I'm all done with OT!! Yay! Last night was my last shift. I worked my regular shift then went back at 11pm until 7am this morning. I got home and went straight to bed. Jered was up with Ashlyn, keeping her entertained so I could sleep.
When I finally crawled out of bed about 1pm we got ready and took Ashlyn to the zoo. Her very first trip to the zoo! She was amazed by the animals, she looked and looked. She waved HI! Hi! and then Bye Bye! when we would leave the exhibit. So cute. We rented a zoo stroller and it had a little steering wheel on it so she could "steer". Lots of fun!
Last weekend we went camping at Timothy Lake in Mt Hood. Ashlyn had a blast being outside for two days straight. We had beautiful weather on Saturday! The sun was shining, the sky was blue, we could see Mt Hood over the lake. Lots of fun! We were sure happy we had Mom and Eddie's camper trailer when it started raining Saturday night. It was pretty wet packing up Sunday morning but at least we didn't have a wet tent to roll up.
Ashlyn has been growing and changing almost daily it seems. She is such a little person these days with her very own personality. She is very independent and likes to do things for herself. She doesn't want to hold hands when we go for walks, but this one is non-negotiable. She's thrown a few fits over this one but its either hold hands or no walk. Her vocabulary is expanding all the time. She can say quite a few words and has signs for most of them as well. She says Mama, Mommy, Daddy (one of her favorites to yell as loud as she can), hello, hi, bye, milk, more, wa-wa (water), peez (please), ball, all done, uh oh, no, night night, down, up, Grandpa, Grandma, Grammy (these ones we still have to prompt her with), eio (this means she wants you to sing Old McDonald), row-row (this one is for Row Your Boat), puppies, Tor-Tor for Tori, nothing yet for Sinder. She copies any and everything you say or do She still loves to be outside and got as dirty as I've ever seen her this last weekend camping. She sat right down in the dirt to play. At first she didn't like it on her hands but she soon got over it. She really wanted to play in the lake, but it was a little cold for swimming. She still loves listening to music, singing songs and dancing. She loves her puppies and gives them hugs all the time. Unless they run away from her, which they do a lot. She missed them a lot last weekend, they stayed with Grammy and Grandpa when we camped. She gave them big hugs as soon as they got home! One of her favorite things to do is to pull of her books out of her bookcase and the dvd's too. So now we're teaching her how to put things back.She loves books, she'll bring you a book and so up, more or peez to get you to read it to her.
She'll officially be a Duckling on July 19th! In the Duckling classroom they get to go outside a lot more, they take them on walking field trips through the hospital and if the weathers nice to a nearby park. They let them draw and paint and do lots of messy projects. Her teacher Robyn already warned me not to send her in her best clothes. They try to have all the kids on the same schedule and my lunch hour falls during nap time so I won't be visiting her anymore at lunch. She has to sleep on a cot which is going to be a transition for her. She's still in her crib at home and we plan to keep her in it for a while longer. She's been visiting the Ducks off and on for a while and she loves it. She never cries when they take her down there like a lot of the kids do. When we I pick her up from her Dragonfly class she wants to go down the hallway towards the Duck class instead of out to the garage. Robyn tells me she holds her own with the kids that are a little older than her too. She'll just keep growing and learning and all we can do is enjoy every minute of it!
I'll have zoo and camping pictures tomorrow.
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