So much personality!

Look who's talking! It seems that as soon as Avila hit 14 months she decided to start talking. Here are some of her favorite new words....

"Choooo"

Translation: Juice please

"Mow"

Translation: Milk please

"Baaaw"

Translation Options:
(1) Bottle
(2) Ball
(3) Book
(4) Bath

"eee-ee"

Translation: Kitty

Alternate meanings: Look mom, a kitty! Or....... Come here kitty, I want to attack you.

"No-no"

Translation: You really need a translation for this?

"Bye-bye"

Translation: Are we leaving yet? Or...... please, let's get out of this house.

"Chee"

Translation: Cheese please

"Bir"

Translation: Bird

"Oow"

Translation: Up

"Mmmmmmm"

Translation: the sounds she makes at breakfast while I'm drinking my coffee and she drinks her juice.

She tries to imitate a lot of what we are saying throughout the day, which has made us very conscience of what we are saying! These are the things that she says independently or in reference to things.

She's also learned to climb the stairs at the park and go down the slide by herself. She's a bit obsessed with this activity, but I have no complaints. I've developed quite the tan this week sitting on the sidelines watching her climb, slide, and repeat. Too bad it might be a little inappropriate for a pregnant woman to lay out on a public park in her bikini with a towel and a drink. Maybe I'll start a new trend or maybe I'll be the new spokes model for helping teens not get pregnant.......sure you get a cute baby, but look what happens to you after! You'll never look the same in a bikini again, moms are the reason the invented the tankkini.

Other fun developments of the month.......

I love to play with my friends. Sometimes I attempt to say their names. La-lin=Landon and Elly=Noelle. Learning to share has been rough though.

I love to go for bike rides with ma-ma. I wave and point while she rides us around the neighborhood and to the park.

I love to go for walks with ma-ma in the morning, even if it is a little chilly. Glad that Spring is finally here!

I love to watch movies after a long of playing while ma-ma makes dinner and we waiting for daddy to come home. We LOVE Elmo!

I love to color. Washable markers were a GREAT invention.

I made a best friend. Noelle. We love all the same toys and Elmo. Perfect Match. When she comes over we love to run around the house laughing and screaming.

I love to swing. Daddy had to take it down to finish some painting. I still sat in it for a while, waiting for it to move. Every morning after breakfast I bang on the back door to go outside to run and swing.

I get invited to birthday parties. I may be the youngest, but I'm still one of the girls.

Lastly new development, she will run up to any animal and "love on it" no matter the size. Dogs, cats, but as we learned last week NOT birds! There were a few on the ground near here at the park while we were having a snack and she FREAKED out. She will run screaming if any bird lands near her while playing at the park or beach. She doesn't mind them if someone is holding her or she's in the stroller - she actually calls out to them ...... "bir, bir, bir" pointing and smiling. She's an odd character.

That's pretty much it.....

new words,
new fun things to do,
new friends,

new fear of birds,

and a new sense of accomplishment at the park.

She's been a busy kid.

Our weekend

Yes, this little girl was my weekend. And sitting on the couch looking at books and watching TV was pretty much what the weekend consisted of. This picture is from today when she started feeling better. Let me start from the beginning.

Friday:
I went to work while Grandma Nancy (my mom) watched the baby. I came home to Avila with a slight fever, but I REALLY wanted to go shopping with my mom......so like any good mommy I gave her some Tylenol and went shopping. By the time we came home her temp was up to 103.

Saturday:
8am -Slight fever, but low enough to enjoy my famous Saturday morning pancakes.
8:30 am - Temp check 102.5 - put on the Elmo movie
9:30am - We get a call from Patti (my dad's awesome lady) to find out that Hawaii is supposed to get hit by a tsunami that afternoon. Since we have family there we tuned in to the TV to watch - and admit it, we all though it would be kind of cool to watch. Problem: the only station broadcasting info about the tsunami was the spanish station, so yes we watched the news for an hour in spanish.
We spent the rest of the morning watching a months worth of TV since Avila was either sleeping, crying, or staring into space - Temp check 104.something.
8:00 - I like to think I'm a calm person, but after watching hours of TV (spanish and english) and wondering why I can't get this fever down much lower than 104 I decide to call the advice nurse... She of course says the baby is fine.

Sunday:
8:00 am - temp check 102.5 - Blair leaves for church and mom gets ready to go back to Napa
10:00am - mom leaves while Avila is sleeping
11:00 am - temp check 104.2 and she now has dark pink spots all over her arm and legs - so I calmly call the advice nurse who tells me to call 911 immediately. Nice. just what I wanted to hear.

Make a LONG story short - did not call 911, went to ER, ER Dr. thinks it is Meningitis, Avila had a urine test and blood drawn, IV fluids, and they prepared her to be admitted to the hospital. So after waiting a total of 7 hours we hear the spots were caused by the fever and the fever was caused by a major double ear infection and go home.

Deep breath, sigh, praise the Lord for good news.

What a LONG weekend!