seriously... who can blog regularly with a one year old?

Really.  I often feel I should be updating this more, but c'est la vie. 

A one year old is a busy, busy creature!  Olivia is currently into everything, loves books, dancing, and being outside.  She is her mama's daughter!  While listening to Pandora the other day, she got way into some Horrorpops song, while earlier could have cared less about Laurie Berkner.  Admittedly, I was a bit proud.

Recent new stuff:  she says "dog" and "bug" now, with a few others (mama, dada, an attempt at gordon, water, etc); tries to repeat whatever we say... for better or worse; running, she is full on running; giving the best hugs and kisses around; and being much more outgoing!  It's like she turned one and suddenly she was a toddler.  No one told me this happened overnight.

Josh recently passed the state nursing exams, and is officially working as a nurse!  We are beyond proud.  He is at work today, his first official day.  After taking a couple weeks between school ending and passing the boards/new job beginning, we have been busy.  (Perhaps another reason my blog has been neglected!)  While we miss him and I love having him around, our schedule gets a little out of whack.  I'm currently trying to figure out Olivia's nap schedule, the past couple days have been nap from 10am-noon, then 4pm-5pm (have to wake her up for dinner) then struggle with bedtime.  Today we played all morning and then walked from 10am-11:30, ate lunch and she promptly fell asleep.  I figure as long as she stays down for about 2 hours we'll be good for the day.

Pictures to be uploaded soon, I am taking this opportunity to do another quick workout!  I'm down to my pre-pregnancy weight, but am not yet satisfied with everything.  

need to update

But tonight is not the night for it!  Last night was pure teething hell.  Olivia has had a bit of a cough, the best we can figure it's due to molars coming in and causing excessive drooling.  Anyway, nursed her to sleep as usual at 8pm.  She started coughing in her sleep and wound up throwing up a bit.  Woke up, of course, and I cleaned her up.  Went to nurse her back to sleep and she bites me!

Ok.  Play for a bit?  Change diaper?  Read a book?  She keeps making the sign for "nursies", then goes to latch on and bites me again.  This goes on for hours.

Oh and Josh is at work, so I'm going it alone.

After many exasperated hours, I get her to sleep by walking her around the living room until she is so exhausted she falls asleep in my arms.  She then is able to nurse twice that night in bed with no issue. But it was 10:45 when we finally got into bed.  I don't know what happened, but I felt like I didn't have any other tools in my toolbox to get her to go to sleep.  And that sucked.

Today, I began realizing the sign for nursies can also mean she is hungry for food, and doesn't want to nurse at all.  So, she only nursed a few times today, and wound up taking one two-hour long nap (as opposed to two one hour naps). 

She's in bed now, it's 7pm.  I am unsure of what the night will hold... and I am not getting too excited!  I will update very soon with birthday pics and stories, because my little girl is ONE!  (Don't get me started, I need to save my energy should Olivia wake up for a wee hours party tonight)