Oh what a weekend!

Let's start off with these cute little 'knee pads' for when Rachel starts crawling. Thanks to "Great Grandma Betty" for these...I can't wait to use them! I put them on Rachel the other day just to see what they were like - she had this expression like 'what the hell are those & why are they on me?' ha ha

Rachel hasn't been using her play mat for quite awhile now but she has always liked the one little toy. Over the past few weeks she has started keeping the one part in her mouth and having the rest of the toy just hang there (usually she's in her exersaucer when she's playing with this). I finally captured a picture of it when she was playing on the floor yesterday...
After her bath last night, I decided it would be fun to play with her hair. Rachel didn't seem to mind the little pony tail at the front of her head...she was more excited about her feet & her towel. How fun to chew on your feet and then cover them up? ha ha
Here's another shot of her little pony tail. I think she looks more like a girl when her hair is up.
*sigh* I don't even know where to begin with the past couple of nights around here. Rachel is a sick little munchkin. She has managed to get a cold and the poor little thing is so stuffed up. We noticed her coughing a lot more yesterday but usually she does her 'fake' cough to get our attention. Not so much the case this time around...she really did have a cough. For the past two nights, we would put her to bed in her crib and then about an hour later she would wake up screaming. We didn't know what was wrong with her - we assumed it was a teething issue - so we gave her some Motrin and she would settle down a bit...when we put her in her carseat. That's right - it's the ONLY place she was happy. Anywhere else and she was MISERABLE! So on Friday & Saturday night, Rachel slept in her carseat!
Yup - this is how Ron slept for two nights...
She seems to be feeling a bit better this afternoon. She was really sick this morning. We were just about ready to put her in the carseat to go to church when she threw up...everywhere. Thank goodness we got our couch & carpet scotch guarded! :) Anyway, she was very clingy after that episode (understandably so) until she went down for her morning nap. She woke up from that in a great mood, like usual. I think we got most of the phlegm out of her throat & nose so here's hoping she's on her way to recovery & will sleep in her crib tonight!