In other exciting news......

Lola signed more for the first time today. I really haven't worked much on signing with her except when she is on the potty. I have a sign book and we go through a lot of books during our 15 min potty stops. I asked her if she wanted more apple and did the sign and she did it right back. It amazes me how fast they change and learn at this age.

She is loving her baby dolls a lot. Besides books, cats and being outside, these are the next best thing. Its so sweet to see her love on them and stroll them around.

We are back in swim class and she enjoys it even more now. The bad thing is when we get in, she doesn't want to be held onto. So we go through this power struggle for the first 5 minutes. Last week at the end of the class, we were in the very shallow end and she pulled away from me and fell backwards under water. I swear it was like slow motion. Her eyes were wide open and she was terrified looking up at me under the water. She was shaken up for about 30 seconds, then she was back to trying to get away from me. Scared me more than her I think.

We go to get her development checked at a local preschool tomorrow. Should be interesting...

Bad Ass Salsa!

Finally I have discovered the way to make an excellent salsa! Since we have had never ending quantities of homegrown tomatoes, I was setting out to make some homemade roasted tomato soup. Well it didn't make it that far. I am so excited.

Roasted tomatoes+roasted head of garlic+onion, cumin, chili, salt,fresh lime juice, and lots of cilantro, all blended in the processor= kick ass salsa!

the view from here

I must say she has been slightly less clingy the last two days. I think we are on the downhill side of this nasty cold that always seems to come every 6-8 weeks. Which the Dr. says is normal. We had our 15 month check up yesterday. 22.4lbs and 30 inches...thats alot of booby milk baby:)