Dixie's Blog: July 2009

Genevieve has finally become interested in walking. She is up to 7 steps now! I have even caught her walking a little by herself without our prompting to do so. It won't be long until she is running all over the place. Of course, crawling is still her preferred way of getting around. She is very fascinated with dogs. We have this CD that we often listen to with her and one of the songs says "Hear the little doggie, listen to him say, woof woof woof woof woof all day" and it does other animals as well. I had the playing in the car and realized she was woofing along with the music. She does this all the time now. She even signs "dog". Of course, she thinks most animals are dogs but she'll get there. We went to the Puyallup Farmer's market a couple weekends ago and there were lots of dogs. She loved it. She was wildly signing "dog" and woofing. Another new sign she has is "Cheese". This girl loves her cheese. When she is done eating her cheese she wants more cheese. She must get this from Chad because it certainly didn't come from me! On the 12th we went to the zoo with My dad and TJ. Travis is in recovery from his knee surgery so it was helpful to get TJ out of the house. We had lots of fun. I think Genevieve loved the aquarium the most. She could see things up close at the aquarium. TJ got tuckered out pretty early on. He just sat in his stroller and said, "I done". Gen got to the point to where she was tired but was fighting it.

Going to the zoo.

TJ and the Lemurs.

TJ going down the slide.

Hey look at that!

I think this is Gen watching the parrot intently. He squawked, she cried. Later he squawked again and she cried again, so we left. Gen is really sensitive to loud noises.

The bird the squawked.

Genevieve got to be up close and personal with sea life.

TJ looks distracted.

Huge Sharks would swim right in front of Gen.

The new Budgie exhibit.

I had two on our stick at one time! Gen tried to pet the birds with her finger.

The walrus would swim right up the glass in front of Gen.

But first some news about Gen. Genevieve now has 4 new teeth. Two on top and two on bottom for a total of 10 ten. These are what I would call molars, but Janelle corrected me and let me know these are actually primary teeth. At any rate Gen's got a ton of teeth. Genevieve has been doing very well since we discovered her corn allergy. We are slowly challenging the other allergies. We first took a week to take her off Flovent. Next we challenged wheat. Thankfully she seems to be doing well with wheat. After meeting with the digestive health specialist we decided to take her off of her acid reflux medicine. There is new research out there that states Acid Reflux can be caused by allergies. This did not seem to be the case for Genevieve. So back on the meds for her. The good news about this is that she loves taking her Prilosec and actually asks for it as soon as she sees the medicine. This week we are challenging beef, next week will be rice and then the last thing to challenge is oats. After Chad was gone for a few days in Ohio he walked in the door and Genevieve looked up at him and said something that sounded very much like "hi dad". She now signs "please" and "baby". She is still trying to figure somethings out with this. She often signs "more" to request what she wants and we often don't know what it is that she wants when she is signing this. It's too cute. She will crawl up to her toy chest, stand up to it, lean on it with her chest so she can get her hands free and sign more. She is a climber. The other day I was in the kitchen cleaning up some things and I see a little head peek over the top of the counter. She had climbed her high chair! Since then she has been able to climb into the seat with very little support from me. Anything that looks like it can be climbed she tries to climb. She also has taken to climbing up on our center cup holder in our couch. She climbs up to this, sits on it and then tries to climb up the back of the couch. It amazes me how well she can climb when she can't even walk yet. Chad says he was a climber when he was little, so his parents will get a kick out of seeing her being such a climber.

I've been keeping busy this summer by taking Genevieve to story times at the library, swimming and little gym. I'm also hooking up with a group of mom's from Meetup on Tuesday. Her general schedule is do something in the AM and stay home in the PM. We have something planned for everyday of the week. I've also set up a little swimming pool in the yard so she sometimes takes a dip in that.

Friday we tried to hike to Carbon Glacier, but when we got there the rangers told us that the road is washed out (and has been for a few years now) and that what used to be a 7 mile hike is now a 17 mile hike. So we just went for a little mini hike that took us on another trail that was very steep. We didn't make it to the end but it was fun anyways. I'd like to go hiking again, but this time I want the pay off of a view at the end.

We went to John and Debbie Francis' as per usual on the 4th (yesterday). Gen seemed to really enjoy swimming in the lake with Chad, Poppy and her cousins.

We all got together for Sebby's Open house. All the grandkids to date.