Mystery Food...

As you all know, Frassy has major food issues. The only table food she eats for me and her father is dry food like bread, crackers, breaded chicken, pancakes, etc. However, Miss Marilyn says she eats "whatever the other kids eat". Hmmmmm.... I sent Daddy to investigate this matter. Apparently she eats mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, beans, and spaghetti. Spaghetti??!!!?!?!? What!?? Okay. I guess Daddy and I are incompetent to feed our own child. She's going to have to go to daycare every day just to get a square meal!

Frassy, Frassy, Frassy.....tsk tsk.

Sassy

Well, my Frassy has turned Sassy! She now wags her finger and talks back when I tell her "no no". Of course, it doesn't help that Papi laughs hysterically at this. Last night she kept feeding Cinder her crackers. "No No! Don't feed the doggie!" (I say apparently to myself as she wags her finger at me and shakes her head). Again, she feeds the dog. "No No! Don't feed the doggie!" (handslap immediately followed by finger wagging and head shaking; Papi laughing hysterically). Finally on the 3rd time she saw me coming after her and jumped up and wanted in Papi's lap. I guess Papi is home base!

15 Month Check-up

Today Ann Elizabeth had her 15 month check-up.
Stats: Weight-22lbs 45% Height-30 1/4 inches 50% Head circumference-48 1/2cm 90%
(Head has not been <90% since birth--thanks Daddy for the big noggin!)

ALSO.........

Allegedly:

1.) Her 42 days of congestion with sporadic cough/fever just has to "run it's course".
2.) Her congestion most likely has to do with the fact that "all her teeth are getting ready to come in at once".
3.) Her textural issues with wet food are all "normal" and if she hasn't improved at 18 months that she will be "put on vitamins" and until then it's perfectly okay that all she eats are bread, chicken nuggets, and crackers.

AAARRRGGGGHHHH!! Possibly a new pediatrician in our future? I don't know!!

Terrible Twos Already?

Uh-oh. We may have seen a faint glimpse today of what lies in store for two parents of a Frassy! She has been a complete tyrant ALL day. There are only a couple of things in the house that make us tell her "No No!". One is touching the electronics around the TV and the other is playing with electric cords (lamp cords, appliance cords, etc.) because she puts them around her neck! Well today she touched every cord and electronic in the house! No No! didn't work and making her sit for one minute didn't phase her either. She would laugh and wag her finger back at us. Distraction wasn't much better. This is NOT good. If we can't make a 15 month old mind, what are we going to do when she's three! Yikes. How young can you ship kids to boarding school?....

Oh well, maybe Great-Grandmother Greene was right. The kids act up when the weather turns bad. Let's hope that's it.

Shake that heiney!!

Frassy has a marvelous new dance. She stands with her hands on a table or other sundry piece of furniture (as in the picture) and wildly swivels her hips and shakes her butt side-to-side hulahoop style!! It is exceedingly fun to watch. She especially likes to dance to the Backyardigans theme song! Of course, I can barely watch because the entire time I'm hearing Mystikal's "Shake Ya *ss" in my head. I know, Mommy's sick.

Opposable thumbs are great...

Frassy has a wonderful new trick. She ate her pancake yesterday with a fork. Granted, she held it way down on the tines, but she nevertheless "stabbed" and ate pieces. She was also extremely proud of herself and grinned excessively. It was at this point that we noticed a new toofer!! She has been a two-toofered Frassy from 9 months old, but it seems now she will be a multi-toofered Frassy very soon. She has two top teeth trying to break through! It's amazing what excites you with a 14-month-old!

Back to Miss Marilyn's...

Well, Frassy went to Miss Marilyn's today without a fever so far. David was totally irritated this morning about the fact that he had called in sick to work and then she woke up with no fever. WEEELLLLLLL, sometimes that happens! So needless to say, she is at Miss Marilyn's and David is at work. I hope she isn't as irritable and dish-raggy as she was last night! If she can just make it to 3:00pm then GJ will rescue her! YEA!

Flu Shot Sucks continued (AGAIN)

6:15am: Frassy with fever of 102. No daycare with fever. GJ has to babysit. People on triage line last night say 18% of kids get fever for 2-3 days post flu shot. Great. Poor Frassy trying gallantly to be in good mood, but quickly resorts to limp dish rag status. Flu shots suck!

Flu Shot Sucks continued...

99.4 degree fever 4 hours after shot and AFTER bath and irritability...

Sick for 3 weeks after 1st shot...

We hate the flu shot...

It's better than the flu... I guess!

Flu shot sadness...

Poooooor little Frassy. She got flu shot #2 today. Thank God for watermelon suckers...somehow shots hurt a lot less.

(We won't tell her she gets her 15 month shots in 2 weeks! Bring out the suckers!)

Bedtime Blues...

Our bedtime routine has gone to you-know-where in a handbasket. We always have our bath at 8:30pm, jammies by 9:00pm, and milk/bedtime story/in bed by 9:30-10:00pm-ish. Well, no! Now Little Miss Walker has decided to be a wild woman after her bath and practice her walking forever. Now by 10:00pm I am holding her down and rocking her while she SCREAMS her fool head off. Then I go lay her down at 10:30pm and she cusses me for 5 minutes before falling to sleep.
This sucks.
Firstly, I thought a 9:30pm bedtime was bad enough, but it worked for us. She would sleep all night until 8:00am or so the next day. (Put her to bed any earlier and she was up screaming all night!) So, 9:30pm worked. I think I'm going to have to go hard-core on Frassy. No more ba-ba's cold turkey has worked okay, so now I think I'm going to put her in her bed and tuck her in at 9:30pm and if she wants to scream for an hour-so be it. We'll see how this goes.

(P.S. My readership can comment on these posts. Any advice would be appreciated.)

Christmas Pictures!

Finally G.J. has gotten Mommy the Christmas 2006 pictures....

Here's a few...

No More B-O-T-T-L-E-S

Sippies all around! No more "Ba-Ba's" for Miss Ann. I had her weaned about the time she turned a year old, then she became a limp dishrag with a fever and wouldn't take anything except a bottle. This time around, I'm going cold turkey. Out of sight, out of mind. I'm going to do "tough love" like our neonatologists do---they'll drink or starve. Well, not really. Anyway, so far, so good.

Sweetness...

Aaaaaaahhh...If I could freeze a moment...

I was rocking Ann tonight and I kissed her on the forehead.

She grabbed me around my neck and buried her face in it.

My non-cuddly child cuddled me.

Sweetness.

What I Did Today....by Ann Elizabeth

6:15am.: Got up. Made googly eyes at Daddy while he fed me my morning BaBa. Scrunched nose at Mommy while telling her "Hi-eeeee"while she got dressed.
6:40am: Practiced my consonants and vowels on the way to take Mommy to the really big building with the revolving door-I think Mommy calls it "work". When Mommy goes to the big place I get to go to Miss Marilyn's house.
7:15am: Arrived at Miss Marilyn's. Played, ate, and napped. Probably made Miss Marilyn and Mitchell crazy.
3:00pm: Daddy came to get me! I screamed at the top of my lung's from my favorite seat until he retrieved me. I had to make sure he knew I was there.
5:55pm: Arrived at what Daddy calls West Roll Call. There's lots of food and cheese and friendly people there. Some of the people like to wear special costumes like Ian's daddy. Daddy made me listen to a lady talk and talk, but I got to eat cake and goldfish crackers! Daddy was very important. I had to help him announce the winner for the Cop of the Month! I led the applause in the front of the room and greeted everyone. Somebody had to entertain these people!
7:30pm: Got very sleepppyyyy....
8:00pm: Woke up in the car. Mommy was there! We must have gotten her from the big place with the revolving door. We got food at the place with the pretty neon and a little person that talks in a box. We don't even have to leave the car!
8:45pm: Mommy and Daddy finally got done eating and Mommy put me in the Big Water! I love the Big Water! I play with soft colored foamy things that Mommy calls "letters". She tries to stick them on the wall to make "words". She laughs but I don't see what's so funny. I tried to show her how to play a rousing game of "Pea-Pie", it's much more fun. My favorite toy is my pirate ship!
9:15pm: Mommy smothered me in all this greasy stuff that she calls "Lotion and Badger Baby Balm". I hate it! I love to put my jammies on, though. I put my arms and legs through the holes all by myself! Mommy says I'm a big girl.
9:30pm: Decided to really freak Mommy and Daddy out by walking from Bhodi's couch to Daddy's couch. Mommy started crying and Daddy was giddy. I don't see the big deal, but I liked being clapped for so much that I started walking all over the living room! If I had known it would be this much fun, I would have walked a long time ago! I made Mommy and Daddy very happy.


10:30pm: I can't walk anymore. My legs are tired. I think I'll let Mommy rock me for a while. I hate going to sleep!
10:35pm: Mommy is saying what she calls "prayers". I don't really understand, but I love listening to Mommy saying prayers.
10:57pm: Don't want to go to sleep, don't want to go to sleep, don't want to go to sleep...
10:59pm: My dark room, my comfy bed, Mommy laying me down....Niccccccccceeeee....

SCARY!!!!

Ann Elizabeth's boyfriend, Ian, has RSV bad! He and his parents, Dean and Kristi, were at the ER last night with a fever of 105 degrees and a crappy chest X-ray! I totally know how they feel. Everything GI that comes along completely wipes little Ann out, and it looks like respiratory things are going to wipe poor Ian out. I know that he is in good hands. Kristi is a Neonatal Intensive Care nurse like me. I just hope they hang in there. I know how draining it was when Frassy was in the hospital last summer with her pylorospasms. Everybody out there say a special prayer!! Here's a pic of the cute couple in their younger days...

Miss Marilyn, I'm Baaa-aaack...

Frassy went back to Miss Marilyn's this morning. She was so excited! When we went to pay the bill yesterday, Frassy got so mad that I was holding her and wanted down to play. She just loves Marilyn, Mitchel, and Ronelle. We are sooooooo blessed to have a daycare that makes Frassy WANT to go!! I hear so many horror stories about childcare. To know that Ann is happy when we drop her off and happy when we pick her up is such a relief. Miss Marilyn is our hero!

Mommy loves Frassy naps...

I don't know what I'll do when the day comes that Frassy abandons her nappies. I love to have the hour or so of free time when she is snoozing. BONUS: She is SOOOO much happier when she awakens. When I went to get her from her Pack-n-Play a moment ago, she gave me a big cheesy grin and patted me on the back as in "Good job, Mom." I love it! GJ just uploaded some super cute Christmas photos--I will post ASAP.

Frassy's New Year's Resolutions...

1.) Quit being a chicken, let go, and figure out this walking thing.

2.) Eat table food other than bread, crackers, and chicken nuggets.

3.) Learn some new words.

4.) Continue being a super-cute sassy-frassy!