Hello Spring!

Nina ventured off the blanket today to play in the grass! It did take some days of just hanging on the blanket but she was brave today. She loves her new car and being pushed around it on the grass made her day!

PT was here yesterday and said Nina was doing great so she'll only visit us once a month instead of the originally planned every 2 weeks. Her crawling has really taking off and so has her pull to stand (on everything!) Nina loves climbing over stacked pillows and falling on to them. PT said Nina would probably dig a tumbling class...
PT said Nina needs to work on her cruising. Currently Nina prefers to sit down and stand back up where the object she wants is. Get stepping little lady!

Experiencing the good life

We to dinner to celebrate Nina's Appie's B-day.
She tasted the swordfish and seafood risotto. For dessert she ate cream filling out of a cake. She is getting a very sophisticated palate. She makes me nuts, she'll eat swordfish but turns her nose up at a banana. C'est la vie.

Here's Appie in red and BFF Maria feeding Nina dessert.

Updates and March of Dimes!!!

It's been nice weather the past few days so Nina was enjoying herself today!

March of Dimes Walk is coming up soon! It's April 27th. Click here to join/sponsor our team in the memory of Georgia and Livia and all preemies!!! At last count we raised almost 1500.00!!! WOO!!! Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!

Oh yeah one more thing...that fever from a few days ago...yep...turns out she has roseola! It's pretty gross to look at but she'll be fine!

She's got the fever, oh she's got the fever...

Miss Nina is a bit under the weather. Happened yesterday. I took her for a walk in the late afternoon and when we came inside, her teeth began to chatter. Another hour went by and she was whiny so Jason took her up to get ready for bed and sure enough she had a fever of 102.8. We dosed her up with meds and then checked back in 2 hours and it had spiked to 103.6! She was beat red all over! Her fever broke in the middle of the night and today she hovered around 101-101.5. I have no idea what her deal is. The only symptoms she is presenting(SO FAR) is the fever. Doctor said she may/may not present. Oh great-nothing like waiting...She's acting her usual self, just much much lower key and tired. She managed to pull up her head for this photo. If the fever is still hanging around by Friday, we'll go in to see Dr.
I bought Motrin for tonight, so hopefully she'll sleep better.
Updated 7:00pm: Fever's finally gone...no need for the motrin..seems it was a 24 hour thing. Yeah for drugs!

Happy B-day to Me!

Today is my B-day! We kinda skipped last year's so it was nice to have a happy day this year!
We went out to Japanese for dinner.
Miss Nina had some tofu and pork pot stickers. She seemed to enjoy both.
She is unbelievable. This kid will try anything!

Georgia

Anniversaries are hard, and that space in our heart for Georgia aches today.

Georgia Mary
3/11/07-4/06/07

On the food front

Since Nina's been trying some new foods, I wanted to keep track of what she likes and does not like. Shout out to Hagen and Mason for this idea from their blog!
She loves:
Wheat toast with cream cheese and/or crackers with cream cheese (huge hit)
American cheese slices
Cheerios (of course!)
CHEESE RAVIOLI(loves loves loves!)
Gerber cheese curls
Chick-Fil-a grilled chicken and waffle fried (you bet)

She likes:
Waffles with cream cheese
pasta
broccoli
mac and cheese
mashed white potatoes (eating in the pic)
gerber cookies
puffs

Not so much:
banana chunks (surprising but it's mushy so I understand...)
sweet potato chunks (same here-she loves the puree baby food, but not to feed herself)
cottage cheese
pancakes
french toast sticks

Yesterday I thought I could trick her and put cream cheese on french toast but she gagged on it... I am going to try hummus on toast for a change and see how that goes over...
It's weird she likes mashed potatoes but not mashed sweet. She'll eat mushy things like ravioli(actually I cooked them al dente yeah that's right:) but not pancakes...

She's being a great eater, so who cares right?!