Some more February Pics

Some February Pics

11 month pictures

11 months old!

It is so hard to believe that Macayla is 11 months old and in less than 1 month she will be 1 years old!! 11 month pictures will be taken this weekend and posted shortly there after.


11 month accomplishments

• loves taking baths


• points to things


• cruises along furniture


• stands alone for up to 4 seconds and gradually puts her self back down on the floor


• recognizes people she hasn't seen in awhile (1-2 weeks)


• gives "loves" (hugs)


• starting to eat (try) more table food


• in the new carseat


• makes many more sound combinations


• loves to dance when ever she hears music


• loves swimming and being in the pool


• opens and closes drawers

Discovery Mode!

Macayla is finally starting to feel better after being sick since Sunday. We took her into Urgent Care Sunday afternoon because of how congested her throat sounded. Turned out on top of a nasty respiratory thing she had an ear infection. I stayed home with her on Monday, Jason stayed home on Tuesday, we took her to the sitter on Wednesday not sure if she'd last all day. By Wednesday afternoon she started acting better. Her cough is still nasty, she is still really congested and she is still tugging at her ear...but at least she isn't acting as sick as she had been the days prior.

Take away being sick.... Macayla is sooo curious these days about everything. She is in the stage of picking something up, looking at it and then giving it to us. Then she goes for the next available object and does the same thing. For about the past 4-6 weeks Macayla has been going into our bedroom and turning on the music on the stereo. She has a favorite song that she searches for and once she has found it she sits on the floor and bounces up and down (dancing). Most recently she has started walking behind her "lion". Tonight she discovered the toilet paper...Jason thinks this is a sign that she is going to be a Fiber Trader just like him.

2nd Night of Swim Lessons = Awesome!

Macayla did awesome at swim lessons last night. She loves the water. Before we even were deep enough to dip her in the water she was bending over to try to splash. She had a permanent grin on her face for the entire 30 minutes! It was so much fun for all three of us!

1st Night of Swimming Lessons=Disaster!

We decided to sign up Macayla for swimming lessons at the YMCA that we have going to for the last year. Last night was the start of this new adventure. Jason was traveling back to town from Milwaukee and was going to meet us at the lesson. I got Macayla in the water and she immediately started splashing and squealing in delight. The start of the class had us at the shallow end of the pool with Macayla sitting on the ledge and me using a cup to "wash" her body. Then we had to do some bobbing. This did not mean putting her underwater, but just bobbing up and down to her shoulder level as I bounced towards the middle of the pool with all the other parents and babies. As I turned around to start heading back to the shallow end Macayla started to cough/gag...and no I did not accidentally get her low enough to swallow water. Anyways...she "spit up", I tried to catch it in my hand but barely got any of it. I started toward the side of the pool and as I was doing this Macayla projectile vomited all over me. It was like a faucet opened up. I some how manage to quickly get out of the pool and saw Jason coming into the pool area with no clue as to what he was going to walk up to. I was covered with puke and so was she! The lifeguard asked if it got in the water and I kind of looked at her like "duh!" We grabbed a towel and went into the family locker room. When we got in there all of the shower/bathroom rooms were occupied. So there we stood covered in puke with no idea what to do next. I held Macayla close to my chest to cover up the vomit on our bodies. Finally a room opened up and we were able to rinse off our suits....

We went back to the pool deck and they were all like "don't worry" "you'd be surprised how often this stuff happens" "it could have been way worse"....

I decided to take Macayla home but Jason wanted to sit in the hot tub and go in the sauna first...saying he'd be about an hour behind me. Well ten minutes into my ride home Jason calls me and says he is on his way home. He had sat in the hot tub, gone in the sauna, taken a hot shower, gone back in the sauna.... came back to the locker room and felt like he was going to pass out. He had not eaten lunch or breakfast! He said it got so bad that he had to lay on the locker room floor. (As gross as this is for all of us, Jason is the biggest germ-a-phobe I know...so he really had to been bad to do this). He started feeling better so he got up, only to feel like he himself was going to get sick! He took a cold shower and then finally felt well enough to get home.

Once home I needed to get cleaned up. As I get ready to take a shower I notice that I am now covered in a rash! All over my legs, arms and part of my back!

The rest of the night Macayla and Jason were fine...I took some benadryl and was fine...but MAN was that an awful evening! Better luck to us next week I guess!