What We've Been Up To

Well, it's been a while since our last post. I figured if I didn't post some pictures soon, the grandparents would revolt! OK...Unfortunately, I'm getting an error message about my USB cable malfunctioning, so it looks like they'll be disappointed. Sorry!

I can at least blog about what's been going on. Chris and I dropped Noelle off with my parents a couple of weekends ago. We'd been wanting to paint our bedroom for a while, and figured that grandma's house would be a much better place for Noelle to be during all of that. We got it all done in one afternoon! That was great because we had the rest of the weekend just to goof off. Here's what we did with our baby-free time:

• Slept as late as our bodies would let us (which was only about 8...we're getting so old!!)
• We went to the pool
• Had a picnic at the state park
• Took as many naps as we could
• Went to a movie
• Drove to a small town about 40 minutes away and had dinner
• Ate out for every meal...no cooking whatsoever

It was awesome! But we were sure glad to see our baby girl! It had been 3 days for me, but Chris had also been at pre-teen camp and hadn't seen her for a whole week!

During all of this time, I had a cold or something that developed into a really bad sinus infection. I was really stubborn about it, and thought I would just treat it with OTC stuff. Big mistake. Once the doctor's offices closed for the weekend, it got way worse. I felt like the lady on the Sudafed commercial whose head blows up like a big balloon. Anyway, I went to the doctor on Monday and got a shot and a bagful of sample meds. (My nurse practitioner is so nice, and she knows our insurance is not great, and so she always gives us samples when she can.) I'm not up to 100% yet, but am feeling a lot better. Yea!

Noelle is doing great. She has learned new words the last couple of weeks. She says "ball" all of the time. In fact, many times when we get her up in the morning that's the first thing she says...I guess she's ready to play! She's also learned the word "more." We've been trying the baby sign language thing forever it seems, and now that she can finally say the word, she also can do the sign. She mainly says it at breakfast when she wants more banana. She's not walking yet, but can cruise and crawl really fast and keeps us very busy.

Well, I guess that's all of what's going on at our house. Hopefully I can figure out this USB error soon! Blogs aren't as fun when there aren't any pictures!