January 10, 2010 by Dad.

Today Rachel’s grandfather took photos of the girls and gave us a couple of Cezanne.

The girls “pay attention” as coach Carter shows them a new exercise.	Cezanne on the balance beam	Leila, Ryann, Cezanne, Rachel & Cassidy	“Hand Stand !!”

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November 24, 2009 by Dad.

Now that we know what we are in for with the whole JOMites program I figured I better go and see how much better Cezanne has gotten over the past few weeks. I was taking her initially when work was quiet and I was working solo on a project, but I have not been able to take her for quite a few weeks now. I know she has issues with listening and paying attention for more than a few seconds ( unless it is on TV, then she can remain focused for hours ). She is the youngest in the class, and while there are only 5 girls some are already 4 years old and the difference is very obvious. I was impressed with he improved willingness to try the various exercises, before she would only do it when the coach was watching or telling her to do it, today she when on and did the exercises just like the other girls. She and Rachel, the other youngest seem to get along well and are always sitting next to one another and chatting nonstop. The older girls watch and listen and pay attention, Cezanne & Rachel do not and often get into trouble for this… Cezanne has come a long way - her strength has improved and her fearlessness is impressive. While I am not quite ready to turn the basement into a gymnasium, I am considering getting a few mats and maybe a bar or balance beam for her to “play” / “practice” on, especially during the long winter that lies ahead…

Cezanne doing her hand stand with coach Carter. Rachel is the tiny little girl in pink closest to the camera. The final photo was taken just seconds before the end of class where the coach promised them all a treat for good, hard work. The treat was a lollipop and a Naperville Gymnastics Club Cap. The 4 girls actually looked like a team with the caps on…

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November 5, 2009 by Dad.

Today while doing an art project with Mommy, Cezanne, with some help from Mommy, wrote her name…

Lanelle wrote the name and then dotted out the name below and Cezanne did the rest…

Each day this little darling blows me away with how smart she is. Now if she could just learn to listen to us when we speak…

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November 3, 2009 by Mom.

This is a brag post but I just could not help myself. Our budding little artist is outdoing herself every day. Today she drew a picture of Ryan feeding Etienne his bottle and although still very elementary it is a recognizable picture as oppose to beautiful scribbles. See for yourself.

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May 17, 2009 by Dad.

Cezanne really loves her sports and games and has taken to both baseball and basketball. Here are a few photos of her in her pretty pink PJs playing baseball in the entry way at home. We are now pitching to her underarm and she is able to get a few good hits in, I am thinking scholarship !!

Cezanne being who she is, nothing can ever just be what it is, she needs to take it and “jazz it up” so we first pose for a regular baseball picture but then we have to really strike a pose for Daddy ! Notice the hand on the hip and also that we can pose both right and left

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August 9, 2008 by Dad.

How does the saying go ?

See a penny, pick it up, something about all day long you’ll have good luck. Well sure, if your name is not Cezanne and you don’t put the penny in your mouth and then accidentally swallow it !

Yes, it finally happened. Actually quite surprising that it took this long. Cezanne is EXTREMELY oral, EVERYTHING goes in the mouth and I mean EVERYTHING. I am guessing she has super powerful taste buds that tell her more about an object that touch or smell or sight. She will put anything and everything in her mouth and we are very lucky that it has taken this long for this to happen.

We were at Christa & Jannie making borewors and droewors when Cezanne found a penny on the floor and thought it would be very funny to put it in her mouth so that Mommy could not get to it and take it away, well she tripped and swallowed the penny which resulted in Lanelle taking her to the hospital for an X-Ray. Fortunately it did not get stuck and was in her tummy by the time the X-Ray was taken and while we both hoped the trip to the ER would be traumatic for Cezanne so that it would act as the lesson and punishment all in one, turns out they have TVs in the examination rooms playing kids TV ! Cezanne probably though this was a special treat !

Now we get to hand search each diaper for the “lucky” penny…

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March 25, 2008 by Dad.

The photos show the damage done by a fellow swimmer at Cezanne’s swim class this morning. I should get Lanelle to fill in the details of the attack but for now, some sympathy photos of our poor little fishy and her bite marks…

The mother and child responsible have been ejected from the class and may never take another class at this facility again.

Cezanne - Bitten & Bruised

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August 30, 2007 by Dad.

Despite the pain of teething ( cutting more than 1 at a time really hurts, and makes the whole house unhappy ! ) Cezanne is showing her independence, no rather demanding it by refusing to eat the “baby food” that we have been spoon feeding her. She is now a big girl and feeds herself all her finger foods - she has started working on using a spoon now as well…

I took some video of this as well click the 2 links below to see Cezanne eating like a big girl

• Talking While Eating
• Spood Fed

Cezanne takes charge and spoon feeds herself…			Did you see that ?

Mommy helps…	…just a little bit…	Cezanne does the rest

Funny Face 1	Funny Face 2	Funny Face 3

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August 30, 2007 by Dad.

Oh my soul ! I have been away for a couple of days this week and on my return I found we had a little girl with so many new teeth and in so much pain she was just not the same fun loving little doll that I know her to be.

With little to do today I took time to spend with the girls and I think they enjoyed it, although Cezanne had little time or patience for my silliness and everything had to go her way or else ! Each fall, bump and “ouchie” resulted in tears which is never the case.

So now, at 7:30pm with Cezanne in bed, we are both finally at peace and able to rest. We just hope she gets some rest too and that the OraJel and Teething Tables work their magic.

Busy as always, but in a lot of pain…

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August 21, 2007 by Dad.

A very brief post today, yes she is 14 months old today !

While at play in the basement we were able to capture the following video clip which I posted to our website. Just follow the link and wait for the clip to start playing…

http://www.lambertsatlarge.com/cezanne/2007/videos/videos27.html

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