Another busy week for us. We had a great weekend...I worked on planning stuff for her bday party that is sneaking up on me! And Daddy spent quality time with Cora. We took her to the doctor on Saturday morning for a cough that wasn't going away and they actually found out that she had the beginning stages of an ear infection. Shocked me. The oncall dr put her on antibiotics and was shocked that she had only been on it once before. I have a very conservative doctor, but that is good sometimes. They weighed her and she was 22 lbs and 15 oz. I thought she was thinning out some...I guess she is just maintaining right now.
She is still eating great - obviously by her weight. She is just about 100% table food. I have a few jars of stage 3 baby food that we are using up and she loves fruit so we have a lot of the fruit to finish off too. We decided to stop the morning nursing on Tuesday. She was confused and fussed the first couple of days...seemed like she was trying to tell us we were forgetting something. But she hasn't cried when I drop her off at school. So there is something to this! I am going to keep the afternoon bottle/nursing for a few more weeks, then that will be next to go. I thought I would be done nursing at a year, but looks like it may go past it by a few weeks.
Saturday she was attempting standing with no support and did great. I gave her lots of praise so she kept doing it. I tried to get her to practice walking on Monday and she threw her first documented temper tantrum. It was entertaining (for me), but took awhile to recover from it. I had hoped she would be walking by her birthday, but doesn't look like that will happen. She refuses to even try to walk with me. I'll have to get the school to work with her on that I guess.
Here she is eating some pizza and peas for lunch. She hasn't turned away anything I have ever offered her.
Here's a shot of a very attractive bruise she came home with one day last week. Pretty, huh. Can you say toddler?
CHERRIES! I gave her some cherries on a whim and she loved them. She was scarfing them up.
Double Fisting. I had left her water cup on her tray at dinner and she kept switching back and forth between water and milk. She was gulping them both down, so I let her do it.
Now milk...
Raspberries! Just like the cherries - she was inhaling them. Cora loves her fruit!
I got a call from the school today that she had a fever of 101.1! So, I had to go pick her up. And I can't take her back tomorrow, so luckily it is falling on Nana's day off and she is going to come save the day. The school said she still was in a good mood, but I think she was putting up a front for the public. She melted when we got home and crashed. She has been asleep for about 2 1/2 hours and not sure when she is going to wake up. She feels bad, so I am going to let her keep on sleeping. I am in no hurry and she can sleep in tomorrow. Her fever was down to 99.2 when I put her down, so hopefully she'll be better when she wakes up.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Looks like we are going to be taking it easy with the exception of a quick trip to Ellington Field for a benefit cook Dennis is helping with.
Cora has learned to suck the noodle into her mouth. She loves her pasta too! I was brave and let her feed herself chicken primavera...cleaning her up was the fun part. Ha.
I think Daddy is trying to make her a water baby since every time we have taken her swimming she hasn't gotten very excited like he thought she would. So he sent me to pick her up a baby pool and they tried it out. After her initial crying...which was probably more because it was close to dinner time...she did fine and even splashed some.
Daddy got a little overzealous with his splashing...
Bradley playing bartender to those floating in the water.
Cora playing with Zack's puppy - she loved this little dog...he wasn't too sure about her though.
...but it didn't stop her from doing it again later.
Robert already becoming a bad influence...She only was given a couple of licks of the push pop.
