September 9th - School has started

Gen loves to play in this box. I pull her around. Every time I stops she signs "more".

Great Smile!

This is the smile I get when I say "smile".

 

Extreme Close-up

A good picture of her new haircut.

We went to the zoo on Saturday! It started raining just as we were getting ready to leave.

 Genevieve loves to push the stroller.

See the fish Mommy.

She loves the budgies too.

Genevieve has started child care again. It took her a while to get used to the drop off. As soon as we walked in the door she would cling to me. When I left she would cry. She seems to be doing better now. Being in the toddler room is definitely different than being in the infant room. I do not get sheets everyday that tell me what she ate and when she napped. Ah well she's a big girl now. I'm trying to find foods that I can provide that are the most like the child care food so she doesn't want what everyone else has. It sure is tricky to find chicken nuggets and tortillas without corn in them.

Yesterday when I picked her up from child care they were playing outside. I could hear her screaming as soon as I walked out there. They said she had a rough afternoon. Her eyes were all puffy (probably from sunblock), her nose was running and she was crying. She looked miserable. At the time I was thinking this isn't like her. Weird. When I got her home I noticed spots all over her back and chest. I called my doctor they said it's probably chicken pox but there is nothing you can do for it. We went to convenience care just because we wanted to be sure that's what it was. They said it's probably chicken pox. We kept her home today and when she woke up I noticed that her spots had faded to a light pink. I brought her into my doctor's office. The doc there said it's not chicken pox after all. Apparently she had some other type of virus (though he couldn't tell me which one for sure). He also said she can go back to child care as with these "other" viruses once a rash occurs they are no longer contagious. Oh well, at least she'll have her chicken pox vaccine in a couple weeks. It's back to work for me tomorrow and back to child care for Genevieve tomorrow.

August 14

It has been so long since I blogged last! Chad's parents visited and it was a wonderful visit. We throughly enjoyed having them here. We went to a dog fest, Ballard's seafood fest, Scottish Highland Games, Rock Band nights and Reneissance fair. We were busy, but it was fun! It was very, very hot whild they were here. After they left it cooled down immensely.

Genevieve at the Dog Fest. She sure loves dogs.

Wicked Tinkers at Scottish Highland Games.

Chad and I have discovered a group through Meetup.com for Rockband / Karaoke.

Here were are at Bob's Java Jive.

Sunday nights all ages are allowed until 9:00. So Gen got to come along!

Kinderswimmer. She loves swimming class.

Play area at South Hill Mall. Of course she loves the dogs!

Gen at Little Gym on the Air Track. She loves this thing! They get to sit on it as it infalates with air.

Chad and Genevieve rolling down the airtrack.

Tom and Jean got Genevieve this Elmo, she not quite sure what to make of it yet. I'm sure she'll grow into it.

Gen swimming in her pool on a hot day.

We had the family over for Chad's Birthday.

Renisance Fair at Maris Farms, Buckley, WA.

Gen loves this blanket!

Chad singing at Rock Star Pub Karaoke / Rock

Sam singing Karaoke.

Our Rock Band buddies

I ordered theses ear protection ear muffs shortly after the loggers rodeo. They just recently arrived in the mail. Genevieve thinks they are funny to wear.

Trip to the zoo

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.