Our princess is almost 17 months already!!!! OMG, time flies by, but I do have to say with every day, month and time that goes by she is getting to be such a fun, loving, bright and entertaining princess! It is so fun to watch her grow and just how much they learn and pick up in these months.
She was very sick, most of February she was in and out of day care and the Dr's with one thing after another. Downfall of daycare! :( I am all about building their immune systems, but come on, after almost 5 straight weeks of being sick, getting better, being sick, etc. it gets very wearing and tiring! It finally got real bad with her having a double ear infection and what we think a viral infection of some sort. She was vomiting, not eating, diarrhea, sleeping a lot, not active at all, just NOT herself. It was awful and so sad to see. I finally took time off work to be with her because as much help as I get and appreciate I just felt I had to be with my baby. I've never seen her like this and it literally broke my heart. I finally became so emotional over it thinking every worse case scenario, you wouldn't even want to know, and just having a break down. She saw me crying hysterically and gave me her pluggie to soothe me! LOL...such a sweetheart. I then realized, she knows you are upset, stop it!!!!! Do what it takes to make her comfortable and better and just focus on her and pray to give her the strength back to feel better. I then kicked my butt into "mom" gear, the non worry and non preggo one with a rational mind and took her out of the house for a walk and just focused on her! It helped, not to mention my many phone calls to my sister, husband and of course nurse Jen, so thank you for dealing with me! LOL.
Anyway, she is back to herself, energy back, eating again and just her happy self. I cried when I finally saw this, and of course it was on the day daddy took off to go back to the Dr with me to ask all the what if questions so they wouldn't think I was nuts! He says she was just smiling cause he was finally home! LOL...which to be honest I am sure it was. We will be laying in bed to put her down and TJ will call to say he's on his way home, hoping she is still awake when he gets there, which most the time doesn't happen with his hours, but anyway, we will be laying there, she is calm, just had her baba and ready to knock out. She immediately knows it's daddy and starts talking to him and laughing and playing. It is so cute that how can you be mad at that!
She is loving to kiss and rub my belly and my "other baby," she is still my baby. She is a sponge repeating everything we do and say. Every morning as I am getting ready for work she pretends to be doing her hair as I am doing mine, she gets into my jewelry box to get "pretty" while mommy gets dressed and accessorized. She wants to do everything herself...put on her shoes, socks, jacket, go down the stairs, etc. She wants to drink out of our water bottles not her sippy cup and if you don't give it up, she will let you know exactly what she wants!!!! Overall she has a very good temperament, but she does have those moments poking through where I can see the little attitude coming through as she tests her boundaries!
She is still into books, wanting to go on walks in her car or stroller, throwing balls, yes, she actually throws them, daddy showed her and she says, "weddy (i.e. ready)" then chucks it at you!
Well I could go on for days. I will update you all as our chaotic and crazy lives continue!
Stop Worrying..your starting to get worse than me!! You cannot worry about what you cannot control..remember? The transition from one to two is huge but once the baby comes you will adjust just fine..I promise! It won't always be easy and your life will never be as it once was, but I can promise you this..it will be worth it!! It's almost time so enjoy every minute now because you are going to define a whole new meaning of CRAZY but hey it's a good crazy and as you have said before there is now better feeling than being a mommy!! hee hee love ya xoxo
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