Toothy grin, here I come!

My top left tooth poked through today! Yippee!

Mommy Journal: It's been one of those weeks...

... and it is only Tuesday.

Yesterday my beautiful little girl, who is learning to walk, took a tumble in our bedroom while I was getting dressed.  She just happened to be a little too close to the side board of our bed and WHAM! Instant shiner.  Poor thing.  She is a tough little girl though because she only cried for a couple of minutes and actually enjoyed it when I put the frozen bag of peas on her eye to help the swelling go down.  Only half of the bruise is visible when she is awake.  Its when she is asleep that the full glory of her first black eye is evident.  I'm so sorry baby.

Then there was today:  What a poopy day this was.  And I mean literally!  We started out our day like usual.  We get up around 8:00.  Have breakfast.  Sophia eats Cherrios and a half of a banana while I eat sausage and freezer waffles with butter, syrup and the other half of her banana.  Oh, and don't forget the decaf coffee for mommy.  

After breakfast we get ready to go out and do our pseudo baby boot camp (workout for mommy, nap in the jogging stroller for baby).  On our way out, we pass some dog poop on the sidewalk that some irresponsible dog owner neglected to pick up.  Someone before us had obviously not seen it since it was smeared all over the sidewalk.  Luckily I saw it in time to be able to avoid running the stroller wheels through any of it.  (Note to self:  avoid this on the way home) Obviously the notepad in my head didn't take good notes because on the way home we drove one of the wheels right through it.  GROSS!  I found a patch of grass and cleaned off as much of it as I could.  At least we started our walk from home and that is where we were going to end up so I didn't have to worry about putting the poopy-wheeled stroller in the back of my car.  

We get home just as Sophia is waking up.  Now that she is almost walking she likes to take hold of my fingers... and I mean take hold.  She will walk up to me, reach for my fingers and pull until I go in the direction that she wants to go and then she is off racing around with me right behind her.  Now was time for HER outdoor walk.  She found a stick that was longer than she is tall and with it in one of her hands and my finger in the other we walked up and down the driveway until she was too tired to walk anymore.

Now it is time to go in.  With Sophia in one arm, I gather all of our stuff in the other and as I am taking it out of the handy-dandy basket on the bottom of the stroller, my thumb brushes up against the wheel.  UGH! right on the poop!  Now I have Sophia in one arm, our stuff in the other and poop on my thumb!  I have to find a way to open up the door of the house without dropping anything and without using my thumb.  Somehow I manage.  Luckily the door wasn't shut all the way and I just had to pull it open with my first two fingers.  Juggling everything, I manage to kick my shoes off just in case there was poop on the bottom of them so I wouldn't drag it in.  I got inside, dropped our stuff, set Sophia in her play pen and washed my hands.  Finally, done with the poop.  Or so I thought.  

A couple of hours later, Sophia was quietly playing near the stack of magazines in our living room.  All the sudden I heard the thumpety-thump of her speed-crawling towards me.  As I look at her I see she is grinning at me and rolling her tongue around in her mouth like she does when she has stuffed a wad of paper in there.  She is making a funny face.  I stick my finger in her mouth and instead of paper, I pull out a ball of...  what is that?  and the smell hits me!  She found some poop and she has put it in her mouth!!!!  Grinning as if pleased with herself she grabs for her sock and there is poop on her sock!  Horrified, I pull off her socks, clean off her mouth and her hands and... I wonder if I should call her pediatrician.  WHERE IN THE WORLD DID SHE FIND POOP?  We have cats, but she can't get anywhere near the liter box and I know I didn't bring any poop inside from our morning incident...  

I Google 'baby ingesting poop' to see what comes up.  And wouldn't you know it.  The second listing on Google was this blog entry that was written a few years ago.  If you haven't already, go on-line to read how she so elegantly explains her experience with poop.  I felt like she was explaining exactly what happened to me today, except I never found the source of our poop-culprit.

Then to top it all off, barely a half an hour later Sophia comes crawling up to me with a dirty diaper.  I've had enough poop for one day.  I am so sick of poop!

Happy Birthday Great Grandma!

Since today is my great Grandma's birthday, I thought I would don the cute little ladybug wind jacket that she sent to me for Valentines Day.  All I have to do is roll up the sleeves a little bit and it fits just right.  Thank you Great Grandma!  I love you!

walking poll

The results from the crawling poll:  Will I be crawling before the New Year?  One person said that I would be crawling before New Years, one said that it wouldn't be quite yet and one person said that it would be before Christmas.  Well, I started crawling on Christmas Eve so the person who voted for 'Before Christmas' guessed it right.  Now for a new poll.  It's going to be a quick one.  Will I start walking before Spring?  Get your vote in.  There's only 8 days left before Spring.  

This morning mommy took me in the jogging stroller and while I napped, mommy got some exercise.  It was a very crisp and cold morning, but I was toasty warm under lots of blankets and my rain cover.  When we got home mommy spread a blanket out on our front yard and we soaked up some sun.   We didn't stay outside for too long though because my little cheeks were getting cold.  

Later in the afternoon mommy and I took a trip to an area of Seattle called Ballard.  She found a Leap Frog Activity Table on Craig's List that she bought for me and we went to the person's house to pick it up.  It is just the right height for me to stand and play with all of the levers and buttons.  It will help me learn my colors, numbers and letters and I can sing along with the silly songs too.  

I like to stand while I play.  As a matter of fact, just last night after daddy got home from work the three of us were  playing with my toys in the living room.   Well, mommy and daddy were playing with my toys.   I was standing up next to the laundry basket and pulling out all of the clothes that mommy had just folded.   This is my new favorite pastime.  I decided that I wanted to go see mommy and I let go of the laundry basket and took one wobbly step and then another towards her.  I fell right into her arms, but I took my first two solo steps towards walking on my own!  Mommy keeps saying I will be walking on my own before Spring.  That's less than two weeks away.  We'll see if I can make it.  I am awfully close.  Then there will be no stopping me.  

Squeal, Pucker, Twirl, Ride

Here's a new movie of my adventures inside the past couple of days while waiting spring to come.  If you can't tell, I'm trying my first piece of lemon in one of the scenes.  Mommy is behind the camera most of the time and our cat Rags makes a brief appearance.  Hope you enjoy.

Boy I can't wait for warmer weather so we can make some good outdoor movies.