6 1/2 Months

So this is a first! A small clip of Toni and I mean small. Blogger won't let me load clips very big. Anyway, I forget my laptop has a built in camera and she was having so much fun on my latptop (well really just banging on it) that I thought, OH! Why don't I record this? duh... so here's a small clip of her. Nice change from just still photos huh?

So what's new? Sheesh. I haven't been able to update this thing it's been so busy for me. Well most recently, Toni got sick last Friday. I picked her up from the school and she was fine, but i noticed that all these kids were coughing. Not a good side. Well as the night progressed, she started to cough. great. And then a little more into the night she was crying... and not just a cry of I'm tired or I'm hungry but a cry that was more like I'm in pain and I hurt. My poor baby. That kind of cry just makes you feel so bad. At around 4am, she had a fever so we gave her some Tylenol but she kept waking up through out the night because her cough was so bad and she had the fever.

Saturday we were supposed to go to a wedding. Well actually, Junior was a groomsmen in the wedding. So early in the morning, we call her doctor to see if he had any suggestions or if he could see her. Well he wants to see her ASAP b/c apparently Respiratory Syncical Virus (RSV) is going around and he wanted to test her for it to be on the safe side since it can become really serious and even fatal. His urgency worried us even more. He opens at 8am and he wanted us there by 8:15-8:30a. We got there by 8:30a (since we only called him by 7:45a and hurried to get dressed and out the door). Mind you, once Toni has waken up and is all dressed, she is still in high spirits just with a cough... a nasty cough. So her being in high spirits comforted me some in that I always feel that being the happy baby she is, if she's not happy then I should really worry that something is seriously wrong. Anyway, we get there and long story short she tests negative for RSV. WHEW! However, her cough was so bad (she's never sounded like this before) that the doctor wanted to treat it as a pneumonia JUST to be on the safe side so that should it get worse, treatment will be on it's way. But in the meantime, he just prescribed her Amoxcillian and said to keep a close eye on her b/c he didn't want it to still become RSV. Basically as he described it, RSV is where the respiratory system is lined with slough that it becomes so difficult for babies to breath and they begin to use their whole body just to take a breath. Well she definitely wasn't doing that, Thank God! Oh and the way they test is they take this quetip like thing and get some of the mucous from their nose and after five minutes it tells you whether they are positive or negative for RSV. Pretty neat. Anyway, so she was ordered to stay home.

So her and I stayed home and had to miss the wedding. :( Junior, of course, had togo to the wedding since he was a groomsmen. Saturday she had a fever off and on and still felt a little bad but for the most part she was in high spirits. So I'm thankful for that.

Now that it's Monday (well technicaltl Tuesday as it's 1:21am), she's doing even better. Still coughing a lot but at least she's not having fevers and her cough sounds more productive than it was. But still she stayed home today. I really don't want to take her back to school until she's really well. Thankfully I'm off Thursday and Friday and my job is allowing me to work from home Tues and Wed. So Toni should be able to recover quite well before having to go back Monday... I hope! I really hope she's ok by Thanksgiving! We'll see. Poor thing. But as you can see in the video, she's in high spirits! Banging away at my laptop.

So last Sunday (not this past but the one before that, Nov. 16) Toni was baptised! I have to say, I'm so proud and happy for her. I mean, I know it's a big thing she get baptised. But once it was all happening I wanted to shed some tears. hahaha... I didn't though. I held my own! haha... but as always she was in high spirits. In fact, when the priest poured the holy water over her head she was chill. The other babies cried and I actually expected her to cry too. But she was more like-whatever. And when the priest would come to put the oil on her she was all smiles. All in all in was a success and we had plenty of family and family friends there to celebrate. :) Once I get those pictures I can post. Can't believe I remembered to charge the camera battery but leave the camer home. DUH. Part of me losing my mind since pregnancy. hahaha... it never came back.

Development. She's come so far it's amazing! She can sit on her own for a few second before she falls over. When we first started practicing her, she would sit for two-three second before she'd fall over and we'd have to position in her in a way so that balancing was easier. This picture is actually when we started practicing her. So she was strategically placed to last a few seconds before she fell. Plus the toy helped out. This pic was only taken two weeks ago, not even. Now we can sit her down without much "molding" and she's sit for a longer period of time before she falls over. She's much more talkative and continues with the BA! I'm still trying to get her to say MA. But everytime I do that she laughs at me. hahaha... oh well. At least there's that.

She's also started to lift her butt up while on her tummy more often and with a little support under her belly she'll get onto her knees. woo hoo! Soon she may be mobile, more so that just rolling toi get around!

Separation Anxiety

I believe Toni is starting to show early signs of separation anxiety and while now it's kind of cool, I'm sure later it won't be. So a few days ago she was playing in her crib and all was well. I was trying to take care of a few things while she played. At one point, I walked by her crib and peeped in to make sure she was ok. She looked up at me, i smiled and she just started crying! I mean she was perfectly fine and then all of a sudden she just started crying. It was almost as if she just remembered that I hadn't been in sight for a few minutes and now that I was there she wanted me. And I admit... I liked it. hahaha... my baby needs me! Why wouldn't I feel great about that? So I picked her up and instantly she was better. That was instance one.

Yesterday when she and I got home after picking her up at the school I had her in her crib again playing while I changed and got settled in. This time I made sure that when I passed by the crib to make sure she didn't see me. So this time she played just fine and didn't cry. Then I got her, and took care of her.... bath feed her, etc. It was still a bit early so I figured she could play a little more. So I set her in her exersaucer and she got right to playing. That was in the living room. I walked over to the kitchen (just a few steps away) but because I was behind the counter she couldn't see me and immediately she started crying. And I don't mean whining type crying. I mean full out balling with the silent but crying pauses. So I went over to her to calm her down and let her know I was there. Basically I had to stay in her sight otherwise she would cry.

So like I said, I believe the beginning of the separation anxiety stage is well under way. Aside from that, she is still the happy baby and loves being around people, especially other kids. In fact this past weekend we had a play date at Kathy's and she was so happy to be around the kids. Ok so she doesn't show it so much in this pic, but she was really happy. I think in this picture she was trying to figure out why all of us were so excited they were all sitting in the same chair. haha... she is all feet in this picture. Anyway, I figure soon enough she will probably hit the stranger anxiety stage as well where anyone she doesn't see regularly will not be able to just hold her like they can now.

She's growing so fast. I mean she HAS been growing fast but the older she gets the more apparent it almost is. Maybe it's just because I'm her mother but this morning she looked a little older already. Today while she was playing in her exersaucer she played a little differently. In addition to her regular play, this time she bounced a lot in her exersaucer. My princess is growing up so fast!

Catch Up

Oh man I'm so behind. Oct. 24, 2008 Toni got her ears pierced! yay!!! I was a bit nervous though. We actually tried to get it done the week before but the person that does the infant piercing wasn't there so we weren't able to get it done then. The popular question... did she cry???? Heck yeah she cried! She cried HARD! BUT... for a short time. She cried while in the store. But by the time I had paid and we walked out, she was done. We even thought, maybe she'll need comforting and we can give her a bottle. So we found a place to sit down and offer it to her, and she didn't need it. She was good. In fact she forgot it was there. When I touched the earrings, she didn't even feel a thing. She kept on about her business. Whew! So I didn't get to take a picture while she was getting her ears pierced. I know right? BOOOO! We got them done at Claire's and right when I pulled the camera out, the girl was like, "ohhh... i'm sorry no picture taking in the store is allowed." That stinks. So... I did take a picture that same day with my camera phone afterward and attempted to send it straight to my blog THREE TIMES. all three failed. BOOO! SO... this is the next day. The girl that did it... man. I mean it's good she really wanted to make sure they were even but she took soooo long. When we brought Toni into the store, she was happy and in a good mood. So I'm thinking this is a great time. But then the girl that does the ear piercing kept marking and remarking her ears so often that Toni was starting to get irritated just having to sit still in one place for so long. So by the time she got her ears pierced, she was cranky. Great. Well it's passed and all is good!

I have way more to update. But as it is nearing 5am (Junior's snoring has kept me up yet again), I am going to ATTEMPT to get an hours sleep dammit.