Well another few weeks have flown by and once again, I am a bit behind on blogging. So, I'll do my best to catch you all up on all of our latest. The not so fun news is that although it took almost 14 months, some nasty sicky germs finally found our sweet girl and made their way into the Sattler home. Casey woke up two Sundays ago a completely stuffed-up congested mess. We took her to the doctor after a couple days of trying over-the-counter remedies and a humidifier with no signs of improvement, and the pediatrician confirmed it was a cold. Unfortunately, with all the drainage she was also contagious, which meant she couldn't go to our sitter's house at the end of the week. Thankfully, Gigi was able to keep her one extra day, and I stayed home for the other to get in some extra Casey snuggles. It was rough going there for a few days with some major fussiness (as in wailing anytime I dare put her down), but after about a week of feeling pretty yucky, she has been pretty much back to her normal self. Well actually a more active, mobile, and talkative version of herself! She is officially a crawler and is on-the-go all of the time! She has even figured out how to climb up onto some things and has started pulling herself up on low surfaces and into a standing position. So far Casey has shown absolutely no interest in actually taking any steps forward, even with our coaxing (and physically trying to move her legs for her), but I know it won't be long before she figures it out. As if the crawling excitement wasn't enough, The Doodle has also uttered her first word. I know what your thinking, "Mama" or "Dada," right? Well as we have discovered, Casey doesn't really like to do things by the book (like by entering the world 3 months early), so in true Casey style her first word wasn't any different. The big first word was..."Uh-Oh!" For weeks now, she has been fascinated anytime someone said it, and has been mimicking the "Uh" part, for a while, but just had not figured out how to say the second syllable. Once it finally clicked, she has become obsessed with saying it, although it has nothing to do with anything "Uh-oh" worthy actually occurring. I may be biased, but it is the seriously the cutest thing ever! If you were a fly on the wall in our house, you might just hear us trying to get her to repeat it somewhere in the ballpark of about 100 times per day. Of course, if you were a fly on the wall in the Sattler house you might also hear some other phrases such as, "No, we don't eat shoes because those are yucky!,"or "Casey, let's not try to bite the kitty's tail." Never a dull moment around here, especially now that little miss has figured out how to move across the room to get what she wants! I think that's about all the news I have to catch you up on. I have been worse than ever about taking pictures lately, but here are a few from recent weeks along with several videos to document her latest feats.
There was a lot of this going on when the week the cold germs hit our house...
and a little more of this...
With rare moments of calm in between. Normally she doesn't get to play with mommy's Continuous Glucose Monitor, but it seemed to be the only thing that allowed for a moment of peace (and at that point this momma needed a moment!)
We did occasionally get some glimpses of our sweet happy (snotty) girl during the Week of Yuck!
And naps were hard to come by, but she would usually give up the battle once we got in the car.
On the go!
I was cutting some math station materials the other day, and a couple members of my household thought it was a party!
So cute :) Love the update!
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