She does the please, the more, the poop, & the milk signs in ASL.
She has her first tooth! (Jan. 26)
She says "nice".. she hums "nnnss... nnnss"
She clenches her fists and her whole body shakes when she is excited? (i.g. when she knows she is going to get some chocolate).
Elsie got tubes in her ears ): (Feb. 3)
The week of Feb 8-14 she started to show more interest in food (thank goodness! I love nursing her & I am going to miss it when she stops for good.. but that has got to stop somewhere!)
She has her second tooth (Feb. 12)
Elsie hits when she is mad or frustrated. -_-
She loves bath time!
She always has a binky in her mouth now-a-days.
Elsie slaps us if we put our face in her face. Or if she is mad/frustrated/we took something away from her.
She has a really high pitched scream.
She has been walking really good now. (Feb.15ish)
She loves brushing her teeth.
I gave Elsie eggs for the first time she didn't know what to think.. but she kept eating them because mama was eating them. (Feb 19)
She thinks she can climb onto anything.
She is into puppies, babies, books and everything she is not suppose to have.
She gives lots of kisses now.
Elsie loved playing in the snow (Feb. 23)
She can get out of the seat buckle in carts now.. She completely turns around & holds onto the back & stands up. Scares me half to death!!
She can take the cap off of chapstick as well as the lid on her teething tablets (even though it clearly states that the lid is child proof?)
She can say "yeah", "no", "mama", "da-da", "bath", "duck", "nice", "Jesus","grandma", "down", and "doll"
I gave Elsie peanut butter for the first time... she loved it! (Feb. 25) Later she had an allergic reaction though and broke out in hives. ): She only got three of them and they went away within two hours after consuming the peanut butter.
Still wearing size 12m.. but can fit into some size 18m clothing.
She weighs 22.2 pounds.
& she is 29 3/4 inches long now.
Thursday, January 29, 2015:
I am definitely feeling the stress now. After today I will be VERY behind on my statistics, behind on geology & behind on English. Ugh! Now I will have to do homework all day Friday & Saturday. (I've been very organized this semester.. I try to do all my homework all by Friday. So I only have maybe 1 or 2 things to do on Friday & free all day Saturday & Sunday. For the last 2 weeks it has worked pretty well).
Oh & lets leave this on a happy note. Elsie is into hitting & Dee & I have been trying to make a big effort to react to her hitting by pretending to cry. The other parent (that didn't get hit) rubs the person that got hurt & say "that was not nice. You hurt daddy" (or mommy or whoever) then say "nice daddy" (or mommy or whoever). She always looks very concerned. She either starts crying or glares at us. But today however, she patted Dee (after she threw my phone at him & I said "that was not nice.. blah blah blah") & she copied me. By saying "nice daddy" while rubbing him on the face. She didn't say nice.. it was more like a hum... "Nnnss... Nnnss.. Nnnss" she melted our heart's. She is so SMART!
Tuesday, February 3, 2015:
Elsie got tubes in her ears today. I
hope we start to see some improvement soon. Poor baby has had 2 double
ear infections in her short life of hers. Now that is just plain mean!
Today has been a long long long day. Yesterday we took Elsie to the ears, nose, & throat doctor for her follow up appointment (she saw him December 18 & her ears were cleared up then so we decided to wait it out). After checking her ears out he decided (along with us) that we should put tubes in her ears. Lucky for us they had an appointment the next day.
We were told that Elsie could not eat after midnight & to be at the hospital at 6:45am. This was the rough part. Elsie goes to sleep whenever the heck she wants. Usually around 12/1am & guess what? She thinks she has to nurse to go to sleep. I was definitely thinking we were in for it. It was going to be a LONG night.
BUT I played all my cards right & got Elsie to sleep by 11:50. (Woo) 2 short hours later she woke up.. ready to be nursed back to sleep. Poor thing!! After a hour of rocking.. rubbing her back & doing everything possible to try to get her to go back to sleep without feeding her she fell back asleep around 3ish. Woke back up around 5 ready to nurse again.. & tossed & turned until about 6am. It wasn't the worst night ever. Ill leave it at that.
We left our apt at 6:30ish & got Elsie situated at the hospital. Boy! Was she a crank. & I really don't blame her. Early morning.. strange people & an empty stomach.. who wouldn't be cranky??
We had to resort to having the nurses give her some kind of medicine to help calm her otherwise she was going to go kicking & screaming. (She only wanted her mama). After she had the med. She was so loopy! It was both sad & cute to see her like that. Poor thing. She even went with the doctors & nurses without crying.
That is when we separated from her ): I felt like crying. I knew it was a simple procedure & I knew it needed to be done.. but she's my baby!! & it's weird & scary putting all your trust in other people when it has to do with your child!
The surgery was super short. & everything went great! Elsie has taken 2 naps today (it is 6:30pm) & just fell asleep again. When she is awake she is super whiney & needy. ): it really has been a LONG day. & now I have to go to class in 30 minutes. I wish I could sleep & cuddle with my baby instead. ):
Thursday, February 12, 2015:
So Elsie "officially" started walking on January 15.. but a few days later she just stopped completely. She wanted nothing to do with it. If we tried helping her walk by holding her hands she would drop to her knees. We think it was a combination of being scared (because she had an incident where she fell backwards and scared herself) and maybe because of the ear infections she had. She got tubes in her ears on the Feb. 3rd and she has been showing interest in walking since Monday (Feb. 9). She has been walking around everywhere.
Wednesday, February 18, 2014:
Sometimes Elsie drives me completely insane. She is crazy!! She gets into our stupid trash can & throws garbage everywhere. If she isn't in the trash she is pulling every single book she can get her little hands on off the book selves.. &/or ripping the books. If she isn't doing that she is climbing onto anything that she can reach & pulling everything off whatever it is she climbed up on. If its not that she is pulling every little plastic sandwich/gallon/quart bags out of the drawer that has a baby safety thing on it.. but somehow she can still manage to get into it. Or throwing the clothes off the couch after they get out of the dryer & I set them there to fold them. Ugh!! The list goes on. She doesn't listen either. How do you get a one year old to understand that she is doing A LOT of no nos without actually saying no ALL the time!! I feel like I'm the worst mom because I'm always saying no! I'm seriously going crazy!
It is crazy to think that a year ago today, I was sitting at home making onesies with Lindsey, Megan, & Ashlan. I had already convinced myself that my baby would probably be two weeks late since she was wasn't born at the time I literally thought she would be. (I had it in my mind that she would come no later than February 22). Little did I know that the next morning I would be going into labor at 1:15am.
I really really really cannot believe that it has been a whole year already! Time really did go way too fast. One moment I was holding my 8lbs 3oz baby for the first time, crying my eyes out because I loved her more than I ever thought possible.. & then the next moment I'm chasing my 21lb baby, that likes to get into everything, everywhere! & I love her even more than I did the first second I saw her.
She has been such a blessing in our lives! Every day I send little prayers of thanks to my Heavenly Father, thanking him for this sweet Angel. I really have no idea how we got so blessed! (I ask Dee this on a daily basis.. ha!). I look at that sweet innocent face & literally melt every. single. time! What did we ever do without this baby in our lives? She has definitely completed it because I cannot imagine my life without her!! She has grown up so much! She isn't such a baby anymore. While I'm so sad about this, I know she will always be my baby even when she is a 40 year old.
I don't think people realize how much I love and appreciate Elsie. I don't think anyone will ever understand unless you had to go through what I've gone through. Before Elsie I had a miscarriage. It was by far the worst thing I've ever had to go through. Like anyone that has a miscarriage, I had thoughts of "will I ever have a baby" "what if I can't have children" blah blah blah. After overcoming this trial I put all my trust in the lord & decided if I couldn't have babies that I needed to accept it. I would probably just adopt later on or something.. Then Elsie came along! I will cherish her every single day! I know I cannot plan out the future, maybe Elsie will be the only baby I have. You never know. Just because you were able to have one baby does not mean you will have more.
Anyway.. I cannot believe Elsie will be 1 tomorrow! I'm not ready for it. I'm sad because I wanted to make Elsie a homemade cake for her birthday.. but because of how busy our lives are right now.. I had to order one at Costco. I love baking & I'm getting deprived of it because I have to write 2 papers.. finish my test review homework for stats, study for a test (literally like crazy because stats is super hard), study for a geology quiz, write about a current event & peer review 2 people's essays & probably a few other things that I'm forgetting about all by Saturday night. I wish I was done with school. ):
That's all for now!
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