San Diego

So, I have come to the conclusion that I am a really bad blogger. This is my attempt at getting back on the wagon. Or something. I don't think that expression really applies here.

Anyway, I should warn you that this post is not directly related to Miller in case you want to stop reading. It is about San Diego, which is where Fred and I went over my Spring Break. Miller stayed with her Memama in Columbia. We missed her a lot since this was our first time away from her  for any length of time, but we all lived to tell about it. We stayed in Pacific Beach, which was a little random. We went to the San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park, where I almost perished due to hunger and a lack of dining options that were not inside museums. We went to Coronado, saw the seals and shopped in LaJolla, and drove up the coast visiting Del Mar,and Laguna Beach. I ate all of the avocado in California. If you are ever in San Diego I want to eat at The Mission. And I think you should get the breakfast quesedilla. I had it twice.

(image via http://www.themissionsd.com/)

You should probably also eat at Cafe 222. We had peanut butter banana french toast (as seen on Best Thing I Ever Ate.) Holy Moly.

(image via http://chefdebbie.blogspot.com)

 Here are some random pictures from our trip.

Coastline. 

We did not see Kristen Cavaleri or anyone. Not even Lo. 

We definitely paid like $8 to climb down some stairs into this cave. Random. 

Sunset Cliffs. Pretty.

SD was fun times. It was a little cold though. It was 90 degrees in Key West, which was our other vacation option. Oops. Maybe next time. 

18 Months Stats

I can't believe Miller is one and a HALF. As in almost two! I am finally going to do a little update. She is changing so much, and I know that I am going to forget everything if I don't write it all down. It will probably be a little boring. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Stats-

Weight: 24 lbs (69%)

Height: 31 3/4 inches (49%)

Talking-

Miller is talking up a storm. I have no idea who she gets her chattiness from (sarcasm.) I am going to try to list the things she says, but there are a LOT, so get ready....

mama

dada

blanket

cup

juice

milk

foods

breakfast

oranges

applesauce/apple juice

cheese

"bwak-bwak" for chicken

pizza (piz-eeeee)

eyes, nose, mouth, feet

yes

no and "no way!"

night-night

bye-bye

hey

thank you (tank-too)

I want some (sounds like awesome)

I want

I climb

I slide

Miller (sounds like Mil-me)

CC (my mom)

fish

Elmo

dip

ketchup

That is all I can think of, but she is learning new words every day.

She is also an animal noise savant. She is working on her abc's. She can get to d, and I am pretty sure she is a genius, because the other day she said, "a,b,c,d, duck."

Eating

Miller is being pretty crazy about what she will and won't eat right now. She prefers to dip everything in hummus, yogurt, or ketchup. While she is eating, she will say "dip, dip?" and she also yells "dip!" when we walk past the ketchup at the grocery store. Which reminds me, that she can also say "Whole Foods." Yesterday morning when I got her out of bed she said, "blanket? Whole Foods?" Anyway, she is kinda picky about food and super OCD about which cup she will drink out of. She thinks it funny now to ask for juice and when we give her juice, shake her head and say "milk" and vice versa. Nobody likes a smarta**, kid! Where does she get that from I wonder?

Sleeping

Bobs usually naps around 2 hours at home on the weekends, but only about 45 minutes to an hour at school. I think there is just too much going on for her to sleep.

I think that is about it. I'll leave you with these lovely pictures taken at Miller's 18 months doctor's appointment. It's quite and ensemble.

18 Months

Here is a pic of Miller on her half-birthday.

She was at a friend's birthday party at the fire department.

Poor Baby!

Yesterday, we went to Furman to let Mills feed the ducks. The kids loves ducks. She was having a great time feeding ducks and just hanging out being cute as seen below.

So, we went to leave and we stopped to play with some sweet doggies. One of them licked Miller right in the face, which she loved. She was crying in the car, but we thought she was just tired but when we got home, the poor baby girl's eye was almost swollen shut. It was pitiful.

I did what any good mom would do-completely freaked out! And then I gave her some Benadryl (which made her drunk and caused her legs to continually fall out from under her as she was toddling full speed, which was hilarious) and the swelling went down. Could she be allergic to dog spit? I guess we are headed back to the allergist. This has not been a good week for eyeballs in this family.

Halloween

I have never blogged out of chronological order before, and it is kind of stressing me out, but I am going to go ahead and cover Halloween and I will have to get back to some other stuff later. I think. At least I plan to. Anyway, Halloween....

We started off on a bad note with Millypants in a crabby mood and mommy waiting at the doctor for an HOUR AND A HALF with flippin' pink eye. Ridiculous. It was 5:45 when that stuipid doctor walked in and said, "I guess you can see that we are running..." At which point I interrupted with, "Yes, you are running AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES behind and I am MISSING HALLOWEEN. Now, I have pink eye, let's do this!" I really don't understand why they make four appointments for the SAME time. Call me crazy, but last time I checked, ONE doctor can only see ONE person at a time. But this is all beside the point.

Once I got home and we got Miller to the pizza portion of the evening, our little cheerleader was as happy as could be. Kid loves some pizza.

We did not take her trick-or-treating. She hung out in the driveway and handed out candy and was really stinkin' cute putting one piece of candy into each kid's bag. It was fun times. Due to my stupid eye and the idiot doctor's office, here is our best attempt at a family picture. Thanks to our neighbor, Stephanie who stopped mid trick-or-treat to take pics for us. Unfortunately, we were not very photogenic. Mommy has pink eye, baby has food all over her face (and a hilariously giant belly), and daddy just looks very surprised for some reason.

Oh well. These things never go as planned.

14 Months

For Miller's 14 month photo shoot, we were able to capture a few of her current favorite activities.....

showing her belly

getting in and out of her car

and being generally uncooperative for photo ops.

I know that you probably don't care, but I do, so I am going to list the words that she says right now. They mainly start with "b" for some reason.

ball-her favorite

bow-my favorite

banana "bababa"

bunny "bun"

mama-hardly ever, and pronounced like "mamaMA"

dada- all the stinkin' time

duck

quack

shoe-"shhhhhh"

She also says something resembling yes, which sounds like "sssss." That is all I can think of right now. I am sure Fred will let me know what I forgot!

Right now, Miller loves being outside, hug-attacks (we got a note from her teacher that she is "lovingly aggressive"), eating, and drinking milk. She is mildly obsessed with milk and would prefer to have a cup of milk hanging out of her mouth hands-free at all times. She still only uses a straw cup and won't use a sippy cup. I tried to send it to school and make her teachers deal with trying to make her do it, but they were on to me and asked me not to send it anymore. Oh well. Isn't that what I am paying them for? She can also point to her head, belly, nose, ear, foot, and eyes. She would also love to point out these body parts on anyone else who is willing to let her. She is in a really fun stage right now, and pretty much just hangs out and plays. I think we will keep her.

Baby Girl Finally Took Off

In case you are really enthralled with videos of other people's kids walking....

We thought they day would never come, but about 2 weeks ago Miller FINALLY took off, and she hasn't looked back since. She had been cruising forever, then moved on to taking 2 and 3 steps at a time. She was sooo careful. Her teacher told us one day that she walked across the room at school and she thought it was going to take forever. So, we told her that all the cool babies were walking and then she was like, "Oh, ok." Now she is all over the place. She doesn't want us to hold her hand and do not dare try to confine her to a grocery cart.