I have to say that I am so blessed with a little baby that is totally in love with me. It makes all those late night wake up calls and long days of carrying around a 22+lb baby around worth it. I think the girls were in love with me but not like Landis, maybe because they had each other. Landis tracks me when I enter and leave a room and cries when I leave the room (she only cries for a second to show her disapproval). She is a very expressive baby and is even babbling mama while looking at me.

Her sleep schedule is still adjusting from Texas time and it is hard on her but she is doing okay. We had a few late nights (for us) where she went to bed around 9:30 and the last couple days we have been successful in getting her to nap twice a day and go to bed around 7PM which is what we are used to. She wakes up around 6-7AM and is napping right now at 9:25AM but was ready for a nap at 8:40AM. Jace and I need to get on baby proofing the cabinets, right now we just have all the cords and outlets covered but there is nothing toxic in any of the lower cabinets anyway so maybe it will be alright.

Landis was a dream baby the whole trip and that was nice. The driving went surprisingly well for everyone, thank goodness for the VES (video entertainment system). I still love my minivan even more so on long trips.

Landis is crawling up a storm these days and she is never where you left her. I am not used to a mobile baby but our house is great for it because you can see every corner from just about anywhere so she is free to roam. She has some really cute interactions that we have to get on video to share.

We are all recovering from the trip so I haven’t posted much. My computer is acting up so Jason is working on that and I am using his (much to his dismay I am sure). We are getting back into the swing of things and catching up on our rest which is good since it is 110 outside. But it feels better than Austin did to me which is a little bit of a surprise. I guess I like dry to humid or at least it is what I am used to these days.

It’s certainly painful for a parent when their child is sick… there’s only so much you can do and at times you just feel completely helpless. But with Piper and Lela at least you can sit down and explain things with comforting words… they can even have some relief purely by distraction (Leap pad, Doodle pad, Cat in the Hat, etc…)

But when it hits Landis… ouch. It’s terrible hearing her cough then cry because the cough just hurt her throat. And then her cry is so hoarse it makes things even worse. Poor thing.

Uber-kudos to Mystique, though, for taking care of not just Landis, but a sick Lela, a somewhat-sick (but certainly grumpy) Piper, while still managing to make wonderful meals for her goofy husband. All the while surviving on just decaf, too!

So that’s what is going on around here… a couple of sick kids. Who knows how we got sick but we like to blame it on a nearby park that we’ve nicknamed, “get-sick-quick park.” That nickname has stuck so well that Piper was even referring to it by that name when she was talking with my parents over video-Skype. I’m not sure my parents caught it, but when they asked her what she did that day she replied in a cheerful voice, “get-sick-quick park!” Cracked me up.

This morning Piper came in when Mystique and I were cooing at Landis on our bed… first thing Piper did was make a beeline to the side of the bed and say, “Hi Landis!”

The girls have also been getting a kick out of whenever Landis looks at them, or brushes their hand while stretching, etc… We hear a lot of “Landis likes me!” and “Landis touched my arm!” It’s great because those are happy exclamations. Not like, “Piper is touching me!” “Lela is touching me!” Quite different