I mention that they are in practice together? Anyways, after a frequently interrupted night, Colleen calls the doctors office at 8:30am this morning and at 12:00pm she still didn’t get a call back. When she called back a second time, she was told our doctor was not in the office today and would she like to speak to a nurse. Except she was transferred into the practice’s voicemail system that could rival government or airlines bureaucratic phone tree. While we are quite fond of our doctor as an individual and practitioner, the practice is way too top heavy for the type of care we are looking for as new parents with an infant. If anyone has any recommendations of a pediatrician in the Sterling Heights area, please let us know.

After the night/morning Colleen and I needed to laugh a little bit so we are continually watching the following video. It never fails to bring a smile:

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Weight - 14 lbs 4.5 oz.
Height - 25.75 inches
Head Circumference – 16.4 inches

Length = between percentile 75 and 90
Weight = between percentile 50 and 75
Head Circumference = between percentile 50 and 75

So Blair is still on track to become the genius supermodel.

Kudos to Colleen for having to soothe Blair after vaccinations.


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]]> http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/06/16/blair-at-three-months/feed/ 2 Colleen and Blair at Meijer Gardens http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/06/15/colleen-and-blair-at-meijer-gardens/ http://chaseandcolleen.com/2009/06/15/colleen-and-blair-at-meijer-gardens/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:10:32 +0000 Chase http://chaseandcolleen.com/?p=166

Colleen and Blair at the Park from Chase Wade on Vimeo.

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