And here she is with her Great Grandmother 'Gram' on Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Halloween-Thanksgiving update
And here she is with her Great Grandmother 'Gram' on Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Grace's 2-month check-up
And as it turned out the last 2 minutes when Grace received her shots, wasn't much better. It happened so fast but Grace's loud cry made Mommy cry too. (I think Grace recovered faster than Leah!)
But enough of the bad news and on with the good news!!!!
Grace is doing GREAT! She's growing and developing exactly as she should. She weighed 10lbs 13.5oz which puts her in the 50th percentile. She is 23.75" LONG, which puts her in the 92nd percentile! (Although she measured 23" long at home). And her head was 37.6cm, which puts her in the 8th percentile.
So all in all it was a good 2-month check-up for Grace Elizabeth. Our next one is at 4 months.
And here is Princess Grace taking a nap after the doctor's visit.
Monday, October 19, 2009
...past due update
September 4 - Mernie (Ryan's mom) came up to stay with us for a week and help out with Grace. Mernie firmly believes that Grace is the most beautiful grandbaby in the world!
September 6 - We celebrated Neena's (Leah's mom) birthday (Sep 2) in Waxahachie with Rich, Micah, Emily, Jacob, Elizabeth, Benjamin, David, and Uncle Pete (Caleb).
September 19 - Happy 1-month Birthday Grace!
September 19 - Grace watches her first Red Raider football game. (we lost to UT...BOO!)
September 21-22 - I had to take my first overnight business trip (to Philadelphia) away from Mommy and Grace...but I survived.
October 5- Mommy goes back to work for the first time in 6 weeks. Thankfully Neena has been able to watch her during the day instead of Grace having to go to daycare.
October 8 - I was asked to give a lecture at Texas Tech University to over 250 freshman Architecture students. I can honestly say that when I was sitting there in the same class back in 1995, I never in a million years thought I'd be giving a college lecture. My lecture was titled "A day in the life of an Architect". (see link at the bottom of this post for a video that our visualization gurus at work created for me to use. I'm not in the video, but it's a cool view into our firm and the architecture profession.)
October 9 - We celebrated our friend Dana's 30th birthday and Grace got to hang out with Uncle Micah and Auntie Em and cousins for her first night of babysitting. And afterwards, Grace slept through the night for the first time!!!!
October 16 - Grace's first road trip to Houston. We stopped off in Kingwood to visit Aunt Kim, Uncle Will, and cousins Rachel, Paige, and Sami. Mernie, Gramps and Uncle Jesse were there too. Saturday we spent the day with Granny Bea and _______ (Ryan's dad...who is waiting for Grace to give him his nickname.) Saturday night we went over to Jack and Kelly's for a gettogether to celebrate Grace and Aunt Tinti's birthday.
Sunday we went to see Rulla (Grace's great-grandmother) and Rulla said "she's PERFECT!" Also on Sunday, we returned back to Richardson with Mernie, who's going to stay with Grace for 9 days.
October 19 - Happy 2-month Birthday Grace!!
October 19 - After only 2 weeks back at work, Mommy just can't handle being away from Grace all day, so she reduces her hours at work so she can spend more time at home.
Other than that, we've just been changing diapers and enjoying the abundance of smiles that Grace has been providing us lately.
Also, check out our new picture site www.therobinsonfamilyjourneys.shutterfly.com (link on right side of this page) where we'll be uploading all our pictures of Grace and The Robinson Family journeys.
Architecture - The Real World on Vimeo.
Monday, August 31, 2009
More pictures of Grace
Our365.com Hospital Pictures
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Grace Elizabeth Robinson
Both Leah and Grace are doing great.
Here's a couple of quick pictures, one before we left the house for the hospital and one of Daddy and his new baby girl. We'll put up more pictures later after she takes a bath and gets on a new pink outfit (of course).
Monday, July 27, 2009
Surfing
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Revenge again
So it's been a little while since I posted about my youth getting revenge on me...and since then, there have been some new developments.
We ultimately found out from my best friend Jeff that his wife Dana along with our good friends Kevin & Stacy were the ones that wrapped our house.
Naturally I wanted revenge, mainly against Kevin. So after some deliberation and Leah telling me that I wasn't allowed to do anything illegal, we came up with the idea to wrap the INSIDE of the Bowen's house while they were gone for 10 days in China.
We wrapped pretty much everything in sight and even several things out of sight that we knew they wouldn't find for days, months, and even years later. Kevin has said that every couple of weeks he finds more toilet paper in the strangest places (suit pocket, sleeve of a shirt, inside his boots, inside the door bell...and the list goes on.)
Here are the pictures of the process and aftermath. A good time was had by all, including Jeff & Dana's kids (Michael and Hannah).
Revenge on the Bowen's |
The Bowen's have vowed to get us back, especially Jeff and Dana since they're the ones who told us, but Kevin has said this, "the only thing that made me mad about coming home after traveling for 14 hours from China, while being sick, is that I didn't think of doing this to you first!"
Monday, April 20, 2009
3D sonogram
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Youth's revenge
Saturday night we had a fun evening with our friends Shonna and Andy Craigo. We had dinner at the most expensive Sushi and Chinese food Buffet I've ever been to. It cost almost as much as the amazing buffet at the Bellagio hotel in Vegas. Although I do have to note, we received a free meal courtesy of an old colleague who I worked with on a hospital project in Lewisville a few years ago...so I can't complain about the price of the buffet ($27each). After dinner we met up with Courtney & Fred at 300, the home of a bowling alley, laser tag, game arcade, bar, billiards, and a private club which you can rent out for $100/hour for a private bowling party.
Anyway, enough of the first half of the story and back to the revenge part...
So we leave the bowling alley just after midnight, which by the way is the latest Leah has stayed awake since New Year's, and we arrive home to see that our house has been WRAPPED or TP'ed (Toilet-Papered). We don't know who and we don't know why, but Leah thinks it was a random act of some kids because we have a perfect tree for wrapping. I disagree and I also feel that it wasn't nearly as good of a job as myself and my cohorts had done in the past! I believe our best achievement was for Sabrina's 17th birthday when we bought almost 100 rolls of toilet paper and wrapped her house while her parents watched us from inside...of course we didn't know it at the time. They later confessed to Sabrina that they didn't want to interrupt artists at work.
So I guess those one or two times when I snuck out of the house and went 'wrapping' have finally caught up with me. I really thought my mischief would take a lot longer to enact its revenge.
-Ryan
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Video from 2nd sono
Here's a couple of video clips from the 2nd sonogram.
This first one shows the measuring of the heartbeat at 176 bpm.
This one show's him really arching his back and moving around.
3rd Sonogram
We got another video but it didn't record the best parts when she was kicking and pushing herself around.
I go back to the doctor later this month, but we won't get another sonogram until the end of March which will be when we find out the whether it's a boy or a girl.
-Leah
The picture above is the one that Ryan thinks looks like he's smoking!
2nd Sonogram
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Our new addition!
Hello Family & Friends,
Some of you may or may not know that Leah and I are having a BABY!! We went to the doctor Monday for our first ultrasound and saw the heartbeat. At 149 beats per minute, Leah thought there were two in there!! I was quite relieved to find out there is only one. Leah was 8 weeks on Tuesday; the doctor says everything looks great! Our due date is August 18th!...who doesn’t want to be 9 months pregnant in August in Texas?!?!?
Attached are the pictures from the ultrasound. I like to call the baby "The Claw" (you can tell why from the 1st picture.) Neena (Leah's mom) has been calling it "Charlie" so we've both been jokingly calling it "Charlie the Claw". Don’t worry we will come up with a better name by August!
We go back January 26th for another ultrasound, and they said the baby will look drastically different…we can’t wait!!!!
Thanks for all of your prayers!
Love You-
Leah, Ryan and "Charlie the Claw"