Tid Bits & Quick Updates, for now

I'm going to be real general for this blog, until I have more time to write. I just want to be sure to get things down on paper (or on a PC) before I forget!

Elizabeth:

has taken her first steps on March 29, and continues to take more & more steps each day!

is getting braver & braver every day!

is getting into everything!

is becoming the master of pat-a-cake pat-a-cake! (She's got the clapping down, and for the most part, the rolling, and the TOSS IT UP HIGH is funny to watch!)

also has learned parts of Little Rabbit Foo-Foo...she knows how to BOP the bunny on the head! HILARIOUS!

covers her ears when people talk to her and goes "bla bla bla bla bla!" Who taught her that?! (Ok, I did, but, she was only supposed to do it to daddy when he talks!)

when she hears the bath water/shower water run, she scoots QUICKLY to the bathroom and starts throwing all of her bath toys into the tub...including the cute wicker basket we put them in! And, if its the case that mommy or daddy needs to take a shower, she gets MAD!!! She loves her baths!!

she has learned that the little cup bath toys she has make great drinking cups...YUCK! She loves to drink her soapy, dirty, bath water. Kids will be kids!

no matter how many times she pinches her fingers in doors, or cabinets, she still insists on trying to get into them!

she has figured out how to climb into the oven drawer! FUNNY!

Wednesday nights are E's nights w/ daddy in the barn, so mommy can have some "me time". As much as I hate to say it, she LOVES it down there in the barn, and Daddy loves it too! The good news is, I am usually gone on Wednesdays nights and so Daddy then has to watch her in the barn, get her dinner, and give her a bath! Mommy gets out of the dirty work ONCE a week! And then I come home to a sleeping baby (most of the time!) and a 1/2 asleep daddy!

playing with a beach ball is the best fun in the world for her. Its kind of like watching a cat play with a ball of yarn, buzzed up on cat nip! HILARIOUS!

we went swimming a few weeks ago, and she loved the water! It was like one big bath tub. But, it was a "big person" pool so mommy and daddy had to hold on to her while she flopped around in the water. over the weekend I found a plastic kiddy pool at a garage sale, so we look forward to using that ALOT this summer!

continues to wave bye-bye...to everyone!

has been eating alot more "big girl" food VS baby food. She has become very independent, and likes to feed herself...and not with a spoon! BY HAND! BIG MESS! tends to spit food out & make goofy faces when she is done eating. its hard NOT to laugh at her. silly girl!

continues to say ba-ba, da-da, and ma-ma. haven't heard Miss E say much else. once in a while we "think" we hear something, but we're never for sure!

I know she knows what we are saying too...and when we refer to certain objects (bottle, ball, diaper, book, toys, etc), she knows what we're talking about.

Just last night, I grabbed a diaper out of her diaper bag on one side of the living room...and as soon as she saw the diaper, she high tailed it away from me to the other side of the living room. I thought she was just trying to get away from me so she wouldnt have to get changed. ENDS UP, she scooted to the other side of the room to where the box of wet wipes were, turns and looks at me, and starts hitting on the box of wipes and smiling...almost like she was saying "mom, you're going to need these, arent you!?!!"

teething has GOT TO STOP! Oh, she's been a bare at times. The week before my birthday, was horrible. Then, she was sick with a cold the week after my birthday, on top of teething. No more sleeping through the nights...(TODAY I am living off of 5 hours of sleep, for the past TWO days). She usually wakes up, long enough to wake mommy & daddy and the whole country side, and then goes back to sleep. Lately, she doesnt want to go back to sleep. One night, I am pretty sure she had a tummy ache b/c she just flopped around and couldnt get comfortable, and just whined. Other times she just tosses & turns so much, she wakes herself up! I NEED a good nights sleep!