Stairs

A couple times a day Lizzy decides to climb the stairs. She stands at the bottom for a while first thumping her hands on the third step, then as soon as I am right behind her she zooms right on up. Sometimes she stops at the landing to scratch at Galidor's scratching post. Other times she just crawls right on over and keeps going without pausing at all. I should time her so I will remember just how fast she is, but I am usually preoccupied with making sure that she doesn't fall. She is sure on her feet, but not at all carefull. She is just supremly confidant that if she stands up and leans backwards I will catch her. It makes it very challenging to get a picture of her at it. I think I need to coordinate my photography efforts with Patrick to get a really good shot. Most of the pictures I took today turned out blurry or off center since I kept one hand just out of the frame waiting to catch her.

The poor girl woke up with a fever this morning. When she woke at 5:30 she was 102 F. I took her PJ's off and let her crawl around in her crib shirt for half an hour and it went down to 99 F. I turned off the heater in her room and let her sleep in her crib shirt with just her snuggly blankie. At 8:00 she woke again and her temp was 103.3 F. I called the nurses hotline and left them a message to call me back. When the nurse called back Lizzy started crying and coughing. I left her with Patrick so I could hear the nurse while I described her symptomes. After the call was over I went into our room to find that Patrick had the rude awakening of Liz puking all over him and our bed. Her temperature went down though and she was just a bit warm and a bit cranky through the day. I hope this is just some discomfort because of teething or something equally benign. We leave for BC in three days and I don't want her to be sick for our trip.

On the sick note, I am not 100% yet but I think I am on the mend.

Terri

Snot

I am a walking snot factory! After almost a week of being sick I am sick of it! Lizzy is great, not quite walking yet. Patrick is great, walks like a pro, if a little fast for my liking. I want a new body.

I took Liz to the indoor playground at the rec center instead of swimming yesterday. I figured A little extra snot in a playground would go unnoticed, whereas a coughing fit in a public pool might get the attention of the lifegaurd. The playground was great. We got ther with only 45 min before closing time so there wern't to many people there. Liz made friends with an 11 month old girl and got a stranger to pick her up. I think she was happy to meet new people. She enjoyed the toys, especially the rocking horses and the tunnel. Next time I will have to bring my camera. There will be a next time.

Terri

Up

Lizzy has got the fine art of climbing up the stairs mastered. She climbed the whole flight of stairs on Easter with Patrick right behind her egging her on. After a while I got involved too and sat at the top of the stairs saying come to mommy. Yes I know it was an idiotic move on our part to encourage her to play on the stairs, but she was so happy and proud of herself that we just couldn't help it. Unfortunatly she has no concept of how to go down the stairs. A few times she has been climbing with me right behind her and she has just stood up and leaned back. It is nice to be trusted like that, but I fear that she will pull a stunt like that with no one there to catch her. I work every day at teaching her to go down, but when I pull her down like she should do on her own she just zips up a couple more steps. I want to film her climbing so everyone can see how fast she is, but I want to have both hands at the ready to catch her.
I never realised until today that crawling can be graceful. I was out with Lizzy and she was tired of being cooped up in her stroller or confined to my arms so I set her on the floor in a nice clean hallway. She positively glided. She has never had such a long uninterrupted stretch of floor to travel and instead of scrambling along she flowed like water. She was fast too. I never thought I could have a hand in creating anyone so coordinated and graceful. When she is climbing the furniture, and falling off, I know she is displaying my influence. Patrick isn't exactly graceful either though, I guess our clumsiness cancelled each other out.

Terri

Popular

It is kinda fun having house guests. Less then a week after my Mom hit the road a friend from Duncan stopped by on her trek across Canada. Arlene is travelling across the country the way it ought to be done. She is taking the time to actully explore the places she ends up in. Most people would thonk that four weeks was plenty of time to go coast to coast, she has given herself four months. It sounds like it is going to be fun.




Lizzy tried something new today, she climbed the stairs! She only got her feet up to the first step, but her hands were on the third. I blame my mom who was trying to teach her how to climb them while she was here. She is getting to be a rough and tumble kid.





Terri