We're sick

Liv has a stuffy runny nose, a cough, runny eyes, and is sneezing. Mostly all at one time. She is cranky and clingy, much like me on a really good day. Although this is her second cold, this is really the first one that she realizes that something is not normal with producing her weight in mucous. Couple this with cutting four molars and she is one big pile of goo. The upside to this though is she now has a new box to play with, and the cold stuff she is on is making her a little loopy, which is fun for the adults in her life. I just hate seeing her sick because I know I can't make her better. I can buy every infant remedy on the market (and I think I did) but it just has to run its course. No pun intended.
Here she is faking the funk for the camera. I am a cruel mom.

But at least my new humidifier comes with a really cool box....

Toddler:3 Mom: 0

I have yet to figure out how my little one, whose hair is inches away from the top of a door knob, and not but two months ago could sit and play in my lap for hours has developed super human speed and an innate ability for destroying all in her path. BJ and I really think we should have named her Shiva. I am not an inattentive mom, just a naive one and I think I my wee one has blossomed into a full blown toddler.

In the last few, she has figured out how to scope out any opportunity she can to do things she mustn't and her stealth is actually quite impressive. She learned pretty early on that gloating over her accomplishments would only make it so she couldn't "accomplish" them again. So she has honed her stealth mode to the point that I have no idea when she does most of the things she does, I just find little surprises throught out the day.

Surprise #1

I was brushing my teeth, the phone rang, and I was gone for at the most ONE minute.


Surprise #2

While I was disinfecting surprise #1. Gone at the most 3 minutes. Why do I feel the need to explain myself????

Surprise #3

While picking up surprise #2, realized I hadn't seen Liv in about a minute and lo and behold found her here. Yes, it is a moving shelf, yes it could have fallen with her on it, yes, I removed it shortly after I took this picture.

I think it boils down to Liv being much better at her job than I am at mine right now and her pj options are much cuter to boot. Did I mention this was all before breakfast?

Family Vacation

It's official! We are a road trip family. We decided to spend New Years in Flagstaff, so that Olivia (and secretly me) could play in the snow. Although she has been home for almost a year, this was our first solo family adventure. We armed ourselves with a box of Organic O's, applesauce, and some Veuve for us big kids and off we went.

Liv loves snow. Pure and simple. The kid couldn't get enough of it. I think she was also the most winter prepared kid the town had ever seen. I couldn't stop laughing as she totally reminded me of the "I can't put my arms down" boy from A Christmas Story. We ate snow, played in snow, and because her parents have no sense at all, Liv sledded by herself down a forty foot hill giggling hysterically the whole time. Note to other people who I am sure know this, the Grand Canyon is not such a good idea in January.

Here are some pics from our adventure....

The protest look from Olivia is because we have pulled her away from her new favorite activity and have made her take a picture.

After her first "run".

This is the consequence of too much snow, not too much Veuve.