Vivian Reese, Camille Sofia, and Charles Dale

Just a quick update to let everyone know that Vivian is feeling much better the past few days and enjoying the awesome weather we have had. She went to Grammy and Grandpa's house on Sunday morning to run wild in their big yard. She really enjoyed all the free space. Then we played with our neighbor friends in the evening with the water table. A big outdoor day!! We played outside last night too. She likes everything, except for coming inside at night :)

She continues to be a chatter box and is learning more words all the time. Her newest words are sit, step, more, dora, mo (elmo), shh...at least these are the ones I can remember! She is a little sponge. We think she might even know the color yellow!! She definately knows that dandelions are yellow, as these are her new favorite thing when we take walks!

Anyway, we will go see how much she has grown on Friday and give another update then. Thanks for checking in and have a wonderful week!

Quick update...

On Thursday early morning, Vivian woke up with a pretty high fever and screaming about it. She also was making weird noises with her throat?? Since our neighbor's girls just got over strep throat and a virus (also with a sore throat), this was not overly surprising to me. I decided that with the strep throat "threat", we would probably just head to the dr. Then, she sort of vomited (poor baby). Luckily, this was the only time, at least so far. We went to the dr and have a red and swollen throat, but no strep. So, we must have the virus.

Anyway, Thursday and Friday were very challenging as Vivian ran a very high fever, which peaked at 104.5, and wouldn't drink or eat much of anything. She was also having trouble sleeping. Finally this morning, she started to feel better and her fever broke this afternoon. She has started eating and drinking better this evening and as far as the sleep, we'll see how tonight goes :)

We were still able to enjoy long walks and a little park time this afternoon. Our little girl loves the outdoors! Hopefully tomorrow she will be back to our happy little girl. We hate to see her so sick :( Have a great rest of the weekend!

Yeah...we got our last molar (at least for now)! We had a little bit of a cranky girl over the weekend, but not bad considering how much those little molars must hurt coming through! She is enjoying all of her new teeth and eating more new foods. She loves Gerber fruit chews and tortilla chips are her new fav :)

She is also learning new words and sounds every day. It is amazing. She has embraced "please" and "thank you", as she knows that mommy and daddy cannot resist the cutest little request in the world. Today at school she was trying to say her own name (this may be a challenge for a bit, but at least she is trying). Vivian trys to repeat everything, but it doesn't always come out right. It is really cute to see her speech develop :)

Vivian loves water and enjoys baths even more now. We tried to sign her up for Mommy and me swim lessons, but they are full for this session. We will try to get in again in June. For now we will use the bath and water table to play in the water.

Vivian is still loving her daycare and all of her little friends there. About a month or so ago (right after her 1st birthday), she "graduated" to the big kids class. She is taking one nap a day and doing school with the older kids. She loves school and is learning colors, music, and lots of other stuff. She really loves to hang out and be a big girl. Last week she was trying to sing and do the motions along with the bible verse for the week. How cute? She also has learned to do the itsy bitsy spider and dance like crazy. She woke up this morning and stood up and said "dance". We danced and she loved it!

Lastly, Vivian is giving hugs and kisses like the sweet little girl she is. She tells mommy and daddy (and her babies) "bye, bye" and "night, night" and gives us kisses and waves and we love it more than anything in the whole world :) She is really growing up fast and we are trying to enjoy every minute of it!

Another new tooth...only one more molar and we will hit 12 teeth. I think it will come in the next week or two.