How time flies

Well Isla you have another cousin as of Thursday night at 10pm-ish! Made me think a bit, your Aunt Shana now has a less than week old baby, your Aunt Amie has 6 month old and here you are around a year and a half!

Little things like carrying you everywhere around the house are no longer necessary, you can pretty much feed yourself, you can entertain yourself for much longer stretches (thank god!) Other little things were so minute that I didn't realize them until I thought about it: asking you to turn away in the morning when I turn the lamp in your room, which you do almost instinctively now. I like how you don't cry as much when I drop you off at daycare, it's more of a forced attempt at crying where your face is more screwed up than a normal cry. You're much better at handing me your sippy up of milk on the morning drive than letting it sit on the car seat in the back while we're stuck in traffic!

It's amazing how quick these little changes happen and I didn't even notice them till I stopped to think about it.

Oh one last note! You're able to walk and chew at the same time so you're probably not going to be a blonde when you get older, your hair will probably darken :(

Virus and Pink Eye

Well let me just say this! The past few weeks have been interesting! We started off with you having some kind of virus which would wake you up every hour or so where you would then cry and fuss, finally falling back asleep. After that was all said and done, or so we thought, you developed what appears to be pink eye. Day care requested we pick you up because you're not allowed to be there if you have pink eye or liquid coming from your eyes...as long as they're not tears.

So, tomorrow, off to the docs again for yet another round of "is she blah blah blah? yes, well here's blah blah drug"

Halloween

Yesterday was your first official Halloween out and about. There was a parade at school for all the kids in their outfits so your mother and I came up to watch. We got there a little early and hung back to watch you eat your snack. You were having a fun time sitting there with your classmates munching on crackers and drinking milk. As the teachers got the kids cleaned up and ready, you spotted your mother through the window, unfortunately she wasn't fast enough to duck out of sight. After she looked back she saw you bawling your eyes out so we figured we'd better go in before you get worse.

Your mom, aunts, and Mima walked you around the neighborhood at first. You were wearing this little strawberry suite and hat. I joined later when your Mima replaced me on candy duty, which was probably for the best since I was just scaring the kids.

You've been taking steps more consistently over the past few days too! Standing by yourself, walking from the the couch to us or from the sliding glass door to us. You've been standing by yourself along with attempting to flip over, head first!

Week Two

Week two has started and we've decided to not do the "Say good bye to daddy" at the window anymore. You would have this pained cry look on your face yet you wouldn't be crying, almost like you were looking for me before turning on the cry, you would see me through the window and start crying again!

The days seem to be getting a little easier for you, earlier in the week you were bouncing around in the play area which was full of foam obstacles. Today you were standing on your own and the weekend before you were taking your first real steps. It's been a rough couple of weeks but the milestones have been awesome!

Day's Two and Three

Day two and was a bit more complicated Isla and much more heart breaking. There was a major accident on Rt. 32 which backed things up quite a bit, of course I had a chance to duck off side roads but was trying to pay more attention to the road than my cell phone maps. When we finally arrived at day care we had been on the road over an hour and it should have been about half that.

Day care had started breakfast by the time we got there so I seated you in your chair and you just let loose. Miss Linda asked that I put the tray on your chair because they were being careful about you throwing up. All the while you were giving me this awful look of abandonment while crying. It wasn't easy to leave you, I wanted to sit down with you and feed you breakfast but its all for the better.

Day three turned in to just as much of a crap storm due to the rain. We took the back roads earlier this time which got us to day care much earlier. They weren't starting breakfast yet this time! When I sat you down though and kissed you good bye you promptly turned and started crying. The lady in the evening said you would cry a bit when various adults would come to pick up their kids, I guess looking for one of us.

Miss Linda said this will take about two weeks to adjust, its for the better though as you'll meet new kids, pick up new habits and develop easier. Tomorrow I think I'll swing by during lunch to peak in on you. Not sure if I'll actually walk in since I don't want to distract you.

Day One

I dreaded day one because I thought you were going to fuss and cry and not let go, well I guess I lucked out because you were in such shock of everything going on that you just stared around at everything and everyone in room 6.

When Mrs. Linda asked to take you so I could say good bye and watch through the window, you begrudgingly reached out and went in to her arms. When I left and looked back through the window, you gave me such a look of disdain that it made it hard to be sad.

We'll see how day two goes as I suspect I won't get the jump on you as easily this time, you probably won't go into your car seat easily nor will you let go when we get to your room. We'll soon see in about 10 hours.

Daycare

Isla,

You finally made it through the waiting list for day care. We put ourselves on the list back in Feb. of 2013 so a little over a year and a half isn't too bad I guess. We had orientation yesterday and we got to meet your teachers and see your room. Funny thing for me is that I looked at the cots and immediately thought, there's no way you're going to sleep on that! We'll see I guess.

I'm drinking coffee waiting for you to wake up on our last official Daddy Daughter Day. After this you'll be joining me on my morning and evening commutes! Better get used to some NPR cause that's all you're gonna get, at least I tell myself that now.

The first day of drop off is going to be a tough one for me, it was hard at first entrusting your care to our parents but I knew them and trusted them. Trusting you to strangers will be even harder, Teresa goes here and Eric would tell me straight if there was any concerns so I trust and I'm sure you'll do fine. I on will be the one crying :)

First Cold

You had your first cold Friday. We should have known since you were clingy the day before. Saturday morning we got the OK from Mommy to watch cartoons so we cuddled up on the couch with my tablet and watched Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other tales.

It took the Motrin a bit to kick in but eventually you calmed down and settled down for a good hour of relaxing cartoons on the couch with me.

Bubbles

While Isla was eating dinner last night I gave her some milk in a small cup with a straw. She usually baulks at this, instead she drank a few sips. While drinking she blew into the straw and started making bubbles in her milk. Here eyes got so wide and I could see the wheels in her head turning at the excitement she just discovered! I took the milk away and did all that I could to distract her from her latest discovery, however I failed as she slowly turned to her milk cup, pointed and said "Dat!"

Android Phone reporting insufficient storage available while upgrading

I started receiving "insufficient storage available" when I would upgrade particular apps like Facebook or Google Drive but not other apps. After some Googling someone finally suggested going in to /data/app-lib and removing the folder related to the application. I actually found multiple folders related to a single app. I removed all folders related to Facebook, which did not modify the application for me, reran the update and it worked.