So many new things

It's been a terribly exciting day for me :)  Scarlett is finally pulling herself to standing.  Now that she's learned it's all she wants to do.  Here she is after waking up from her morning nap.  Don't even ask me about the pm nap.  There wasn't one because Scarlett only wanted to stand up!

The words have been coming, fast and furious.  When she was holding her blue ring and told me it was "buuu" and then told me her yellow ring was "yeeee" I thought it was just a coincidence.  Until I held up her blocks in a different room and she was able to tell me the blue and yellow blocks.  Is it possible that my 14 month old (in 2 days) already knows some colours?

I was quite surprised to watch Scarlett crawl over to her piano and pull herself to stand up at it.  She usually isn't interested in it at all, even if I sit behind her to hold her in place.  Today it occupied her attention for quite some time.

Monday was Family Day in Ontario.  Scarlett and I had a very nice day.  This is her at the library before we went into the program.

I'm very tired tonight and I still have so much to do (wash lunch dishes, prepare my fruit for breakfast, turn on the dishwasher, do my marking), but I wanted to blog for a few minutes.

I am enjoying every aspect of being Scarlett's mom.  She just delights me.  She has a wonderful sense of humour and seems to get when things are funny.  Now she's just picking up words and signs at an incredible speed.  I don't think I can teach her fast enough.  Yesterday I took my boots out of the closet to put them on and Scarlett said "Boooo"....she knew they were boots without any prompting from me.  Then she gets so proud of herself when I cheer for her.

She has a terrific signing vocabulary that keeps growing, although since so many signs involve both hands touching, many look the same.  There have been many signs that I didn't even know she knew how to sign and she is suddenly doing them.  I guess watching me for so many months has really paid off.

I'm always thinking to myself "I have to remember to blog about this..."  But when the time comes to sit down here at the computer, I don't remember exactly what I wanted to say.  Two more weeks until March Break and then I can pull her out of daycare and spend time with her.  I want to take her to programs like we did on mat leave...I want to watch her as she listens to songs and stories like I did on Family Day.

Oh, one more thing...at daycare the babies "painted" pictures of their families.  There on the wall next to all the paintings of babies with their parents is the painting of Scarlett and her mommy.  I felt so proud of our little family.  Proud to be displayed for everyone to see...Scarlett and her mommy....Our Family!

It's been quite a while

I can't believe how busy I've been.  The most I've been able to do on blogspot is read blogs (and I am reading).  I don't have time to write comments to anyone or even to post my own.  My I am still out here and following all of you.

It's been cold after cold after pink eye after ear infection after cold after pink eye (you get the point) around here.  Scarlett is thriving at daycare, but keeps bringing home everyone's germs.  It's become booger city.  My parents and I both keep catching it as well.

Scarlett loves going to "school" and "school" loves Scarlett.  I couldn't be happier.  At first they were kind of blowing off the fact that Scarlett uses sign language to communicate.  But now they tell me that every day they have "Scarlett sharing time" where Scarlett shares all of the signs she knows.  They are amazed with her communication.  I couldn't be prouder :)  She's also repeating everything.  I can't believe how much she knows already.

Scarlett gets very attached to certain toys and puts one in each hand when she crawls around.  This results in many belly flops on the floor as her hands slide out in front of her while she's crawling.  You'd just have to see it...adorable!

Here Mommy, you can have one of my blocks!

I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still out here...still reading.  Work has been hectic.  I leave right at 3:45 to pick Scarlett up, and then I spend time with her until bedtime, and then I shower and work until my bedtime at 10pm.  It doesn't leave a lot of me time.  But I'm just in a really good place.  I love going to work and I love being with Scarlett...me time just has to take a bit of a back burner for now.