Updates....

Baby kissy face isn't kissy face so much lately. Momma can barely get a kiss at all but I do get hugs. Daddy gets some kisses but no hugs. One of her teachers said it's the same way at daycare--Ms. B gets hugs, Ms. N gets kisses.

It's no longer an assumption that Isla will cry when I leave her at daycare in the mornings. I think we had 4 out of 5 days with no tears this week. One day I even got a smile and wave as I left. And yesterday when I went to pick her up, she looked at me and kept on playing. When I asked if she wanted to go with me, she shook her head no. I'm so glad she seems to like her daycare! The teachers are all wonderful with her. In the next month or two she'll be able to move up to the 1-2 year old class since....

She's a walker now! A couple weeks ago she realized what this walking thing is all about. She still likes hanging on to fingers sometimes, but she can walk across the room on her own. She's wobbly, but is pretty good about squatting down when she feels herself loosing her balance.

Wednesday night I had her stripped down for her bath. She moved her potty chair into the middle of the floor and was trying to back up to it, looking over her shoulder, squatting, totally going to miss it when she went down. I lined it up for her and let her sit herself on it. Then she stood up and waddled out of the bathroom. Patrick said she made it to the living room before he brought her back. I let her loose again tonight naked and she LOVED it. Once I got her diaper back on her, she kept pulling at it, trying to get it off, voicing her displeasure. Cute little naked baby butt.

Isla has an ear infection. I didn't think she needed to go to the doctor but P thought she did so I took her Tuesday. Glad I did. She doesn't seem to be hurting with her ear so hopefully we'll get it cleared up before it really bothers her. I'm not sure if it's her first infection or not. We went to urgent care several weeks ago and the doctor said her ear was red. Not sure if it was just a little red or if it was infected. She's been coughing some, but her humidifier keeps it under control most nights.

There's so much I want to get done this weekend and I have zero energy to do any of it. Someone came and mowed tonight so hopefully I can finish cleaning up the backyard tomorrow and we can build the raised garden box I want to use this year. I didn't plant anything last year but year before last I had a bunch of tomato plants and a few other things. The ground and dirt here isn't horrible for growing stuff, but it's not great. I thought it might be easier and work a bit better to try the raised garden box and fill it with top soil mixed with compost. We'll see how that goes. Sunday we're going to St. Louis with some friends for a Cardinals game. Will be fun, but when am I going to do laundry and put up LAST week's laundry?

Last weekend was supposed to be a romantic weekend away with spa day and a nice stay at an Inn in Hermann. Well, my mom can't babysit right now so Isla ended up going with us. We cancelled the spa day and stopped at the Magic House in St. Louis instead. It was a lot of fun, but I think every kid in the county was on spring break and there since the weather wasn't appropriate for spring type activities. Then Saturday it started snowing! Isla hadn't had an easy nice Friday so we'd debating leaving Saturday instead of staying until Sunday. Once the snow started, we thought we'd leave town before it got bad. TOO LATE! Horrible trip leaving Hermann--at one point the car in front of us slid off the road and we almost hit them. Then we were stuck on the highway while a pick-up truck kept trying to make it up a hill, only to keep sliding EVERYWHERE. After an hour or so, we finally made it to Washington (25 miles away from her starting point) and checked into a Super 8. Isla's giggle box got turned on and she had a blast at the motel! With the stress of driving gone, we had a lot of fun being snowed in at a hotel....at the end of MARCH! We got up Sunday morning to clear roads and came on home.

Guess I'm about done writing--I'm going to fall asleep if I keep it up. I'll read over this and edit it later. I'll try to post some pics tonight. M and I are taking a photography class so I had photography "homework" to do tonight. Hopefully I can learn a lot in this class, then try to do some online tutorials like Pioneer Woman and have all kinds of wonderful pics of my beautiful little girl!

Later--