What A Day

Today has been quite a day. Last night, Evie had a sleepover with Nana and Grandpa while mommy and daddy went to Shadowbox's late night show for free. When Evie got home she gave mommy a big kiss on the lips before BITING her hard. I had to give her the no biting talk and even without raising my voice or putting her down, she cried like I broke her heart. It felt awful but she really can't bite. I seem to be the only one she taste tests though. Then Evie and mommy went to a baby shower while daddy and grandpa and nana letterboxed.

The shower was at Graeter's and Evie had sorbet due to her milk allergy. Mommy left to help the new mommy put her gifts in her car and left Evie in her stroller with folks watching. When I came back, Evie's left eye was red, swollen and puffy. She kept rubbing at it and no one saw what happened so I kept watch on her and when it didn't get noticeably better consulted with her pediatrician who sent us to Children's Close to Home urgent care. I stopped by our house while waiting for the pediatrician's return call and found Pasquale getting sick all over his crate and acting funny. I tried calling daddy but his cell wasn't doing its thing right so grandma came hover to assist. At this point I was trying to figure out if both Evie and PQ needed to go to their species appropriate urgent cares and panicking a smidgen. Evie won out on who got to go to the doctor first because she's human and her doctor called back first.
We took Evie to urgent care and they put the fluorescent eye drops in to make sure her eye didn't have anything in it. The doctor didn't see any scratches or anything so most likely she had an allergic reaction to something that came into contact with her eye. Since we were in an ice cream parlor and she has a severe milk allergy, I think she may have gotten a smidge of some drop of ice cream she picked up somehow into her eye and the doctor said that could have done it. She has never had a contact reaction before but I guess this means she can't be around milk stuff at all which is scary because everyone else eats and drinks milk products--yikes!

Meanwhile, Pasquale has continued to be sick all evening and daddy is taking him to the vet in the morning. Hopefully it is just a bug and not something super serious. Mommy dropped off daddy and Evie who stayed with nana and grandpa who had been called in to watch PQ while we were at urgent care and mommy and grandma went to get Evie's eye drop prescription filled. The first 2 pharmacies were closed so we drove over to a 24 hour pharmacy that had a 15 minute wait. To kill time, we stopped at Rita's frozen custard and got a much needed snack (but since daddy loves Rita's and we didn't think it would travel well, we thought we would keep it a secret). We came home, put the drops in Evie's eyes and then I noticed my cell phone was missing. Daddy called it and the nice girl at RITA'S answered, busting mommy and her sneaking out to get italian ice. Figures.

Evie cried and was crabbier than normal (allergic reaction in eye + urgent care + eye drops + 3 teeth coming in, including a molar = unhappy baby). PQ threw up on the carpet when mommy wasn't paying good enough attention and now we are about all ready for bed!

To recap our life most recently before today, we went to the fair last weekend with the Imboden's and Gary which was really fun until Miss Thang had a melt-down. She loves Irene and Alaina:
My cousin Melissa is coming to OSU in the AU and was here for orientation, hanging with Evie during a dinner break:Evie wasn't sure about Melissa at first but they are buddies now.

And my final recap will cover yesterday. We went to with Grandma to the Ballantrae water park in Dublin where Evie played in some of the fountains. It is a cool place, and best of all, it is FREE!
She's still a little shy of the spitting water but she did play in the smaller fountains like these. The large waterfall (not pictured) totally freaked her out though.

When Babies Dress Themselves

Can you tell what's wrong with this picture?
You talking bout me?

Busy, Busy, Busy

We went to Popcorn Pops with the Fishes and Sabs two Friday ago and it was loads of fun! Evie really enjoyed running around and dancing, but she also saved some time to snuggle with Carrie and play with Abby, Katie and Allison. It was a beautiful day and lots of fun!The next day we went with Nana to Hoover Grille (an awesome restaurant with some outdoor seating) and to Inniswood Gardens to see the 'Big Bugs' exhibit which is really cool. We forgot our cameras though!

It was also mommy and daddy's seventh anniversary weekend so we all went to the Park of Roses to see where they got married and saw leaves as big as Evie:
We also tried to get a family picture in the backyard but someone didn't cooperate so here she is with just mommy.
This past week/weekend, Evie had her 3rd music class with Glenn and did so good with the songs and putting her toys away. They actually teach some clean-up/good manners stuff at music class which is terrific. Then over the weekend we went to Abuelo's for dinner and the Hoover Grille (again) for lunch with Nana and Grandpa. We also did some letterboxing with them (found 1/2 items--last time we went we found like 0/4). We visited the Grandview Lazy Daze of Summer too to see Laurie belly dance. Mommy, grandma and daddy all got ice cream at Jeni's while Evie ate fruit snacks. She LOVES fruit snacks if you let her eat them from the bag.

I have been commenting on the last post with new words but forgot a really important one: poopie:)

15 month appointment

Evie had her 15 month Dr appointment yesterday. She did such a great job and the doctor commented on her good naturedness and ease with strangers since she let Dr Gray poke all over her:)

She is growing like a weed. She is now:

• 22 pounds (40%, up from 25% at last visit)!
• 31 inches (75%)
• 19 in head circumference (96%, up from 85%)

So she still has the super ginormous noggin'. She also knows plenty of words and can identify lots more stuff than the minimum they look for at her age. Even funnier, daycare did their monthly newsletter yesterday and it talked all about how so many kids are walking now but for Evie it talked about her talking! She is super chatty and really starting to get stuff (mimics most things we say, so we have to be careful). They said she talks in sentences to them and when they can't figure out what she wants she gets pretty upset. The newsletter predicts she may be the next President!

She had a little trouble last night/this morning being tired and crabby from her shots but it was weird. She would be playing and having fun one minute and then seconds later screaming and having a fit out of nowhere. We put her to bed a little early and I hear she took a nap this morning for grandma because she was still so zonked. Poor thing!

One fun thing we did yesterday was make the coffee table into a 'fort' by throwing a blanket over it. She thought that was a riot.

So here are some of her new, fun words!

• no--and she shakes her head and sometimes does a whole body shake to signify NO
• uh-oh--still a favorite even when it is an 'on purpose' where she says uh-oh and THEN something falls to the ground and also 'Oh no' as a new one
  
• apple, eat, juice, water, waffle, more, yum-yum (sounds like num-num), cracker, 'Os' for cheerios, cheese, spoon (which she is pretty good at using)
• mommy, daddy, nana, baby, nita and geon (from daycare), bubba (all dogs and PQ), emma, ally (cat and dog and grnadparents' houses), woof-woof, quack, ooh-ooh (monkey), moo, vroom-vroom (like every car we pass! plus strollers too), fish (and I swear she is starting to get the hang of saying Allison from playing with her pictures from her shelf most mornings)
• she can identify (and say for some of 'em): eye, ear, nose, teeth, mouth, hair, toes, belly button, shirt, sock, shoe, glasses
• outside, light, seat (for chair), ball, bouncy, rock-rock, bumpy, down, up (although she MUCH prefers to use down for both up and down), done, bye-bye, see-ya, off, book, that? (almost always said as a question with finger pointing), please, thank you, eewww (when something is yucky)
• she also plays 'give me five' and 'peekaboo'
  

Daycare says she is doing colors, like red, blue, green, yellow but she has been a little resistant to say them for us. I am sure I missed tons of things but this is a pretty good start. She says a lot of babble stuff that could be something but is still a little too unintelligible. If I missed one and someone wants to chime in, go for it!

Busy Summer!

This summer has been crazy busy. Just in July alone we have:

• gone to Shakespeare in the Park
• seen Harry Potter V movie
• went to 2 baby showers--congrats Mo and Heather D.
  
• met a former co-worker for lunch over the weekend
• hung out at Randy and Heather's awesome new place
• attended a family wedding
• went to Red, White and Boom (see previous post)
• saw Wicked at Ohio Theater
• saw Rocky Horror Show at Shadowbox (excellent by the way and still showing)
• gone to 2 meal-prep places (Super Suppers and Touch of Gourmet)
• visited baby Andrew, born on 7/11
• went to the zoo
• had out-of-town visitors--we miss you Anne Marie, Jason and Emma!
• attended story time at library
• went to Evie's first music class with Glenn and Bethany

There's probably other stuff too but this has obviously been keeping us very busy. This weekend is mommy and daddy's 7th wedding anniversary which is insane. I don't feel like we're old enough to have been married that long:) Here are some pictures of our adventures:

Emma and Evie in matching shirts

Uncle Carl, Aunt Reagon and Evie at wedding
(mommy, daddy and Evie were all wearing purple but we forgot to get a picture of the 3 of us!)
Evie on the cell phone--she always calls daddy!
WeJoySing music classes