It's that time of year....

Leah's first day of "school" Jan. 27th (She is going to the nursery in the church on Tues. & Thurs. while I work... it is from 9:30-1:30 & she is right down the hall from me!)....



























... led to her first sickness the following week.... Can't keep away those germs!




















Besides causing her to wake up at 2:30am the past 3 nights, it's given her the sniffles & a cough. But she's still smiling through it all. Nothing gets this kid down.

Even though she was nice enough to share it with her mommy & daddy, it didn't deter us from having a romantic date night, sort of an early Valentine's Day at the restaurant we went to on the night we got engaged. Brett's friend Steve & his wife kept Leah for the night so we had the house to ourselves. It was a great getaway! It was our first night away from Leah & it wasn't as hard as I'd thought. Even when she's not around, I still wake up at 2:30. This time I was just able to go right back to sleep. And I got to sleep in! I was glad to see her the next day, though. She'd done okay, but Steve said he'd rock her & slept in the chair with her from 2-5 am.

Leah's other great accomplishments this past week or two:

- She's found her feet. She now knows how to take her own socks off.

- She has her own version of "waving." It's more like reaching out to touch things, but missing, so it looks sort of like she's directing a choir. :)

- She can shake her rattle vigorously back & forth. I think she's figured out that she can make that noise, and now she likes it! She "beats" her bottle too, hitting it with her hand in rhythm.

- She is getting more difficult to put to bed at night because she has too much fun playing.