Ava is really sick now. She is coughing like crazy, has a fever, and is just blah. She was ok this morning, but deteriorated around noon. She slept for 2 hours this afternoon, and fell asleep at 7 this evening. Unheard of.
On the other hand, Carter is back to normal! He is practicing his talking again, loves to splash in the tub, and is working really hard at crawling. He can now get anywhere he wants to in a room, but it is just not via a straight line. He uses a combination of rolls, scoots, push-offs and other impossible to categorize movements to get to a desired object. Babyproofing is going to get into full swing soon.
I got my hair cut today, and now I am almost a hip Austin mom.
Ava went to the macrobiotic place a few days ago and played while Grandma and I ate, and she was all by herself on the playground and having a total ball, especially when I showed her where the toys were, notably the big digger. A few kids joined the scene, and went about doing their thing, but soon there were enough for her to take note and get curious about them. They were older, probably 6 or 7, and were familiar with the playground, and doing stuff that Ava thought was great, and she basically shadowed them for a while, watching and picking at her fingernails and occasionally mimicking them. They went down the slide, she went down the slide after they were finished. But she CLEARLY wanted to be invited to play. But they were preoccupied with themselves, and she was such a little squirt--finally she came over to me and asked to be picked up and said "there are much kids here tonight..." It was odd--I think she both loved it and disliked it. She liked being taught by example, but she was a littly intimidated by the big-kid play, and was not quite sure why they did not play with her. She definitely needed a bit of a snuggle.
We don't have to worry about that now though, since she is in quarantine. Poor kid. She did get to make gingerbread people with grandma this morning though. AND she got to wear Grandma's toe-sox. No end to the excitement over that.
