SICK SICK SICK

I am officially ready for winter and sickness to be over.  Our whole family has had a rough go of it this winter.  It seems that more often than not one of us has been sick.  Unfortunately, Allie has had a stomach bug, an ear infection, a sinus infection, and now some deep chest congestion accompanied by a fever.  Oh the joys!  I hate it when my baby is sick and I hate that I can't make her feel better.  I am sure every mom feels this way but Allie is so sweet and pitiful when she isn't feeling well.  Also these high fevers are for the birds.  I am worried about her all night long and last night she would sleep for 20 minutes at a time then start coughing and be up crying for 10-15 minutes before I could get her back to sleep for another 20 minutes.  Needless to say it was a long night for everyone.   Pray my baby feels better soon and that it doesn't move into her lungs. 

 

When Allie gets the chills this is how she chooses to dress... she is still her own person!

 

Life is just better with your hat

  

 

Allie during lunch

propped up ready for a day of sesame street!

17 Months

On Allie's 17 month birthday Kelly Beth came and got her for the day so mommy could have a day to get things done, like clean the house, grocery shop, run errands, and get my glucose test.  All things that are slightly easier to accomplish without an ever so helpful 17 month old :)  

First they went to Barnes and Noble for story hour and from the sounds of it Allie had lots of fun.  We will have to visit story hour more often.  Looks like from the pic below she found them elmo section.

 

Apparently she LOVED the train table.  Good thing she is going to have a little brother because I am sure she will get more opportunities to play with trains and cars in the future.

 

During story hour she was a bit shy and stayed close to KB

 

But perked right up when they started singing the itsy bitsy spider... which is currently her favorite song.  When we start singing it we have to repeat it numerous times before moving on to the next thing.

 

Allie wanted to take the trains home but agreed to leave them when she got to pick out a new book about dogs... another favorite thing right now.

 

When they got back to KB's they had fun playing with babies, eating lunch, watching sesame and just having fun.  I can't believe my little girl is really this big.  She still loves her baby doll's and is practicing every day to be a good big sister!

 

Later in the day they went over to play with KB's neighbors.  They took their babies for a walk in the strollers...

 

Looks like something was wrong with her baby and she needed to stop and comfort her.  What a good little mama she is

 

Then it was time to play on the play set out back.  Allie LOVES slides.  We will definitely get a slide and play set when we move into our new house!

 

Looks like they had a great day!  Allie loves playing with older kids, she seems to do better with them at this point in life.  We are still working on sharing and appropriate behavior with friends... but from what I hear this might be a long process that I cant magically escape... so for now we are just taking it one day at a time. 

Some new things this month:  you have started to repeat everything we say... I know we need to watch what we say now.  You have learned Josh's name and I think you have a slight crush on him.  Today you acted like you were talking to him on the phone and then wanted to look at pictures of him on facebook.  You can also kind of say Todd and JuJu for Juliet, you recognize them in pictures.  We are still working on Kim but you have trouble with the K sound.  We are also working hard on Chaim.  You are having a lot less outbursts now that you are getting better at expressing yourself with words.  You are so sweet, you love to give hugs and kisses especially to your mommy and daddy and babies.  Mommy is trying to figure out how to get rid of your paci... we are successfully down to only naps and bed time not sure how to make the next big step.  You still love to dance and are full of life and personality I hope you never lose that.  This month you have started telling me night night when I put you in bed and then blow me a kiss... it is one of the cutest things I have ever seen and I am lucky that you go to sleep so well.  Allie I am so proud to be your mommy and I love that I get to watch you grow every day... just dont get too big too fast.  I love every moment of life with you.  I love you Allie, always and forever... no matter what happens my baby you will be!

A Warm Day in the Park

We have been having a couple random warm days every now and then so when we had our last one

 a couple of days ago I decided we were going to go to the park and just enjoy being outside.  Allie had fun just being able to run free and I had fun snapping pictures of my outgoing little big girl.  There isn't much green out yet but oh this made me so ready for SPRING!

 

She found the ducks and wanted inside.

 

I had to stay close because she would have walked right into the lake with the 

ducks without thinking twice about it.

 

Running away from me :)

 

She played so hard she fell asleep in the stroller on the way home.