Building a better you

Today we went to see an Ear Nose and Throat doctor. She checked out your earns, nose and throat; like any good ENT should. Unfortunately it wasn't so pretty in there- but I expected that. So now January 12^th you'll be having tubes put in your ears and your adenoids taken out.

She's going to use a camera to take a peak down your throat to see if there is something in there that has been making you cough.

On the one hand, I don't want them to find anything terrible or gross when they take a peak; but I know that chances are they'll be able to fix whatever they find. I'm just very nervous at the thought of you having to endure more surgery, so for now we'll hope that it's something they can fix right then and there or something that can be corrected / maintained / mitigated with medication.

Star light, star bright- first star I see tonight

Combined, your Wish List item total eclipses mine. I'm ok with that. I'm older. I have more stuff than you do, I've had a lot more time to go shopping than you have. I also have credit cards and bank access, BUT I DIGRESS!

Your Amazon Wish List is about to eclipse mine in total items- this does not please the gods. I will now begin shaking a fist at the sky.

Happy Thanksgiving, again!

I tried to sit you at the table like the rest of us, but that only seemed to confuse you. You wouldn't touch your plate until I put it on the tray of your high chair. So I guess you're not quite ready to sit with us at a table, but we'll get there.

While you could eat anything and everything your little hear desired this year, you only wanted to eat one thing: cranberries. You kept asking for more and eventually you gave up the spoon to shovel them in to your mouth with both hands. That change in delivery also lead to a discovery: cranberries are good for squishin'. So from that point on you squeezed and squished them to bits.

Poppa came over for dinner and daddy even woke up early for the occasion so you had almost double the number of adults you normally have a meal time. You kept asking Poppa to give you food and he was more than happy to oblige. However, you weren't too impressed with my turkey cooking abilities but you did like licking all of the gravy off of your fork, so that'll have to do for now.  Maybe next year you'll learn how super awesome Thanksgiving turkey is.

It's incredible to me how much has changed since last year. Today, I am thankful for all of your crazy, independently formed ideas. That's one awesome melon you've got there.

Oooooh well

I was awestruck when you started to play with dolls appropriately. You'd rock them, kiss them, dance with them. It made me seriously reconsider a lot of what I thought about nature vs nurture. And then today I put a dress on you- and you cried. No, you shrieked and SCREAMED. You may not be a real girl after all.

Ohdear

You can climb out of your crib. It's not terribly graceful and it sounds awfully painful.

Please stop?

Trick or Treeeeeeeat!

You didn't want to nap today. You knew there were M&M's to be had, there was no fooling you. I tried to get you to eat dinner- it was the same story, you didn't want anything to do with dinner. You wanted to run around. You wiggled and wriggled as I tried to get your tights on. I made the two of us pointy gnome hats and skirts- I did it all without patterns which double impressed me.

You wouldn't actually say Trick or Treat when we rang any of the doorbells, you'd say hi the entire way up the drive way and then when we'd get on to the porch you'd go mute. You weren't so keen on holding your bucket, but man oh man you were happy to take goodies from anyone who was willing to offer them up. You even got some from a fire truck!

We finished up with a stop at Grandma and Grandpa's house and then it was home to eat some M&M's. Thankfully there will be no Halloween Hangover since you had a total of 10 M&M's over the course of 6 hours. And hopefully you won't notice the candy is all gone in the morning!

You made it!

This past weekend was your first road trip, we went to Troy to visit Hunkle Mike and Miss Aunt Casey.

You spent most of the trip there asleep. However, you were less than pleasant once you woke up. You kept kicking your legs and yelling "all done." We still had about 45m left on our trip and we tried our best to distract you, but it didn't work. When we got to the hotel you ran around the parking lot in the rain with me. After daddy got us checked in you ran around the room and bounced from bed to bed.

You got to see horses up close and personal for the first time and you got to show them how to REEEALLY explore the CMOST. You didn't seem to hang on to any of the fantastic information about science and technology- but you did enjoy the fish in the river habitat. There were a LOT of buttons for you to push; they made things light up and move, some of them even made noise! We got you a lizard while we were at the CMOST, you kept coming back to the gift shop and taking him in to the different exhibits. I figured it was going to be an easier day for everyone if we let the fella come with us.

I wouldn't call the trip a complete success but I wouldn't quite call it a failure. I know that it'll be a bit before we try another road trip with you, but at least we got one under our belts for now- and we know that it can in fact be done.