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Filed under: Katherine — Christy at 11:44 pm on Saturday, September 16, 2006

We have a crawler. It is time for some serious baby proofing around the house. I am amazed at how quickly she moved from trying to crawl to being all over the place. She is not very fast, but she can go pretty much wherever she wants. Here are a few funny stories about her new mobility.

Thursday when I hopped in the shower I put Katherine on the floor of our bedroom with some toys like I always do. I heard her fussing so I started talking to her as I finished up the shower. When I got out, she was in the doorway to the bathroom.

When we were at Lynette’s house on Friday I put Katherine on the floor by the coffee table. She heard their dog, Picadilly in her crate. In no time at all she had crawled around the couch and was nose to nose with a very hyper and excited dog.

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Today I put her on the carpet in her room, put a few toys down there, put up the baby gate to keep out Hooligan and went to the car to grab the toys I bought at a consignment store yesterday. When I came back to her room about 90 seconds later, she was in the doorway, looking at Hooligan through the baby gate.

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This is a whole new phase but she is so much fun. Today she played on the bed while I was sitting there working on the computer and watching TV. We had so much fun just looking at each other, saying babababa and climbing all over mommy. Obviously I did not get much done on the computer.

Can you interpret the picture?

Filed under: Katherine — Christy at 11:17 pm on Saturday, September 16, 2006

Yep, Katherine has been fighting her first bug. Last weekend we thought it was allergies, but this week I have been sick and her friend Sammy has a cold too. So, we think it is a cold of some sort. It got better but has come back. She seems to feel fine during the day and acts normal. At night though she has a hard time with congestion. Thursday night she kept waking up so we put her to sleep in her car seat to keep her head elevated. Amazingly she slept for 6 hours. Friday night was much worse. I am sure part of the problem was that we got home really late. She could not fall asleep in her car seat or her crib because she was congested. So, I laid back on the bed in her room and she slept on my chest for about an hour before I moved her to her crib. I had to go back in several times in the night. I think she is doing better and tonight she went down in her crib with no problems.

You can see that her bathroom counter is full of all the stuff for her cold. We have the humidifier, two kinds of decongestant, nasal saline, thermometer, medicine droppers, bulb syringe and yes, that is a bottle of breastmilk. A friend told me this morning that it works much better than saline so we tried that. Katherine absolutely hates getting nose drops and especially the syringe. I feel like I need three hands, one to hold her hands away, one to hold her head still and one to use the syringe.

Pray that she is on the mend and gets better soon. If she is not well by Monday the nurse said to come in and see the doctor. I sure hate seeing her sick.