Over

Snow vacation is over. Back to school today, but they have decided to ease us into it with a 2 hour late start...Of course I knew it couldn't last forever. :)

Snow days

Remember Ellie in the snow picture a couple days ago? We are STILL on snow days here...onto day number 3, with another storm possibly coming in tonight. Friday was already scheduled a nonstudent day, so if there is no school tomorrow, we will have no students all week....craziness. In the meantime, I am loving being a stay at home mom with my little munchkin. :)

I love my stool!

I love my stool!
Originally uploaded by kajohn345.

Not too sure of this snow...

Not too sure of this snow...
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Definitely not getting sleepy!

Definitely not getting sleepy!
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Holding her bottle!

Holding her bottle!
Originally uploaded by kajohn345.

I often give her the little bit of milk left in the bottle I use to make her cereal, and now she is feeding it to herself! Woohoo!

Sleep, again...

Eliana's sleep has been horrible the last few days and today is the worst. She was up every hour from midnight until 5 at which point I gave her tylenol thinking maybe she was teething and she slept until 8 thankfully. Usually, she would then go down for a nap 1.5-2 hours later, but she fought it and fought it until 11:30 (3.5 hours after waking). Slept for an hour. This afternoon went down around 3:15 for 45 minutes. Now, she fell asleep at 6, much to my dismay. I am seriuosly considering waking her (it has been 45 minutes) because I don't want her down for the night yet and waking up at 4am...what should I do?

So many milestones

Wow, it has been a long time since I actually wrote a post. And I really should be heading to bed. But, so much has been happening the last week and a half.

Eliana had two ear infections in October, two in 3 weeks, poor thing. It appears that she may be allergic to penicillin, the medicine they gave her the first time around.

I had been worried about her speech and language development because she only said aaaaa and never mimiced me, so the ped sent us for a hearing test. She passed, but they only did one ear because she was bored with the test after that. We go back in January for the other ear.

The night I took her to the doctor for her fever accompanying the second ear infection, was the night she all of a sudden decided to start babbling. And not just one sound, but many sounds, mostly da though. There are others, a lot of la's, and ba's, oh so many others...some that sound like some very foreign language.

A few days later, she made her first sign, "milk". She does it a lot now, while nursing, while drinking a bottle, while eating her solids, when she is actually hungry and wanting to do one of those things...

The next day, I felt something on her gums, and two days later, her first tooth broke through! Man, it sure hurts when she wants to chew on my fingers now! So far, no biting while nursing, thankfully.

And now, she is getting up on all fours and rocking..she can also move around by pushing off her toes and kind of catapulting herself forward...I think it won't be long before she is crawling.

There are updates in a nutshell...I can hardly believe she is already 8 months old!!!