Daddy's Girl

Almost every morning the first thing Andi says to me is "where daddy go?" when I say he's at work she says "Daddy all gone". She loves the weekends when I say Daddy's sleeping instead of at work and has decided it is her job to wake him up. I swear I don't put her up to it. Sunday for example she got up from her nap and was playing quietly in her room so I went to the front to do who knows what and all of a sudden I hear "Daddy wake up, play toys!" She had gone into our room, turned off the floor fan, and was standing by Thad's head pushing her toys in his face. And it's these times he's not so happy about her being a daddy's girl ;)
Andi is also trying to be a little too grown up these days and has begun deciding when she will and won't take naps. Yesterday I put her down and went out back to work in the yard. I came in 45 minutes later and she was yelling "Momma, momma stuck!" So I'm thinking great, she's got an appendage stuck between the crib bars again and has been yelling for me all this time. But I open the door and she's standing up and says "I stuck in bed. . . no sleep." I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence. I really like Andi's nap time.
I have tried this last week to get some pictures of Andi but if she sees either camera(video or still) she wants to "see Andi". We made the mistake of showing her the pictures of her while they were still on the camera and the little narcissist can't get enough of it. So I haven't been quick enough yet to snap a shot before she runs to hold the camera, again, I'll work on it.
other than that we are taking another stab at potty training this week, so far it's not going over too well. Any of you who have done this potty training thing and have advice/tips I would greatly appreciate them.

Leo!

So Andi has been watching a lot of Little Einstein lately, which means so have Thad and I. One of the late nights we had with Andi this week we noticed something really funny. We think that the creators of the show modeled Leo after our friend Paul. Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but it sure looks like a match to us. What do you think?

V-day & recovery

Well, this week has not been the traumatic one I expected. Monday was bad. . . really bad. Probably the worst day of both of our lives. Andi of course was in all kinds of pain and wouldn't swallow anything, including her own spit, and she put up a huge fight every time it came to giving her medicine. I think I ended up wearing more than she took. It was the most exhausting day, and night. But Tuesday came and she was a new person. I would say like 85% back to normal. She was still not wanting to drink too much, but she wanted to eat. And not any of the mushy stuff I bought for her. She wanted Daddy's cookie crisp cereal for breakfast, and it wasn't even soggy! She had a couple of good days until I guess the scabs come off and then Thursday was not so fun for her, and Thursday night was not so fun for me ;) But Friday morning she seems to be back to normal, eating and drinking regularly and everything. But the poor thing totally has cabin fever and I need to get her out to play today, all day yesterday she kept saying "paige, walter, paige, walter, nick!".
Valentines day was as uneventful as always. That's not a complaint I swear, we just don't put much stock into the holiday I guess. Thad does get me flowers every year, and he jokingly complains every year that he never gets flowers. So this year I bought him flowers ;) not a bouquet or anything, cos it had to be semi-manly. I bought some potted calla lilies at Lowes, and being bulbs we can plant them in the yard once we do the extension and flower boxes. They are very pretty, but I bought them at his favorite store, and he will have to plant them later so I felt like it wasn't that girly.
I apologize for the lack of pictures lately. I'll work on that.

No turning back

I thought I would post now and excuse myself from blogging for the next week or so. Andi's surgery is scheduled for 6:20 Monday morning. Why on earth they think it needs to be done so early is beyond me, but I'm sure they have their reasons. Anyway, I'm sure it's going to be a very rough week, and I won't be blogging. But I did go buy some new DVD's for Andi, more for my benefit than hers I think because I was not looking forward to watching the same ones she's been watching over and over and over again next week. Gotta mix it up a bit. I've also made my Costco, Albertsons, and Target runs to stock up on everything so I won't have to try to get to the store next week. So I think I'm all set, but I'm still dreading it.
Thad and I are going to the temple tonight with our stake. Actually I am hitching a ride with my parents who have to go work an earlier shift and will be dropping me off a little over halfway there, where Thad is supposed to meet me and we are going to dinner before the session. So here is hoping he gets off on time and is actually there to meet me on time and I'm not left hanging out in a jack in the box waiting for him ;)
I'll be back after Andi is back to normal.