So much to tell. You have turned into a little girl right before my eyes  this month. You babble, say words, walk with ease, carry your baby around and ask for your favorite movies. You can say the following words: Max, Ma Ma, Da Da Ba for bottle, Hi, Bye Bye, Re-for remote, ruff ruff, Do for Dog and more. I am sure there are others but those are the ones that I can make out currently.

You love to point at everything and you give this look..I know you are asking me WHY? I can see the future already..so many questions and so many answers. I have a feeling that you will always want to know the answer just like your momma.

You have been cutting two teeth this month-a molar on the bottom right and a tooth on the bottom right and I swear I feel a bump on the bottom left. OUCH. We actually had to give you motrin for a few days but things seemed to have calmed down since the tooth broke through. Poor baby. Teething stinks!

You are so sweet and so much fun. You love to play with blocks and you love to put things inside of other things. You enjoy playing with the little kitchen we have in the playroom. Every morning we go downstairs and you sit on this big bean bag and watch MILO and OTIS-a movie about a PUG and  CAT while I work out. You play and watch me and we sing songs..even though I can barely catch my breath as I am running.

You enjoy empty vitamin bottles, water bottles, and anything that is not a toy. You still love to sing and dance and enjoy yourself the most when music is playing. You are shy to a degree but the minute you warm up..you are chatty and dancing.

You were able to see two huge storms that totaled almost 40 inches here in Philadelphia and that is unheard of but you witnessed it and we had a lot of fun playing outside. You loved going down the hill with your Daddy, as I know you are such Daddy’s little girl. And by the way, he loves you so much too!

You still love to snuggle despite how independent you are and I love that. You have very curly hair, especially the day after we wash your hair and it reminds of the curls I had when I was your age.

Your favorite movie is SHREK. You have a little couch inf ront of the TV and you will sit there until your favorite scene and then you must go to the TV and watch close up..it can’t be good for your eyes but it is what you do and it is adorable.

You are doing great with your food and pooping..both subjects we talk about in this house a lot due to allergies. I think this protocol that we have had you on since November is working and we are addressing some issues that are finally getting your tummy in good order. You love squash, home made banana muffins, rice, apples, pears, carrots and kefir. I also give you a litle cultured veggies each week to help with your digestion and gut..we are just so happy that you are pooping daily. You are also on a homeopathic remedy called SULFUR, which is helping you to process the sulfur better in your little body-hoping that you will have less reactions wot foods with sulfur and almost every food has sulfur.

So things are good with you and you are just such a blessing in my life. I never knew how amazing it would be to have a girl. You have taught me so much about myself. I see my fire in you and I see that part of you that is a little volcano when you don’t get your way-kicking and screaming on the floor but then-I show you cups ands blocks and it is all over. You are a great kid and everybody that sees you just says you have so much personality and so much to say already.

Ever since you learned to walk, you are just so happy and you love to explore and hide and play games. You are playing great with your brother and you guys have a lot of fun together. We adore you. I guess there is not much more to say than that. Thank you for being my daughter.

Love you tons,

Mommmy

“Ope” (which is open)

Then I said, “Open what”

Then he said, “This”

Then I said, “No, not now”

Then he said, “Cock”

Then I said, “what did you say?”

Then he said, “daddy cock”

Then I said, “what is cock?”

The he said, “Daddy cock”

The I said, “show me”

The he moved his hand back and forth along the box and said COCK again and I said…of you mean CUT!! CU-TTTTTTTTTTT!

Funny because Max had been saying COCK for a week now and had no clue what he was saying. I guess his speech intervention is working. I love that kid!

I thought Max would have a tough time without his cookies but he was fine. So now he snacks on potato chips, french fries, rice cakes, fruit and these oat bars that I buy from Odwalla. But I was crying my eyes out when were at the dcotors office-and thank goodness Max was not there to watch this. It was just the last straw and I lost it. Between the lice, the speech evaluation and the food-well I let go and boy the tears ran down my face. Not sure why but it just made me feel helpless. 

Of course there has been no word or letter attached to Max but hey he is our kid and I have my learning stuff and so does Scott but we found out way. I guess that it what I realized through all of this. We are no academics and we will never be but we have both made business choices that have been good for us. I was great selling real estate and going with my gut and scott is amazing at what he does. We found our way and so will Max but for now, we are going to support him to learn how to talk. A teacher will come once a week and then a speech pathologist will come every other week.

We had a speech evaluation for Max last week and let me just say it was stressful. The women who came over were amazing but it was still hard. They asked so many questions about Max and us and well, and I was reminded of my own struggles with audio perception and just how my brain learns. I always had a tough time in school because I did not learn like most kids. But once I fell in love with real estate, well it all clicked for me. I was great at math for the first time on my life and I felt smart for the first time in my life. I am hoping if we let our gut heal for the next 6 months free of all of this stuff then we will all feel better and it will allow Max’s brain to be wide open for learning.

So anyway, that is the news over here! What a week already.