New Toys?

I discovered momma's make up brushes the other day.  They are a.lot. of fun!  I like to pull everything out of her makeup drawer to find them!!

My New Play Place

 One of Parker's new favorite things to do is pull all the toys out of her toy basket and climb in.  I cannot tell you how many times we have cleaned up the floor after all the toys have been dumped out!

Momma's Helper

Eleven Months

We have an eleven month old!  Aaahhh!  That is so hard to believe.  

At eleven months:

* Parker weighs a little over 19 pounds!  She was 19 lbs 3 oz at the hospital on Friday morning.

* She is still cruising and walking with assistance, but doesn't really try to walk on her own.  She can stand unassisted, until she realizes that she doesn't have support, then she falls to the ground and giggles.  

* We actually figured out tonight that she is cutting her upper canine teeth.  Crazy.  Her front teeth haven't come in, but one of her upper canines has broken through.  

* Parker will still eat her baby food, but loves to have table food.  She wants to eat whatever we are having.  If she eats baby food for dinner, she typically eats more of our food while we are eating.

* She is still on the same eating schedule.  We are working on moving those bottles closer together....

* Parker's knit clothes are all size 12 months, but she can still wear her 9 month smocked clothes.

* She does not like her shoes!  Well, she likes them, but not when they are on her feet!

* Parker signs "more" all the time, and uses "all done" when she is finished eating.  They have worked on "eat" and "thank you" at school, but she hasn't really used them yet.  

* She has started climbing into her toy basket in the living room and throwing all her toys all over the floor.  She still loves baby, and her entertainment table.  She much prefers cords and paper to toys though.  

Tubed

Friday went off without a hitch... Parker did fabulous, and didn't seem too effected by the tubes.  She had a hard time in recovery when she woke up.  Can you blame her... she was hungry and momma and daddy weren't with her!   Once she calmed down and we got home and she had another nap, she was back to normal.  We've had a little bit of difficulty getting the ear drops in her ears, but 99% of the time she is good to go!  We've had a nice relaxing weekend hanging around the house.  We've got a big week coming up.  Parker turns 11 months on Tuesday and Momma turns 28 on Thursday!

Here is a picture from pre-op:

Poor Baby

Our sweet girl has had a rough couple of days.... I got a call at school on Wednesday that she had a fever. (I already suspected that she was feeling bad, so it wasn't a huge shock).  I got her home and she fell asleep before I could get any medicine in her.

She woke up with a 104 degree fever (yikes!).  I got medicine in her and made an appointment for the next morning.  I felt pretty confident it was her ears.  The medicine controlled the fever pretty well, but Parker was fussy and clingy.

I was right.  It was her ear(s).  We called the ENT back and scheduled her appointment to get tubes for Friday the 11th.  We thought we were pretty much done with it all, until.... Sunday.  Sweet girl developed a rash on Sunday.  It wasn't itching and I didn't think it was from the antibiotic, because she had already taken it once with no side effects.

Drew took her to the doctor yesterday, and poor girl has/had roseola on top of the ear infection.  No wonder the fever was so high.  And no wonder she was such a fussy britches.  Poor girl didn't feel good.

*Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers on Friday as we get the tubes put in her ears.  Hopefully, this is the end of our major ear problems!!

Tailgating Take 2

Parker and I went tailgating on Saturday.  We bundled her up and stopped by mom's tailgate.  They had a blow up Aubie that Parker LOVED to look at, but from a distance.

Any time we got to close, this was the face she gave.  She was very unsure about it.

She wasn't even sure about taking a picture together.

See those clinched fists?