"Jackson"

Kaylee said “Jackson!” I was giving her a bath and everytime Jackson came in to visit I said, “Say hi to Jackson. He’s Jackson the Dog. Hi Jackson.” After a while she looked at him and smiled and said Jack-sooon!” Then she looked at me and grinned, and something clicked when she saw I understood she was trying to say it and had repeated what she said. She all of the sudden looked so old to me, much older than I have been seeing her…I can’t explain it. She said Jackson quite a few times, but then later when I tried to get her to say it in front of Eric, she was saying it much less articulately, it sounded like Jawgslok. He then didn’t believe she had been saying it. Oh well, maybe soon.

Kaylee’s getting much better at crawling. We bought a new baby gate that Eric will install. I have my eyes peeled for her now and did a great job of vacuuming this weekend trying to make sure there are no small objects on the floor. I consider her room to be the safest place for her to play and we have been playing a lot more in there recently…

We had a good weekend, yesterday we all got to take a 2 ½ hour nap. Last night for some reason, however, I had terrible insomnia from 1-5 I couldn’t sleep. I think my body now doesn’t know what to do with more sleep – it’s so accustomed to not getting it. Hopefully tonight will be better. We got to see my sister yesterday. Kaylee loved the attention and being out and about.

Kaylee’s getting sick with another cold – we’ve been fortunate that she hasn’t been sick for about 3-4 weeks (longest time she’s not been sick) so I guess it’s our time. I am not looking forward to it, everything seems harder when she’s sick.