Cousins!

Layla was thrilled to have her cousins visit yesterday.

She and Ryan played a bit while Sarah sipped some water.


And here's just a funny pic of Layla.

Date with Daddy

Prior to winter, Chris and Layla were having weekly Saturday morning dates at Starbucks around the corner. But the cold weather, and Layla's lack of desire to sit in one place, have put a brake on those outings. This weekend, though, Chris decided to head to the mall with Layla for the morning. Here she is making friends at the fun play space that they have at the food court. These people who build malls know what they're doing!

Fun with Stickers

Here's Layla enjoying one of her favorite past times....sticking stickers everywhere she can. You can't tell from the pic, but she has put three little stickers in her hair. This started because we would put them on our face or her face to make her laugh. She doesn't quite understand that stickers in the hair are potentially painful!

Could Have Been Worse!

Layla slept through the night and seems ok this morning. We haven't tried any daring food or whole milk, but I think she's over the worst of this bug. We are very thankful that we weren't up all night doing laundry! Our time will come, I'm sure...but at least for this weekend, we were spared.

Stomach Bug

I should have known something was up when Layla wasn't demanding her after-school graham crackers. Lucky me, while we were driving down 95, she decided that would be a good time to vomit....everywhere. And on the c-c-coldest day of the year (read, I didn't exactly spend quality time cleaning the car...which will be that much more fun to finish in the morning). Once we got home she couldn't keep anything down. Poor Chris took the brunt one time. She's not a juice kid so she refuses to drink pedialyte. We finally got her to keep down a few tiny helpings of watered down milk and a few oyster crackers. By the time bedtime rolled around, she was exhausted and went down no problem. We're crossing our fingers that she (and her food) stays down for the night!

Trader Joe's to the Rescue

Layla was a bit fussy and demanding graham crackers (lately this is all she wants when I pick her up, even though they've just fed her a snack at daycare...she will settle for nothing less than at least 4 whole graham crackers!) this afternoon when we stopped for some errands. Luckily, the red balloon, courtesy of Trader Joe's, put her in a fabulously silly mood for the remainder of our shopping trip, the entire ride home, and much of the evening.

QUACK!

Layla is finally big enough to wear her flannel ducky pj's that Mimi made for her. She loves to point at all of the ducks :).