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Neely now has 6 teeth! The top left 1st incisor is in. Poor girl. She only had the one rough night though, she's gotten a couple more teeth now without acting fussy.

"Babe"

Poor Neely woke up within an hour or two of going to sleep last night. She seemed happy, just wide awake, but pretty soon I noticed she felt a little warm, and she was restless. We went out to the living room once I figured out she wasn't going back to sleep.

She started to get a little sad, and nursing didn't soothe her like usual, so I pulled out the big guns, Yo Gabba Gabba. Haha. It made her mostly happy, although every once in a while she'd kind of whimper, and squirm a little bit. (So this post will have some pictures, here's one of her relaxing with Paige, and watching Yo Gabba Gabba a few days ago)
We dozed on and off, but neither of us slept too well last night. And lo and behold, this morning she has yet another new tooth, top right 2nd incisor, and a bunch of other swollen areas on her gums. Paige and Caso both had 12 teeth at 12 months old, so maybe she's trying to get caught up to them. Poor thing.

Cason calls her "babe" lately. He'll come up and cuddle her and say "Hey babe." It cracks me up.

"Oafman"

Jess and I decided to try and be less lame on the weekends. So last weekend, on Saturday, we took the kids to Oatman. Paige calls it "Oafman" though. :)

I wondered what Neely would think of the burros, but she started laughing the first time she noticed them.

Cason and Paige both really liked them, but got a little nervous once they came close.
Less nervous with the cute little babies though.
The signs on their heads said not to feed them, but Jess said he noticed a Japanese family, who probably couldn't read in English, feeding them all kinds of stuff. Ha.

We had lunch, and it was actually pretty good.
Neely tried her first french fry, and approved.
Then Paige and Cason watched the gunfight. Cason kept asking me if anyone was going to shoot him. He didn't seem very scared, he was just wondering. Ha.


Then we took pictures:We searched FOREVER for one of the stores to sell us some food to give the burros. It was surprisingly hard to find someone who could clearly explain to us which store would sell it. Ha.

Just when the burro food search got frustrating, Neely made me feel better by playing peekaboo.

On the way back to town, we called Jess's Grandparents to see if we could stop in and visit. Great Grama was thinking about a nap, but still let us interrupt.
Neely entertained her lots.
Cason came in for a quick hug,
but mostly chatted with Great Grampa.
Paige and Great Grama discussed eyedrops. Ha.
I've taken so many days off of blogging, trying to figure out how to load pics to our new computer, that I can't even remember what I would've blogged about in the last week. Other than the night Cason used the head massager as a hat for Neely.

Well...

...we're still having technical difficulties, so no pictures. But yesterday Neely pulled herself up while holding onto the couch, smiled at me, and let go. She stood for a few seconds without holding on, for the first time. Today she got a new tooth, the top right incisor.

Paige is doing well, her cast doesn't seem to bother her or slow her down at all, and she will hopefully get it off in just over a week.

And Cason still thinks "last week" means any time in the past, so he tells us "I was a baby last week."

So....we're still alive.

Monkey Feet

Thursday night Paige and Cason wanted to spend the night with Grampa, Grama Trudi, and Coco. So we got them in pjs, they packed their bags, and we dropped them off. Cason fell asleep before we even got there. Ha.
Paige didn't.
So on Saturday Jess worked on tiling our shower,
and Neely and I entertained each other. I like how babies use their feet to play with their toys, almost as much as they use their hands.

She was a big fan of this Buzz Lightyear toy all day.
Although she was really upset with it for a minute, and I didn't know why.
Look at this baby elbow.
This sweet girl loves me. When I play softball, Jess wears her in the carrier. I like to see them walking around the park like that. She's always perfectly happy in there. But last night when I came out of the dugout she was all happy to see me. I got her out and held her and she cuddled up to my chest, so happy. Every once in a while she'd lean back and gaze up at me, and touch my face. Then she'd do her lovey dovey thing where she pushes our foreheads together for a second, and then our faces like she's kissing me. Then she'd cuddle her head against my chest again. She repeated that for several minutes, and I felt loved. I'm gonna try to make sure that's one of the things I remember from her baby days.

"You're Welcome" Notes

Last Friday, before the accident, Jess rented a texture sprayer from Home Depot, and finished the drywall in the playroom, a spot in the kitchen, and our bathroom, which we're redoing. We meant to try and paint and have it all done during the weekend, but obviously our weekend didn't go as planned.

So EVERYTHING from the playroom has been scattered all over the house, and I haven't even tried to keep any kind of order. So our house is in shambles. PLUS it was another warm, really humid day. So at about 3 pm, when we started to get sticky, frizzy hair, we moved into our room to turn on the window a/c and lounge around together watching Charlie and Lola.

The little girl wanted down so she could "walk" along the side of the bed,
giving me that mischievous look.
Cason did the usual.
At one point he hopped off the bed, and then just stayed down there for a minute. When he didn't come right back I called to him. He didn't answer so I said "Cason? Are you okay?" He still didn't answer, and Paige gasped and looked at me, all worried. I asked ONE more time and he said "Yeah, I'm okay." Paige goes "Phew, I thought he was killed."

Paige practiced drawing/writing with her right hand, since her good one is out of commission. She drew me a mermaid.
Not bad. She put it next to me and asked me to pretend it came in the mailbox. So I did, and then I scribbled a quick thank you note, and put in "the mail".
Then she wrote me a "thank you for the thank you".
So obviously, I sent her a "You're welcome" note.
Then I tried to get some pictures of Neely and me. She wouldn't look at the camera, just wanted to cuddle up to my head. Ha.
During all her cuddling I got a look inside her mouth and saw she has a new tooth poking through. The top left incisor. She'd been a little fussy in the evenings lately, so I guess that was probably why.

She cuddled me for several minutes, but then Gia hopped up and stole her attention away.
Cason was sneaking around in our closet, and just when I was about to ask what he was doing, he emerged like this:
He did NOT have a sword when he went in. Haha.

Paige is still pretty discriminating when it comes to what she'll allow other people to draw on her cast, but she added a few little colorful spots.
Pretty soon we heard the front door swing open, and Paige and Cason went running, yelling "DADDY'S HOME!!!!" Neely started trying to follow them, and clearly said "Dada" a couple of times.
I thought I heard it a few times over the last week or two, but Jess wouldn't allow me to call it officially, until this time!

Another Fun One

This picture perfectly captures Neely's personality lately. We're suddenly seeing SO much more of it. She seems like she might be a little bit like her class clown of a brother. She's been pretending to bite me, but doesn't really do it, just comes close enough to make me squeal, and then she cracks up. Sometimes she'll fake scream too, like she's making fun of me. Ha.

She'll crawl over to wherever you are, use your legs or the couch to pull herself up and then give you the funniest mischievous smile.