Easter!!

Well, it feels like its been forever since I wrote.... as usual, a lot has happened! LO is so cute. I think I fall more in love with her everyday! She now says mama, dada, bubba, up, dis, dat, byes, oh, and baby. She is also throwing temper tantrums at daycare (oh joy...). The day before last, she threw 3 very big tempertantrums for silly things like not being allowed to climb on the table! One of them was so big that the director came out of her office because she thought LO was hurt because she was screaming so loud! Yesterday, she was playing on the floor at DC and another child BIT her! Its a really bad bite too, but it didn't break the skin, so thats good.

I am not adjusting well to being a working mom! I can't seem to get everything done and it seems as though food and cleaning have taken a backseat to everything else.... I'm trying to get organized, but I can't seem to do it! My Easter shopping got done the day before Easter!! I took LO to see the Easter bunny on the day before Easter, because I realized I hadn't taken her to see him yet. We approached the bunny, who was interacting with another child. I made a big deal out of him. "Oh who is that!! Its the easter bunny!!!!" She was looking interested, so I thought maybe. He was ready for us, so I brought her close to him. She held on to me VERY tightly... I sat down next to him and was still making a big deal out of him. She was thinking maybe.... I then put her hand on his fur.... she pulled her hand away... I started to give her to him, and she started crying and squeezing on to me. I decided after a few tries, to not get the picture this year. I don't see the point in making my child freak out and cry just to get a picture. Maybe next year. But I still felt good about actually taking her.

I bought her a VERY sweet Easter dress, and for her Easter treats, I got a sand pail and shovel, put some plastic bags in it, and some purple tissue paper on top, and then put a chocolate smelling stuffed rabbit, a few small chocolate bunnies, a chocolate coated marshmallow bunny in it. I also bought her a bunny purse (dollar store!) and some eggs filled with hair ties! We also bought some plastic eggs and put some reese's bunnies in them. Easter morning, she had to go and find them. I honestly didn't think she would catch on at all, being 15 months old, but she did. She got almost all of them! Then she carried some of the eggs around all day, and still even has a few kicking around! She also got one open and took a bite of the peanut butter bunny, foil and all..... I wish I had a picture of THAT face!!! HAHA. We then went over to great grammies for supper with the family.

A few weeks ago, grammy and grampy came over to visit. They brought coffee and doughnuts. LO had never had a donut before, so grammie broke her off a piece. She LOVED it. She licked the chocolate, and walked around giggling as she ate it. Then she came back for more, and more.... I think mom fed her over half the donut.... then all of the sudden, she stood behind her toy chair, and pushed it into the kitchen, and then turned around and pushed it back to the livingroom, and back to the kitchen, and back to the living room.... this continued on for 45 min!!!! She just ran back and forth! Mom says "you might want to give her a bit of sugar now and then to get her used to it!!!" She was starting to slow down a bit, so I said "is it time for nappy naps?" LO walked over to her door, knocked on the door and waited for me to open the door. Once the door was open, she went over to her crib, and waited! I picked her up, put her in her crib, and she rolled over and went to sleep for 2 hours! Mom couldn't believe it. She kept saying "Is she putting herself to BED!!???"

I have been feeling pretty guilty lately. I feel that between work, and life in general, I don't get to spend enough time with LO. It's part of the whole trying to figure out how to balance everything. But really, I don't feel like i have enough time to spend with her. We are always at work, or driving, or making supper, etc etc. Leaving the house at 6:50am and getting home at 6pm doesn't give a lot of time for anything but getting dressed. baths, bottles, and food. Its terrible. But there is nothing I can do about that right now :-(

Today I took LO to hubby's work to visit with grammy and grampy and dada. As we were leaving, she made a fishy face!! We laughed sooooo hard! She sucked her cheeks in and bit on them to make the fishy face! TOO FREAKING CUTE!