47 Weeks

Annie's sweater this week is a Christmas present from her Grandma Lisa!

Every week I'm kind of surprised by how big the number is - 47! That means there are only 5 more of these weekly posts left... I've given myself the cut off of one year old for these, and then I'll take the Raggedy Ann picture monthly. I know I will miss these weekly posts, but there ain't no way I could keep them up forever, so I have to stop sometime, especially if I have any hope of being "equal" on the blog with a 2nd child...

This was a big week, that included Annie's first Christmas of course - but that will be another post. We still have another Christmas celebration this Friday with my family because Liz and Jono are still in Mexico, so the Christmas spirit will live on, even though we already took down the tree and a lot of the decorations in our house - the tree was dying and I was sick of watering it, so out on the curb it went!

Opening her Christmas present from Sue at daycare

It feels like a really long week actually - it began with me getting in a crash with my little Geo Prizm, which has been with me since I was 16 (that's 13 years) - we haven't even gotten an estimate on it, because we were planning on getting a new car fairly soon anyway, so right now I am without a car. On my birthday on Thursday night, I also dropped my phone in the toilet (it was in my back pocket) BEFORE using it, thankfully, so THAT'S broken now too. You all know how much I love my iPhone too, so this is quite a difficult separation for me. I have had it in a bag of rice since then, tried blow drying it today, and finally broke down and bought the recommended Bheestie Bag today, so hopefully that works.

Ben and Annie out to breakfast at Mickey's Diner on my birthday

This is another outfit that I got before Annie was born - so surreal that she's finally big enough to wear it!

The first part of this week, Annie seemed a little crankier than normal - who knows what that was all about, but she did get a cold and her 4 top teeth are continuing to pop through, so it could have been a little of that. One funny story from this week was that on Wednesday, I made some hummus and steamed up some carrots and broccoli for Annie - she's not the biggest fan of plain veggies, so I thought she might like it better this way. I put it on her tray, and she FLIPPED OUT. Like, complete meltdown - screaming, and wouldn't even try it - normally she at least picks it up and puts whatever is on her tray in her mouth immediately, but she just was NOT a fan of the looks of this dinner at all! Anyway, I didn't really want to start the precedent that if you freak out, you get something else, so finally I decided to just dip a cheerio in hummus and put it on her tray next to the veggies - she ate that immediately (through her sobs) and then right after that started SHOVELING the veggies in. Whatever works!

Here is a little video of her eating after she decided this meal was okay

As I mentioned, Annie has another cold - she has woken up a few times this week really freaking out (usually she'll calm down pretty quickly on her own) and I have to admit, it was kind of nice, because she actually let me rock her where she'd lay her head on my shoulder instead of trying to squirm out of my arms. She seems to be in good enough spirits when awake, just stuffed up. It's a little harder for her to nurse, but she's eating fine. On Christmas day, she woke up with hives all over - most noticeably on her face, but they appeared other places too - it was totally strange! They didn't seem to bother her at all, and would go away, but then pop up in other places. She didn't have anything potentially allergenic that I know of on Christmas Eve either... we did change her sheets and do different PJs the next night, and didn't notice anything today. Very odd! She is SUPER drooly this week too - it is insane. Her shirts are soaked - her nose and mouth are leaking, so she's been pretty gross.

Annie has been clapping for a few weeks now, but is more consistent about it lately - she still doesn't really make noise when she claps, but she does it. We started inconsistently signing "more" and "all done" about a month ago, and Annie seems to have figured out the sign for "all done" although she does it whenever we say "all done" instead of when she ACTUALLY wants to be done :) Because she'll wave her hands around but then continue to eat..... sooo, who knows if she'll pick that up or not :)

We went and visited Grace and Sam in the NICU today - they have been there almost 2 months now, and we are all very anxious for them to come home! Sam is still on a very low amount of oxygen, but they are both doing great - they just need to figure out how to take all their feeds orally, and then they can come home! They were getting in some good practice when we were there.

Annie got to play with lots of new toys in the waiting room

I will close this post with a video of Annie shaking a sprinkles container - she loves any toy that shakes and makes noise, but this one was better than all of her actual toys, of course - she's easily entertained! Oh, and one more video of Annie putting the "pound" back in the name of her new "pound and roll tower" - ha - good thing our coffee table isn't anything super nice!