Happy 15-Month Birthday, Mika!

Walking, running, dancing, skipping, climbing, and contortion are Mika's current fave activities. Also..drinking water from out sport bottles, hauling her damned rock n roll Elmo around the house, climbing into her lawn chair and immediately hopping out of it again, climbing backwards into her rocker and rocking it until she almost topples, playing with the fridge magnets, reading, and going up and down the stairs. Daddy and I are continually exhausted while Mika has seemingly endless energy. Her bedtime has been moved up to around 7PM or so..sometimes later. Mika wakes up after an hour or so anyway and demands to go downstairs whether she goes to bed at 6:30 or 8:30. She runs around like a maniac for an hour and then its usually fairly easy to get back to sleep. I use a more stern voice and announce that it is bedtime. Mika pats her chest in agreement. She waves goodnight to Daddy and accepts a kiss (Baby Diva is fussy about giving kisses). We head back upstairs for a bottle and she's out.
Mika loves to be outside and seems to especially like birds and trees. She's unsure about grass and dirt, but I'm sure that they will quickly become favorites as well.
Mika recently decided that Daddy and I can no longer use her rocking moose as a small telephone table. She rocks like mad on that thing...I swear that she is trying her best to tip it over.
Thankfully we have no major sickness to report. Mika has had a spotty rash all over her body this week, but the doc said its nothing to worry about. Either heat rash or a leftover from her last viral infection. It doesn't seem to bother her, so hopefully it will disappear eventually.

This weekend is gonna be hella busy. Uncle Damon is coming over to redo our bathroom. We're heading to the zoo on Saturday afternoon. Mika is probably going to hang out at her Grandma's place on Sunday while we work. Monday is finishing touches and BBQ at Saoirse's. Might not sound like much, but it will be nutso, I assure you. :)