yesterday was a beautiful day. the sun was shining, the wind was calm. we walked to the park and enjoyed the 60 degrees. we came home and enjoyed lunch and naps. we had cousins over to play and and all the kids played super good together and played outside almost the entire afternoon. Rose woke up and wanted to join the fun so I put her out in the garden with a shovel. I checked on her throughout the next hour and she was just a happy little thing in the garden so I let her be. When she finally came in I had to rinse the dirt off of her and refill the dogs water because that had been her last stop. This is where the beautiful day ended… She threw up on the carpet. It was brown dirty throw up. I don’t know how much dirt she ate but she threw up a lot. I know my kids eat dirt but I think she was shoveling it in. She threw up 2 more times before Ben got home and then he was blessed to witness 2 more throw ups that night. It didn’t seem like sick throw up, it was definitely eating to much dirt and washing it down with the dogs water throw up – My Poor Little Girl! and then to top it all off we woke up to a crib full of the nasty stuff this morning! Good news is – that was the last of it. No more barfs today!

PS – i will be escorting her to the sandbox/garden on her next few outings and I will be a stopper of the dirt eating. One hour of 1 year old fun was not worth the hours of throw up clean up!

How is Rose adjusting to not being THE baby anymore??? she’s doing really well. She is right at that age – 17 months – where she doesn’t want to be a baby anyway, she wants to be a big kid. She is usually chasing the older kids around and trying to keep up with whatever they are doing. I do try and make sure to give her the 1 on 1 time when she asks for it. Today we snuggled and watched Mickey Mouse together and she seemed to love it. She has decided that she doesn’t want her pacifier! kind of bad timing but if she is done then that is great. I think she’ll start talking more without it and I love that it is her choice. I have had the pacifier hooked to her shirt every day since birth up until this week so I am excited about the change. The side effects so far are a loud and vocal 1 year old and she seems to be waking up in the middle of the night… I am ignoring her and she goes back to sleep fairly quickly.

combing hair with mom

look at these curls - that is a first in this house

Cali wanted a matching picture - Rose did not!

Some more about Rose – whenever i change her or Ray she says “poop poop” – it just makes ya smile. She always brings me her shoes and coat and gets louder and louder until she gets to play outside. If she sees anyone coming or going then she wants to go. The problem is it is still winter, yesterday was 67 degrees so we played outside but typically we are still in the cold and windy season. Rose also loves to put her head on Ray’s head then she says “ahhh, ahhh” and “baby baby baby” over and over. It is cute. Sometimes she tries to be a BIG baby, stealing his blanket, car seat or pacifier. We love our Rose.

Reading with Cali - being a big girl.

yesterday Rose helped the kids build a snowman