The Ashlan show: Little fishie!!

I thought I better do another blog entry before we go to Disney and have too many pictures from that, haha! That trip is coming up soon and we are so excited! Doesn’t exactly make up for not being able to go to London, but I think she’ll enjoy this more.

So these last two weeks have been super busy with the gym, playdates, and Caesar. For those of you who don’t know, Caesar is our little epileptic Chihuahua who has a heart murmur and a compromised liver. He is one major defect, lol, but we can’t help but to love him! Anyway, he’s been having a few seizures lately, so we’ve had to make a trip to the vet’s office and pharmacy for him and a bunch of phone calls. We upped his meds, and thankfully he’s doing better it seems, but he is such a problem child! Good thing we love him, lol!

Ashlan has been such a little fish lately! She’s been in the water at least 7-8 times this season already. The first two times were pretty short as far as submersion goes, but she was walking along our “seat” in the pool. She learned after only one time how far it goes, lol! Then after that, she was careful and turned around to go the other way, or did it on purpose and sank into the water more. After the first time or two of taking her in, I used my hands to do the motion of kicking with her legs, and she got it after a time or two of me helping her. After that, we couldn’t get her out of the pool. She was swimming to the deep end and back and “backing” into the pool (which consists of her backing up with her little butt in the air until she gets to the end of the cement, and then just plops in. We also have a video of that and just posted it yesterday.). So we are pretty proud of her…not bad for a 17 month old. I hope she always stays this fond of the pool, because I am having so much fun with her! This week it rained all week (like seriously, all week), but last week we spent almost every day in the pool. It was so much fun! We also have a little play house out there for her (it’s actually called Kangaroo Climber), but she loves to play on that too. She’ll go back and forth between that and the pool constantly.

She has been eating more and more with a spoon by herself. Of course, it is usually Greek yogurt, which is really thick, or cottage cheese, but she still does it. She gets it all over her face though, lol! But at least she is trying more and can actually do it this time. The other day I probably fed her 10% of the yogurt and she did the other 90%.

Ashlan is definitely talking a lot more. She says “all done” or “I done” after finishing eating. Her new phrase is now, “Oh no!” She still says “I stuck” a lot, but after hearing me say oh no, she has definitely picked that up. Sometimes she’ll be in her crib and just rolling around waking up and we’ll hear through the monitor, “Oh no! I stuck!” She’ll still be sleeping, but it is so funny!

Here is her impromptu swim...we were all outside and she was playing on her Kangaroo climber. All of a sudden, she went right over and sat down on the first step of the pool. So, we just put her floatie device on her and let her have at it.