Grandma's on her way!

On Monday, Mike's mom (Grandma Val) told us that she would be in town on the weekend! She is here right now for some meetings, but will be staying with us on the weekend. Paige should be getting excited!

Today I managed to capture the face that I was talking about:

Last night we bundled Paige up and attempted to take her out in my old baby sled. We thought it would be perfect since we were snowed in all day, and the streets still hadn't been ploughed. Well, as soon as we stuffed her in the sled out on the street, she was terrified!

Poor little girl. We were thinking that she was probably pretty confused being pulled along so low to the ground. We ended up walking around the block carrying her and dragging an empty sled. People were shovelling their driveways and probably thought that we were nuts.

I have had to do a bit more rearranging and putting away of things. Paige is constantly bonking her head on things. She went through a few days where she barely hurt herself at all, which can be attributed to her increasingly better climbing skills. But now she is trying to climb up straight objects, like the corner of the wall, or the leg of a table, rather than grabbing the edge of a shelf or something. So now she slips sometimes while she is attempting these little maneuvers. She hit her head really bad today, and I feel really bad. It's not that I don't watch her, but sometimes you just have to let her try new things otherwise she gets really fussy and bored. I take it that we need to get her a couple of big toys that she can pull herself up on...like one of those activity tables, or the little walker thing I was talking about getting...anything that is safer. Now I can think like a baby and predict what she is thinking of climbing up on, like her friend Amy, for instance.

A new game for Paige to play is to take out all of the DVD's from the second shelf and then play with them. I figure we will let her do this until she becomes bored of it, rather than constantly pull her away. Realistically we will have to move this bookshelf before she gets big enough to tip it over.

I am finding myself having less and less time to myself now. I can't go on the computer anymore unless Paige is sleeping. She used to like her playpen, but now she gets mad in it if she is in it for more than 2 minutes. It works wonders when I need to go grab her bottle or a coffee or something though (oh right--that no coffee thing lasted for 24 hours). Because I realized I can't leave her alone for even 30 seconds if I run really, really fast down the stairs to get a bottle because she will make her way over and stand against the baby gate! What a little scammer! I mean, if I tried to sneak down quietly while she was occupied I am sure she would be ok, but still. Basically, I can't do very much unless she is sleeping anymore. Luckily she has a couple of decent naps during the day...making up for the less than decent nighttime...but I digress...