A great day...

We had a few errands to run, so I thought what better day than today to try out the play area in the mall. I was a little scared at first. No...not worried too much about the germs, but mostly because all the kids in there are RUNNING around the joint and Laela is poking around on her knees. :) Either way, she handled it very well. She sat by me for a bit and then ventured out. At one point she was crawling back to me and a little boy lost his balance and fell on her. He could have cared less. He just popped up and went on. Laela gave him the evil eye and stared him down until he was out of sight. Next thing you know, there was a little girl that witnessed the incident. She came over to check on Laela. She was so cute! She got right in her face and started talking to her. Suddenly Laela burst out laughing! Then the little girl showed Laela where the boy went and seemed to continue discussing different topics with her. After "tattling" on the boy, the girl wanted Laela to play. She kept shooing Laela and pointed where she wanted Laela to go. When she was done, she looked back and saw that Laela was in the same spot. The little girl came back and told Laela to get a move on. Laela just laughed and overall, they had a great time talking! On the way through Macy's, a lady passed me smiling and said..."those toes must be good!" I smiled and looked down to find...


What a great day we had together! Laela must have been pooped because she napped for over an hour and a half. Then we met daddy for dinner. YUM!

1 year sneak peek!

Our sweet baby girl is going to be one next week! Here is a peek...

Around here...

In the last two days Laela has really been moving and grooving. One thing that we started a few weeks ago was Your Baby Can Read. You might think we are crazy, but the worst that could happen is that Laela recognizes words and pictures. Not too bad, right. We have sliding word cards that we show her and she is already able to recognize a few. Some of the words include dog, cats, eyes, arms up, tiger, mouth, elephant, nose, hi, and clap. So far she claps when she see that one. She does arms up. She growls at tiger, waves at hi, and says dog when she sees the dog word and picture. CRAZY...I know. Anyway, we had not gotten out the videos yet, so I did that yesterday. They are very repetitive, but I know that is how children learn and she seemed to be interested. Also, Nanna came over to visit and we had her 1 year pictures yesterday. A sneak peek will be posted soon! It is so funny to watch Laela be so excited about a bib. She was swinging it over her head and spinning around. Oh man...the good life! (By the way...this is one of the shirts that I made her! Looks great on her!)Today we went to Makenzi's (Laela's cousin) 5th birthday party. It was at a bounce place, but all of the bounce houses were so BIG! Laela was plenty happy watching everyone else and she had time to practice standing.Laela even got to try one of Makenzi's cupcakes. Funny thing is that she only wanted to play in the icing, not eat the cupcake. At least she got some practice for her birthday cake to come!I also created another shirt during Laela's nap today! This is really fun. I hope everyone else thinks that they are as cute as I do!

Our tired monkey...

She must be so tired. I forgot to put her socks on, so when I went in to put them on...this is what I found. She did not budge! Tucked in and super cozy.Aren't the whale jammies cute? :)

Our many morning activites...

I finished her other shirt today. What do you think? Not bad for another hand-stitch. I am going to borrow the Murthy's sewing machine and see what else I can create!We went back to the doctor yesterday. Laela still has an ear infection! Just to update you...we went in on Tuesday, June 2nd to find out that she had a double ear infection and started an antibiotic. A week later (this past Tuesday) we went back to find out that one ear got better but the other did not. We got a new antibiotic and we were on the way. Then we went back yesterday because Laela was still messing with her ear. I wanted to have her checked before the weekend...and...yes...still an ear infection. I had two choices: one last try at an oral antibiotic or a series of 3 shots. I opted for the antibiotic. Keep your fingers crossed that this one will do the trick! Laela's ear does not seem to be hurting her too much, but she sure is crabby. She can not stand for me to leave one second or to step away 2 feet. I am not sure if this is due to our new "stay-at-home" schedule or her ear infection. Either way...let's hope it gets fixed fast! By the way...her earache is not slowing her down! Here are her adventures this morning...

Random thoughts...

Laela and I officially started our summer this week. So far, so good. We are both still alive and all is well. :) We have been busy this week with lunch, shopping, friends, playing, shopping, crafts, shopping, and giggling. Today she learned how to blow kisses. So exciting! I am trying to teach her what "hug" means, but so far she thinks it is a sloppy, wet, tongue kiss. YIKES! One funny thing she has started doing is getting my phone and pretending to talk...

Pulling on my leg and insisting that I help her up...

I started feeling like I needed to create something. Just a plain white onesie before. Now it is a plain white onesie with a pretty ribbon and bow. Cute! I was able to stitch the ribbon on during her nap yesterday and then I made the bow and added it on with a safety pin. Here it is...

and on my cutie...

Then I was searching the internet and found this idea, so I made it too. We have a big 1st birthday celebration coming up...you know!

Spaghettios!

Laela tried spaghettios tonight. She has a smile on her face in these pictures, but too bad she didn't really take to them.
Oh man! I don't know what to feed her. She doesn't want to have anything to do with food unless it comes from a Gerber food container. AH!

Doritos!

Laela loves Cool Ranch Doritos! I was having a small snack before dinner, and Laela wanted one too. She has not taken to many table foods, but she loved the Doritos!
She even came back for more!
PS - I know this is not the best choice for an 11 month old, but she just had a few bites. :)

A head scare!

Today I got the dreaded phone call from daycare. "Laela fell and hit her head. She has calmed down now, but she was very upset." Oh lord! I dropped everything and sped to the daycare. When I opened her classroom door, she was sitting in her chair smiling at me! She did not look like a baby with a bonked head. When I looked closely, she had a red, 2 inch bump. The bump was not raised too much, but it was still there. Of course I called the doctor and checked with them about everything. They said that it all sounded pretty "normal". Here is the story:
Laela was sitting on the floor with a blanket on her head (playing peek-a-boo). When she was pulling the blanket over, it got stuck on her head. She was pulling really hard and lost balance. Then her head slammed onto the tile floor. The teachers said they heard it hit! They immediately put ice on and she calmed down a bit later. No signs of tiredness, or any more crazy than usual.

Doesn't look too bad, right? Hopefully it doesn't turn black and blue. AH!

not feeling good...

Oh man! What a day. I got to daycare right at 4:00 to walk in and find my baby girl with bright red cheeks and the teacher on the phone leaving me a message. Laela had a 102 degree temperature. Of course we immediately took her to the doctor. They are really great about getting us in. It is so confusing with little ones. Laela has been teething and then Saturday she started showing signs of a cold (runny nose and a cough). Eventhough she has not felt too wonderful, she is still truckin' along. She went to daycare yesterday and today. Even when they told me about her temp they said that she still wanted to play with her friends. It was really sad to see her look so yucky.
Well...long story short...she has a really bad left ear infection and small infection in the right ear. Also, the runny nose, cough and congestion. YIKES! Well, of course we filled the prescription immediately and gave it to her when we got home. She was SOOOOOOO tired and worn out from the day that I was sure she was off to sleep with no problemos tonight. HA! FUNNY! NOT SO TRUE!
As I am writing this, she is playing with her toys in the living room. Let me tell you two things: 1)The current time is 8:00. 2) She typically goes to bed at 6:00. We put her to bed and she fussed for a minute but then sat up and played. She would fall over and lay down and just when you think she is asleep she would pop up again. Then she started crying and crying and crying. This was the "I am in pain" cry, not the "I don't want to sleep" cry. I went in and rocked her and got her to sleep. Next thing you know she is awake and giggling...crawling all around! Of course we did not make it any better. We joined her for some fun on the floor!
Okay...no more fun. Back to the crib. She sat up and played a little more and cried a little more. Again, I went in and rubbed her head (this is a new thing that she seems to LOVE). Oh yes...I normally do not go back into her room. Once we put her down with music and paci...that is it! Tonight I think I feel so bad that she is in pain. Poor baby girl! Okay...so the head rub. It was working perfect. I just thought now is my time to get out. One more rub and she opened her eyes, looked at me and belted out the loudest giggle. Loud enough that Ro came in from the other room to see what the heck was going on. Oh man...and that is what leads to her now playing with her toys at 8:00 on a Tuesday night.
Oh...yes...Ro will have "daddy duty" tomorrow since Laela had fever today. What will tomorrow bring...oh how I wish I was a fly on the wall! :)