Growing up

It always amazes me when you have those "Ohh My Baby Is Growing Up" moments. Today I was watching Loren closely as she interacted and played. I was shocked! I always knew she understood me and understood things that were going on but today I realized just how much she knows! For instance: Whenever I gave her a toy she "jabbered" at me. Suddenly today I realized that she said the same thing whenever I gave her something. She says "Thatch tea-yow" My baby is thanking me every time I do something for her! I mean you know that someday your child is going to do XY and Z. . .But when they actually do it! WOW! What else did she do today. . Oh yes! I remember. She walked up to Aunt Helen's Christmas tree, pointed to the ornaments and went "No, no, no!" and walked away. I also saw that every time she gets a stuffed animal she pats it on the rear just like I do to her. Wow. . .She is getting so big.


Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Our power went out on Wednesday night of last week and we've been living with Grandma Helen (my Aunt Helen). I think poor Grandma Helen was about to go insane with a 1 year old and an extremely noisy cat living there! She was so gracious though to let us stay for the week. Supposedly close to 500,000 residents in the St. Louis area were without power. Close to 100,000 are still without power. We had a horrible ice storm last week and frozen tree limbs crashed into powerlines and viola, blackout! It was so freaking cold as well! I left Gabby here for the first night thinking that the power surely wouldn't take more than a day to turn back on. YEAH RIGHT! Poor cat nearly froze to death. . .Well. . .Mike wanted to leave her because he grew up with Barn cats in the frozen Tundra. However, I knew my princess kitty would not have survived. What do men know anyway? Nevertheless, I won and Gabby had a warm place to sleep.

Well, I have to go do laundry now. Loren had a blowout that ended up in the feet of her jammies. Also, she just puked everywhere and had to get another new pair of jammies. . .I hope she isn't sick. She seemed fine after her . . .ummm. . .issues. She fell asleep. . . Poor girl. Ohhhh the joys of children!