New fun this month

About 4 days ago,Kaylee started to clap! It's so cute! She claps when we clap, or to songs like B-I-N-G-O and others. It's not like she can keep time or mimic us exactly, but she sure is clapping! It's fun to see her proud of a new trick. I also noticed that when I sing a song like, "Little bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them..." she will babble in a sing-songy way and use lots of sounds to mimic what she's hearing. "Gaga ga gaaa ga ga ga ga...." It's sweet and fun to do! Like the clapping, she can't exactly imitate and isn't consistent, she's definitely doing these things on her own terms, kind of similar to the way she's been waving her hands. Sometimes she's also played a peek-a-boo game with a blanket or something. She thinks peek-a-boo is more funny lately, and smiles more in response.

We've been treating her earache. She seems a lot better than she was, but continues to cough and be quite congested. She's still getting steamy baths at least once a day for the congestion. She continues to hate the medicine, but Eric has perfected the art of giving it to her. She has thrown it up 2-3 times which is really hard to see.  Throwing up doesn't seem to be as traumatic for a baby as it is for an adult, however.  She seems to bounce back.  Eric is very patient, a teaspoon of medicine takes about 10 minutes to get into her. I'm really glad he's taken that on, I'm appreciative.  

Eric and I went out on a date for only the second time or third time since Kaylee was born (without her, sometimes we bring her out). My parents watched her and we went to go see a movie in the theater. It was only the second movie theater movie we've seen since she was born. It was "Yes Man" with Jim Carrey, we liked it a lot and had a good time. Hopefully it won't be another 8 months till we go out to a movie.  Eric's been feeling better since his stomach flu which is good, we've had a bit of a rough week and hope this next coming week will be better... take care all!