Delinquent Blogger

I've been a delinquent blogger lately. I plan on posting quite a few updates in the next few days to make up for it.

My main excuses are as follows:
1. I've been working on a memory book that chronicles Reese's first year. I bought her a pen-and-paper baby book before she was born, but since the launch of her blog I haven't done a good job of keeping up with it. To compensate I've created a hard-cover photo book using snapfish's website.

2. Reese has been dealing with more health issues. Following her back-to-back rounds of antibiotics to fight an recurring ear infection, Reese developed some pretty severe diarrhea. It turned out to be c-dif. It was scary news to hear from the doctor since c-dif can be dangerous if the conditions are right. For Reese, a wait-and-see approach coupled with some pro-biotics seemed to clear things up. (But only after almost a month of terrible diarrhea.)

3. Reese is keeping me even busier than before. As Kevin and I have conceded, in some ways she's gotten the worst combination of the two of us: she's as stubborn as a mule (that would be Kevin believe it or not--self-admitted), as well as tough but clumsy (that would be me), and to top it all off she's VERY independent (both of us at play there I think). Put this all together in the frame of a little girl who's not quite walking (more on that later) but WANTS to be, and it's a recipe for disaster. Just last night she took a scary spill. She was trying to walk from the tub to the toilet while I was filling it up for her bath. In the process of turning around, she slipped, fell backwards, and bit her lip. We didn't realize she bit her lip at first, and all we saw was a screaming child with a mouth of gushing blood. Our first thoughts, "Oh my god, did she bite the tip of her tongue off?/Did she bust a tooth out?/Where's all the blood coming from?/Did she hit her head?" We finally got her calmed down (it took awhile) and the bleeding stopped before putting her to bed. She's doing fine now and hasn't been scared by the incident because she's still on the move today. If I take my eye off of her for even a second she's into trouble or about to hurt herself. It makes for long days and no time to do anything else.