Damico Halloween Party

Tonight we went to a party over at Jackie and Matt's house. We had a lovely time and took some great pictures! Click here for pictures from the night.

Kari, Chloe, Courtney and Millie (video)

Millie meets Vijay (video)

Millie does the roooooooollllllll (video)

This wonderful blanket was made with much love from Sue Finder in Florida. Sue has made us several things but this blanket is warm and perfect for Millie's tummy time. Millie's outfit here was from Mickey and Rocky Ashkenes. I am not sure if they follow the blog or not but she looked cute as a button! Thank you all! To see more pictures, click here

Millie is just as happy as can be. She has been a great napper this weekend. Sleeping for about 3-3.5 hours at a time. She is really enjoying sucking on her hands. She recently has been caught looking/staring at her feet. She isn't rolling over yet and doesn't seem to interested in doing that. We are trying to get her to sit up on her own but she falls right over. Maybe in a couple weeks. She is starting what might be a laugh. She is smiling and talking at the same time which usually equals a laugh! It's happens so few and far between that it's hard to get on film. I think that's about it!

Updated crib pics

I updated this album just a bit to add Mil in the crib. Click here to see pictures of Millie in her crib.

Millie the Ballerina

On Saturday afternoon/evening, we meet up with all of my Mommy friends. As you can see, Millie was a ballerina. Click here to see more pictures of her in her tutu. Her tutu was made by one of Mat's friend's wives. Tonia made the tutu for Millie was it fit perfect. All the kids got dressed up in outfit. It was great to see all the girls again and meet the husbands/daddies. We got some great pictures from our night out. Click here to see the pictures from our get-together.

The many faces of Millie Tainow

I swear she doesn't make the same face twice. Enjoy all the pictures from our Saturday afternoon together.

Pirate Millie

I just thought this outfit was hysterical. I don't know where it came from but I love it!

To see more pictures of Pirate Millie hanging out with Daddy, click here.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, matie!

3 months old!

To see the rest of the 3 month pictures, click here

Well, Millie is now 3 months old! Where has the time gone! She isn't feeling 100% since she got back from Ohio. She had never experienced such chilly weather and came down with a little cold. She is all stuffed up and breaths in and out all the flem. Then she will try and cough it out. I am not sure that is working so we try and squeeze it out with the sucker thing we got from the hospital. It's quite amusing but she doesn't seem to mind. She seems to be getting a little better.

She is still sucking on her hands all the time. Staring cross-eyed at them from time to time. She isn't sitting up on her own yet but her head is much stronger than it used to be. She is drinking alot of bottles. We made our first attempt to do a dream feed last night. So Millie got her first taste of formula! It was the first time she had any since she was 12 hours old. She didn't seem to mind and sucked down quite a bit. However she got up again at 6am to feed. Oh well. At least it wasn't 4am! She seems to be doing great at daycare. No complaints from the teacher.


Here is a picture of the beautiful crib that my father made. Chloe and Courtney have both slept here and Millie will as well. To see more pictures of the crib, click here.

HAPPY 33rd BIRTHDAY KARI!

On this day, 33 years ago, my sister Kari was born.
7 pounds 2 ounces
Born at 2:30pm
Zanesville, Ohio
Bethesda Hospital

We are all better people for knowing this fine young lady! Happy Birthday Sister!

Home bound

So Millie randomly woke up around 6:30am on Monday morning so I fed, changed her and we jetted out Kelly's door. After about 5 mins, she was snoozing again.

We were on the road by 7am.
Stopped to feed/change around 9am.
Stopped to feed/change around 11am.
Stopped to feed/change around 1pm.
Home by 3:30pm.

Each stop was about 30-45 mins. We would walk around, go to the bathroom, hang out in the car. She was simply an ANGEL! She slept the whole freakin time! It was amazing! We stopped at Engine 11 to see Mat and he had to wake her up!

I knew I could do it!

Ohio Sunday night

After the race, a tired Kenzi and Millie packed up and took off for Cincinnati. Well, actually Mom and Dad packed the car. No U-haul needed! The crib fit perfectly in the car and everything else was piled on top. I can't believe that everything fit!

The plan was to drive there and overnight in order to make the trip shorter by a couple of hours. Millie and I drove to Cincy around 4ish and she did NOT like that drive. We had to stop twice and Millie cried almost the entire time. I was worried about the next day. It didn't look good! If the trip to Cincy was this bad, how was she going to make it to Atlanta!?!?!?

We made it and went to visit my friend Lauren and her family. Lauren and I also went to elementary school together and walked to school each day. We are old friends and it was great to finally see her amazing house. Her son Glen is adorable and loved playing with the cell phone. We would ask him who was calling and he would say "Bama". I loved to say Obama! We had delicious pizza and dessert at their house! Our friend Cindy was there and Kelly too. After dinner we took off for Kelly's place where we were sleeping that night.

Kelly and Alex just moved into a great apartment in Cincy. It so big and spacious with a garage! Really nice place! Alex & Kelly are the two youngest people living there by far! It was so nice of them to let us stay there that night.

Click here to see pictures of Glendon meeting Millie!

Sunday - Marathon Day

Believe it or not, I have no pictures of us at the marathon but we did it!!! Kari is supposed to send me some pictures.

It was really really cold but we kept warm. 11,000 particpants! We all finished under 4 hours. Katie, Kari and I stayed together walking much faster than our 10-mile pace. We all ran to every mile marker which actually makes your body feel better. Just kinda breaks things up. I was kinda done at around 10 miles but pressed on. We crossed the finish line at 3:39. It was a great course. A couple of long boring stretches but for the most part, it was really pretty.

Mom and Cindy were certainly the most fit and most prepared out of our group. They kept a great pace and did fabulously!! I think those two are the least sore out of all of us!

Anyone want to join us next year?

To see some pictures at the finish line, click here

I found my hands!

Little Ohio U Ladies

Mama D bought the ladies OU shirts for a little fall photo shoot. They looked adorable and sat for pictures very well! Courtney was such a ham and Chloe looked so beautiful. Millie sat quietly and stared at her hands. She kinda goes crossed-eyed when she looks at them. Enjoy the pictures from the OU shoot, click here!



























Shawna and Gary Green stopped by the photo shoot to meet little Millie. They are great family friends of ours. I was happy they were able to come out. To see those couple of pictures, click here.

Ohio Saturday

On Saturday Millie and I packed up and went to Columbus to meet some friends for lunch. My friend Kelly, from college, and her Mom came down from Cleveland and we met for lunch. It was so sweet of them to come down and it was great that they got to meet Millie. Karla even came over to meet us. It was great getting caught up with everyone. Millie wasn't the happiest but it was loud in the restaurant. She certainly slept the entire way home!

Click here to see our pictures from lunch.

Ohio Friday

Friday was great because Mom and Dad were off from school. So we just hung out in the morning, Millie's favorite time. Mom and I ran around buying all kinds of winter clothes for Millie. It was quite cold in Ohio and I only brought a couple long sleeved outfits. So we bought lots of pants and long sleeved onesies.

Kari's baby clothes have been so PERFECT since she was born. But since Millie was born in July, and her kids in Feb/March, we are off season just a bit. She is a VERY well dressed kiddo!

That afternoon we went for one last walk to prepare ourselves for Sunday. We walked for about quite awhile but it felt good. I had recovered from our 10 miler and was feeling good.

Friday night we went over to Katie's house to meet Kelly and Michelle/Bart and her two kids Grant & Gracie. Kelly and I have been friends for years. She lives in Cincinnati and came up just for the weekend. It was great to see her and hang out just like high school times! Michelle and I went to elementary school together and have been friends ever since. We used to walk to school together every day! She has two beautiful children Grant (3) and Gracie (9 months). To see pictures from Friday night, click here.

Great Grandma Norris

Click here for some cute pictures with Great Grandma Norris

Grandma Norris came to Atlanta when Millie was first born. She said today and if she saw Millie on the street today, she wouldn't have recognize her! She IS porking up!

We have noticed today that she is really focusing in on her hands. Kinda going cross-eyed when looking at her hands. I think she is beginning to realized that those fun things are attached to her! I'll try and get a picture of it tomorrow.

Millie meets Sonal & Vijay Kadakia Stokes

Click here to see the amazing pictures from today!

Sonal and I have been friends for years. We went to High School together and have stayed close ever since. Sonal, her husband Bruce and Vijay all live in Raleigh. They just happen to be in Lancaster at the same time as us!




Some of you might remember me blogging about Sonal's rough pregnancy. Vijay was due a month after Millie but was born a month before her. But he is doing great now! He is longer and leaner than Millie. And cute as a button as you can see! It was great to catch up with Sonal and meet Vijay today. Millie and Vijay will be friends for a long time!

Oh! We made the website!

We won't know until tomorrow if we made the paper, but we made the website! Check it out!

Ahhhhhhhhhh, Millie! My cute little Democrat!

Pic and caption with Millie
Pic and caption with Dave
Pic and caption with Parker


UPDATE!
Oh Oh! Katie and I made the paper too! See the link for the article!

Millie gets political...again

So I didn't know it until this week but Joe Biden came to Lancaster to speak today. My friend Katie and I took the kiddies and went! It was great to see so many people there. Some said there were about 500-1000 people there. I have a hard time with numbers so I am not sure. Millie slept through most of it but it was fun!

I am pretty sure we might be in the paper tomorrow. They took quotes from Katie and I. And two people took pictures of Millie and I for the paper. Keep you posted!

Katie's dad Dave is the republican mayor of Lancaster but he came anyway. It was fun to see him there doing mayoral duties as well as being a Grandpa. Mom, Dad and Kari were all working or else I know they would have been there. I saw several familiar faces so that was nice. After the speech, I went up to shake Joe's hand and mentioned that my father-in-law was Jon Tainow from Amtrack. He seemed to know who he was and told me that Amtrack was going to be around for a long time. I showed him Millie and told him that this was Jon's first grand-daughter. He was very cordial. I quickly coated my hands with Purell. I think he shook like 200 hands and you never know!!!! It was a fun time despite the beating sun. Enjoy the slideshow!

Dinner with Karla

Karla has been a friend for many years. We were sorority sisters in college and even roommates. She is a great friend of mine and I was so happy she got to meet Millie. On Tuesday night we went up to Hillard, Ohio to meet Karla for dinner. She showed us around her lovely home. To see some pictures of Karla and her home, click here.

Millie meets the Schenks

Parker meets Millie


Tanner meets Millie


Even Katie gets some face time!

10 mile walk

I have to mention that on Sunday, we went for a big ole walk in preperation of the race this coming Sunday. Katie, Cindy, Kari, Mom and I walked 10 miles in just under 3 hours. Mom felt fabulous afterward. I was hurting. I think I must have been training at a slower pace. With the stroller and the dog, I must have been a little slower. I think it took till about Wednesday to feel better. Now we are going to walk about 5-6 miles tonight. Hopefully I will feel a bit better. Can't wait till Sunday!

Click here to see some pictures with Cindy, Addison and Millie before the walk.

Love to Learn

Millie and I have been hanging out with Kari and her kids this week. For those of you who don't know, she runs an in-home daycare at her home. Her kids are adorable and are fascinated over Millie. Luke, Isabella, Tanner, Parker, Emily, Emilee, Chloe and Courtney.

Enjoy the pictures

Ohio Tuesday

My coworker Erica gave Millie tons of hand-me-down clothes when she was first born. This is one of the adorable outfits. On a sunny day, Mom/Dad's bedroom happens to be the best place to take pictures. It's so bright and sunny. Sunlight coming in from all directions. Basically you don't have to use a flash and you get some gorgeous pictures. Enjoy the slideshow from this morning.

McConnells

On Sunday evening we went over and picked up Grandma Viva, Dan and Dona. We took them to dinner in Zanesville and had a wonerful time catching up! Millie was so perfect this day and everyone enjoyed meeting her. To see more pictures of the McConnell visit, click here.

Great Grandma Beckett Visit

On Sunday we all travelled down to Caldwell to visit Great Grandma Beckett! We all went to cousin Kylie's and hung out with family. Jessie, Kylie, Jayne and Karl Crum were there. Jayne is dad's sister. And Dad's other sister Janet was there with her boyfriend, Larry. It was a great afternoon with family. To see pictures from our afternoon, click here

Some pictures for Daddy

These were taking just for Daddy who is missing us both this week!



Click here for more pictures from Sunday

Washing off the fair grease

In the sink of course!

To see more pictures of bath time, click here

She's a buckeye in the buckeye state!

Millie was cheering on her buckeyes today!
She couldn't stay up long enough to watch the Gators tonight!

To see more pictures of buckeye Millie, click here. Also you can see her checking out a candy corn! It's cute!

Fair Day!

Today we geared up and walked down to the Fairfield County Fair. This was Chloe's 3rd trip so she showed us all around. We enjoyed lots of fair food which included dumbo ears, greasy french fries, shredded chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, and fried cheese on a stick (which you can see me enjoying below)! Millie enjoyed it so much that she feel asleep after lunch. She missed all the animal barns but I am sure she smelled them!

We saw my friend Katie's award winning Strawberry Jam!


Tomorrow Dad is going to hang out with Millie while Katie, Kari, Mom, Cindy and I all go for our training walk...10 miles! Wish us luck!

To see more pictures of Fair Day, click here

Ohio Bound

We three took off for Ohio around 8:40am. It was a little later than we wanted to start but we were off in decent time. Millie had a full belly and took her morning nap. We stopped to feed a couple times. She drank a couple bottles on the road. She was only upset when she got tired. Mil took a big long nap in the afternoon. It helped that Dad drove. I moved from the back to the front, reading Millie books and playing with her. She was such a trooper.


She only got really upset the final 30 mins of the trip. And we were pushing it on her feeding time...we just wanted to get home. So we arrived in Lancaster a little after 8pm. Mama D was so happy to see her again. Kari and kids come over tomorrow morning and we are heading to the Fairfield County Fair!

Dad flys to Atlanta

My family wasn't to keen on my driving to Ohio by myself. Although I had the utmost of confidence in myself (and Millie), I was very thankful to Dad who accompanied me.


Dan McConnell offered to fly Dad down to Atlanta so he could drive back with me. So Dad and Dan flew in on Thursday night.
These two farts have been friends for 44 years. Dan was my Dad's best man in his wedding. Dan & Dona graciously allowed me to live with them when I first moved to Atlanta. Dan gave me the PGA tickets, in which I invited Mat to, which kinda kick started our relationship. They are wonderful family friends of ours.

Check out the new had made by my co-worker (and friend) Jessica!

Mat's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAT!

The birthday boy got to sleep in which was fabulous for him! Then I attempted to make a birthday breakfast of pancakes and bacon. So I kinds screwed up. Apparently whole-wheat flour does not work the same as regular flour. Hmmm, I didn't know that. So the first batch had to be dumped. I whipped up another batch and those were tons better. We added cinnimon chips AND buttersotch chips that I loved!

After breakfast, I got started on the birthday cake. With the help of GG, we make Mat's birthday cake. Um, it didn't turn out exactly perfect but it was...kinda yummy?!?! Everyone was very kind and had a piece. They didn't take any home! Probably wouldn't get through security! I promised to do better next year!

We were sad to see everyone go!! But we had a wonderful weekend with the family. After we got back from the airport, Millie was in a fabulous mood. We open the shades and took some AMAZING pictures. There are too many to post! Please flip through them and enjoy!!

For more pictures from Sunday, click here