At our house...

...a six year old had another visit from the tooth fairy. She left extra money since Elyssa pulled her tooth out herself. ...an eight month old decided to start pulling up on everything she can find. Elaina is also finally eating food (progresso soup puree, yogurt, and other not solid foods).

As always, you can view more of our crazy life at my phanfare site!
http://www.tntsdao.phanfare.com/

Thank you...

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for there notes, thoughts, and prayers. We made it through yesterday...although it never seems to get easier.

"What big eyes you have!"

I just finished processing Elaina's 7 month pictures and...although I am her mom and somewhat (ok very) partial...I must say that her eyes are stunning. I guess some of a person's beauty, no matter the age, just gets lost in the day to day shuffle of life. You will see in the last picture that she was ready to quit being my photography subject and get back to being the snuggly daughter that I adore!

You can see more at www.tntsdao.phanfare.com since I took way more than necessary!

She's Moving!!!

Ok...at this point it is more of an army crawl (drag) then an actual hands and knees crawl, but she is definitely able to make her way from point A straight to point B. The pride on her daddy's face and the excitement of her big sister made this the highlight moment of my week! :)

Go baby go!

Elaina is going to be full fledge crawling any minute now. She can roll (obviously) and get nearly anywhere she wants. She can drag herself forward or push herself backward, but it takes a lot of effort and isn't very fast. Elyssa was SO excited when she saw her get up on her hands and knees all by herself. There has been a lot of rocking going on, but the little monkey always plops back down on her tummy to try to move. I will keep you posted and hopefully will have some great pictures and video to post soon!

On a side note, Elyssa has another loose tooth. She came running down the stairs last night to tell me. That sparkle in her eyes is great, although I think it comes mostly from the thought of getting more money from the tooth fairy!

Mother of the Year Award

Let's just say that it is definitely not going to me! Yesterday my sweet 7 month old daughter fell off the bed for the second (yes, second) time in her short life. How she made it from the center of the bed and over the surrounding mounds of blankets in that short period of time I still don't know. As I swooped her up and began comforting her, she threw up all the food that she had eaten just minutes before. I of course panicked and called my friend Dorothy (who happens to be a mother of 5). Lainy was already begining to calm down and before I had even told Dorothy about the incident, she was smiling at herself in the mirror. Dorothy was on her way home and close by, so she still stopped in. We checked her over and she was fine, but I was still pretty shaken up. Then this morning I was feeding her small bits of my breakfast and something she ate got stuck in her windpipe. She tried to puke it up, but it wasn't working and I was completely freaking out. I told Tony to do something and thankfully he stuck his finger down her throat and swiped out the food while I held her nearly upside down. Within minutes she was fine, but I was not. I could not get my legs to stop shaking! Moments like these just didn't seem to happen so often with Elyssa. Earlier this week Elaina was puking and pooping from some virus...so this whole week has been totally stress filled. I worried that she would choke on her throw-up or get dehydrated. That lasted for three days and then one day later....
Honestly, I just need more recovery time between tramatic events. :)