Sick...again!

If I could, I would quit my job and stay at home with Lexi! She gets sick about once a month, I don't know if she's just one of those kids who catches everything or this is normal, or something more serious is at work here :( I just know that I miss more work because she's sick, and she catches it from there, so it's a horrible cycle!

I woke up to her crying tonight (not too strange) but then she started retching and I turned on the light and there was vomit everywhere! She had a bit of diarrhea last night and now she's throwing up and won't drink anything (water or pedialyte). I called Jon, who thankfully reminded me about trying pedialyte to keep her hydrated. I tend to forget basic things when I'm worried. If she's not better in the morning, I'll call her doctor-who's probably tired of hearing from me. I'm tired of hearing from everyone that this is making her immune system stronger, how she won't get sick in the future. Well, guess what, at least when she's older she can tell me what hurts and understand that she needs to eat in order to feel better, she doesn't understand that right now :(

Looking back...

So much has changed in my life over the past year or so. I went from not even knowing if I ever wanted kids to having a daughter who is the light of my life and definitely wanting more in the future. Last year at this time, I was counting down the days until my due date (that was December 25, 2010) and reading up on everything baby related. I remember being scared and not knowing what to expect. I had started my birth classes, but Jon didn't want to go so I went to a couple by myself (didn't matter, I forgot everything they taught me). I remember that I was worried I wouldn't be prepared, but really no matter what I did or didn't do, Lexi is in charge and has been from day one. In 43 days, she will be one year old and she is such a little spitfire. Last year at this time I was 31 weeks pregnant, Lexi weighed as much as 4 naval oranges. It's so odd to think about her in those terms anymore, it's almost impossible to think of her inside of me growing. It is almost impossible to remember her as she was 10 short months ago...So again a little walk down (picture) memory lane (I've got hundreds of pictures already, and she's a little ham in front of the camera haha):

Birth

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

10 months

Ready, set, WALK!

Lexi took her first meaningful steps today, at 10 months, 1 week, and 2 days old! What I mean by this is that she has been taking one step every now and then for about a month, but she'd always sit right back down as soon as she'd get that one foot up. Last night she finally took two steps at a time, this afternoon, she took three, and by tonight, she walked almost the entire length of the room to get to the laundry basket! It's so amazing to see these first crucial steps and she gets so excited for herself when I cheer for her-she gets the BIGGEST grin ever! I know that she is going to take millions upon millions of steps in her life, and I've witnessed the first few! Also, Jon got to see her take several steps today! I'm so glad that she decided that today would be the day that she did it. It's hard to tell with him, but I am pretty sure he was just as excited as Lexi and I were :-)

This is not to say that I am delusional about what this means...a lot more running around for mommy is in the very near future! As soon as she gets her confidence up, she'll be unstoppable! And considering how long it took her to become comfortable crawling-that is no time at all-that should be about this coming Sunday haha Being a mother is pretty much the most amazing thing I've done in my life, and I enjoy so much taking in all of Lexi's milestones. I know that I would like to have more children in the future, but right now I cannot imagine loving another child as much as I love Lexi, obviously this would change, but I'm not sure how it would happen. I also know that I enjoyed a very "easy" pregnancy and Lexi was a low needs newborn and I know that not all pregnancies are the same and neither are all babies. Anyway, the prospect of another baby isn't in the near future, but these are the thoughts I've been having...Hard to believe that in a month and a half, Lexi will be a one year old! Where did the time go!?

"she gets that from you..."

Lexi has definitely got my attitude/temper! Anytime she can't do something-either because she physically can't or I won't let her-she will scream and usually starts to cry. She doesn't handle the word "no" very well, that's for sure! She's recently learned how to signal no with her arm and she'll do it when she knows that she shouldn't be doing something, but at the same time, I can see it in her eyes that she really wants to do it. She is also extremely independent and won't accept help from anyone even if it will make her life easier. For example, we had cheesecake for dessert this evening, and we gave her a little spoon with some on it and she LOVED it. I was trying to get the spoon to put some more on it, you would have thought I kicked her, the fit she threw! She cried until I handed it back to her with some on it, and did that little shudder cry. She did this the few more times I tried to give her more...oh boy, I've got my hands full hahaha

Now, what she got from Jon...his adventurous nature, that's FOR SURE! She will climb, tumble, roll, whatever it takes to get to where she wants to go. We have a gate that won't connect to the wall because of the molding on the wall, so we put her exersaucer in front of it, and she will spin the exersaucer until she can pull the gate down far enough down so she can crawl up it. She climbs in the seats at school and just looks around like "look at me!" I love her so much, but life is going to get infinitely more difficult as she gets older. I'm going to be a nervous wreck watching her toddle her way through the next few years, but it's so much fun to see all of the things she's learned!

I cannot believe she is going to be one in less than 2 months! We are going to have a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme...and we have a big visitor!!! Can't wait to see you B! Hope it's okay that I put that on here!