That Wacky Nina

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Good news!

Nina had her monthly PT appointment this morning and her teacher was amazed with her progress in one month. Nina is age appropriate for gross motor skills! She told me Nina is a miracle in what she can do and is so happy to have known her. Yeah Nina!

Happenings

So I think it's day 13 or 14 of this stuff... It is lessening up to about 3x a day so we are making progress. Nonetheless I am most likely calling on Monday if there is not stoppage.

Anyway....

I love this age. Nina is so full of life and is into everything!
She seems to be our little soccer player. She has been kicking her green ball all over the place since we got it a couple weeks ago.

She loves watching me tend to the garden. She carries around a tomato in the yard and is so pleased with herself!

She is into the Telletubbies. She calls them Tellys. And when they are off the screen I ask her where they are and she puts up her hands as to ask where are they? So cute! We also watch Yo Gabba Gabba. (I think I like it more than she)

In other news, I am obsessed with Etsy.com. So far I bought barrettes for Nina and a necklace for me! Check it out! So great! I love it!

Not so fun around here.

So today is (I think) day 12 of Nina Diarrhea Days.
It is not getting any better and she has (so far) lost 1/2 pound which is a lot on 22 pounds.

I called Dr b/c she is going approx 5-8 times a day and she hurts. Her little bottom hurts. Dr said wait a few more days and it not cleared up by next week to call.

AND to top it off her eczema is worse this week. AUGH! It's on her left eye and around her left side of the mouth. The cortizone works when she has an outbreak.

She is truckin through this though. She even found time to dance!

Here she is: Nina Nina Diarrhea as Nina Nina Ballerina!

Amazing August Day

We had such a blast yesterday! Started the day off with Sheryl and Erin at Animal Kingdom Zoo .
This place was so neat! You could go right on in and feed the animals. Seriously, they actually had tubes that you could put food(popcorn, animal cracker,fruit loop etc mix) down for the monkeys. They had tons of monkeys, hyenas, giraffes, and camels..even a baby camel! The baby camel was my favorite, couldn't feed her b/c she was still on liquids. She made the most awful loud moan which scared Nina but we were not leaving without a picture!
It was odd to see such a cool zoo in Bordentown NJ. Check it out if you are in the area!

Later on in the day we went to Peddlers Village.
We let Nina loose in the courtyard and she loved it. We then treated her to dinner at one of the pubs there. She inhaled her chicken fingers and fries and was a very good little girl! After dinner we had her walk it off. She's been eating large amounts of food for the past 2 weeks. It's great!

in these shoes.

July 2008 (at 16 months) will go down as the month Nina starting walking! To celebrate this accomplishment, Nina sports new Stride Rites (my right of passage as a mom) She's a size 4 and walks so well in them!

She is saying some funny words these days: chicken (ticken)and tickle (techal) are ones that come to mind at the moment.

eczema

blah...on her eye...blah...on her eyelid and under eye...blah...

It's worse in the morning and then gets less red as the day wears on. She's had this rash for the past 3 weeks so I went to Dr yesterday for a literally 2 second meeting with him and he said to put hydrocortizone cream on it. It does not seem to be bothering her. She's just her normal happy, groovy self. I read one of the triggers could be physical stress (her walking???) hahahaha!:)

I painted her an Elmo for her room. She loves it! Pretty good eh??