The only thing worse than getting your blood drawn.....

Is holding down your baby while hers is getting drawn :(  Gabi had to go to the lab for an actual venipuncture today on her teeny tiny arm.  It is a routine test for one-year olds checking for lead and hemoglobin levels.  I took the little babe right before her nap and she actually fell asleep in the car on the way there.  I woke her up and we went in, luckily not having to wait hardly at all.  Right before the phlebotomist stuck the needle in Gabi looked right at her and gave a cheerful little "hi!"  Unfortunately the mean lady only responded with a big stick in the arm.  They had trouble finding Gabi's veins and it took forevvvvver to get the blood out.  At first I thought they missed the vein, but then it slowly started to come out.  The poor babe sat with the needle in her arm for 3-5 minutes I think.  By the time they were done my hands were wet with her tears and it was time for lunch and a nap.  She survived and is sleeping soundly now!

The babe's battle wound....

 

We were all a little bit under the weather last week.  Nick was the only one who really got sick, but me and Gabs felt it little for a couple of days :(

The step is the perfect height for a little chair.  She finds it pretty special.

Ooooh....trying to get fingerprints on my lens!!  I was quicker than her this time.

 Blanket hog....

This is the blanket she usually sleeps with and it lives in her crib.  Packing for Grandma's the other day it was out and she kept trying to run around with it.  This resulted a few trips and falls......I knew there was a reason we had her miniature blankies!

Giving her caterpillar kisses......

........before sitting on him

I think she needs a horsey.  She rides/bounces on her poor unicorn.....

I never in my wildest dreams would think that a one-year old would enjoy looking at flash cards.  I never make her look at them, but it's one of her favorite things to do to get her bucket and look through all of the cards.  Yesterday a card read "hat" without the picture and pointed at it and said "kitty".  I'm thinking she mistook it for "cat".  I don't know, but I really think she is getting the hang words connecting with pictures connecting with actions.  She is getting very good at recognizing words.  She has a book with six words on each page - I will ask her to point to a certain word and she can (I'd say about 80-90% of the time getting it right).  Pretty good!

The card says/shows "touch your ears".  She has so much fun reading/copying the pictures!

In exciting news for me, the MSU basketball games are almost over!!!!  Yay!  I know Nick isn't excited about this, but I am.  He is going to try a softball league again this summer, so hopefully they do better than they did last year.  Yesterday we went to the Aluminum Show....don't ever see if you get the chance...it wasn't good.  Nick's whole family went for his mom's birthday and everyone was pretty disappointed.  We're going to see the Alvin Ailey dance show next week and that will be AWESOME!  I can't wait!  Ok, I hear little miss is up so I gotta run!