I Scream, You Scream...E LOVES Ice Cream!

We took Elizabeth to another hockey game recently. I think this was her 3rd game. She does great! Loves the noise, the attention, the excitement! (and she doesnt even cry when the blow the horn when WI scores!) She tends to get fussy when there is about 2-3 minutes left in the game, but, its worked out that WI is always winning when this happens, so we just dodge the crowd, and head to the car before it gets crazy at the Kohl Center! At this last game, Jamie and I got ice cream cones. He just had plain vanilla, boring, I know...but, he was able to share with Elizabeth. I guess she LOVES ice cream! ( I had chocolate peanut butter, and b/c of the ultimate peanut allergy fear, I couldnt share mine with E!) The cone was bigger than her head (I guess that justifies why it cost $5.50! OMG! I could have bought a whole gallon for that! But, oh well...anyways...it was worth the laughs she brought to us and everyone aroud us!) So, she was entertaining everyone with how she was gobbling the ice cream down. We didnt give her enough to make us bad parents, but we gave her enough to make her gums feel better! (Thats what I keep telling myself!).

Bath Time Fun

Speaking of bath time...we have gone from using the blue plastic baby tub, to just letting Elizabeth splash around in the 'big girl tub'. SHE LOVES it! She has been liking baths since day one. (Well, maybe week 2! But none the less, she cooperates well in the water!). I think bath time is much more fun for her now that she's not constrained in the baby bath. I don't blame her! It’s MUCH easier to splash now, AND play with her toys, AND grab for the water that’s coming out of the faucet! She's most likely going to enjoy the swimming pool when she gets the chance to experience that next summer, if not sooner.

Elizabeth is more mobile than ever now. She follows me around the house like a little puppy! She scoots around pretty quickly and she has a goofy little thing she does with her one leg, she sticks it out to the side (instead of crawling on BOTH knees, she crawls on one, and does this thing with the other). Whatever works for her I guess! I am just assuming that she thinks she can get from point A to point B faster this way. This just means that I must keep my house even cleaner than I try to already to do. NOTHING on the floors, all chords out of reach....and nothing small enough to fit in her mouth can be out! She's stays pretty entertained with her "kitchen toys" (a tub of toys I keep in the kitchen for her to play with when I am cooking dinner), and her "bathroom/tub toys"-- obviously, the toys she plays with in the bath tub, also became every day playing toys when she wonders into that room! And then, there is her Excersaucer that I still LIVE BY! Love it! And of course, she has many of many of many of other toys that she plays with religiously! Every room, it seems, she has a little stash of toys to play with, so she's never bored!

Mirror Mirror, on the Wall...

Oh. And she LOVES looking at herself in the mirror! Who doesn't! LOL! I put a mirror in the kitchen/living room area that she crawls up to and starts making funny faces. Its hilarious! She also has a mirror in her bedroom, I was able to get a pretty neat picture with her standing up next to that. And the all too popular bathroom mirror. She ALWAYS has to make funny faces in it pre & post bathtime.

E's Infamous "OH" Face

Elizabeth will be quite the model when she grows up; she’s already posing for the camera. It NEVER fails that any time (and EVERY time) I get the camera out, she puts this goofy “OH” face on! So, I put a SMALL collage together of a few of my favorite “OH” faces of hers for you to see! EVERY SINGLE TIME! Never fails. She is hilarious!

She's so nosey, she won't sleep!

The night I made my last post was the beginning of a week of craziness when it came to Elizabeth sleeping. She didnt want anything to do with it (sleeping!). She was afraid she was going to miss out on something! She is SO NOSEY! We would go through our nightly routine. Dinner of solids, play time, bath time, more play time, snuggle time, bed time feeding, and off to play with the angels in dream land! This little girl would fall asleep in my arms, she'd be OUT COLD, but the moment I would go to lay her down in her crib, she would scream bloddy murder. OMG. It was horrible. We tried the theory of just letting her cry. Didnt work. She would cry, and cry, and cry, and yup...you guessed it, she would cry some more. She didnt want to go to bed. One night sticks out that it was after midnight that she FINALLY fell asleep. It was probably 9pm when we first tried laying her down. But, once she fell asleep, she was up every hour after that, just screaming. I didnt know what to do. So, we'd snuggle, or I'd feed her. It still wasnt enough. We dealt with this for close to a week. Then, on the following Tuesday, I noticed she was pulling at her ears. We took her in to the doctor, wanting to know if it was maybe an ear infection. We couldnt get into her normal doctor, so I just made an appt with whoever was available. Ends up, I really really liked this new doctor. I am still considering switching over. Anyways...she looked at E's eyes, ears, throat...ect. Nothing is wrong with her. GREAT! But why is she freaking out everytime I lay her down! Well, the doctor just suggested that we have a BAD teether on our hands, and a nosey little girl. She may be going through that seperation anxiety, knowing that once she is in her bed, mom & dad are no longer in the room. So, the new doctor recommended three things (that she has tried w/ her kids)....1) give her baby motrin, instead of tylenol. It works better for the teething pain. 2) run a humidifier...the light noise of the machine may be enough to calm Elizabeth and keep her sleeping and 3) put a folded up towel under the end of the matress that she lays her head. This SLIGHT elevation may be enough to make her happy, so she's not laying totally flat on the matress. I tried all three suggestions....and she has been (for the most part) sleeping through the night since! She has an occasional wake up, but, NOT like she used to, AND she has no problem sleeping in her crib!

Attempting to Stand Tall

Elizabeth STILL insists on "standing" while holding on to someones hands. Someone. Anyone! Anyone who is willing to help her up! You just give her your fingers and she pulls herself right up off the ground! She's still working on pulling herself up on toys/furniture on her own though. I am PATIENTLY waiting for this to happen. The more she tries, the more she falls, and the more she hurts her pride! I think she hurts her pride more than hurting herself!

Surviving Thanksgiving

I guess you could say I've been BUSY lately, as I haven't had (nor made) the time to update my blog. SORRY! So much has changed since my "Thanksgiving" entry. (I should have probably went back & read what I wrote about then, so, I know what I have already shared, so I don't repeat myself!). We all survived Thanksgiving (all all the travels that came with it!). I ate too much, and my clothes, well, they still don't fit!