Gone With The Wind At 15 Months!

This has been one of the craziest months for Shelby Reese and her family.  Shelby started it off by having a stomach virus the first week, followed by Roseola the next week.  My poor baby girl suffered with a fever of up to 104.6.  She had multiple cool baths at 2 am that week.  Towards the end of the week fighting her sickness, she got to experience her first hurricane, Ike.  It was quite the experience for us all.  Nana and Pawpaw joined us in Spring to ride out the storm that ended up going right over Galveston as well as Pasadena.  We weathered the storm quite well, we only had the trees in our front yard and flowerbed fall over, which is more than I can say for other areas. Our neighborhood had trees fall all over the place.  

When we were told our power could take 2-4 weeks to come back on Shelby and I packed up, became evacuees, and joined everyone at Aunt Kelli's house. After a few days there we missed Daddy and came back home.  Our power ended up being out for 12 days, so we visited Mimi and Popa's house and Nana's house a few times until I had to go back to work.  Life on a generator is definately no fun after a while, but as much as I hate to admit it those forehead flashlights are cool to have in the dark.  

So Shelby is weighing in at 20 lbs. 3 oz.  this moth after being sick a few times.  She is back to herself now and has learned the skill of eating with a fork.  She is very impressive.  She also has really fallen in love with her cowboy hat and wears it very often, and looks too cute.    She has also learned many new words such as BOO,her favorite, also fruit, shoe, fan, light, shooo wee, off, I dropped it, car, please, thank you, night night, book, bird, and cow, and duck.  She has also learned to sign all of those words and make the animal sounds as well.  She is very polite telling us please and thank you all the time.  She is the sweetest little thing.  She also loves to give kisses and hugs and read books with you. She has also started to tell us yes and no by shaking her head, of course she doesn't always say what she means.  Her newest favorite game is Peek a Boo.  She covers her face with her hands and then moves them and says Boo!  She will also pop out from behind things and say Boo.  She has become quite the perfect little toddler.