15 Months!

Kaia Mae is 15 months today. Her friend Liam turned 1 year this week (Happy Birthday Liam!!), and it made me realize how fast these past 3 months have flown by and yet how long ago it seems we celebrated Kaia's 1st birthday. It's been a busy time and the past month has been full of illness-ever since she started daycare. Which has really put a damper on the excitement of moving and starting a new job. As of today, Kaia still isn't feeling all better and my day off on Wednesday was not as full of fun as I had hoped. She had another high fever, which we went to the doctor for. He took some blood work just to make sure it wasn't some antibiotic-resistant bacteria, since she's been on an antibiotic for 10 days for her bronchitis. It wasn't, which means it's some viral bug that's bringing her down. So all we can do is pray it goes away soon. Last night was another night of little sleep and we're all ready for some rest--literally.

On a positive note, Kaia is learning so many new things and enjoying discovering the world. Lately she has become much better about entertaining herself and her favorite pasttime is being a mama to her dolls. She wraps them up in blankets and gives them a bottle and lays them down to go "nigh nigh". She loves to give them kisses and hugs and always says "aww". She loves to read books and her newest favorite is "5 Little Monkeys"...during which she shakes her finger and says "no more monkeys" during the phrase "no more monkeys jumping on the bed!". We bought her a Sesame Street DVD since she likes the characters on her diaper, and she makes us replay the ABC and Baa Baa Bumba (baa as in a singing sheep) songs over and over again. And she loves when we count things. Her favorite thing to do at daycare is stack the blocks and then knock them over, saying "oh no!". Now whenever she sees blocks anywhere she says "oh no". She's a great helper and LOVES to clean! She must get that from Papa Vernon. Whenever something spills she wants a paper towel to clean it up, and if I'm cleaning something she has to clean something too. Last night she was cleaning the bathtub while taking her bath. She also loves to help with laundry, especially putting the wet clothes in the dryer. She's becoming more and more like a little girl and it's so neat to see her develop and learn new things every day!!