Week 35 Year 1

Hey bebe,

I like to call you bebe! You often say "momma?" and I reply "yes bebe!" That's our little conversation. I am really enjoying the start of actual conversations with you. Of course right now I do most of the talking but I know you are with me!

We did more fun fall things this past weekend! Starting with the zoo on a whim! We met up with my old friend Emily and her two children, Peyton & Andrew at the Donelson Fall Fest but there wasn't anything for little ones to do so we headed to the zoo. Hey, that rhymed! It was neat! We're going back again this weekend! This time we'll dress up! The kids were so cute with you! The three of you walked hand and hand most of the night!

Saturday we spent the majority of the day at Street Theatre's yard sale then we did a lot of house cleaning! Big excitement...BUT we made up for it on Sunday!

We went to the Music & Molasses Festival just around the corner from us! We didn't even know that place existed! It was held at the Tennessee Agriculture Center! They had lots of things for little ones to do! You met an owl, pretended to be a farmer, rode a pony, petted a horse and walked through a hay maze!

The plan was to go early so we could get you home in time for a good nap but like Saturday you weren't having it! No nap for you and I tried everything! I even let you have some "quiet time" (aka cry it out time) for about 15 minutes. So after a good valiant effort for about an hour and half we decided to go to a dog festival thing at Centennial Park. Clearly not a well thought out plan! Both. you and the dog were in the worst mood. The dog was going crazy over the squirrels and was losing her mind and you were losing your mind with exhaustion! You didn't want to walk holding my hand and you didn't want me to hold you and you proceeded to throw one huge fit after the other. It got to be a little funny really. You would throw your pacifier on the ground and then throw yourself on the ground and you do this "spit" thing. It's like you can't get tears to come out of your eyes so you decided to let a bunch of saliva come out of your mouth. It's hard to explain but it's pretty funny. After quite the fight to get you to leave the park and get into your car seat, you finally passed out! I sat in the driveway with you and made the grocery list so you could get some rest.

Honestly I don't think you were feeling all that great. You won't let us wipe you after your diaper change. It seemed like you were hurting. So we went to the doctor (again) on Tuesday and it turns out that all of those antibiotics have given you a yeast infection. I'm sorry my love! How terrible for you! It such discomfort and not able to explain to anyone whats going on! We got you some medicine and hopefully that clears up quickly! (You're probably going to kill me one day for writing about this but I think it's important to document it all!)

After the doctor we went and had some fun at the park! Just you and I!

Such a big girl! Going down the slide all by yourself!

Speaking of all by yourself, we spent the better part of an hour today after your bath time putting on your shoes! You were very adamant about putting them on all by yourself and you did it! Not without a significant amount of frustration but with a little encouragement you kept going until you got them on! You were so proud and so was I!! Since I'm on a roll of embarrassing you, here are some pictures of this event!

They're on the wrong feet but I wasn't about to tell you! We'll approach the right and left foot thing later!

You're a nut and I love it,
Mommy

P.S. We have your ear tube surgery on Monday, so if our friends and family that read this blog would say a few prayers for us that would be great! God is Good!

20 Months

Happy 20th Month in this World!

 (this picture is 2 months old)

You are exploring your boundaries a lot! 

Your tantrums consist of the following:

• "No, no, no, no, no!"
• Throw whatever is in your hand or mouth on the ground
• Throw yourself on the ground
• Create saliva and spit it out of your mouth. I'm pretty sure you do this because you can't make yourself actually cry real tears yet. 
• Get distracted and stop

You make us a laugh a lot!!

You say lots of words with soft endings:

• Da-ee (Daddy)
• Qwa-cka (Cracker)
• I see ew (I see you)
• Do do (Dog dog)
• Se-sa (Stella)
• Uhv-u (Love you)
• Ank ew (Thank you)
• Ga ka ka (You're welcome)
• Na na (Pacifier)
• Yesh (yes)
• Cher (cheers)
• Chi chi (chicken)
• Che (cheese)
• Da (that)
• Ki-ca (kitty cat)

You say lots of words very well:

• Bye Bye
• Apple
• Momma
• No
• Chica
• Elmo
• Oh no
• Elsha (Elsa)
• Anna
• Go
• Puff
• Off

You also say things that we have no idea what you're saying:

• Habish
• Ha-pi-ta

You ask me to sing Let it Go from Frozen every night before you go to bed! This is my favorite thing you do right now!

You can say "oh no" and "off" but won't say "Olaf"! You call him Elsha. (These are characters from the Frozen movie)

You love to play in your playroom. You still love your ball tent, your kitchen, matching game cards and then random items like DVD cases, game cases and plastic containers.

You're obsessed with taking things out of something and putting them back in over and over! It doesn't matter what it is but this process fascinates you.

You don't like to color but you like markers

You love the "Baby Shark" song

You have a good grasp on snapping! Seriously; you've almost got it down!

You have seen the movie Frozen about 5 times (maybe more) but only a few times all the way through.

You are enjoying sitting on the couch more and you'll actually sit there longer than 5 seconds sometimes

You call all animals by their sounds: (except a cat is still a cat just a ki-ca)

• Moo (cow)
• Quack quack (duck)
•  Neigh (horse)
• Ba (sheep & goat)
• You make the panting sound for dog
• Rwar (bear or lion)
• Tweet tweet (bird)
• Bbbbaaawww (elephant)
• Ooo ooo ahh ahh (monkey)

You grin a huge sheepish grin and cock your head to the side when you think you're being funny or have done something funny

You love Puffs!

You most always start to throw food on the floor when you're done eating. This is not one of my favorite things that you do right now! I'm glad we have a dog!

You love to "puddle" in the sink (play with the water with bowls & cups)

You're a great shopping buddy (most times) although you don't seem to like Trader Joe's. I think the crowds stress you out.

You make us play Ring around the Rosies a lot and we never deny you! We love to play it too!

You're not a huge fan of sitting in your highchair anymore. You need a big girl chair now!

You like to "cheers" and sometimes "cheers" with our utensils too!


I can't believe you're 20 months old! 20 months on the 20th! That's some sort of golden birthday I think! Actually I think it'll be when you actually turn 20 years old but hey you'll only be 20 months once; right?!

I love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love you!!!

- Mommy

Week 34 Year 1

Hey baby,

Just a quick photo overview of Week 34:

 

Bananas in the car on the way to school!

 Barktober Fest - We try to go every year!

 

Stella does not like having to ride in the back of our new minivan!

 Doggie snacks anyone?

 Stella will have some ice cream; please!

Although it was a bit dreary, the dog costumes brightened the day!

Oktoberfest 2014

 

Got my new rain boots on! Let's get muddy! Let's jump in puddles!

 

No mud, no puddles...how about a pony ride?

 

This has been our "spot" in the past! It's normally full of people listening to music but they changed the layout this year. It was a little sad but we still made the best of it! No mud! No rain!

What do you mean I can't jump in puddles??

 

 Okay! Let's ride a pony again!

 

And she's out!

 

Being silly on the way to school!

\The two of you got a couple of night to yourselves this week!

 You made art!

And puddled in water!

Sweet dreams my little monster!

I love you,

Mommy

Week 33 Year 1

Hello baby doll,

What an exciting week! You have finally been feeling better and seem yourself again, although you STILL have a bit of a cough and runny nose! At least it's not a green runny nose! It would not surprise me if you had allergies but I guess we'll find out!

It was FINALLY time for Frozen ON ICE! Oh my goodness we have been so excited for this day! You like the movie but we listen to the soundtrack more and you request that I sing "Let it Go" every night as we rock a bit before you go to bed! It was super fun! Lots of little girls dressed as Elsa and Anna, lots of excitement and music and the show was quite magical! The funny thing is that you usually stop watching the movie right about the time Anna finally gets to the castle and you stopped watching the ice show at almost the exact  same place! But you just chilled out and people watched and played in our row. You didn't make a big fuss or throw a fit and then when Mickey & his friends came back you were once again enthralled with the action!

 

Then on Sunday we went to the Hermitage Fall Festival. It was a lovely day! We met the Janiszewski's  & Schular's and played in the leaves, painted pumpkins, played with musical instruments, listened to some live music and walked around looking at lots of booths with a variety of arts and crafts! 

And as if that weren't enough on Wednesday we went on your first official school field trip! We went to Lucky Ladd's Farm. We've been there before but there is always something new to see and fun to do. It was nice to get to know some of your classmates and their parents. We went on a hayride, played on the swings, corn box and big slide, had lunch, picked out a pumpkin and pet the animals! You were wiped out when it was all over! We all were!

 This is apparently your BFF in class. Her name is Avery and she's a couple of months younger than you.

Near impossible to get you all together and looking in the same place at the same time but I think this one is pretty close! You sat up at the top all by yourself and just patiently waited for us to take pictures. I think you mostly enjoyed watching everyone act so silly!

And she's out! 

So you've picked up this thing where you point and say "da" ALL the time! It would be fine if you just said it in your normal sweet voice but I think you're mimicking your friend Avery and you do it in this high pitched way and I have to be honest it is kind of annoying. I feel like you're vocabulary has digressed a little. You know lots of words and normally are pretty well spoken but now you just say, "da, da, da, da". Ugh! I'm looking forward to passing of the phase. I mean, you're adorable bottom like but that squealing "da" grates on my nerves sometimes. So, let's move on from that one! Okay?! (Kiss, kiss)

I love you baby,

Da Momma

Week 32 Year 1

Oh my sweet girl,

This was a little bit of a scary week for us/me. It started off great! We went to see Ian in his high school marching band on Friday and we had a blast! You were so good and had a great time people watching and seemed to enjoy the game and band a lot!

 

Then on Saturday, you spent the day with daddy while I had to go do an "acting" gig. I was in a fashion show! Ooo la la! No, it was really no big deal but I had fun. It was actually hard work this time. The two of you had a ball together! You went to the pet store and to the grocery store and did a lot of playing at home!

Then since the show ran long, instead of coming home to get you to go to a baby shower, I had to go straight there. While I was there, you started to spike a fever and were burning up by the time I got home! Yikes! We called the doctor and they weren't super concerned and told us to give you some medicine and keep an eye out for rashes and to go to the doctor/hospital if you threw up at all. Luckily you did not!Although you did have trouble sleeping and woke up at 4am once again burning up! I sure do hate those fevers!

You ended up sleeping in until 10am on Sunday. SO not like you but you didn't sleep well at night I'm glad you got some rest! We just chilled out  most of the day but you seemed to be feeling better so I decided to take you shopping. Our first stop was Target and about 30 minutes into it your fever spiked and you broke out into a flat pink/red rash all over your body! We rushed home! Called the doctor and once again, they weren't too concerned and said to call them tomorrow if you weren't better. They said you just probably had a fever virus and now that the rash came, your fever would probably break! However, all that night you coughed and coughed all night and I decided to take you to see the doctor. And guess what?!? You indeed had some type of fever virus but now ANOTHER ear infection!

 Yep! Time to go see the ENT! That's an ears, nose and throat doctor. They evaluated your medical past, 5 ear infections since you were born and 4 of them since April! It's time for tubes in your ears. I'm pretty nervous about it but it is a very common procedure and I'm sure it will go well! I really like our doctor a lot. His name is Dr. Morgan. He was very kind, thorough and confident. He said he has done thousands of these procedures! We need to check with your heart doctor first but she clears you for surgery then we'll do that on October 27th!

Finally you were back to your sweet self on Wednesday and went back to school. It was the sweetest thing! Your teacher Ms. Vanessa jumped up and down when she saw you come through the door and one of your friends ran over to you and grabbed your hand to take you to play! So good to see that happen! Your school is pretty amazing! Just look what you did today:

  

 They keep you busy and you come home very tired! 

I am so glad that you're feeling better my love! The tubes will really help that too! You'll hear better as well!

Love, love, love,

Mommy