Not sure why I feel inclined to write this post, but I do. We have had a TERRIBLE cold and flu season for the whole family including the Emmons' and Boring Bunch. When Maia and Brent moved from Shiner Spencer had a pretty nasty cold and from there it has just been one thing after the other. It was about a week before Thanksgiving that Spencer came down with the cold. He helped Brent and Maia move that weekend and shared with all of them. Lila and I caught it as well, but it was only bad for a few days and then we were fine. Well about 2-3 weeks later Spencer got sick again with what at first seemed like a cold, but we later figured out was a sinus infection. Maia and I also got hit with a sinus infection a few weeks after our colds dissipated. Lila thankfully never had her cold turn into one.
Then right before Christmas Lila got a stomach bug. YUCK! Luckily the really gross part only lasted about 12 hours, but the nausea and loss of appetite lasted almost a full week. Just about everyone in the family got this bug. I think only Grandma, Poppy, Brent and Hannah made it through that one. Lucky ducks!
Then just after New Year's Lila got a fever (only lasted a day, but was high 103) and a weird rash on her tummy and diaper area. I think it was hand, foot and mouth disease, but a VERY mild case of it. It only seemed to bother her for a few days and she was back to normal. No one but Lila had any illness from that one.
Then just shy of 2 weeks ago Grace got really sick. Fever, chills, aches and pains, and sore throat. We had just been with her the day she got sick and I thought great now we get the flu. Grace ended up however with Strep Throat and thankfully no one else got that one.
Just shy of a week after Grace came down with Strep Throat Lila got REALLY sick. She started acting odd Sunday and by Monday afternoon had a fever. The only other symptom I noticed with her was a stuffy nose besides the aches, pains and chills that come with having a fever. She was miserably sick with a high fever, the highest it got was 104, from Monday afternoon until Thursday late morning. I knew her throat wasn't sore though because she did a great job taking in fluids and never complained about her throat. I guess I feel so inclined to share this is because that is the hardest thing I think I've ever had to go through. Seeing those temps of 103 and 104 were terrifying. There was about half a day where I had an extremely hard time getting her to take in fluids, which scared me to death. I have this terrible habit of imagining the worst possible scenario. Thank goodness this didn't even warrant a trip to the pediatrician. On Thursday I called and got an appointment, but just a few hours after making the appointment Lila started getting up and moving around and eating like there was no tomorrow. There were so many times though that I would just hold her and cuddle her and cry wishing my sweet, happy, lively, energetic baby back. I couldn't even think that I wish I could take this illness from you because then I would be putting her little sister in danger with that high fever. So far and luckily Spencer and I haven't gotten sick. It sounded like the flu, but there is no way to be sure. Could have been the flu, sinus infection or just some weird kid virus that Spencer and I have already had or our bodies know how to fight off. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that I don't end up with that high fever. Needless to say I am SO happy that she is almost back to herself. She is still a little sluggish and weak with a appetite that is hit or miss, but the worst part is over. One night talking to Spencer while holding our feverish baby we talked about just how hard it is to have a sick child, the worry and sleeplessness from the worry. I expressed how hard it is to be a parent. Don't get me wrong it is the best most rewarding thing on this planet, but it's hard. It's hard to love someone so much because you worry. You want everything to be perfect for them. You don't want them to get hurt or be sad or get sick, but you also know that all those things are just part of growing up and life in general. I love being a mom so much and am so grateful to have a healthy and happy little girl. I just can't believe that she is 19 months old and besides that one short day she had a fever she has not had a severe illness, mostly just a few colds here and there.
So today I called my mom to see if we could come over to watch the Superbowl on Sunday and she tells me Seth is sick with a cold (eye roll). What is it this season? Guess we won't be seeing the Emmons' or the Boring's for a while still. hahaha. Hope you feel better soon little dude.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Baby Scott #2
I've been putting this post off for quite some time. Always thinking well after this, or after that. So I'm finally doing it and am excited to. On September 3rd our little Scott family found out we are having baby #2. I had been putting off taking a pregnancy test in the beginning because I was so nervous to have another newborn especially this time with a VERY active toddler. I finally took the test that morning and sent Spencer a "are you ready" text because he was already at work. I eventually took a second test just to double check that the first one was telling the truth ;) hahaha. We waited to tell pretty much every one until after our first doctor appointment that was on September 30th. Although funny story is that SO many people guessed or had a pretty good idea that something was going on with me before we even spilled the beans. I guess that wasn't too difficult when I was green around the gills oh ALL day and night. YUCK! Mom of course guessed around 8 weeks, although I'm sure she knew before then by the way I had been acting, that was just the first time she vocalized it. I got sick at exactly 6 weeks and stayed very green until 14 weeks. I got so lucky with Lila, which I think made this even worse because I was not expecting it. When I was 7 and 8 weeks is when we had our road trip to Nashville. Let me just tell you that being in the car for a minimum of 14 hours (one way) was not the ideal way to have morning sickness and fatigue. Why by the way do they insist on calling it morning sickness? I changed the term for this pregnancy to all day sickness. I would even wake up in the middle of the night from a dead sleep nauseous. Boo, no fun! Anyway I was very glad when that all ended and just in time for all the holidays with yummy food. I definitely made up for any lack of eating in the beginning during the holidays.
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At 16 weeks, just before Thanksgiving on the 21st I went to a sonography school to see if we could see the gender. The weren't positive, but said they thought it was a boy!!!!! Spencer is so excited to have a boy. So am I of course. All I want is a happy, healthy little baby. With that said I was secretly hoping for another little girl. Not only do I know what to do with girls seeing as how there are SO many in my family; I was also hoping for Lila to have a sister and playmate close in age. I know boy or girl we will be so happy.
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| It's a boy!!!???? |
One of my main pregnancy woes is that I worry A LOT about this little baby. Luckily I felt him kick right about 17 weeks and he hasn't stopped since. That gives me so much piece of mind. Before I knew if I could get into that sonography school we bought a doppler on Amazon to hear the heartbeat at home. I was having a freak out moment one night at home so my sweet Spencer bought it for me to ease my mind. We didn't have insurance :( after my last appointment on the 30th of September until January 1 because of his awesome new job. Sooooooo I worried even more not having heard the heartbeat yet. On our doppler everything sounded great and at the sonography school every thing looked great too. We went to the doctor again, finally, on January 6th and he confirmed that everything sounds good. While we were there we scheduled our next visit which will include our anatomy scan seeing as how we weren't able to get one done at 20 weeks. Hopefully we will be able to know for sure if it's a boy or girl. I really will not be surprised to be told boy because of how different this pregnancy has been and because the sonography school was pretty convinced that it's a boy.
I've been putting off publishing this post, yes, again, until we had our anatomy scan. Well after being rescheduled almost two weeks ago because the technician was sick I finally had it done today. I had to go by myself because Spencer had to stay home with a sick Lila. :( The first thing she looked at was gender. She told me "oh, your having another girl!" I looked at her funny and responded "really, are you sure?" So our little boy is now our little girl. I was very surprised by this information. I was really convinced it was a boy. The rest of the scan went great! The baby is measuring right where she should be and all the organs and bones look just as they should. I waited til I got home to tell Spencer about the sonogram. At first he didn't believe me haha, but we are both very excited. All that matters to us is a healthy baby. I'm excited for Lila. I hope having a little sister will be fun for her. I'm happy that the girls will be close in age to share toys, dolls, clothes, make up, school years, etc. I love my sisters, they are my very best friends, but I was always a little sad that we never really got to share those things growing up. I never went to school with Grace and only went to school with Maia for 2 years in elementary school.
This sonogram made everything very real and got me super excited to add to our family. Only 2 weeks left of the second trimester! I have this sneaking suspicion nesting is just around the corner. I've already started thinking about frozen meals and getting a few baby items that I'm hoping will make the transition from 1 to 2 babies a little bit easier. More to come on the progress of the pregnancy and of course how our family is doing.
I've been putting off publishing this post, yes, again, until we had our anatomy scan. Well after being rescheduled almost two weeks ago because the technician was sick I finally had it done today. I had to go by myself because Spencer had to stay home with a sick Lila. :( The first thing she looked at was gender. She told me "oh, your having another girl!" I looked at her funny and responded "really, are you sure?" So our little boy is now our little girl. I was very surprised by this information. I was really convinced it was a boy. The rest of the scan went great! The baby is measuring right where she should be and all the organs and bones look just as they should. I waited til I got home to tell Spencer about the sonogram. At first he didn't believe me haha, but we are both very excited. All that matters to us is a healthy baby. I'm excited for Lila. I hope having a little sister will be fun for her. I'm happy that the girls will be close in age to share toys, dolls, clothes, make up, school years, etc. I love my sisters, they are my very best friends, but I was always a little sad that we never really got to share those things growing up. I never went to school with Grace and only went to school with Maia for 2 years in elementary school.
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| 26 weeks |
This sonogram made everything very real and got me super excited to add to our family. Only 2 weeks left of the second trimester! I have this sneaking suspicion nesting is just around the corner. I've already started thinking about frozen meals and getting a few baby items that I'm hoping will make the transition from 1 to 2 babies a little bit easier. More to come on the progress of the pregnancy and of course how our family is doing.
Holiday Season 2013
I loved our holiday season this year! I know I already talked about Thanksgiving and our visit from Papa and Granny, but I forgot to add pictures of their visit to the last post so I will add them here with this one. I felt bad not including any of those pictures. I hadn't even thought to ask Granny for pictures because for some reason Spencer and I didn't take any (eye roll). I'm so bad at taking pictures. Any way we loved our visit with them as always. Can't wait for them to come back for another visit. I would also love to make a trip up to Oregon to visit the farm again. Maybe by the time summer is unbearable here in South Texas we'll be able to go visit.
The rest of the year was amazing for this little Scott family. After Papa and Granny went home I had Spencer get out all of our Christmas decorations. We realized that none of our lights worked anymore so we made an awesome trip to Target to load up on lights, a timer, Lila's stocking and holder and a few other fun decorations. :) That weekend Spencer and I decorated the house while Lila was taking a nap. She was SO excited to see the tree and the outside lights. It was so fun seeing her excitement over Christmas. Granny got us an elf on the shelf this year and Spencer named him Buddy. Lila has so much fun waking up each morning and looking for him. On Christmas Eve we read Buddy's story one last time; she blew him kisses and waved bye and was totally fine with it. I thought for sure that she would be upset when he wasn't there any more, guess not. I think one of my favorite parts of Christmas this year was every night Spencer would come home from work and Lila would be at the door waiting for him and beg him to take her to see the "daindeer" aka reindeer. One of our neighbors had a lawn ornament of a reindeer that moved its head. Lila thought this was the greatest thing ever. Spencer could hardly get in the door from work and change his clothes without Lila having a meltdown over the daindeer. Cutest part was that she equated the daindeer with dad. So the two of them would bundle up and walk to see the daindeer and the other lights just about every night in December while I finished dinner.
Besides Christmas shopping there wasn't much else to do leading up to the big day. Spencer and I got each other a new TV and a Chrome-cast. The rest was all for Lila. We had lots of fun wrapping her presents the difficult part was keeping her from unwrapping them before Christmas. She did great up until Christmas Eve. I was vacuuming and getting ready to host Christmas Eve dinner when she took advantage of mom not paying super close attention. She got 1 1/2 presents opened before I realized what she was up to. hahahaha little stinker! We let her watch her Sing-along-Song she opened, but kept the one she half way unwrapped under the tree one more day. I have to say given the fact that she is so busy, into everything and very curious I thought for sure our tree would be destroyed at first sight, but she did really well. Every once in a while she'd take an ornament down, but didn't break them. The one she did break was really more my fault than hers. It wasn't even on the tree at the time it broke. Christmas Eve was awesome. I thought it turned out really well. We had tons of food. We ate yummy steak chili, biscuits and salad for dinner. Then we baked Christmas Cookies. I wasn't sure whether to double the recipe or not. Well I doubled it and was cutting out cookies for hours. It was a lot of fun, but man was I tired after. Note to self DON'T double the recipe next year. I always have so much fun doing this with the kids. I'm glad I've had Maia's kids around to do it almost every year and soon enough my little Lila will be my helper. I've done it by myself a few times, but it just isn't the same. Spencer and I had so much fun hosting in our new house. Spencer really got into the whole Christmas thing this year. Usually he's just along with me on my crazy Christmas ride, but this year he got really into it. I think with Lila being older and us having a place of our own really made the difference.
Christmas day was wonderful! We woke up just the three of us in our own house to Santa presents. Lila made a straight shot for her big Santa present and started ripping into it. She got a Cozy Coupe and some Elmo stuff from Santa! Then we ate breakfast. After breakfast we Skyped with Granny and Papa while Lila opened the rest of her gifts. She got two more Disney Sing-along-songs, some food for her kitchen, a helmet, and a baby doll bed from mom and dad. Dad shopped and picked out his own present for Lila, a Disney Princess Adventure Hut with tunnel. Lila and the cats love this gift. Spencer did a great job. I'm glad he did that for Lila. One of my greatest memories of Christmas is always having a gift from just dad under the tree. I think there was only one year he didn't do this and he's heard about it plenty since then. Guess what though dad still does a dad gift every year for his three adult daughters. Love you dad! After presents were done we played for a little while then got ready to go to Grandma and Poppy's house. We had more presents to open up there of course. The Boring's got her a music set equipped with drum, tambourine, maracas, castanets, and keyboard type things. Lila LOVES these toys. In fact, on the way home that night she would NOT get in her car seat unless she could hold onto her drum and drumsticks. Grandma and poppy got her a table and chairs as well as some more Little People toys, Grace got her a stuffed animal that looks just like Grandma's dog, Oskar, that's even what she calls it, and a book. We ate lots of good food all day and enjoyed everyone's company. It was a great day and so nice to be together as just our little family Christmas morning. We didn't get that last year because Spencer was working on the ambulance, but now that he's a teacher he got the whole week of Christmas off and two days for New Year's! Yahoo! Really enjoyed having him home with us, but it was hard when he had to go back to work.
We also got our cloth diapers from Granny and Papa, Thank you! So far I am really enjoying the cloth diapering. It's really not as hard or gross as I thought it would be and the extra laundry really doesn't bother me at all. I'm so relieved and glad we decided to go that route. Thank you Granny and Papa! Lila also got a gift card and we all got pajamas in the mail from Spencer's Brother and Sister. I'd say we had an incredible Christmas! Felt lots of love from all of our family and friends.
New Year's was fun too. We went over to Grandma and Poppy's house for New Year's Eve. We ate finger foods and had our friends/family Luke, Jalayne and Janie come over too. We had a great time until Lila got tired, hit her head on the stair railing and then freaked out when Hannah tried to distract her by taking her outside to see the fireworks. hahaha It was a miracle that she even went to bed. Although I'm convinced that her being tired was part of the problem. It was so sweet though. She was trying to be brave, but every time she'd here a firework go off she'd say "boom, fire" and then make this weird, awkward laugh like she thought it was funny, but you could tell she was terrified. Awww sweet little baby. Any way Grandma and I got her calmed down and put her in bed and she was out like a light. :) Good girl! The rest of the night was spent playing an insanely long game of Uno with Maia, Grandma, Hannah, Teen, Seth and Rissa. I stayed up til 2 AM!!!! Wow I haven't done that since Lila was born and I didn't have any other choice. Hehehe.
Spencer and I had a wonderful year! Lots of great things happened for our family. The best coming in my next post. :) I'm sure 2014 will be just as good if not better. I'm excited for our future together. We've already gotten off to a good start. We bought an annual zoo pass and already got to go this past Saturday. Lila had SO much fun. It is amazing how much she is learning, growing and changing. Just since the last post she has started saying phrases. She can even put enough words together to retell something that has happened. She can now count to 5 and can say her alphabet up to the letter D. She is so independent and determined. When we took her to the zoo she of course didn't want to stay in here stroller because she can't see everything, so we take her out, but she doesn't want to hold hands. So, we had to buy her a backpack with a tail/leash to hold onto her. It felt weird at first "walking" my daughter, but it worked for all of us. She was happy and I knew where she was. I can't wait to take her again all she's talked about the last few days is the elephant and tiger. Oh ya and she can say elephant now. :) I love my little family so much. They make me one happy mommy.
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| Furniture Shopping |
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| Seeing Spencer's work for the first time |
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| Spencer's work |
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| Eating Lime |
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| Early Christmas present from Granny and Papa |
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| Lunch with Granny |
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| learning the color red with papa |
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| playing with our new baby doll |
The rest of the year was amazing for this little Scott family. After Papa and Granny went home I had Spencer get out all of our Christmas decorations. We realized that none of our lights worked anymore so we made an awesome trip to Target to load up on lights, a timer, Lila's stocking and holder and a few other fun decorations. :) That weekend Spencer and I decorated the house while Lila was taking a nap. She was SO excited to see the tree and the outside lights. It was so fun seeing her excitement over Christmas. Granny got us an elf on the shelf this year and Spencer named him Buddy. Lila has so much fun waking up each morning and looking for him. On Christmas Eve we read Buddy's story one last time; she blew him kisses and waved bye and was totally fine with it. I thought for sure that she would be upset when he wasn't there any more, guess not. I think one of my favorite parts of Christmas this year was every night Spencer would come home from work and Lila would be at the door waiting for him and beg him to take her to see the "daindeer" aka reindeer. One of our neighbors had a lawn ornament of a reindeer that moved its head. Lila thought this was the greatest thing ever. Spencer could hardly get in the door from work and change his clothes without Lila having a meltdown over the daindeer. Cutest part was that she equated the daindeer with dad. So the two of them would bundle up and walk to see the daindeer and the other lights just about every night in December while I finished dinner.
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| enjoying some dad time before Christmas comes |
Besides Christmas shopping there wasn't much else to do leading up to the big day. Spencer and I got each other a new TV and a Chrome-cast. The rest was all for Lila. We had lots of fun wrapping her presents the difficult part was keeping her from unwrapping them before Christmas. She did great up until Christmas Eve. I was vacuuming and getting ready to host Christmas Eve dinner when she took advantage of mom not paying super close attention. She got 1 1/2 presents opened before I realized what she was up to. hahahaha little stinker! We let her watch her Sing-along-Song she opened, but kept the one she half way unwrapped under the tree one more day. I have to say given the fact that she is so busy, into everything and very curious I thought for sure our tree would be destroyed at first sight, but she did really well. Every once in a while she'd take an ornament down, but didn't break them. The one she did break was really more my fault than hers. It wasn't even on the tree at the time it broke. Christmas Eve was awesome. I thought it turned out really well. We had tons of food. We ate yummy steak chili, biscuits and salad for dinner. Then we baked Christmas Cookies. I wasn't sure whether to double the recipe or not. Well I doubled it and was cutting out cookies for hours. It was a lot of fun, but man was I tired after. Note to self DON'T double the recipe next year. I always have so much fun doing this with the kids. I'm glad I've had Maia's kids around to do it almost every year and soon enough my little Lila will be my helper. I've done it by myself a few times, but it just isn't the same. Spencer and I had so much fun hosting in our new house. Spencer really got into the whole Christmas thing this year. Usually he's just along with me on my crazy Christmas ride, but this year he got really into it. I think with Lila being older and us having a place of our own really made the difference.
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| Helping our cousins open their Christmas Eve Jammies |
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| Christmas Eve with our new diapers |
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| Decorating a "daindeer" |
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| Decorating cookies with our cousins |
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| Eating Chili |
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| Cookie Decorating. mmmmm Frosting! |
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| Watching our highjacked Christmas present on Christmas Eve |
Christmas day was wonderful! We woke up just the three of us in our own house to Santa presents. Lila made a straight shot for her big Santa present and started ripping into it. She got a Cozy Coupe and some Elmo stuff from Santa! Then we ate breakfast. After breakfast we Skyped with Granny and Papa while Lila opened the rest of her gifts. She got two more Disney Sing-along-songs, some food for her kitchen, a helmet, and a baby doll bed from mom and dad. Dad shopped and picked out his own present for Lila, a Disney Princess Adventure Hut with tunnel. Lila and the cats love this gift. Spencer did a great job. I'm glad he did that for Lila. One of my greatest memories of Christmas is always having a gift from just dad under the tree. I think there was only one year he didn't do this and he's heard about it plenty since then. Guess what though dad still does a dad gift every year for his three adult daughters. Love you dad! After presents were done we played for a little while then got ready to go to Grandma and Poppy's house. We had more presents to open up there of course. The Boring's got her a music set equipped with drum, tambourine, maracas, castanets, and keyboard type things. Lila LOVES these toys. In fact, on the way home that night she would NOT get in her car seat unless she could hold onto her drum and drumsticks. Grandma and poppy got her a table and chairs as well as some more Little People toys, Grace got her a stuffed animal that looks just like Grandma's dog, Oskar, that's even what she calls it, and a book. We ate lots of good food all day and enjoyed everyone's company. It was a great day and so nice to be together as just our little family Christmas morning. We didn't get that last year because Spencer was working on the ambulance, but now that he's a teacher he got the whole week of Christmas off and two days for New Year's! Yahoo! Really enjoyed having him home with us, but it was hard when he had to go back to work.
We also got our cloth diapers from Granny and Papa, Thank you! So far I am really enjoying the cloth diapering. It's really not as hard or gross as I thought it would be and the extra laundry really doesn't bother me at all. I'm so relieved and glad we decided to go that route. Thank you Granny and Papa! Lila also got a gift card and we all got pajamas in the mail from Spencer's Brother and Sister. I'd say we had an incredible Christmas! Felt lots of love from all of our family and friends.
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| Santa Presents Christmas Morning |
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| Tree Christmas morning |
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| Waking up Christmas morning |
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| This is why we got a helmet for Christmas |
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| Our first bike ride |
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| our new car |
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| Christmas Jammies |
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| Dad putting our car together |
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| Opening our presents with Granny and Papa |
New Year's was fun too. We went over to Grandma and Poppy's house for New Year's Eve. We ate finger foods and had our friends/family Luke, Jalayne and Janie come over too. We had a great time until Lila got tired, hit her head on the stair railing and then freaked out when Hannah tried to distract her by taking her outside to see the fireworks. hahaha It was a miracle that she even went to bed. Although I'm convinced that her being tired was part of the problem. It was so sweet though. She was trying to be brave, but every time she'd here a firework go off she'd say "boom, fire" and then make this weird, awkward laugh like she thought it was funny, but you could tell she was terrified. Awww sweet little baby. Any way Grandma and I got her calmed down and put her in bed and she was out like a light. :) Good girl! The rest of the night was spent playing an insanely long game of Uno with Maia, Grandma, Hannah, Teen, Seth and Rissa. I stayed up til 2 AM!!!! Wow I haven't done that since Lila was born and I didn't have any other choice. Hehehe.
Spencer and I had a wonderful year! Lots of great things happened for our family. The best coming in my next post. :) I'm sure 2014 will be just as good if not better. I'm excited for our future together. We've already gotten off to a good start. We bought an annual zoo pass and already got to go this past Saturday. Lila had SO much fun. It is amazing how much she is learning, growing and changing. Just since the last post she has started saying phrases. She can even put enough words together to retell something that has happened. She can now count to 5 and can say her alphabet up to the letter D. She is so independent and determined. When we took her to the zoo she of course didn't want to stay in here stroller because she can't see everything, so we take her out, but she doesn't want to hold hands. So, we had to buy her a backpack with a tail/leash to hold onto her. It felt weird at first "walking" my daughter, but it worked for all of us. She was happy and I knew where she was. I can't wait to take her again all she's talked about the last few days is the elephant and tiger. Oh ya and she can say elephant now. :) I love my little family so much. They make me one happy mommy.
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| Day at the zoo. We LOVE Elephants |
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| our new backpack |
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| Playing in mom's sunglasses |
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| helping Poppy |
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