Hello again, everyone! It has been a while since I've updated the blog, I know- how could I forget with all the grandparents complaining about Phoebe withdrawl? :) Well here's the deal- for the longest tme, I was waiting for something to take a picture of...but since Christmas break, Phoebe has had a cold, pink eye, the flu, (actually, we ALL had the flu), teething, and has been adjusting to the new schedule at the Primrose school, and to tell you the truth, none of that has been very pretty! Between snot and eye crusties and crying and falling asleep at 5:00, it's been hard to get a picture of her looking healthy and lucid at the same time, let alone doing anything cute!! Now things are getting back on track again, though, (knock on wood!) so here's the update: besides being sickly and cranky, not much is new. Phoebe is still not walking OR talking- what a big BABY, huh? Now, in her defense, she has started walking on her knees like E.T., which you would think would be much harder than actually walking upright, but hey- whatever. She also will point to "Momma" and "Dada" and "milk" and "dogs" when we say those things to her- repeatedly and in her face in an instructional type manner, but she has not said the words herself. Just lots of "mamamamamamama", "dadadadadada", "numnumnumnum" for food, "da" for dog, and straight yelling and pointing for anyhting else she wants. The only thing she has really been repeating is "uh-oh," and that would usually be when she kicks her shoe off in the grocery store for the hundredth time in ten minutes, and after looking you dead in the eye, hearing, "Don't you kick that shoe off again!" and then deliberately kicking the shoe off anyways. She's quite the little stinker! So anyways, these pictures, from bottom to top: during the pink eye week, Phoebe passed out face-down in her play pen, covering her eyes. (So you can see what I mean- that was the BEST picture I had from all the illnesses.) Then we have her in the tub- the new coolest place to be. Next is her wrinkly toes from being in the tub too long- which is never long enough, of course. Then we have her spending the day in her jammies on our snow day- when we got a good 12 inches of snow dumped on us. We had a great day at home together, rearranging her room, working on Baby Boy's room, playing, reading books, trying to learn to walk and talk, and taking naps. Last is a shot of how she spent the last part of cousin Mindy's baby shower in Michigan on Saturday- passed out. Hopefully February will be more exciting, more healthy, and more fun!
Phoebe enjoyed her first Mardi Gras party! Cousin Santana (from Louisiana) sent us a King Cake this year. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a traditional Mardi Gras celebration cake- it's actually like a big, braided, glazed donut with icing and sprinkles- and there's a plastic baby baked inside! Whoever gets the baby in their piece of cake (and doesn't choke on it!) is supposed to have good luck for the whole year! She also sent Phoebe this special "Mardi Gras Princess" shirt, beads, and a play gold coin...which Phoebe tried to eat! She had lots of fun playing with the beads, swinging them around, and chewing on them. The cake was a trip too- I shared it with pretty much everyone we know, as there was a ton of it! Phoebe had a piece of the cake for dessert on Mardi Gras day, and it was hilarious! The first bit she broke off to eat was the ENTIRE layer of icing, which she gulped down all at once. (This was the point where I knew I was in trouble.) Then she picked up the cake and munched through it like a taco...and proceeded to go INSANE for about half an hour- she was running around like E.T., waving her arms, yelling, laughing- she was CRAZY! Uncle Nick and Aunt Am were over, and Phoebe gave Uncle Nick quite the work out as he chased around after her! Thanks, Santana, for making this year's Mardi Gras awesome!!
