09.02.09

I came home from work today and when I saw you I about had a heart atatck. You have a huge bruise on your face. Scared me to death to hear the story of what had happened. I guess apparently you were just being you...quick as can be...and you ran in front of Millie on the swing and she kicked you right in the face. You don't look too pretty and I hope it heals quickly. A few bumps and bruises comes with the territory of a little girl that is still fairly new to walking (and is now literally trying to run)...but this just looks so bad.

09.27.09

You are such a big girl...or you think you are anyway. You want to be with the big kids...doing what the big kids are doing...playing with the big kids...eating what the big kids are...just one of them. na doh...you get so mad if you can't. Tonight Burke went outside to play and you literally jumped up as fast as you could and practially started running to go follow him outside to play in the sandbox. When you got to the door jam you knelt down crawled across it and then hopped back up. your dad and I both started laughing at that. What makes it funny is that you have followed the kdis out so many times in such a hurry (I mean you litereally are almost running) that you always trip on the door jam. It made me laugh to see that you had finally learned from all of the falls.

I'm also convinced that you think you are a mermaid. You lvoe water and the bath. You were basically esleep in your bed tonight and then you heard the bath water go on for Burke (he too is like a fish). You started yelling in your crib, when i ignored you, you started crying. SO I went in to get you. I set you down in your bedroom and then I ran to tell Millie that she needed to get undressed and take a bath tonight ( she takes bribeing to get in the bath)...well before I knew it Burke yelled out..."Mom, Lizzy's in the tub." I came running...scared to death...but there you were fully clothed and happy as a clam to have somehow dove in safely...I grabbed the camera..snapped a few happy pictures and then began taking your clothes off. Only at that point you thought I was making you get out and you started screaming your head off. That made me laugh even harder. I kept saying "you can get in, you can get in"...but you just didn't understand or care.

9.24.09

I have been sooo bad at writing in your journal...but I will get better...

You just hit your 11 month mark and your 1 year mark will be here before I know it! You so want to be a big person. You want to always be playing with the kids, eating real food, and be in the middle of whatever is going on.

You started walking on July 24th adn you are practically running now! You are just this little petite baby walking upright and tryig to be a big person. We love you!

05.05.09

You are quite the mover and the shaker now. You can easily move from your belly into the sitting position. You started doign your form of comando crawling at the end of last week...where you lay on yoru belly an dyou pull yourself with your hands. You get up on you hands and knees and rock like you are just going to take off, but you usually move one or two inchs before you end up on your face doing this beach whale move and then you'll pull yourself around. Your good to use your feet to help propel you to get places faster, but not quite crawling. But I think it is only going to be a matter of time before you are furniture walking. Tonight at Grandma Erroleen's we sat and watched you adn watched you try to pull yourself up on ehr little end table. there were some scriptures in the bottom part of the table that you wanted, but you couldn't quite get to them sitting down...at least not the way you wanted to...so you kept trying to pull yourself up. You were almost about to make it happen, but you just couldn't figure out how to get those hands onto the top of tje table. Millie and Burke weren;t even close to crawling at your age. You have been able to rolly polly yourself around a room, but no more rolly polly...it's all just a crawling and a pullign now. I love watching you grow up.

Last nigth was the first time you reached for me...specifically for me. You went to bed with your daddy and you were almost esleep when I ctawled into bed. You did a double take and once you realized it was me you let out a yelp and a few tears and started reachign for me. It was priceless to me. I've been wondering when you were going ot really start realizing who I am. Well, you've known who I am but now you are wanting to come to me. I love it!

4.26.09

I was watchign you play in the living room this morning and you were first sitting up, but then you really wanted your toy so as you reached and reached for it you worked your way to your belly....which you have been able to do without falling for almost a month now...this talent came early on. not too much falling over with you...you just manage to work your way from the sitting position to the belly position adn then rolly polly from there. Then the last little while you've been pulling yourself up onto your hands and knees adn I thuoght by now you would really be crawling...you so obviosuly want to...just can;t quite figure it out. nut today after you pulled your knees in under you you managed to get your arms positioned just right that you sat yourself up. I could not believe it. I've never seen a little baby do that. but you did...adn you just keep doing it. Definatly a new talent for you this month. So fun!

4.29.09

You have figured out how to spit. Yesterday you were trying to tell me that you didn't liek what I was feeding you and you managed to spiyt it out at me as you made your little lips vibrate. when it happened you got this kind of funny look on your face liek you had surprised yourself. well it is a new addtion to your "fun thigns you do" list. You can't stop making your lips vibrate and spitting. Your daddy was holding you tonight and he thought the whole thing was so funny. You tuck your little bottom lip under your top lip...and then come the sound effects. it is just darling. (Probably not the best thing for your little chin which was finally get past the red, dry, chapped stage)

4.21.09

No more work with mommy. You have finally become active enough that I just can't take you to work with me. It's been kind of hard. I miss having you there everyday. I miss your little smile. i miss having a reason to hide in my office and take a break from the day to have you eat and snuggle. I miss beign able to show you off to all of the patients. The girls miss you to. Life is just not the same without you at the office.

4.18.09

So close to crawling. Tonight you were rolling around in just your diaper on the floor and I think it helped that you didn;t have slipepry cloths on your little legs because you managed to get up on all fours and start rocking. You were so lcose to crawling. millie was so excited and was screaming tryign to encourgae you to crawl. You thought the whole thing was just funny and were siling and giggling so much. But in the end you mostly did a little kciking but couldn't figure out how to get your arms to mvoe so you could make it across the room. You'll be crawling before I know it.

4.13.09

Today you shocked me. I was getting ready to walk out the door and go to work (I think I've only left you like 2 or 3 times...ever) when I turned around to say goodbye there you were up on your little hands a knees like you were about to crawl. you've never done that before an dit only last about half a second, but the timing was perfect and I am so glad I caught a glimpse of you trying so hard to grow up.

3.30.09

YOu are running a fever tonight....which makes me a little nervous. You've been conjested the last couple of days with a runny nose and all, but the fever kicked in today. Even though I have been complaining about how big you are getting and how fast, you are just too little to be sick. I held you all night last night and will probably be doing the same tonight. I wish I could just hold you all day. Pretty soon you are going to be too big to curl up on my chest.

2.28.09

Daddy said you were his "best of the best" today. This afternoon we had some quite time here at the house. burke was esleep in his bed taking a nap, Millie and I were watching a movie, and you and daddy were cuddled up in the rocking chair. When I came in to check on you guys...you were gonzo and your daddy was all smiles. He loves holding you, but doesn't often get to...especially in the middle of the day for a nap.

3.25.09

You seem to have a little bit of a cold today. Your poor little face is so chapped and your little nose won't stop running so that doesn't help and your little eyes just keep watering. You just look like you feel quite miserable. I wish I didn;t have ot go to work today. I don't think you were up for the whole thing. I think you were just wishing that we could have stayed home and I could have just held you all day. It makes me sad when you are so sick. You haven't been sick much and I am hoping this is short lived. But I love you and I'm sorry it's crumy to be sick.

3.16.09

Happy 6 months baby girl. You are just th elove of my life. I can't beleive that you are already 6 months old. You are so big. Iy males me quite sad to think how quickly time is flying by and how quickly you are growing up. You still come to work with me everyday and I am wanting that to last as long as possible. I love having you with me so much. Today you had your 6 month check up and I think you weighed 13.3 pounds. At your last appt they were worried that you were only in the second percentile. (I wasn;t too worried about it...you are a healthy happy baby). Well when the Dr. walked into the room today and you didn't have anything but your diaper on she asked "how is he doing?". I corrected her and said "SHE is doing good." She looekd back at her chart..obviously feeling very embarrased and said we have her on the growth chart as a boy..that's not right. I said well then you won't be so worried about her becasue she'll probably be a little higher on the girl chart than the boy chart. Sure enough...they ahd you wrong at our last visit too. So today we got a new growth chart and you are in the 7th percentiel for your weight. I knew you were growing just fine and right on. We started you on oatmeal alst week and today you had your first serivng of peas. The chnage really didn't phase you, except the texture was a little thicker than you were used to and you gagged a few times. At least I think it was the texture, who knows it could have been the peas. You also had shots today. Evertiem you get shots you are so fussy the rest of the day and the next day. Today was no excpetion. A bit fussy and wanting to just nurse and be held. My milk supply has really dropped and a keep getting a clogged duct so I am not sure how much longer I'm going to be able to nurse you. I want to keep you healthy and it's quite convient so I'd like to hold on as long as possible. So I guess I better start taking care of myself a little better and drink more water, eat more frequently, and go back to taking my vitamins. I asked the Dr. about the little hematoma on your back. She said that it will continue to grow up to a year or so and then it will start to shrink and fade by the time you are 7 and gone by the time you are 9. It's small now, I am just hoping it stays that way. She's not at all worried about it. It makes me a little nervous, but I'll trust her and well just go on living with it. but you do have a little birthmark on the inside of your left thigh...it just this little faint mark that looks like your diaper has rubbed and made a little scab or something, but it's smooth and is becoming mroe prevelent as a birthmark. I love you and your sweet little personality. I feel so blessed to have you. You are what bring me joy every single day!

3.15.09

You are getting so strong and good at sitting up. I started working with you on it on Friday and you get better at it every single day. The funny thing is that you don't mind if you fall over. If you tuble you just wiggle your way to your belly and go on with playing....no screaming...no tears...just a happy little girl. When you are mad...you are mad...but falling over is just no big deal to you.

3.11.09

Can we say blow out!!! So all of the solid foos finally made it's way through your system. You went to work with me today and on our way you were struggling a bit to go to sleep. Well you fell esleep just before we got to the office..and I could smell you at about the same time. You must of done your business and then decided it was time for a nap. I was tempted to not wake you up,but you smelled so bad I could hardly stand it. Well...good thing I did....blow out! You had poop clear up your back and down your leg. I had to give you a bath in the sink in the office bathroom. it was quite a stinky mess. I only wish I would've had my camera so I could have taken a picture of you all wrapped up in the blanket that we used for a towel. Never a dull moment with a newborn. (I;m not sure I can stillc all you that...but you still feel new.) I guess I forgot how bad the blow outs can be an dhow messy everything becomes once solids are introduced. I knew there was a reason I wanted to wait until you were 6 months old. So much work...and so yucky at times!

3.9.09

You went to sleep in your own bed tonight...well mostly. I've had sucha hard time putting you down awake. I've spoiled you a bit...and loved every minute of it. I usually nurse you to sleep, but tonight I put you in your bed mostly awake and you didn't even seem to mind. You wresteled around a bit, but eventually you gave up and went to sleep. No crying...just some tossing and such. I was so proud of you...maybe the bassinet will be mroe than a pretty thing afterall.

3.7.09

Oh...you get mad. You are so funny. You are at the point that you want a toy to play with. You want someone to pay attention to you, to talk to you, and if possible give you something to play with. the funnist thing is how you will just let out a big scream and cry if you loose your toy or if you can't quite reach something you really want. Your brother and sister just weren't like that...they could care less aout having something to play with...but you get so mad about the whole thing.

3.8.09

Your first real meal. 2 months ago I took you in for your checkup and the docotr was worried that you ahdn;t gained enough weight and suggested that I start you on solids...well Millie did the same thing so I wasn't too worried. You are vibrant and bright eyed...aware of what is going on around you and doing all the things you shoudl be doing at your age...so I decided to wait until your 6 month mark. but I had to give in a little early...you were just ready. the last couple fo weeks you cannot stop reaching and staring when we are eating. You want some of the good stuff. So tonight we gave you oatmeal. You wanted to grab the spoon worse than you wanted to eat. You couldn't quite figure the whole thing out. You weren't sure if you should open your mouth or not. And you weren't sure about the taste. You kept getting the shivers...like the pee shivers...so eaither you were going pee or you were complaing about the taste of it..but no screams or anything. You managed to eat a small bowl...or at least smear a small bowl all over yourself...your clothes...your face...and your bumbo. I was sad that the camera was broekn and we weren't able to get any pictures of the occasion....but I am sure in the next day or so we'll be able to get a few snapshots if we can find daddy's camera.

Dedication

You are almost 6 months and I need to start keeping a journal for you on a more regular basis. In January I started trying to write a little bit each day for your brother and sister, but you were pretty much doing he same thing everyday..eating...sleeping...pooping...but since January you have become your own you and everyday you melt my heart in different ways...so it's time I start writing more abuot you and the fun things you do and your new daily discoveries.