Swayin'

Dani has 4 top teeth and two bottom teeth coming in these days.  She figured out how to use the vibrating gummy massager/teething toy. 

She likes to play her Glow Worm and sway with the music.

It's been a long week for all of us with Dad in two casts (he fell off a roof helping a friend and broke both wrists).  He can't hold Dani so it's hard on both of them (all of us really).  Today we heard Grandpa (Chris dad) had a stroke.  We don't know much more than that, but it's been a lot of stress in a period of one week.  Dani keeps me going!

And I Thought One Kid Was Rough

Just when you think things can't get worse, or the only place to go from here is up...something goes awry.  Let me tell you, things can always get worse.  Now, I have to say that in general, I do realize things really can always get worse, people could die or be seriously injured, etc.  But in general, when I say, can things get worse, I mean things like dropping my phone and watching it shatter after I spill milk all over the place.  Yea, things can get worse, but what I mean is, things can always also get more hectic.

Chris fell of a friend's roof Sunday and broke both wrists.  Hectic.
Chris is capable of only some things, so I have to do a lot for him.  More Hectic.
I have basically two infants to care for. In one night I was woke up twice by Dani and once by Bella (who needed out), then another night I got the dogs and baby sleeping through the night but Chris needed help.  Sleepy Hectic.
Every day this week I have forgot something (Tuesday Diapers, Wednesday Check, Thursday Teeth).  Sloppy Hectic.
I woke up early today to get things moving since I've been running late everyday this week.  Turns out that waking early does not help.  Not only did I get out of the house later than normal, but I got stuck in construction traffic, then behind a bus, and lastly we were two houses away from Aunt Holly's when Dani puked everywhere in the car.  Waking up early does not help.  Super Hectic.
She did the same thing last night when I was trying to feed her and Chris, she just puked everywhere.  Now, I needed to feed two people and clean up puke.  Not just puke, but the table, the floor, the high chair, the baby. Messy Hectic.

I'm worn out, but I do realize things can always be worse.  I'd like though, for just a day, to sort of get a break.  For now though, while Dani is getting cleaned up by Auntie, and Chris is struggling at home with a lunch break with Becky, I will get my small salvation at work (I know, salvation at work, that's desperate), and I will chow down on my Chocolate Rice Krispy Treat and later my Snickers. 

September 11

I'm admittedly nervous for tomorrow.  It is the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedies.  I'm not so much nervous about what could happen, just nervous about the sadness of it all.  I'm sad that Dani won't know what the world was like before.  She will never get to travel unabashedly.  One day, I anticipate that September 11 will be some sort of national "holiday", not so much a holiday, but like Veteran's Day, a day of remembrance; will she know what it means?


On a light note, but not so light for me, I plan on venturing out of the house tomorrow evening.  I've missed bed time before, but this one is exceptionally hard because I have to go out of own for work Monday night, so I am missing two bath/bedtimes in a row...and my first night away from my Dano on Monday.  I know some moms yearn for this moment, a break away from the insanity, but I'm not one of those moms.  In fact, I've always cried when I had to leave my dogs when heading off for vacation.  So tonight, I made bath time last for a while, I even took pictures. Here's a couple I felt I could share.

Also on the tooth note, she actually has three top teeth broke through, and one emerging.  Wow, so fast, and yet, so slow!!

I also wanted to mention that Dani fought us going to bed, not new.  Tonight however, I left her sitting up in bed, came back to the room to tuck her in and there she is, managed to pull herself up onto her knees hanging out.  I moved her to lay her down and the screaming started, I walked out, she screamed for a bit longer, so I walk back in to tell her it's "night-night time, go to sleep", she responded with a yell and a glare that Holly sees all too often at nap-nap time.  

10 Months

Part of the reason I keep this blog is so that when someone asks me, "when did your child first start eating dirt?", I can look back and know with confidence that she first ate a  morsel of dirt while camping at Babler State park on Sunday September 4, 2011.  This was the same weekend that we realized one of her top front teeth has come through (though barely visible) with the other about to cut through.  This is also the same weekend that she started waving and saying "hi" and singing along with "la la las".  It seems around this ten month mark she has begun to imitate, though with poor enunciation, it's hard to tell that is really what she's doing.  I dare say though, when I ask her about "eee-aww" (our affectionate name for a squishy donkey), she responds back with "yaw".  What I think might be "doggie" sounds just like "daddy", and when you talk about Baby Dani, she responds with something sounding like "daddy".  Eventually though, like all other things, enunciation will break through, and that which we think she is saying will be completely obvious!!  With that, I'd like to warn you all, better watch what you say...Dad might be in a world of hurt, whatever will he do for music?

She's doing really well standing on her own while bracing herself against furniture.  She even takes "fake steps".  These "fake steps" are her going through the motion of walking without actually going anywhere.  She might walk before she crawls.  If we put her on her belly which is becoming easier, she really does try to push up but just doesn't lift the lower and upper half at the same time.  Who knows, she might crawl one day just to get a hold of some electronic device she's been drooling over and eyeing up.

Happy 10 Month Birthday to my Dani.