So we're walking now????

Late last night Jayla decided that she would make her first steps to the tv stand from Daddy's shoulders (he was laying down on the floor) without holding on to a thing... She almost lost her balance but quickly caught herself... Since then she has still been walking holding on to things but this lets me know that she is starting to get the courage to start out on the adventure of her moving into a different catagory.... And that is she is becoming a big girl and there is no way for me to slow her down... Brett and I thinks she will be walking by the time that she is 10 months because she turns 9 months this Friday....

Cranky Girl....

I believe the title says it all.... I have gone from having a baby that takes 2-3 naps a day taking a total of 1 nap... She fusses until she is too tired to stay up and then makes some noise with her mouth while I am holding her and falls asleep.... I think she considers the 3 hour sleep that she takes in the morning after waking up at 6am as a well rested nap of the day... I consider it as she woke up to spend some time with her daddy and then we go back to sleep... Today she woke up at 10:40am instead of 11:30 and now finally at 3:00pm is settling down for a nap... She has been whining at me for the last hour and I have new found respect for those who chose the crying it out method but I can't make myself do that one bit.. I haven't done it in the 8 months that she has been alive and I won't do it now... So I picked her up and rocked her and then she would fight to get out of my arms to go play on the floor... Gotta love her for her new found independance...

She cuddles under me at night when she goes to sleep and when she is so tired that I have to shush her to sleep and she finds me wherever I am at in the house... My little fussy crank pot.... Gotta love her though....

Updates....

So I've been thinking to myself that this blog hasn't been updated in awhile due to the fact that I have had a sick family on my hands. Last Sunday I was feeling sick but just thought I was coming down with my 15th cold of the season like always. Then Monday Jayla broke out in hives and it was the first time that I literally felt bad that I couldnt do more for her than offer some nasty dye-free benadryl that tasted like bubble gum medicine.. She hated it of course and fought me all the way and I know she hates bubble gum flavored anything since she refuses to drink the pedialyte that is flavored this way... Her hives finally went away on Wednesday where I encountered a new problem... Brett was sicker than I was and was walking around hacking up cold... Thursday morning Jayla and I awaken to him laying on the floor saying that he felt like he was gonna pass out... Took his temp and he had a 101.5 degree temperature so I took care of both of my babies..... I have been exhausted....

Jayla has grown so much in 8 short months.... She's a crawler and she's a talker and she is definitely a gemini.... She has two sides... One minute she is so goofy and wants you to tickle her and throw her in the air and the next minute she is seriously focused on everything and doesn't want to be bothered... She is friendly to almost every person she meets and is always smiling.... Jayla's favorite word is mama.... She says it when I walk out of the room and when she sees me on the computer.... Brett says that she is just like me... She is definitely a talker and wants to do it all the time like me... She is an indepent person and is definitely into music... She's been holding her own bottle for almost 3 months...

This blog turned into a week's worth of writing... lol