Flying a Kite

This video is totally blowing my mind!! I cannot believe that my little baby girl is flying a kite all by herself!!

So jealous that I'm not home to play!



I will say, though, that I had a great weekend with my baby girl. We spent a lot of one-on-one time together, including a trip to the park, and we had a blast. I love that spring is almost here! It's almost time for the BEACH!! :D

Reading Olivia

Corbin loves Olivia, which is cute because that is her middle name. She has the book and now there is a show that comes in Nick Jr. that she watches almost every day.

She sits and reads her Olivia book all the time, and today I was able to catch her in the act.

She also tries to say "Olivia," but it comes out sounding more like "Aye-yah." Ryan and I have gone back and forth about what she's really saying when she says "Aye-yah," but I know she is saying Olivia because she says it when she's looking at the book and when the show comes on! See for yourself!



Glad there's something she's into besides Yo Gabba Gabba!

Also, right this minute she's running around saying "Aye-yah" and pulling her diaper down so I can see her little butt. Better get her into some pajamas so she doesn't pull it off!

Can't wait until Thanksgiving this week! :D

Princess Corbin

My child is the epitome of vain. She loves looking at herself in the mirror and chattering away. She is just fascinated with her reflection, no matter where she may find it: the oven, a large cooking pot, the faucet in the bathtub, ANYWHERE. It cracks me up because she actually "primps" while she's in the mirror by fussing with her hair. If it's a ponytail, she'll touch it. If it's bows, she wants to pull them, and if it's just hanging loose, she's running her hands over it.

Lately she's become infatuated with this plastic tiara that found its way into her toybox. She gets excited when you put it on her, runs to the mirror to see, and then goes to adjust it, which means she takes it off. When she realizes she can't put it back on, she gets upset and then brings it to me to put it back on.

Here's a little peek!



This time she has found her reflection in the glass of the doors leading outside. And she's strutting her stuff as Princess Corbin, devourer of brownies. :)

Sugar Rush!

This morning I was woke up by insane giggling. Turns out, Corbin had a bit too much sugar at breakfast and she is practically bouncing off the walls. She's had a Little Dog Rodeo and she just can hardly contain herself.

Just see it for yourself. :)



Sorry about the high-pitches. She gets a little too excited sometimes.

Also, those are CLEAN CLOTHES on the floor, lol. Time to fold and put away the laundry! :)

New Favorite Toy

Disclaimer: There's not really a baby in the oven. That's just what we say when she starts talking to her reflection, lol.

Cookie Monster

So if there's one thing that Corbi-lou loves more than Yo Gabba Gabba, it's vanilla wafers. She likes these cookies like it's nobody's business.

And so of course, she knows what the box looks like and has decided she wants to try to get cookies for herself. This morning I caught her in action. She thinks she's so sneaky, lol.



Also, please note her amazing collection of mosquito bites. They popped up on her Friday morning, after a day of NOT being outside. Not sure how the mosquito(s) got in our room, but it had quite a feast of my baby girl. I took her to the doctor to make sure everything was okay, and of course he reassured me that things were fine. Corbin hasn't acted like she even notices them, either, so I guess I shouldn't be too worried!

In other news, her fifth tooth just came in, and she's been a MUCH happier baby since! We can even take her out in public again! :D

My Baby is Sick. :(

I know I mentioned it a few posts back saying that Corbin hadn't got sick yet, and that I knew it was eventually coming...and sadly, it is here, and she has been pitiful.

Starting Friday night or so, she had this cough, but it sounded productive, so I wasn't too terribly worried. She didn't seem cranky at all and was just being her usual self. Saturday and Sunday, though, the cough got worse, and she was sleeping a lot more than usual. Last night she ended up sleeping in the bed with us because we were having to get up so much to check on her. She was having a hard time breathing because her nose was stopped up and she would just start babbling incessantly in her sleep and thrashing around. It was sad. :(

At around 5 this morning, I had to get out the bulb syringe, which she HATES. Anytime I've had to use it on her, she's screamed like it was the end of the world. But she couldn't breathe! What was I supposed to do?! So, I did what I had to do, and yes, she freaked out, but luckily Ryan was able to soothe her back to sleep.

And guess what? It made all the difference.

Slept like a baby. :)

HOWEVER, I did call Dr. Baker this morning and scheduled an appointment for this afternoon because she seemed to be running a slight fever when I got up to get ready for work and she ended up sleeping almost all day, only waking up to eat. I was able to get off work an hour early so we could go in, and he checked her out. Everything was fine, she just had a little bit of a viral cold, and he said it would probably pass quickly, and prescribed some baby cough medicine.

So yeah, my baby is sick, but I think she's getting better. Not quite as pitiful today, and Ryan and I were both laughing because the whole time Dr. Baker was in the room with us, she didn't cough one time. As soon as he left the room, she was barking up a lung. Silly baby. :)

And speaking of silly baby, here is a video of Corbin figuring out how to make herself swing, lol.

James P. Sullivan

When Ryan and I got married, we went to Disney World on our honeymoon, much to my delight, and much to his distress, I'm sure, lol. We only had about $65 for the entire trip as spending money, so we put almost all of that into buying some food so we could pack lunches while we were there and the rest went towards parking and gas. Even though we only had such a small amount of money, we still made the most of it and had a wonderful time together, and I ended up with one souvenir.



I got a stuffed version of Sulley and Mike from Monsters Inc., one of my favorite favorite favorite Disney movies (after Toy Story, of course). For a while I had them hidden away in the closet because Winston had taken an unhealthy interest in them, and I don't know if you guys are aware of the destructive capabilities of a Boston Terrier with a stuffed animal, but let's just say this was definitely for the best.

Flash forward almost two years, and someone finds out they are pregnant.

After getting the crib set up (a few months before Corbin was born, lol. Not sure why!), I put Sulley in Mike in the corner. They have been there since the day she came home from the hospital, just hanging out, being cute and fluffy and happy looking. And Corbin never paid them any mind. Until today.

So I'm sitting here at the computer, and all is quiet, and then I hear Corbin in her crib laughing. I peek up over the railing and I see that she has rolled over onto her belly, is facing the corner of the crib where the big blue stuffed monster is, and she is seriously giggling at him. I cracked up. She usually gets really cranky when she rolls over onto her belly, but I think today when she made her discovery, she was pleasantly surprised. Luckily, the camera was handy, so I grabbed it up and started filming. I need to get a bigger memory card, though, because I only got a few seconds of footage. Or maybe I should just get a real video camera! :P

So, without further ado, here's the video:



Heehee, I love my little girl. She cracks me up. I'm so glad that I had a day off and could finally spend some much needed time with her. :)