Ashlan's 9th tooth and 1st swimming of the season

Ashlan has her 9^th tooth!  She has 5 on top and 4 on bottom, and her 9^th is on the top, so they’re definitely coming in fast now!  We’re expecting her 10^th any day now, as her gum is quite swollen, red, and puffy.  We have definitely had teething symptoms with this one but not what everyone calls regular teething symptoms, like crankiness.  No, our girl decides she has to be different and include throwing up as her main teething symptom!  Wonderful!  She has done this in the past, but we never really knew if she was sick or not, and then teeth just magically appeared.  She wasn’t cranky, just would be stuffy and throw up, usually when she is laying down for a nap.  Today she took a total of 45 min as a nap.  One nap was 30 min, the other was 15.  Both times she was woken up by coughing just a little, not bad at all, but then she threw up.  Then she also did it another two times today.  Four times of cleaning up throw up in one day is four too many in my book.  Dan is ready to go back to work, haha!  Poor thing though.  She’s very playful and happy the rest of the day; we still think she tolerates pain well.  She always bumps her head or falls, or scrapes her shins or does something else to draw blood, and she barely makes a peep.  We are always way more worried about her when she does that then we need to be, because she just looks at us like, “What?”, lol!  Anyway, we didn’t even realize she was getting her 9^th tooth until we already felt it broken underneath the skin.  She’s a trooper though!  Just wish she could avoid the throwing up as a teething symptom! 

She had just gotten out of the bumbo by herself.  That's her new favorite chair.  She actually uses it way more now than what it's supposed to be used for, haha!

Getting out of it herself.

Mommy was pooped that day- it was a double day at the gym...Ashlan was keeping me company.  :)

And then giving me kisses.  <3

First pool swim of the year!  Pool was only 75 degrees but it was about 85 degrees outside.  Pool is now about 78 degrees...already!  This is super early for it to be this warm! 

She did NOT want my help.  Wanted to walk right off the step!

Still need to get her water wings and an inner tube.  She'll throw a fit but then she'll be more independent...because she wanted nothing to do with that raft.

Mommy got delegated as the swimmer because Daddy has to avoid pools for awhile because of the operation.  Normally, he'd be in this cold water and loving it!  :)

She got a mouthful of water and her face was just priceless...this was me reacting to her.

She was talking into the car trunk here.

Loving her rocking horse that was mine when I was little!

Again, ignore the ensemble...I guess we have a lot of days like this where wash needs done, lol!  Especially lately with all the throwing up she's been doing!

Playing in her box.

Popsicle with Daddy.  She's getting good at biting off pieces now instead of sucking at it!

Kisses for mommy.  <3

I was playing peekaboo with her and she was laughing.  :)

Videos for the grandparents

Forgive the quality...it's us taping Ashlan from her monitor.  She just went on like this for a half hour and we just had to catch it on video.  We finally went and got her..she wasn't upset, just babbling.  Today was a very rare day when it takes her awhile to fall asleep (or not fall asleep at all, haha).  Sometimes she does this when she doesn't want to go to bed...but today it was because she was teething and didn't want or need to sleep.

This is just Ashlan dancing to The Wiggles.  This is not even how crazy she usually is.  She's usually non-stop with the twirling and she just jumps all around.  It's her favorite show and she gets so excited when we turn it on.  We tape the show, so we can watch it at times that are convenient for us, and so that we don't keep the TV on all day.  And please ignore her ensemble...we were doing wash that day and only a few random items were clean, lol!

Videos for the grandparents

Ashlan climbing on mommy's old horse.  This was her second time.  By the end of the day, she was a lot more confident!

I was cooking dinner with music on and took a timeout to dance with Ashlan.  I didn't know Dan was taping us at first...we had been dancing for a few minutes already at that point!

Ashlan humming when eating.  :)  She does this with every meal, and has since she could pick up food at around 8 months old.  

We have a climber!

As I was doing the last blog entry, Ashlan was awake (about 99% of the time I usually do the blog when she’s asleep, so she never sees me on the computer).  So, she saw me turn on the computer and put it on my lap.  Just then, she gets down from the couch, gets her leapfrog “laptop”, climbed back on the couch, sits down next to me, puts it on her lap, and starts playing on her “laptop”!  I was so surprised!  She is always wanting to do what we’re doing! :)

So Ashlan has had her crib setting on the lowest level for awhile now since she’s in the 95% in height.  Well, a few days ago she decided that she had had enough of being in her crib and threw her leg over the crib and climbed right out!!  Surprised the heck out of us!  She was ok but we did not expect this to happen already.  We were watching her on the monitor and she had just woken up.  We were just listening to her talk to herself for a minute or so.  Then we saw her throw her leg over the crib.  A second later she was straddling the crib.  I was afraid she would hurt herself so I booked it into her room as I’m screaming, “NO!!!” at the top of my lungs but I got there just as she fell to the floor.  She just got up and looked at me like, “What?” and ran out of the room laughing with me following close behind her.  Ugh, she’s so active, lol!  We have thought of using a crib tent but we still want to be able to use the monitor, so that won’t work because we couldn’t see her...and honestly, she’d never go for that option.  She hates to feel enclosed.  Girl likes her space!  So, we ordered toddler bed rails for her crib the other day but they won’t be here for a week…and I’m not even sure if we want to put her in a toddler bed already!!!  She’s 15.5 months old!  Right now we have pillows lining the floor by her crib, so hopefully she won’t try it again, but if she does, then at least it’ll be a soft landing.  She really hasn't tried it too much since that day, thankfully!  When we do change her into a toddler bed, we can either close her door (because thankfully she can’t open that…yet!), or we can put a baby gate at her door.  Not sure what we’ll do, but just baffled that we have to deal with this.  We thought a boy would be rambunctious…but not a girl!  We definitely underestimated her.

She just started to get really good at climbing on the couch.  I’m sure that’s how she got the strength to climb out of her crib.  So now she pretty much has full run of the house.  We took the gate off in the middle of February that was closing off the TV room, so she’s been able to go everywhere for awhile.  We still have doors closed in bedrooms though, and in the bathrooms, so she can’t get into things we don’t want her in, but even if she does, she really can’t get into much. 

Ashlan is getting her 8^th tooth.  About a week ago, she got her 7^th.  So soon she will have four on the top and four on the bottom.  I can see the 8th tooth at the surface but it hasn’t broken through yet.  I would give it another day or two, tops.  She was a bit cranky when we had company, but we’re not sure it was because of the tooth because her attitude changed almost immediately after they left, and then the tooth didn’t appear for another few days, so who knows what the attitude was about.  She certainly knows what she wants and doesn’t care who’s around to see her fit if she doesn’t get her way.  And we think her getting another tooth has to do with her insatiable appetite.  Honestly, for awhile there she was eating more than Dan!  She would have a banana for breakfast and be hungry an hour later.  Then we’d give her about 5 oz of cottage cheese.  About 2 or 3 hours later, we’d give her about 4 oz of chicken breast and a handful of frozen peas.  Then she’d have a little plateful of homemade mac’n’cheese a little while after that.  A couple hours later, she’d have about 6 oz of cut up strawberries and blueberries and then maybe broccoli or carrots (or both), about an hour later.  This went on for a week!  We were starting to think we should call the Ped but then it slowed down a little.  This is usually a pattern with her teething though so we’re not worried.  I guess that’s why she’s in the 95% for weight too!!

We’ve been making it to the gym regularly again and Ashlan looks forward to leaving the house.  She gets so excited when we put her shoes on!  We’ve actually had to wait to put her shoes on until we’re completely ready to walk out the door, because if I put them on a little early and end up making her wait, she just whines by the door, reaching up for the door handle and shaking it, and then eventually throws herself to the ground in a fit if I make her wait long enough.  Boy, you’d think we never go anywhere, lol!  She has actually been motivating me to go because I know she likes a break from the house and likes to play with the other kids.  She’ll go to the garage door at various times in the day if she wants to leave…she doesn’t always get what she wants though, lol!

We think she is down to only one nap a day now, which is actually pretty great now.  For the past five days or so she has been going down between 11 and noon, and staying down until 1:30 or 2:00.  She still wakes up at 5am though!  Ugh!  And still going to bed between 7:30 and 8pm, so not sure why she doesn’t want to at least sleep until 6, but that’s Ashlan for you.  She’s never been one to sleep in (unfortunately, lol!)…always wants to get up and start the day.  

Giving Daddy some kissies.  <3

This is like the only time she uses the bumbo...like ever.  Only used it a few times when she was a few months old, then it just sat in a corner and now she thinks it's her toy, lol!  

Daddy snoozing and Ashlan wanted to cuddle.  :)

Starting to look thinner to us...still has the huge belly though.

Looks like I caught her.  :)

Playdate at her BFF, Audrey's.

Ashlan's first popsicle.  She loved it!  Actually left bite marks in the popsicle!  Poor girlie!  

As you can see from all the pictures (taken at various times), she's obsessed with the bumbo now.