May 31, 2010

Carmen is doing great. More & more words sneak into the vocabulary all the time. Today - "gum". She saw me chewing & wanted a bite, I had to try to explain that it was not food but gum. We had a great weekend and spent lots of good family time together.

Sunday we played outside a lot after church/nap. Brian went & picked up a little "seal" sprinkler for Carmen (which she calls it seal). She had fun. She also helped me wash my car. I love this first picture - even though her eyes are closed it is still so funny. She was saying "cheese".

I think she took water in the nose on this one...

Carmen & I - a quick pic before church.

Here you can see one of her boo-boos (wrist) from where she fell last weekend. Her knees from that same fall are all healed up - in fact the 2 falls after that have healed up too! The body is an amazing thing! Now why is it so hard to get teeth in?

Saturday...Hot Air Balloon Launch in Gardner.

We rode our bikes to the park where the launch was. I didn't know what to expect. It was a cool morning and we weren't prepared for that!

One morning when I went in to get her - this is the face she was making. Probably because it was like 5:30 a.m.!!! :)

I think Carmen is working on her eye teeth. She woke up about midnight last night, the second I laid her down to change her diaper she found something to chew on. Gave her some ibuprofen but it took a while to kick in enough to get her to relax and go back to sleep. I tried laying with her but she couldn't handle it - wanted to talk & get up. Her sleeping pattern has changed over the last 10-14 days so we'll see what this week brings. I thought may be she was pushing back her bed time or getting ready to ditch a nap (still does 2/day) but after the last two nights of being put to bed at 6:30 p.m. - I have second guessed that theory. There are times when I cannot get her bathed & dressed quick enough....the fun is over and it's ready to end the day.

Hopefully I didn't get these videos backwards. It takes 20-30 minutes to download one video (I do a lot of multi tasking through blog page updates) so I sometimes forget which one I picked. Then there are the times that I am deleting the spacing in between the pics & videos and a video gets deleted. Now that is irritating and I usually just hit save & publish!