Target Pictures

I wanted to have her pictures taken for her birthday but this and the other stopped it. I finally got them scheduled more around the 13th month mark which was same time as Eric's graduation. I ended up cancelling because her face was red and snotty nose in general looked sick. Finally we got them done on June 2 closer to 14 months than a year. Oh well better lat than never. I have really enjoyed the service I've received at Target and have done most of our pictures there and plan on continuing to do it there.

This was one of my favorite collages. I had to have this one though I mostly stick with regular portraits as these enhancements are a lot more expensive.

Big Scare

Miriam lately has been climbing on all chairs in sight and starting to climb on the table. She then grazes on whatever is on the table as she can take lids off like the syrup, ketchup, and dressing to name the top favorites.

Wed while I was making my week menu she was busy behind me getting into things on the table. All of a sudden I hear her gag and throw up so I rush over to see what was going on. She had a bottle of water conditioner for water beds open and the blue stuff everywhere. I grabbed her up and took her to the sink to wash out her mouth and she threw up again. Quickly reading the bottle it said call the DR, so hunted up that phone number and they told me to call poison control. A very nice man there said main concern was it burning her throat so get her to drink whatever she likes, 4 oz to dilute. About the only thing she drinks is water and she would drink a little but then make her raspberry and stick her tongue out like it was a bad taste. I tried whatever else I had, Miriam wasn't interested at all. Finally in desperation I gave her medicine and that went down the best so I tried apple juice in a medicine dropper which worked better. I don't think she got much and other than burping more later I believe we made it through without undue concern. Poison control checked back with us after an hour which I thought was great and the Dr's office also checked back. Case closed.

Our big helper

During the move Miriam was helpful and not so helpful. Under the not so helpful she liked to take out whatever I put in the box, then as loading/unloading she liked to wander away so we were constantly calling for her, and she likes to stand in the middle of the dirt piles from sweeping to name a few things that come to mind. Surprisingly she really was helpful too. Because we loaded and cleaned all week she really got in the act. As we took whatever out to the car we would give her something small to carry and put in- she thought she was big stuff when she did that.

She got so good at it when mom was leaving to go home she took things out of the car that were supposed to stay all on her own! Now I won't say the items always made it to their final destinations in her hands but it sure kept her busy.

The other helpful thing was help wash. The first Sat when we were washing all the walls she pitched in and helped Granddaddy wash. It was hard to capture because she would stop when she saw the camera.

After seeing us wash things so much she wanted to wash everything in sight! We got some old grocery shelves from Eric's parents that needed to be washed down and she had a great time helping with those and then proceeded to wash our deck.....

Teething

So the question I have when do you count the new tooth? Is it when it finally breaks the gum or when it is all the way in and settled? In any case Miriam has her fourth tooth so she now has a pair of choppers matching top and bottom. Boy let me say beware of getting between them! Yeow! Am I ever glad we're done nursing. Then Sun Eric thought he saw a flash of white up top right side (I think), later he dismissed it after feeling/ looking as much as she would allow. Then last night he saw it again when he holds her upside down so we maybe looking at tooth number 5. Breaking update!! After exploring her mouth just now number 5 on the upper right is pretty much in and on the upper left there is a bulge so she is actually working more on number 6. Finally after all this time she is getting on with the teething business I was beginning to wonder if she would only ever have the bottom 2.