Lake Weekend

We spent the weekend at the lake with our friends Katie and Neal, and their son Emmett who is about two months younger than Gabrielle.  I think everyone had fun and the kids had a ball "playing" together.  At this age, mostly kiddos just play "next" to each other rather than with each other most of the time, but they are getting more and more interactive.  I love hanging out with our friends that don't have kids, but socializing with people that have children really is easier/less stressful a lot of the time.  It isn't easier because you have two nap schedules to deal with, twice the chance of a melt down at any given moment, etc.....but if our kid chucks a crayon across the room, throws a temper tantrum, or decides it's time to take a poop in the middle of dinner....it's a bit less stressful because you know your friends who have kids don't even think twice.

Both of the kids were really good and had fun in the water.  They collected rocks and dug in the sand.  They both enjoyed a slow boat ride (Gabrielle sans life jacket, of course....ekk) and Emmett loved to go fast.....Gabs, not so much.  They both took turns driving the boat with Nick and learned to honk the horn.  The four of us thoroughly enjoyed nap time and after the kids went to bed :)  Keeping track of two crazy one year olds in a three story house on a lake is no easy task. 

Oh....and I THOUGHT we actually de-pacifiered Gabs.  I only packed one paci and come to find out, it was all chewed and mangled...and not usable.  So she went without a paci nap (cried), night (cried), nap (actually rocked her to sleep), night (didn't even cry)......then she woke up at 4:00am screaming her head off because she probably wanted a paci and couldn't find one.  I went in there and shoved one in her mouth.  I need to commit.  Ugh, not sure about giving this another try, but I need to.   

Anyways, here are some pics from our weekend.



































Gabrielle is continuing her "mommy's/daddy's" phase. It's getting a bit ridiculous.  Everything she can possibly point to is either daddy's or mommy's......gas can, lawn mower, boat, PS3, and generator are all "daddy's".  The vacuum, computer, and camera are"mommy's".  She also knows whose shoes, cars, sunglasses, phones, clothes, and bags are whose.

She is getting more words all the time.  I can't even keep track.  A few new ones I remember are girl, boat, go, cold, up please, poop, and pee.  The last two she learned tonight when I so intelligently put her straight into the bath tub right after we got done with our mexican black bean dinner.  It happened for the first time - she pooped in the tub.  I freaked and yelled for Nick.  He basically cleaned the whole [huge] mess up while I gave Gabi a shower in the other bathroom.  Eww. 

And we got the results of her blood tests back all looks pretty good.  Everything they tested for looked perfectly within range except her BUN which has to do with kidney function.  It should be within 5-15 and hers was 18.  Her pedi wasn't too worried about it because it was just a slight increase and her Creatinine levels (which have to do with kidney function too) were totally normal.  She suggested getting her BUN level redrawn in a month, but I'm not sure if we will do it or not.  The doctor said her blood levels look very good, especially because she says most toddlers have a least a few things a bit out of whack.  Gabs is just as healthy as we thought!