First Bubble bath

I just have to write to say that today while Hillary and I were shopping at Target, I saw bubble bath in the baby aisle. I immediately bought it and was so excited for Jackie's first bubble bath.

Tonight we got upstairs, set Hillary in the boppie pillow outside the bathroom door and I plopped Jax in the tub. She was excited to see Elmo on the bottle. Things were looking good. I poured in 2 cap-fulls of bubble bath. The more the merrier, right? Wrong.

She HATED it. She hated it even more because the bubbles were sticking to her hands and feet- exactly what she hated about wet sand at the beach this summer. She must get this trait from her Uncle Brian. She was crying trying to shake them off. She kept saying, "No bubble! No bubble!" I tried to distract her by playing with her ducky, singing songs - Row Row Row Your Boat gets her every time. Eventually, I gave up and took her out of the tub. She called out "Duck!" as her duck lay at the bottom of the tub covered in bubbles. I wanted to go downstairs to grab my camera to capture this moment, but I knew the second I left, she'd try to get out of the tub and either drown or hurt herself.

All night she kept pointing at the bathroom saying, "No bubbles. Duck. No bubbles."

Fail.

On a more positive note, though, she did keep her hair bow in her hair the entire day at school. This is a first.

Memorial Day 2011

This playground is about 3 to 4 blocks away from our house and Jackie LOVES to play here. If you are talking her for a walk and you pass by it without stopping she will throw a temper tantrum.

One of the first time we played at this park was on Memorial Day, which was one of the worst weekends ever work-wise for both Jim and myself. Thankfully, my mom came and saved the day by watching Jackie. Even though Jackie looks really cute on the swing, I can't look at these pictures without remembering that weekend and how difficult it was to balance 100 emails and phone calls as well as a toddler- and I cringe.

Flu Shot

Appearing above is Jackie, post-flu shot (see band-aid on arm chosen due to presence of a pumpkin and a moon) and a crying Hillary. If you ask Jackie why the baby is crying, she will respond, "Ba-ba" (bottle) or "dee-dee" (paci). Ding ding!

Jackie also shows Hillary a lot of love, as evidenced above.
But never fails to let us know when she feels neglected!

Updates

I recently learned how to get Jackie to wear barrettes- bribe her. No barrette = no paci. She's actually decided to forego her paci at times when she really didn't want to wear a barrette.
Jax has been bonding with her BFFs.
And with Grandma, complete with wearing Grandma's shoes around the house.
Hillary was in the hospital with a virus. Above is her in the ER hospital bed right after her spinal tap. And below is her in our hospital room. Thank goodness it turned out to be only a virus.

Things have hopefully returned to normal. Jackie in daycare part-time and hanging with her 3 sisters the rest of the time- my 3 sentries.

One Month

Today at Hillary's one month wellness visit, the verdict is in:

She weighs 9 pounds 10 ounces (60th percentile)

Her height is 22 1/4 inches (90th percentile)

Her head is 37 cm (50th percentile)

She's meeting all her developmental milestones (tracking objects with her eyes, moving limbs on both sides of her body equally, etc... I can't remember the rest).

She received her 2nd Hep B vaccine and cried loudly.

I must say, though, sitting in the waiting room with a sleeping infant is much easier than sitting in a waiting room trying to tame a toddler. Despite the fact that both Hillary and I have colds and I haven't slept for over 3.5 consecutive hours in 5 weeks- we had a nice morning!