Oh my goodness I see her Daddy posted finally! As you can see, she’s on the road to recovery! She weighed 23 lbs 7 oz at the doctor.

I just noticed that Kaylee’s memory is getting longer. She asked for a toy that she hadn’t seen or played with for a month that was in the car, and had been out of her sight. That’s amazing to me.

Kaylee likes to interact with the infants at daycare. She sits down near them and pats their little hands. She thought Eric’s friend’s 5 mo old was hilarious in her Jenny Jump-up. It was so cute to see her so excited and interested by them.

Kaylee can count to ten but always skips 8, and when she starts to re-count she starts at 3 for some reason. She starts it by saying “Count-down” something she must have picked up from daycare. She’s picked up a few other things from daycare, when I bring her to the changing table and she’s in the process of a change. She says, “Eww, Icky, Poopy, Yucky!”, always in the same order as if she’s heard it over and over again.

The other day when I picked her up from daycare she was playing with a girl who was probably about a year older, and much taller. The girl and her were doing tug-of-war for some play food and dishes. I just stood back and let Kaylee fend for herself. I did remind both girls gently to share, but they were in their own little world. She is quite feisty when she wants to maintain her toys, and put up a good fight. But the other girl did eventually win out, and took the little toy pizza away and as soon as Kaylee found another toy, the girl was on top of her again. I just let Kaylee fight it out for herself, figuring this was a life skill to learn. How to fight for what you want and to learn that sometimes it’s just too bad and the bigger kid may win out. Helga came over after a while to break it up, telling the older girl to share and be nice.

Kaylee is doing pretty well at sleeping through the night. She does it about 4 days a week, maybe more. She is now (I think, and hope) totally weaned from breastfeeding. She does still ask for it but will accept a bottle instead.

I’ve been working at a children’s hospital for my architectural work. It puts things into perspective for me on how lucky we really are, seeing all the kids with disabilities, in wheelchairs, burned…I feel for those families and see how strong they are, and what they’ve had to endure…and I appreciate how fortunate we are. Yesterday when I was at a meeting, someone had a seizure right outside the door of the room. It was shocking, unsettling and again, eye-opening…it’s nice to be relatively healthy and worry-free. The woman was a family member of a patient and was just visiting…she is going to be okay, the hospital was a good location for it to happen. Thank goodness for doctors and medical professionals. I am glad I am not one of them, my response is more of the “flee” response, thank goodness for those “fighters.”

Take care everybody and stay healthy in this cold weather! Yay for the weekend!