What an exciting month!

Yet again, I'm sorry I took so long to write more on here, but I'm awfully busy for a little girl and it's hard to find time to tell you all what's going on. I have already done so much stuff in October so far, and it's not even over. Just a few weeks ago my Mama and Daddy took me up to the Pumpkin Patch to pick my very first Halloween pumpkin. It was dirty, chaotic, and fantastic. I had a great time looking at all of the pumpkins and even sitting on one of them. When we had all chosen our pumpkins I got to ride in wheelbarrow with all of them....OK, so I didn't ride in there, but I got to sit in there. It was weird, and I couldn't figure out why the stems were all prickly. The next week we all went over to my Mimi's house (that's grandma Michelle, for those of you who aren't paying attention) to carve them. Mama and Daddy carved theirs out, but they decided that it wouldn't be safe for me to use a knife, so I got to paint mine. I hated it. I really wanted to carve it out to look like a ghost, but they wouldn't let me. To make matters worse they stripped me down to my diaper in front of my uncle Jared and made me sit on the table to paint it. Then they gave me a bath and I cried during that too. It was very traumatic. I'm going to call my therapist tomorrow. A few days after that my Grandma came to visit Mama and me, and we got to go to storytime at the library for the very first time. It was amazing. There were all these other babies there who looked a lot like me, but most of them were more mobile and talkative. We got to sing a lot of fun songs and dance around in the library, so I loved it. Mama said that she'd take me twice each week to do storytime at two libraries close to my house. I'm super excited. We also went to see the YMCA to see where Mama and I are going to do our swimming lessons in a few weeks. It sound like Mama's also going to let me go play with some other babies in a big play room while she works out or sits in a sauna. I'm kinda glad she's doing it. I need some time away from my Mama to play with other kids. It's pretty darn exciting.

The most exciting thing so far this month just happened yesterday though. I was over at my Mimi's house for dinner (after a disasterous lunch at my Aunt Emily and Uncle Chad's house) and I was playing on the floor with the doggies and Uncle Jared. Now I should tell you that at home we have nice cushy carpet on our floors, but Mimi has pretty wood on her floors. I got a little bit too excited and tried to reach forward for something and fell on my face. I hurt my lip and started bleeding everywhere. Daddy freaked out, and Mama tried really hard to stay calm but I wouldn't let them see in my mouth because it hurt and I was scared so they were really worried about me. My mouth bled for a long time, but then it stopped. Mama and Daddy looked in my mouth and they think I just cut my lip so I will be just fine. The only bad thing is that now my lip is all swollen up and puffy. I look pretty weird. It was really scary, but I'm just fine now so don't worry about me. Halloween's coming up pretty soon and my Auntie Jenn is coming to visit me on Wednesday so my exciting month isn't even over yet. I can't wait!

You missed me didn't you?

I know it's been a really long time since I posted anything on here, so I thought I'd fill you all in on what's been going on with me. The day after my fantastic boat ride I woke up with a pretty high fever and Mama and Daddy ended up taking me in to the Doctor. She checked me out and told them to give me some tylenol so I wasn't uncomfortable, and to come back in two days if I was still sick. I laid around for two days and didn't feel any better (except from the tylenol). Mama and Daddy were all pretty scared, and Daddy even called my Doctor one night because my fever was 103.7 (which is extremely high for such a little baby). Mama and I went in to see the Doctor again on Tuesday, and she did a few tests on me and told us that I had some sort of infection, but she wasn't sure what kind. She told Mama to take me down to Children's Hospital for them to check me out. Daddy joined us at the hospital, since he was working down in Tacoma that day. They checked me out and discovered that I had a really bad bladder infection (they found this out using something called a catheter, which I never ever want to see again in my life). They gave me some antibiotics and sent Mama and Daddy on their way. It took a few days for me to feel all the way better (mostly because I got an infection from the antibiotics so I had to get some special cream to put on twice a day). The worst part of this whole ordeal? I was supposed to go to a concert on Tuesday with Mama, Daddy, Mimi, and Grandpa Dean, but I had to miss it because I was at the hospital. I was really really bummed, but everybody says they'll take me to a concert soon enough.

I'm all done with the antibiotics (two whole weeks of taking it!), and I'm feeling so much better now. I'm back to laughing and smiling at Mama and Daddy, which makes them really happy. Although I've started this new thing where I only smile a little bit and stick my tongue out. It makes everybody laugh so I really like it. I'm still working on figuring out how to crawl, but I'm getting pretty close. I can get up onto my knees and move backwards a few inches, but not forwards. I just like to be different. I have gotten a lot of new toys lately, and I'm having fun figuring them all out. I really like the squirty bath toys I got yesterday and the obnoxious (that's Mama's word) radio that Grandma and Grandpa brought me. It makes me laugh. Mama and Daddy also had to go buy me a whole bunch of new clothes the other day because I don't have anything that fits and will keep me warm in cold weather. They were pretty excited because they haven't really bought me much stuff yet because my friend Presley gave me all of her old clothes. Overall my life has been pretty exciting lately and Mama, Daddy and I can't believe that I am officially six months old today. They say that's a whole half of a year old already. Wow, that was fast.