A weekend of firsts...

To say this weekend was interesting would be an understatement! Let's start with Ellison...

She sits up on her own now, and she has great balance! She can bend over and pick a toy up then sit straight up without even wobbling! Well, Saturday morning, we were playing in the nursery and she was sitting next to the changing table. For some reason she lost her balance and fell head first onto the bottom ledge of the table. She had a huge goose egg on her forehead - I was shocked at how quickly it swelled up! We put ice on it and she calmed down after a few minutes. Now it's just a little purple bruise - nothing permanent...well, at least not for her. Jeff is traumatized since he was the one who was sitting next to her. He feels responsible - I think he cried as much as Elli did! Poor guy!

OK, now for Tyler...

He woke up in a great mood on Sunday - all smiles and giggles! About an hour after they woke up we put them in their highchairs for "brunch" and he freaked out! He wouldn't eat anything and screamed the entire time. Jeff took him and rocked him to sleep - he just didn't act right. Well, he slept the entire day - he was maybe awake for 2 hours. When he got up at 6:00 for dinner he was burning up with a fever. I tried to take his temp with the cheap-piece-of-junk thermometer that came in our first aid kit (note to any new mom reading this - buy a good thermometer). Five minutes later, the temp was still climbing and we were at 102.6 - Jeff promptly ran to Walgreens to get a real themometer and I gave him Tylenol. He was so pitiful. It took a couple hours, but his fever finally broke. I knew it broke because he looked up at me and gave me a big smile!

Now Haley...

Now I know she has absolutely NO idea what she's doing, but humor me here! She said her first words this weekend!!! It started as nana and turned into dada! How cool is that?! She especially likes to say it when she's upset! She was in the exersaucer at grandma's yesterday - just minding her own business - when grandma decided it would be fun to put Elli down in front of her so they could "share". Ha! Grandma got an earful from Haley. I'm pretty sure she said some words I wouldn't approve of, but we'll let it slide this one time! She actually leaned back, looked up at my mom and yelled at the top of her lungs "NANANA NANANA DADADA DADA (4 letters) NANANANANA"!!!!! Ooooh, grandma got chewed out! Guess she won't be making Haley share her toys anymore!

So there you have it...First Boo Boo, First Fever, and First Words. Not bad for a lazy November weekend, huh?!

P.S. Tyler is doing fine now. A snotty nose, but no fever. We think he's teething. Oh joy!