CCC's! Err......ABC's?

Gabrielle will bring me her alphabet book and say "CCC's!  Read!"  It's not the "ABC's" it's the "CCC's".  Haha...but she knows the idea! 

She also is obsessed with purple, blue, and pink.  She knows and can say all of those colors and constantly looks for things that she can label the color.

Random things she especially excited about right now are motorcycles (mo-mo's) and the lobster tank at the grocery store.  We have to sit and watch the lobsters "swim" around the water in the tank for about 15 minutes before we're allowed to move on.  And Gabs knows right where the tank is in the store and directs me there promptly as soon as she gets in the cart.  She also loves to see/hear motorcycles and scream "momo!!" every time she gets a glimpse of one.

She is learning new words (push, shoes, boots, couch, turtle, sand, etc...).  And is putting a few more two-word sentences together (more please, mommy read, dog outside, dog hop hop [what she said for about an hour straight after Oskar ate a frog....], dada poo poo [hahaha] and some others.

And I guess I could follow up our "depacifiering" conquest.  We had about two weeks of shortened sleep - she probably slept 1-2 hours less at night and napped a little bit shorter too.  After that, she readjusted and is back to normal.  EASY!  And for the record, I think she was ready.  All along I hoped she would wean herself when she was ready (like she did bottles)......even though she didn't give it up voluntarily, the ease of the situation proved it was time.  :) 

And in addition to my previous post, Gabs was sick pretty much all week.  We thought she was all better on Tuesday, and she was, but Wednesday mid-afternoon she starts crying and wanting to be held again.  Took her temp and it was 101.  WTF?!  She just cried and I held her until she fell asleep on me again.  Of course I was actually going to go my photography club meeting that meets once a month that night, so I cancelled the sitter and stayed with my bebe. 
She looked SICK.  She just laid on the couch with her eyes half open.  I accidentally made her throw up too......the doctor said to medicate the fever since she was so miserable so I got a syringe full of ibuprofen ready.  Gabs was crying and Nick was holding her....the syringe got stuck and then quickly released and shot into her throat - instant projectile vomit on Nick and our couch.  Not good.  She kind of [TMI] burped up a mouthful a couple of other times during the evening, but that was the only other symptom.  She had a smaller fever the whole next day which I didn't treat because her demeanor was rather good.  By Friday the fever was gone and she was almost back to her normal self.  Whew.  And I think our weird sickness saga has come to and end.

Nick Taylor's my daddy....can you tell?  She found these all by herself and made her outfit.  She LOVES dress up.














Then an airplane flew over head.  It was exciting.






A great picture.  I'm creating a love for rhinestone shoes early in her little life.....


Getting baby's blanket ready for her....


What a good mommy!






Then she decided to empty my wallet....one of the most entertaining things ever!

Gotta love mystery illnesses

Our child rarely gets sick....and if she does it usually last like a half a day or a day.
Yesterday:

• 9:00am - Have been playing outside for an hour.  She come to me sobbing and holding her chest
• 11:30 - Has been crying hard intermittently and hold her chest/stomach and breathing a bit heavy.  Points to her tummy for "owwie" 
• Made pedi appt for 1:30
• Doc had no idea.  Temp 99.1.  Did a strep culture (fun), a urine sample (even more fun), and checked ears twice (easy and perfectly healthy).  All tests normal.
• 4:00pm - Left pedi office.  Temp 102.8.  They had no idea.  Told to give Tylenol/Ibuprofen every four hours. 
• 4:30-5:00pm - Gabrielle slept on my lap until Nick got home and the dogs woke her up.
• 5:00pm - Temp gone, spunky child wanting to jump on the couch, half a grilled cheese and animal crackers devoured.
• 7:00pm - Crying feverish child is back.  Temp back up to 101.2.
• 7:30pm - Meds given again and child to sleep.
• Slept all night, woke with fever of 99.8.  Meds given.
• Rather happy, normal child.  No more fever.

 

What a worrisome day!  We went in for chest/abdominal pain and labored breathing and left with a fever and no answers.  I guess that's just how it goes sometimes.  I'm just so glad it wasn't anything serious....she had us a bit worried.

Sleeping on mommy....

 These are from a few days earlier (obviously)

 

 

A really blurry picture of G jumping in the air and landing on her bum.

Hahaha....she thinks it's hilarious

 

 

Gabrielle LOVES playing dress-up.  Hats, headbands, skirts.....anything.  She loves it.

 

Yes, she put on the skirt herself....notice she couldn't pull it over her bum :)

 

 Here are some random iPhone pics.  We had a little family weekend at the lake.  Very relaxing!

Wearing mommy's shoes.  She brings them to me and exclaims "Mommy's!" and then proceeds to put them on and try and walk in them.

 We also met some friends at the Splash Pad last week.  Gabs loved it!!  She got so cold though, but had a great time.

What her hair looks like before I brush it out.  Spray detangler has become our friend.

And Gabs and I on the last day of her swim lessons!  I was so hoping she would get a little completion certificate, but they didn't do that for the baby class :(

 

 

Newborn Photography ~ Brooklyn

Jess, my roommate from college had her sweet Brooklyn about six weeks ago.  I was able to take some newborn photos when Brooklyn was a week old.  This was the second newborn that I shot and I feel like I had a much handle on it, though there is still lots of room for improvement.  I look forward to hopefully having more wee babies to practice on soon :) 

Brooklyn was such a doll - she slept, ate, and slept some more....the perfect routine for a newborn!