Mothers Day

Pictures: Top: after I installed the gate Elizabeth sat in front of it for about 10 min. pouting and whining. Middle: Elizabeth can now pull herself up on the couch, coffee table or me to stand. As you can tell from her face she is still unsure of herself and her balance. Bottom: our happy girl smiling.

It was a busy week, like all weeks. However, Jim has been sick with the flu and has been banished to the bedroom for the past three days. I'm taking up residence on an Aero Bed in the computer room until he is symptom free.

Elizabeth continues to crawl all over the house therefore I purchased a baby gate and installed it yesterday. Its permanently attached to the kitchen entrance for the next couple years. Elizabeth continued to enjoy cat food so we had to keep her away from that. Yes, I do feed her, but she seems to go for Emily's food as often as possible. Its IAMS so the main ingredient is chicken, now I'm just sure she'll love poultry when I feed it to her.



We've had several crash and burn episodes where Elizabeth thinks shes bigger, stronger, or faster than she really is and she'll crash by rolling over things or by crawling over them and doing a face plant into the floor or onto a toy. She appears to be klutzy like myself, so I'm sure we are only at the beginning of the many cuts and bruises to come.

Only 10 days of school left in the year for teachers. Pat gives me the daily count update each day. Tomorrow she'll tell me only 1 more Monday. I finished up with 5th grade art this past week and have two more classes with my 1st graders. The little ones are so much fun to work with! Six days left with the 8th graders and the full 8.5 of the rest of the lot.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and cousins who touch the lives of children every day!