Week 12

Where has the time gone? Everyone always told me that life goes more quickly when you have a child and man, oh man, is that true! I feel like I had her last week. I am doing my best not to wish any of our time together away and am constantly telling her that she can take all the time she needs and can stay small as long as she wants!

I think I have missed a week of this blog somewhere but am just going to pick up from here.

Esme has become VERY vocal in the last week. She has been jabbering and making noise for a while now but this past week took everything to a whole new octave! She loves the sound of her voice (as do I!) and is still doing her fake cough all the time. I love it all!

What have I missed over the past few weeks? Hmmm. Well, we had a massive wind and rain storm that caused our road to be shut down and our roof to leak! We were stunned as we live in a brand new apartment that is less than a year old! They still have not come to fix it and I am getting stressed about mold...they better come soon. We had water dripping our of our electrical stuff! Not safe at all. If they haven't sorted it by the time we get back from London heads are gonna roll!!!

We are on our third bathtub and I think this one is gonna work! The first tub was a spa. We never used the spa part but other than that it was just ok. The main problem is that the sling was REALLY difficult to remove and wash and it got must very easily. The second tub was a blue plastic tub. Ez was too big for the infant sling and too small for the toddler bit. It had to go. The third "tub" is just a sling that you put in the "big girl bathtub." It is actually made by the same company as the first tub but the sling comes apart easily and is easy to wash.

The second and most dangerous tub!


The new (and hopefully final!) tub


We celebrated our first St. Patrick's day. Esme was in the most adorable outfit and looked absolutely perfect. I even put a big, green, sparkly flower in her hair!







A few of my favorite pics from this week:

Grandma making Ez laugh. Her eye is so funny!!!!!




We spent this past Sunday visiting Dick and Miriam (Miriam is my Grandpa Wil's cousin) in Philadelphia (King of Prussia). They were thrilled to meet Esme and even got her a little stuffed doggy! She loves it and would not stop kissing it!



And the doggy kisses didn't stop there! Ez has known her share of cats but had never met a dog before. Sandy was the best dog to start with. She loves kids (Dick and Miriam have 9 grandkids) and is sweet and gentle. She loved Ez!!

Doggy kisses


Miriam made us a lovely dinner (I even tried meatloaf) and we had a lovely time catching up- we haven't seen them since Thanksgiving when I was still pregnant! We enjoy spending time with them and look forward to visiting them again soon.