The Invisible Man

I forgot to write this in my eariler post today - probably because I am a little foggy from being up with The Nugget in the middle of the night. Anyway, when mommy finally got Liana back in her crib and settled she was amazed to see that The Nugget wouldn't lay down as usual. She sat right up in her crib with her back to the bedroom door and was seemingly in some kind of trance. I came in to see and it was pretty funny - her head would bob to the left and as she started to topple over she would catch herself and do the same thing to the right and then to the left again. She was so tired but wouldn't lay back and fall asleep. So sitting in the upright position she kept nodding off again and again. She repeated this for a while before eventually falling asleep. One of the funniest things she has done yet!

Chicklets are here ... now what?

Liana has her top two and bottom two teeth and had been recovering quite nicely from her RSV. Her appetite is back and she is the happy even keeled baby that we have come to know and love :-)

However, just when things seemed back to normal it now looks like Liana is getting more teeth. The signs are there - red cheeks, chewing on her fingers, a little unexplainable diaper rash - and hopefully the tooth or teeth (or teef as I call them) poke through. At bedtime Liana has been going down pretty easy but she has been waking up and fussing inconsolably in the wee hours of the morning. When she gets up she doesn't really want to take the booby juice and she just cries and cries. It has been a joint effort to get her back to sleep and mommy is more than a little frustrated - not at Liana, but at the prospect of missed sleep and then dealing with a baby who only takes 2 naps a day for 30 minutes max. It doesn't allow mom to get any real down time or rest during the day. All in all, we realize we have it pretty good - many people experience this type of interrupted sleep for weeks, months and years.

We love the Nugget and hope she gets those teeth through soon and gets back on track.

Here is a pic of her showing the chicklets (the top two teef). Although it looks like she is crying this is her newest face indicating she wants something. We crack up every time we see it.

Sick for the First Time

As optimistic as we were that Liana would get through her first winter without being sick the reality of germs and children have set in. After a week of watching and waiting for a cough to go away we found out on Friday that she has RSV. The poor little Nugget just hasn't been herself but I must say she has been quite a trooper through it all. We have had to "trick" her into taking her nebulizer treatments by turning on Sesame Street to distract her. We found out that she loves Elmo and will pretty much allow for us to give her the nebulizer if she can watch him.

Outside of the RSV things of note are the top two teeth coming in - I call them chicklets and Liana is making a new face where she bites down and scrunches up her whole eyes and nose. Very cute. Lots of "da..da..da" type babbling and crawling is around the corner. She is recognizing the words "hat", "light", "elmo" and "eyes" and will look to the appropriate item when quizzed.

The Little Nugget

Our daughter Liana is just over 8 months old and ever since she was a baby I began referring to her as The Little Nugget. I don't know why but it has stuck and many of our friends now call her that as well. I don't always take the time to write down my thoughts and record the milestones like I should so I opened up this blog to give me the opportunity to just write a quick note when I think of it. I'll get some pics on the site so in case you do read this you can see Liana continues to change and grow and enrich our lives.