Fun Weekend

We had a nice weekend. It was full of great friends and good times. Friday we had dinner with the Wootons and the Masons. We try to have dinner once a month together and rotate houses. This month it was at the Wooton’s house. The food and company were superb. While there Av decided to go poop on the potty for the first time. We were so happy but it was kind of weird talking and congratulating her about pooping at someone else’s home. She was so proud of herself and continued to bring it up throughout the night. It is the type of dinner conversation only parents of young kids would understand. We didn’t get the girls to bed until around 9 pm and to our great surprise they both slept until 9 am Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon we had a 1st b-day party for John’s cousin’s twins. We don’t get to see that side of the family enough so it was nice to be there and share their special day with them. When we first walked in the door Av was hiding behind my arm but by the time we left she was off playing in a room with adults and kids without John or I even being around. Saturday night we had a baby shower but it was not your typical baby shower. It was for a friend that John works with. They had a keg and a full open bar. It ended up being a nice night out for John and I. Sunday was a pool day. Camille is really a fish like her big sis Av.

finally getting better

So over a week later Camille is finally getting better.  She had a fever until this weekend.  Sunday and Monday she was still puny.   By Tuesday her right eye was almost swollen shut and she was bleeding from her nose.  I took her straight to the doctor.  He was kind of perplexed.  Between the eye drops and the meds he gave her she should not have still been that sick.  He decided to up the dose of the eye drops and to give her a stronger antibiotic.   He thought her sinuses were infected and that was why they were bleeding.   I was told that if her fever came back or if she got worse she would need an IV antibiotic.  Thankfully she is getting better and is more back to herself.  John was out of town for the last couple of days and the minute she saw him she was miss happy girl again.  She is in love, totally and completely.   She missed a week of camp.  While we were there picking Av up we ran into Camille's teacher.  She said the entire class had pink eye and they only had one kid there on Monday.   It's great she is already following the crowd and joining in on the fun.  

Amazing Avery

Avery is still doing so great with her potty training.  We have barely had any accidents and even at camp today she only had one.  I worried so long and hard about this instead of just trusting in her.  Again she proved to me what an amazing little girl she is.  I am so lucky to be her mom.  

Big 9-month girl!

Camille is now 9 months. She is getting so big. She is crawling. Has been for a few weeks now. She goes from room to room as she pleases and is very proud of herself. As soon as she is able to break free from the adult attending to her she busts a move for either the pile of shoes sitting by the back door or Jack’s water bowl. Her two favorite play toys. She can kneel now too. She crawls to something and kneels at it to play. It will not belong before it is a standing kneel and then she is pulling up. She jabbers and squeals all day long and will imitate some sounds. She drinks from a sippy and eats with her pincher grasp. Everything gets banged together and she is starting the fun “dropping” game. She is the most excited when her dad walks into the room. She still does that weird air sucking in thing to laugh. She shakes her head no appropriately. She has 4 teeth. Her hair is finally growing. She is still only 16lbs but is getting chunkier by the day. We have her in a big girl car seat still facing backwards. She does not seem to like it any better than she did the infant seat. She is pretty much eating anything and everything but some unusual things she does not like are cheese, bread and cheerios. I am still nursing her and that is going well. I love it. This last week she has been sick again. Boy when she gets sick she is sick. She had a fever that lasted 4 days. Now it is just a bad cold but she is still pretty miserable. I hope these weeklong illnesses are a thing of the past soon.

BIG, BIG, BIG news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The potty bag is EMPTY. The bag I have had since Easter just waiting to reward Av when she goes to the bathroom on the potty! It had about 8 cheap little dollar bin toys in there for her and she is now the proud owner of all of them. I can’t tell you how happy and proud of her we are. It made my weekend. So it all started last week. I got fed up and went to the library and checked out every potty training book they had. I only got through one of them but the main theme of it was at her age cut out the diapers “cold turkey.” She had Friday off from school so I knew the 3-day weekend would be a great time to do it. So Friday AM we got up and “threw” her diapers away. We had many, many accidents on Friday but we kept going. Finally that night after Grandma and Pap-Pap arrived she ran into the bathroom by herself and a few minutes later we heard “I pee-peed on the potty all by myself!” She was so happy and proud. She must have repeated that sentence a thousand times that night. She did her happy dance as did John and I and G&PP. It was a big celebration. She had started to go pee in her underwear, realized what she was doing, and ran and finished on the toilet. On Saturday again we had multiple accidents all day long. It was starting to look grim again. John and I had a wedding to go to so we left. A few hours in we got a phone call. Av had sat down on the potty and peed! This time she had figured out how to make it happen when she wanted to and it surprised the heck out of her. Since then for the most part she has been able to do it. No poop on the potty yet. Yesterday her and Grandma went out for a while. They were standing in line paying for something and Av told Grandma she had to go poopie. There was not a bathroom where they were so by the time they got to one it was too late. Other than that she has gone in the potty. Last night in the process of reading one book she want pee 3 times in the potty. She likes her new skill! I am sure we still have accidents in our future but no matter what we are not going back to diapers so I feel I can proudly say that Av is potty trained!!!!! We kind of forced her into it but it worked and I am glad we did. At her age she realized she should be going in the potty but she didn’t know how and liked the conveniences of her diaper. Maybe we should have done it six months ago, but maybe she was not ready then. Who knows, all I know is that it worked and I am proud of her.

sick update

Well she has pink eye and an ear infection.  Ugh.   She weights 16.4 lbs.

Why is Camille sick again?????????

Teeth?  Not sure but I am really over it.  Poor little thing.  She is  so sad and pathetic unless she has meds in her.  This is day 3.  Heading to the doctor.  We are supposed to have her 9 month well checkup tomorrow.  Guess that is not happening.