Mommy's Journal: Here's a Flower Mommy!

Yep, it's blurry, but I don't care.  I was able to capture my baby giving me a flower.  Albeit a shriveled clover flower, but one she picked all the same.  Look how proud she is.  

Here mommy, smell it.

This week has been HOT!  Yesterday was the hottest day on record here in Seattle.  Seatac recorded 103˚ at 5:00 pm!  This broke the previous record of 100˚ that was set on July 20, 1994.  The airport holds the official temp, but other nearby locations reported temps as high as 105˚.  Our temperature gauge even read 112˚ at one point.  Hot HOt HOT!  And for those of you who do not live in the Pacific Northwest and for those of you who are thinking, "what wimps," you have to understand that homes in our area DO NOT have air conditioning.  So unless we head to the mall, library or work in an office building, there is no relief from this extreme heat. Good thing it's not supposed to stick around for much longer. We'll be back down to our average high of 76˚before you know it!

Flower World

Since mommy and daddy have been able to spend so much time at home this summer they have been making the back yard look really pretty.  One of my favorite places to go is Flower World.  They get to look at plants and I get to see animals.

Look!  It's a sheep!

  And then we go home and I get to play in the dirt!

Oh how much fun it is to get dirty!

Me and My Pool

My First Chuck E. Cheese Experience

We have some good friends who invited us to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's in Bellevue.  We had tried to go, but my nap schedule has been so sporadic lately that we weren't able to make it that day.  We were really sad to miss the party.  Not long after the party, we happened to be in Chuck E. Cheese's neighborhood, so we decided to try it out for ourselves.  When we ordered our food, they gave us some tokens to play the games and ride the rides.  This was my favorite ride:  Bob the Builder's Bull Dozer.  I tried one that had some scary Teletubbies on it, but I didn't like that one.  I didn't even make it through the whole ride before I asked daddy to get me down.  

Mommy and Daddy tried the pizza.  They wanted to see if it was like they remembered from childhood.  They honestly couldn't remember, but they have fond memories of the games they played like Wack-a-Mole and Starwars.  I had one of my favorite new foods:  a hotdog.  I can't wait until I get older so I can climb through the suspended tunnels that they have hanging from the ceiling.   And so I can play for longer without being so exhausted.  

Laughter

A little movie of our little girl.

Enjoy

Not feelin' so good... times three

Mommy thought it would be cute to see if she could get my hair out of my eyes.  Not a single curl to be had.  Just need a bone and I'd look like Pebbles Flintstone.  (oh, wait, I'm not supposed to know who Pebbles is yet... thanks for the reference, mom!)  This is the day before my problems began.  

The next morning, I woke up in a great mood.  Happy, laughing, feeling like I could conquer the world, well at least feeling like I could conquer the task of carrying mommy's shoes from her bedroom into the bathroom.  Then, BAM!  Somehow my face hit the stone threshold and my good mood was all over from there.  I bruised my forehead and scraped my nose and upper lip.  My nose even bled a little.  This picture is mild compared to what it ended up looking like a few days later.  It looked like I had boxed in a baby-weight fight and lost.  (but you should have seen the other baby...)

A few days earlier, red spots began appearing on my legs, arms and torso.  Mommy decided to take me to the doctor to see what was going on.  He diagnosed two different types of eczema.  One was rough and patchy and happens all over the place and the other is red and moist and occurs where my skin folds at my joints.  He said I should outgrow the rough and patchy type, but the one at my joints might follow me to adult-hood.  Oh, Great!   He prescribed some ointment that should help clear it up.  

Well, while at the doctor's office, he noticed my scraped up face and wanted to make sure there wasn't any blood pooling around the cartilage.  He said it could cause problems down the road.  Luckily there wasn't any, but I was not thrilled with him poking that thing up my nose so I got upset and started crying.   He asked if I had been having cold symptoms lately because my nose had started to run.  Mommy told him I seemed okay, but he wanted to look in my ears just to make sure they were clear.  To our surprise, he said that both of my ears were infected.  Great!  another double ear infection.  I just had one in May!  He started me on another round of antibiotics...  Oh well, at least I like taking medicine.  Maybe that explains why I was off balance and smashed my face on the floor...  Bruised face, eczema and double ear infection.  Boy, what a state I am in...