Changes!

We see new things and hear new words everyday these days. Today I noticed Isla pointing with one finger (um, the middle one though), so grown-up like. I always loved the cute little way she'd point with all four fingers kinda cupped together. Yesterday she started saying hotdog. Yes, my child loves hotdogs. I try to make healthy choices, but when she starts screaming to eat as soon as we walk in the door in the afternoons, convenience wins out. And hotdogs are one of her Daddy's favorites. She's also saying "pease" a lot. She'll come up to us, hold her hand out, cupped, tilt her head and say pease? Melts the heart. If I knew what she wanted, I'd give her anything.

One big change coming up is that I'm going to be a stay at home mom awhile! I never in a million years thought I would want that, but Isla changed everything. I hope to be able to go back to my current job for 2 days a week, but I have to be off awhile for that to happen, and the agency budget and workload has to support it. They don't expect it to be a problem, but no promises. I'm nervous and excited and thrilled and scared and....

Isla will stay in daycare. Her daycare is actually a "babies" daycare, then they have a "kids" daycare next door once they turn two. The babies side doesn't do part-time enrollment, but the kids side does. So we'll be paying full-time daycare until January, then she can just be enrolled two days if I'm only working two days. My Mom said she'd help me out and take her one of my days off so I can clean house and things like that.

Clean house. Sigh. I have to fire my cleaning lady. P said we could try it awhile and see how expenses go, but I can't justify spending the money to have someone else clean if I'm quitting work to focus on taking care of my family. I'll also be taking back over the mowing. Cutting out those two expenses will roughly save us enough to cover the cost of adding me to P's health insurance. So at least I'll be able to go to the ER if I run over my foot with the lawnmower. (Actually I don't really mind mowing, although I'll be taking over in the worst of the summer heat and will most likely need to do it during the daytime when I can take Isla to daycare.) Cleaning I do mind.

So that's the news here. I haven't downloaded pics from my camera in awhile, but I think I have a couple from my phone.... The one of her sitting outside at her picnic table was right after she got out of the hospital--baby girl doesn't have room to lose weight when she's sick! I think she's gained back what she lost when she was sick. The swimming pool was pre-sick and the ice cream cone was the first thing she was excited about eating after she got out of the hospital.

Little Miss Attitude!

We've had a sudden emergence of attitude and sass the past week! I expected to see a lot of changes in Isla with her moving up to the toddler class at daycare. Since she was out a week sick, it took a little longer to see the changes than what I expected. Mine, want that, give me, no, off, please.....all things we heard this weekend. When we picked her up from the church nursery yesterday, they told us she'd been flirting with a little boy. He was trying to take a book from her and she went over and sat in a spot he couldn't reach her, and put the book under her dress and smiled at him. She also seemed a little flirty with Sutton when he came over to play yesterday. And she was SO chatty at Applebees last night when we took Daddy out to eat for Father's Day. It amazing to see all the changes. And as she communicates more, has more opinions, and more attitude, she's also more demanding and gets frustrated when we don't understand what she wants. We're dealing with tantrums and trying to redirect unwanted behaviors positively. She's starting to understand that when she does something she shouldn't, she's gonna get in trouble.

She's BBBAAACCCCKKK! Tidbits....

My very busy 1 year old is back in action!

This afternoon I showed my mom the ruffles on Isla's bottom. Then she turned around, jutted out her hip and was trying to raise the back of her dress to show Pop-pop her butt. As we were leaving their house, we picked up our toys, then she grabbed her little bag of bowling pins, put it on her arm, and told Grandma bye-bye.

She decided she likes corn last weekend but wouldn't eat it off the cob. Tonight, she wanted the cob and did a good job gnawing off the bounty.

She's gotten a bit used to being held to sleep the past week so we had some fights about that this weekend.

I have mixed feelings about her starting to like tv, or at least a couple DVDs. On one hand, it's nice to have something we can bribe or with or get her to sit still for, but on the other, we don't want her to get TOO used to tv. You know? But this weekend, she saw a DVD sitting on the table, picked it up, went to the tv, and started waving it at the tv, grunting.

There are so many more things, but momma is getting tired and can't think. More later. And new pictures!!

Poor baby....

Sunday night Isla woke up a bit before 10 vomiting. By midnight, her tummy was empty and she was vomiting bile. I think I'd taken 4 or 5 showers by this point as momma was the target most of the times she got sick. We went to the ER in the middle of the night and she got some IV fluids so we could try to keep her out of the hospital. We went to see Dr. S mid morning Monday and called her back around 4 to let her know Isla hadn't kept anything down. She admitted us for 23 hour observation and more IV fluids. Her fever went up to over 103 and poor baby just felt awful. She wouldn't eat anything most of the day today but we did get the ok to try solids which she was interested in once her fever went down since what fluids she had had stayed in. But since she hadn't really had much, we're staying another night. The solids she ate didn't stay in so we're back on solids. Isla's in bed asleep. If she gets up during the night, I'll try to give her jello or a Popsicle so we can see if she can keep something down. At this point, I expect when Dr. S rounds tomorrow morning, she'll say we'll have to see if she keeps anything down. We don't want to take her home and have her continue vomit ting or not eating and dehydrate again. As long as we're here, she has an IV bag of fluids and will stay hydrated. Damn bug.

Update: We got to go home Wednesday and Isla seemed back to herself. I took her to daycare today though and had to pick her up right after lunch because she was vomiting again. We had a few more episodes after we got home, but baby girl was hungry too. At one point she was cramming crackers in while she was puking. Silly girl. The past few hours have been quiet, so momma is praying for the best. We're supposed to have a playdate Saturday so I'll see how she does tomorrow and let the other momma know what's going on. Hopefully today was just a little relapse and she's all better now!