What fun can be had with a green box top?

I laugh just looking at these pictures! On the way home from the reunion (just over an hour drive), we were trying to keep Laura entertained. She was happy to start with, and then we had to find things to keep her busy - well, this box top worked for awhile. She started smooshing her face on it and then pulling it down and laughing.





Of course, she looked a little confused when Aunt Megan tried it...


And then Uncle Kevin tried it...


And I don't think I'll hear the end of it from them if I don't prove that I also tried it...


(... I can't believe I just posted that!) Hope you all enjoyed it!!! ha ha ha!

Pictures!

I realize I didn't post a lot of pictures in August, so I'm here to make up for it!

This was Laura's first day at the beach. I think she liked it :)












These are all from the day we had our big family reunion. It was nice to finally get some good shots of Laura with her Aunt Megan! It seems everytime we've been together this summer, Laura has been cranky or fussy when Aunt Megan is around and we didn't get any good pictures... but now we have some! Yay!

9

She took 9 steps on her own today! :) That's a new record - up from just 6 last weekend!

...overnights are getting better. I've been sending daddy in to "comfort" her when she wakes up at around 1ish. The first night she screamed even louder when he went in there than before he did. She started screaming "ma ma" really long and loudly. Richie just held her for a bit, then set her down... she cried for 3 minutes and fell back to sleep. When she woke at 4, I fed her.

Last night was even better - she cried at around 1 or so - we let her fuss for a couple minutes before Richie went in, and when he did - she didn't scream louder. He quieted her - and by the time he was back in bed - she was quiet.

Maybe tonight she won't wake up at 1am?

All better :)

Laura has been cleared of the UTI. We went yesterday and were given the choice of either trying the bag of just going straight to the cath. Of course I didn't want her to go through the cath thing again if she didn't have to - so they put the bag on and YAY - we only had to wait about 10 minutes for her to pee! Could have been a very long wait in the doctors office if she didn't have to go then. It came back all clear. No more concerns about that unless she develops another one while she's still little - then they'll do an ultrasound of her bladder/kidneys/tubes and make sure there is no reflux or anything.

Oh, and she's 21 pounds now!
11 months and 21 pounds. They say a baby should just about triple their birthweight by a year - yeah, I don't think we're going to be anywhere close to 25ish pounds. MAYBE 21.5 pounds.

Clarification because someone asked...

No, Megan (my sister) is not pregnant. Dawn (my brother's wife) is pregnant :)

11 months old.

Yesterday Laura was 11 months old! Wow. One more month and technically she'll be a toddler!

*She still wears medium fuzzibunz, but the medium bumgenius are popping off of her now.

*She wears a size 6-12 month robeez shoe. Not sure what that translates to in "real" shoe size...maybe a 3?

*She wears size 12 month clothes mostly now.

*She has thinned out a lot. Looking back on her pictures from a few months back she looked so chunky and rolly polly!



*She loves to play with Toby - grabbing fist fulls of hair. She screeches when she sees a kitty. Like she's saying kitty with the intonation in her voice.

*We learned this month that she's getting a new girl cousin :)

*She says "uh-uh-oh", ma ma, dada, and she make a two syllable sound at the appropriate time for "thank you" although it sounds nothing like thank you.

*She eats nearly everying we do. Loves cheese and blueberries and watermelon.



*She loves the game of "give and take". She gives you a toy/food/whatever and you say thank you. Then she holds her hand out for you to give it back to her. She says her two syllable "thank you" when she hands the thing to you.

*She loves to put things into things and take them out again. Putting her food in the little cup holder on her tray - then eating it. Putting her toys in her toy box - then taking them out. Emptying out her lunch pail at the end of the day.

*She is obsessed with the dishwasher. If the door is open and she sees it - she thinks she has to be right there.

*She drins well from a sippy cup now. She'll even pick it up and hold it herself. Her other "trick" is that she'll leave the cup on the floor and bend her face down to meet it and try to drink that way.

*She has figured out how to flush the toilet and how to turn the tv on/off.



*She has taken 6 steps unassisted. She takes a few independent steps each day, but mostly she likes to hold onto things and cruise that way. She is very fast at it.

*She stands independently a lot though. But the trick is - she has to be holding something in her hand to be confident that she can do it.

*If she drops what she is holding, she can easily lower herself down in a squat position and pick it up then stand back up without toppling over.

*She still only has those 2 bottom teeth. Nothing has popped through in the past month.

*Still nurses to sleep about half the nights of the week.

*She takes only about 6-8 ounces of milk at daycare each day. Some nights she'll take another couple ounces once we're home in the evening though.

*Her hair is getting long - whisps over her ears now and is quite long in the front too. I can't bring myself to cut it though - I'm afraid it'll look boyish if we cut it now!

*Wearing size 4 huggies overnights, but I bet she could fit in a 5. The 4's are a bit snug.

*She loves having a crib full of little animals. If/when she wakes up or is trying to fall asleep, she'll have one in each hand and suck on them or babble to them.



*She is starting to get stranger anxiety. In the grocery store she used to light up when strangers would approach and say how beautiful she is. Now she gives a quick smile, then buries her face into me and starts to whine and cry. She's doing it at daycare too when the other moms come to pick up/drop off.

*STILL napping in the infant bouncy seat at daycare. Ugh.

*Bedtime is around 7:30.

Update on the sickies...

I'm hoping her UTI is cleared up now. We go back tomorrow for a recheck - really hope they don't have to cath her again, but we shall see tomorrow.

Her nose is still running clear and her cough finally cleared up. She still had the nasty loose cough up until Tuesday this week.

Her overnight sleep is still a mess. Read: I'm a mess. Exhausted. Tired. Blah. Last night we were going to perform an "intervention" but she outsmarted us and we didn't have to - I have been getting up like 5 times a night to feed her and get her back to sleep - I think when she was sick she needed it, but then she got used to it and is having a hard time letting go of the night time snuggles. So, last night the plan was that I would feed her when she woke between 10-11ish, then richie would be on duty for anytime she woke between then and 4amish...well, she was up at 10:23 and I fed her - the next time I heard from her it was already after 4! So Richie didn't have to go in... we'll see if that was a fluke or not - I'm hoping she's back to being up (at most) 2 times a night...

Oh, and her last dose of medicine was Wednesday morning. With just 4 doses left, we finally figured out a way to get her to actually take it all. Amy (from work) showed me an awesome hold where I pin her arms and legs (not that we hadn't tried before, but she'd wiggle out of it) this particular hold though she can NOT get out of! Anyways - we were doing that for a few days and it worked so-so becuase she'd still spit everything back out. Then we realized if I put a finger in her one cheek (between her gums) that Richie could squirt the meds in the other cheek and since she couldn't get her lips togehter, she couldn't spit. So, I think of all 10+ days of giving her the meds twice a day she actually got about 3-4 full doses in her towards the end. Next time we'll know. Next time though she'll probably have teeth on the sides and I may not want my finger in there.

We made it through the week.

I'm not sure how, but it's nearly 10pm on Friday night and we're all still surviving. Talk about a tiring week.
Wednesday night she was up 5 times. Thursday (last) night she was up 4 times... 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 5:15...
I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.

So here's how the week went as far as her medicine...

I ended up calling the doctor's office at some point early in the week. My brain is so fuzzy I'm not sure if it was Monday or Tuesday or what. Anyways, I told them that it is near impossible to give Laura her meds and definitely impossible to get the full dose into her. The nurse told me that as long as her fever is gone (which it was), that she's getting some of it... which I know - I just didn't like the idea of how much she gagged and coughed as we were trying to give it. I also asked for a second bottle of the bactrim to be called into the pharmacy because there was no way the one bottle would last the full 10 days. (especially when I'd mix a cc or so into some food and she'd spit at the first bite - I'd waste that and we'd have to draw up more to get the full amount to squirt into her).

So, at some point in the middle of the week... maybe it was Wednesday? I stopped at Rite Aid to pick up some teething tablets for Laura. And what did they have in stock!?! The "reliadose" bottle - same idea as a medibottle, but it was in my hands. I coudn't leave it there even though I have one on order from the net. So I came home with that thinking that it'd work and I was quite pleased to have found it. We tried it that evening with Laura and surprise surprise - she liked the bottle at first - then she tasted the medicine and wouldn't take it very well. We did get maybe 3/4 of the dose in her with it though. We tried it the next morning (Thursday) but it didn't work. That morning we ended up being able to squirt half the dose in her cheek and she was crying...I was crying... we ended up throwing the last bit of the med in the syringe away. I was too frustrated to keep making her cry like that and gag. Oh, and she had developed green snot and a terrible cough by this point... so of course my brain is thinking I've made her aspirate on it and now she has either bronchitis or pneumonia. Great. Can I get a second mom of the year award? (I think I got one a few weeks back for something just as stellar, but at this point I can't recall what!)

Thursday - I call the doctor's office and ask to speak to the NP that we saw last week. She's not in. They say they'll have a nurse call me. 5pm I get a call from a very nice nurse and she says she's stumped... actually said she was delaying calling me bacause she was racking her brain and everyone else's in the office trying to come up with something to get her to take it better. She didn't really have any suggestions that we hadn't already tried so she put a note in the computer to have the NP call me Friday.

Friday - I get a call saying they'll call in another prescription for something different that is typically tolerated better. I'm skeptical that changing the med will do any good, but I give it a try. We pick it up and try it - same thing - gags, coughs, spits, cries. We got about the same amount into her as we had been getting with the other stuff. They even told me on the phone to "give it with a syringe into her cheek instead of with a spoon" ...yep, been doing that. "try mixing it with juice" ... yep, tried that. She's a smart stubborn girl. What else is there to say?

4.5 more days of antibiotic fights.

6

Last night at least we all got to sleep in our own beds!

7:30ish: asleep with her crib propped up.
8:15ish: she's awake. fussing. i let her put herself to sleep - it takes all of 3 minutes. I go check on her - she's head down. I leave her for a few minutes and let her really get asleep.
8:20ish: i go in and gently lift her and spin her so her head is uphill. she wakes up crying.
8:25ish: it's quiet. i go check her position. butt in the air, head down. (is she having flashbacks to her position in me just a year ago!?!) ... i go tell rich we have to unprop her crib. we manage to lift the crib and pull the text books out from under it without disturbing her. ... gee, and we wondered what those old text books would come in handy for some day... so far, proves to be - nothing!
9:00: I go to bed.
10:15pm: she's awake. i feed her and she goes right back to sleep.
12:30: awake to eat - i feed her for the next 45 minutes and stumble back to bed at 1:15am.
2:04am: awake crying. i wanted to let her cry it out i was so exhausted, but Rich popped up in bed and i told him he could go to her since i KNEW she wasn't hungry. maybe had a burp? he rocked for a few minutes with her and she passed back out.
3:00am: those stupid cats think it's breakfast time! i go downstairs to feed them and take a potty break on the way back to my slumber.
4:00am: laura is awake and wants to tank up on an early breakfast.
6:00am: she's up for the day.

Maybe tonight will be just 3?

Tonight I gave her a teething tablet before bed and she's been asleep for about an hour and a half... so far so good.

Oh, and I picked up one of those medibottles (but it's a different brand - reliadose or something like that) - same concept though.
She took to it right away - then realized what I was trying to pull off. She did get the full dose down her though and it was much less traumatic than the two person hold down we've been doing. We still both wore a lot, but I think a lot of what we wore was milk since it was mixed together.

Stubborn independent little woman she is! And we love her so much! :)

12

Some things are good when they come in twelves.

12 ears of fresh sweet corn on the cob - YUM!

12 freshly baked donuts - YUM!

12 days of Christmas - what fun!


...


Being woken up 12 times in one night? Not so much fun. Yep, last night it was at least 12 times that she was awake. Took her to the doctors on Friday and she didn't have a head cold. Guess what pops up in an otherwise healthy child after sitting in a doctors office for three hours. Yep, runny nose and post nasal drip! Great - poor girl has crud running down her throat when she lies down. So where did she sleep last night you ask? On me.

7:30ish: she's in her crib asleep
9:15ish: she's already been awake about 3 times fussing in her crib - at this point, I realize she isn't breathing well because the crud is waking her up. I take her into my bed with my arm under her head to prop her up.
10:45: she's awake. screaming. Nursed her back to sleep and tried her in her crib again.
midnight: awake. screaming. we go to my bed again - but she won't calm down. we go to the recliner in the living room. she sleeps for about 45 minutes.
1:05am: screaming. won't nurse. we try my bed again - we try the chair in her room - she's asleep for a bit.
2:06am: screaming. won't nurse. we go back to the recliner.
2:59am: cat's are being annoying and wake all three of us up. daddy gets up to feed the cats. I have him take Laura quick so I can use the potty and stretch out. we cuddle back up in the recliner and Laura falls to sleep for about 20 minutes.
3:24am: screaming. asleep within like 2 minutes.
3:45am: screaming. we're waking daddy up again... (actually, I'm not sure he has slept much to this point either...he's on the couch though since early in the night I told him it'd be a long night and he chose the couch). we go back to the chair in her room.
4:13am: she's still awake. finally decides to nurse and falls asleep hard. I have the biggest Kink in my neck from not wanting to move an inch after she's asleep.
6:00am: alarm goes off. my butt is numb. kink still there too. wake up everyone! Laura is wide awake and happy. Babbling and talking up a storm. I pass her to Richie and take my alarm clock to bed with me for another hour. I crawl into bed and it's the BEST. FEELING. EVER. to hug my pillow and curl up in my bed. alone. shove my ear plug in and get one solid hour of sleep.

We all somehow manage to get off to work and act like normal people who actually got a full night of sleep...okay, well, I looked exhausted and a few people commented, but at least I didn't fall asleep at work or driving!

Please let's not have a repeat performance tonight.

Mary Poppins is a liar. Yep, a big liar.

I don't think any amount of sugar will fool Laura into taking her medicine. It is such a struggle. She cries so hard and gags herself.
Today for breakfast we managed to preoccupy her with her farm animal singing toy so that she took all of it in the blueberry applesauce without a problem.
Tonight though was a different story. Refused chocolate sauce - and that wasn't even tainted with the medicine! She just didn't want the chocolate at all. Then we added a heap of sugar to the blueberry applesauce and even that didn't work. Yeah, Mary Poppins lied. No amount of sugar will help Laura take her medicine.

I've placed an order for a MediBottle. Maybe that'll work. I saw it online last night and saw that it's available at Walgreens - I thought, Great! Maybe the one that just opened here last year will have it! I'll pick one up in the morning. The very kind pharmacy tech had never heard of it and this particular Walgreens did not stock it. I guess the website should say "some" Walgreens keep it in stock. Watch, now that I ordered it off the net it'll get here when we have just 1 day left of the meds to give. That'd be my luck. I'll let ya'll know if it's worth the $12.95 spent on it.

FIRST STEPS!

Yep, today is the day Laura took her first "real" steps! She was standing in the living room with her daddy and she was reaching out in front of her to get his watchband (which he was strategically holding just out of reach) and she took 3 little 2 inch steps. YAY! Of course, like most of her milestones, mommy missed it. I was in the kitchen doing something and I didn't get to see it. I did see a single step later in the afternoon though :)

We bought a couple new sippy cups today and it seems to be going well. She loves sucking down water out of either her new cup or just a regular cup.

Tried putting her medicine in her sippy cup with water tonight - that was a no-go.

Tomorrow I'm buying this nifty little gadget that will hopefully make giving Laura the medicine a lot easier. Heck, I'll take even a little easier at this point. We've wasted so much of her medicine that I'm going to have to call for a refill just so I can finish the 10 day course.

Saturday

Highest temp yesterday was 101.9 and she only got one dose of ibuprofen all day :)

Today so far she's not got a fever at all! Yay!

She's acting okay mostly - still whiney a bit though.



I've found my least favorite parenting job yet - giving medicine. She cries. She gags. She pukes. She screams. We've tried a syringe. We've tried a bottle nipple. We've tried a spoon. We've tried hiding it in blueberry applesauce, vanilla pudding, even tried it in vanilla ice cream! I have had some success with the applesauce, but she has to be majorly distracted and concentrating on something else or she'll just do the raspberry thing when she sees the spoon coming. 4 doses down. 16 to go.

Feeding her is a nightmare! She quickly learned how to make raspberries while eating and now she does it all the time! She never did raspberries during eating until she had to take that ucky medicine! GRR! I have a feeling the days of my child eating anything and everything are over!

All day yesterday she ate:
1 slice of american cheese
2 bites of vanilla ice cream
few spoons of vanilla pudding (with medicine)
few spoons of applesauce (with medicine)
and probalby 2 blueberries
8 ounces of milk
few sips of water from a regular cup

She wouldn't even keep the watermelon in her mouth - I thought for sure that the way she loves fruit and watermelon that I could at least get her to eat that but she wasn't letting that happen. I'm thinking she's teething on top of this whole not feeling good episode... Hopefully her appetite will pick up when she's feeling better.

Puked again... and again...

:(

She didn't like taking the bactrim at all. Finally got it into her though at around 6pm. Then when I went to give her the dose of ibuprofen before bed (which she has taken down very easily before)...she fought it even harder than she did the bactrim. Great. Traumatized her with giving her meds. As soon as the ibuprofen was down her she puked that and her purple berry flavored applesauce back up on me.

Cleaned us both up.

Nursed her to sleep.

Gave her a tad bit more of the ibuprofen since I could see a lot of it in the applesauce puke.

Puked all over me again. ... the whole nursed milk meal this time.

She was happy and giddy by this point and while I was cleaning myself up (and changing my clothes for the second time within 15 minutes)... she was playing with her daddy. She didn't look at all like she'd be ready for bed anytime soon.

Surprisingly though, that was just 15 minutes (or so) ago and she's sound asleep in her crib now. She nursed just enough to put her to sleep. I'm sure she'll be awake in about an hour or so hungry... guess I've got to dig into my freezer stash or go pump now - I didn't get a chance much today to pump and I can tell my supply is definitely going down. On a typical evening, I have 2 four ounce bottles at the end of the day. Today I have just 1.5 ounces. Oops...

We have a diagnosis.

Raging UTI.

Took the sample in and the lady said "ok, we'll call you with the results". I said, "no, I'll wait."

Not 10 minutes later they came out and told me it looked "funky" and they wanted to cath her. So, today my poor baby had quite the life experience :( She cried so hard. Much worse today than she ever has with any of her shots. That sample was very infected. They sent it off for a culture and sent us off with a script for bactrim.

If she still has a fever tomorrow, that's okay. If she still has one on Sunday, we have to call the pediatrician on call and see if there are any results from the culture back yet.



Message to the tech at the Tops pharmacy - when I ask if the medicine can be flavored if it isn't already "good" tasting, do not feed me the line of "well, if it isn't already flavored, then it can't be flavored". It can. Maybe you can't do it at this pharmacy, but I could certainly take my Rx to Kinney's and have them use FlavoRx Sorry, the way she said it was really rude. I wasn't in the mood for rude today after sitting with a sick screaming child in the doctor's office for 3 hours today.

Going back.

1:00pm 103.1 Gave Ibuprofen
2:00pm 102.1
Headed back to the doctor's office now to drop off the sample.

Home from the doctors.

No answers. Her physical exam revealed nothing but a healthy child.
She is 20 pounds 9 ounces (up 1 pound exactly since her 9 month visit.

They did bloodwork and her white count was a little up (14,000) but they said that's not alarming for a baby her age.

The current thoughts are now:
*Roseola
*Coxsackie virus (hand-foot-mouth) although she has no sores or anything
*UTI
*some other random virus that is passing through

Gave us 2 options:
(1) go home and wait it out some more and call tomorrow (saturday) if it gets higher or continues
(2) put a bag on her to collect a urine sample

We're going with option #2. If here white cell count was really high they were going to cath her for a sample. Poor girl. Luckily, it's just the bag for now.

Laura's temp was 97.6 at the office. ...with the ear thermometer. I told the nurse it wouldn't be accurate. Her response was "well, that's because you gave her ibuprofen". No, I gave ibuprofen at 4am. That was 7 hours ago. It'll be inaccurate because no ear thermometer is going to be accurate on a baby that age with small ear canals like she has. She said "maybe we should check a rectal". I told her that's how I've been checking and I could tell she wasn't 97.6. Yep, mommy was right. 100.2

She's sound asleep now in her crib.

Higher and Higher...

She fell back to sleep at 10pm after she was up to be cleaned up.

Slept until 4... see that? Another 6 hour stretch! :)

4:00am 102.3 underarm
Yep, we'll be calling for an appointment today.
She did get Ibuprofen at that time and she took over an hour to settle back down. She did go back to sleep in her crib though at 5:15am.
6:15am Wide awake. Happy. Smiling. Babbling. Fever has broken.

Still going...

8/14/08
1:00pm 101.4 Lynne gave her ibuprofen
6:00pm 101.7
7:00pm 101.5 gave her ibuprofen before bed
Settled her down with nursing and snuggling... set her in bed and she popped right back up. ...I stayed in there and sat by the crib being quiet as she played with her baby animals.
7:39pm I left her room - the wailing started.
7:49pm Still wailing.
7:59pm Still wailing - but I heard her cough really hard and then she got quieter...
8:02pm Silence.
8:05pm - I go check on her... the room smells like puke.
Great. Pass over my golden mom of the year award. Am I waking her up to change her? Um... no. Does that make me a terrible mommy? (I just know some of you are thinking I'm terrible!) I know she'll be up soon anyways... lately she always is.

If she still has a fever in the morning I'm calling the doctor. She wasn't her normal happy self today even at daycare - a bit more cranky than normally.
And now I'm not really sure it is her teeth - 101.7 seems a bit high for a teething fever.

Timeline of fevers

8/13/08
4:30pm 101.1
6:50pm 101.5
Bath
7:05pm 100.7
Ibuprofen before bed ...still acting fine, but just in case it was going to go up more I wanted her to have it in her system
8pm-10pm - quite fussy in bed.

8/14/08
4:45am felt very warm (but notice the time? She slept ~6.5 hours!) That means I slept that long too!
100.1 under arm
100.7 rectal
Fell asleep on me but wouldn't let me put her down.
5:15am very fussy and wouldn't settle down
Ibuprofen given
She slept like a log (on me) until 7:15am <---I tried to put her down a couple times, but she would hear of it!
Woke up with a sweat puddle under her head and had the biggest smile on her face.

...I really think it's her teeth.

A few more firsts...

First clap! Yay! Finally she got the clapping thing down. Last night she just did it all on her own. Of course, we clap often to show her this skill, but she finally did it! She's been clapping her hands with a toy in each one (or her favorite, a bottle cap in each one)...but now our girl can clap on her own :)

And the other first isn't as exciting... she has a fever. Can you believe she made it to 10+ months old without a fever? Then today I picked her up at Lynne's and they told me her head felt warm... well, sure enough - got her home after the 7 minute drive and her back was soaked with sweat - and it was certainly not a hot day out. I changed her and checked her temp ... 101.1 She has been acting fine all day though. Eating and going normally. I gave her a cool bottle of milk and then we played. Checked her temp a few hours later and it had gone up just a bit to 101.5 then I gave her a bath and rechecked it... 100.7 I decided to give her a dose of ibuprofen before bed just to combat in case it wants to go up in the night that should help.

...but boy is she whiney... Maybe teething?

Speaking of... she just woke up whining now... off to snuggle/feed her!

Marbles...steps...boo...uh-oh...

So I thought I was going to have a trip to the ER with Laura last week. We were getting ready in the morning and she was sitting in our bedroom playing with a box with (what I thought were safe) breast pads in it. I was headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth and get ready and I turned back to check on her. I am glad I did - I noticed she had a little round blue thing in her hand. There was another little green thing between her legs. There was another pink thing in her other hand...and she was making her sourpuss "I have something in my mouth, but I'm not sure I want to swallow it - yet I don't want to spit it out either" face. (The same face she makes when she picks up and stashes carpeting fibers in her cheeks). She kind of purses her lips together... anyways, she was making that face. I just knew she had a marble in her mouth. I jammed my finger in there and sure enough, she had a pink marble tucked up in the roof of her mouth! I didn't ever buy these marbles. I have never seen these marbles before. My best guess is that they were in the bottom of that box she was playing with... the box of breast pads that were handed down to me from a friend who was done using them. I guess that's a lesson for me to check and recheck even what I think is safe to begin with.

Laura has been standing independently for a couple weeks now. Each day she's getting a little longer with her stance. We're all just waiting for her to take a step now. She loves her little push car that Logan let her borrow. We have some really cute pictures of her pushing it around the living room last week.

She has a couple words now:
ma-ma
da-da
"kitty"
bu (boo)
uh-oh
She has obviously been doing ma-ma and da-da for awhile now, but she's doing it much more frequently. Still not always discriminately, but she uses ma-ma very appropriately when she's whiney (think - middle of the night).
Just today when I picked her up from Lynne's house, they told me she says "boo" and "uh-oh". We were able to get her to repeat both of them this evening. Really don't believe she knows what they mean, but she says them.
Now, "kitty"...that one she knows what it means. We always say "kitty cat" with a tone in our voice that is sing-songy and she doesn't SAY Kitty, but she does the sing-songy thing with her voice so she is associating that sound with the kitties. She even did it this weekend when we were visiting Aunt Dawn and Uncle Kevin and the kittens were squeaking.

I'm sure there is a lot more I could write since it's been 2 weeks, but my brain is ready for bed.

I had a day off of work yesterday and I did something I didn't think I could do - I sent Laura to daycare and I stayed home to scrapbook. I got 6 pages done for Laura's book. 1 month done. 11 to go to get her 1 year album done...! I was really pleased with how the pages turned out :)

Laura has been whiney lately. I saw a great sign today at a doctor's office "There will be a $5.00 charge for whining". I'm thinking it's more teeth trying to come through. She is poking one finger in her mouth a lot and she was up 4 times overnight last night. Ugh! 11-1-3-5... that's like a newborn! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she does better tonight and now it's a tad after 9pm...and I'm headed to bed.

Note to self

I love these shoes! I want to get these for Laura for the fall...they should match lots of her outfits :)

See Kai Run
$32
Style: Nancy