Wild Woman!

My Dearest Vivian:
You girlfriend, are a wild one. And it's wonderful. You are probably going to be my little trouble maker. You are crawling all over the place and trying to pull up to anything....me especially when I'm trying to cook!!
You're so funny. Your new thing is spitting. It's like you're try to blow raspberries, but you stick your tongue out a little, blow with all your might and just spit all over the place. Poppy hadn't seen this yet and last night he was holding you and daddy did it to you (without the spitting) and you looked right at Poppy and spit all over his face. It was the funniest thing...to me and daddy anyway!

You have 5 teeth now!! You cut your top front, right tooth at the begining of August. Then while I was on vacation I was showing it to Callie at the zoo because it's a huge tooth and she noticed you had the one on the other side of it coming through!! Which by the way, is totally overlapping the front tooth. I think you're going to have some crooked teeth lady. :-/ Then the Sunday after Teagan's party we were leaving Grandma's after a big family cookout with all of Grandma's extended family (including our family from Ohio!) and Grandma said you felt warm. I thought it was just from being passed around so much, but lo and behold, you had a fever of 101.8 by the time we got home. No other symptoms, just a fever. And it stayed between 101.5 and 102 for like 3 days. Even Tylenol wouldn't take it down. Then all of a sudden, your other top tooth (left one) popped through!!
So now you have 5 chompers...and boy do you like to use them! You love food still! I think you eat more than your brother!

We've decided that corn makes you constipated. You've been constipated 3 times so far. The first time we fed you baby food prunes and you had an explosive poop and that was that. And then just Labor Day weekend you were constipated again and we tried prunes and they didn't work. But I asked Diane's daughter Stephanie who is a pediatrician and she said I could give you a little Miralax in your bottle to help you out. It worked, but then a few days later you were back being constipated again. And I feel so bad for you when you are because it's like your poop is just too hard to get out and your struggle to get it and only end up going a smear and then we change you everytime of course but then your little buns get raw from it and they were even bleeding at one point! It's so sad.

You babble up a storm, but still no "mama" out of you yet. So far the only real word we know of is "dada." Although we swear you say "get." Probably because we tell the dog to "get" away from you all the time. You like to crawl all over him and he allows it, but only for so long. He does this whining while you do it or if you get too close to his face and I think it's only a matter of time before he could possibly snap. We had a tempermental dog before, we don't want to take any chances with your prettyy little face. He's never been a mean dog at all, but at 9 years old, he's getting a bit more aggitated and probably just doesn't want you crawling on his face, which is reasonable.

So I'm going to the chiropractor in a little while to get my back adjusted. I haven't had to go in about 6 months, but now my back and hips are really starting to hurt me and I don't want it to get too bad. So off I go!!
See ya in a little while baby girl!!

I love you to the moon and back baby!
Love,
Mommy