Short Weekend, Long Sunday

The weekend feels like it zipped by too fast, even though Sunday was a long day. Friday we hung out at home, then Saturday we hung out with all the grandparents and Cousin Shari. I had a lot of errands to run and weird family stuff to attend to so it was an exhausting day. We did have fun at House of Japan though with Evie being fascinated by all the fire!

Sunday we were greeters at church so Evie went with us to help and so we could show her off. She was adorable and did a very good job holding her 'tell me if you are visiting' tag so people could read it even while she chewed on it. She had fun for the first go-around but got bored (and chatty and loud) during the church service) before semi-melting down during greeting at the second service.

Yesterday was also Evie's next-to-last swim lesson and daddy got in the pool with her. I had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic I am taking on Thursday and had remnants of the nasty rash covering my body still so didn't want to run around in a bathing suit. The rash is finally mostly gone but I had to go on another, much more expensive, antibiotic. Who knew I was allergic to flagyl? Well, now you do.

It seems like every swim lesson makes Evie less comfortable with the water instead of more so. She has just been getting crabbier and crabbier, which may be due to a very short nap before lessons, teething, who knows but I think part of it is not having any funny in the frigid pool. I could hear her crying on and off the whole 30 minutes she was in there which is a bummer. Audry seemed upset a bit too but Allison was having a ball. Katie and Glenn weren't able to come yesterday so it was just 2/3 unhappy campers for the teacher Allix.

Otherwise, the buckeyes won their nail biter of a basketball game and we caught up on a little bit of television. I was actually kind of glad to come back to work today since the weekend was so stressful!

Toof!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have a tooth sighting. A tooth-nubbin began sticking through over the weekend (Evie's front bottom-right), and while there's been teasers before, it looks like this one is progressing to full-on toothness.

Unfortunately, Evie is completely uninterested in letting Mommy and Daddy (or anyone else for that matter) look or poke around in the mouth long enough to see if there's any other progress being made - let alone take a picture!

You didn't REALLY expect me to cooperate with documenting this, did you?

Daredevil baby

Evie is a little too fearless for comfort! She figured out how to go up stairs a short time ago and now she has figured out how to get in and out of a chair. Yup, we have my old toddler rocking chair from when mommy was a teensy-weensy baby and she has been trying to pull herself up into it for a few days now. We thought it would be cute to show her visiting Nana and grandpa how she tries to climb in the chair and then she just did it and climbed/fell out but rather gracefully for a first attempt. After that she would climb up, then grab the back and pull herself up so she could stand and rock the chair (safe=no, cute=yes with daddy as a spotter behind her). Then, she would get a little bored with that and would climb out then back on again, she did this for like 10-15 minutes which is a LONG time for a baby.

It was so cute and amazing! Unfortunately it also reemphasizes that she has no fear!

Rolling, Crawling, WALKING?!?!?

Evie June Bugger has started walking. She has been shuffle walking since this past weekend where she barely lifts her foot up or over and hardly moves but it looked like a precursor to walking and apparently was. On Tuesday after we got home from work EARLY--OSU was closed 1.5 days--woo hoo!--mommy was trying to show daddy how she could walk just barely holding onto one of my hands and she just walked all by herself instead. She has done 8+ steps in a row and made it about 4-5 feet without toppling over so far. She is still a little timid about walking and is a super fast crawler anyway, but she is really getting there. It took her a long time to learn to crawl but I guess walking wasn't that hard for some reason!

She also had her first Chris Fish's Birthday (aka Valentine's Day to the lay person) and we spent almost the entire day together since OSU had a snow day (can you tell I am still jazzed about that--we never get off). She had a special outfit for the day which started with:

her special v-day tiarathen moved into cutie -patootie work-out suit with onesie and heart front...and a heart butt! Which is how mommy got sold on it:)

Update on Mommy

I just got a call and apparently I have some weird bacterial infection of the intestines. My doctor said he was pretty sure that I still have Crohns but there is a chance that it is just a stupid infection you can get from being on antibiotics that you take antibiotics to get rid of--ironic, huh?

Unfortunately the type of infection is usually not common if you are otherwise healthy and has an increased incidence in people with auto immune problems...which goes back to Crohns.