Covariants: Sick Again

I'm totally a blogging slacker. To be fair Maya has been sick again. She got over her cold but then almost immediately picked up something else. After 11 days of tummy troubles and a few days of a fever, we took a trip to the pediatrician on Wednesday. She said that she looks good and she thinks it just virus or two. If she is still having issues on Tuesday we have to go back. She seems to be doing a little better but still not back to normal. Fortunately, other than the intermittent stomach pain she seems pretty happy. She is pretty hilarious these days. She's picked up a bunch of signs lately. She knows milk, more, all done, fish, water, bath, please, again, up, fork, yes, help. Maybe more but sometimes it takes me a few days to figure out her version. She is talking and babbling more and more. She will be babbling away and then stop and start smiling/laughing. She has recently added balloon, cheese, duck. She starts blowing if she sees or you say candle and starts sniffing if she sees or you say flower. When she bonks her head, falls, etc I always ask her if she needs a kiss. She now starts smacking her lips anytime she's hurt or if you ask if she need a kiss. It's been pretty pitiful with her bellyache, lots of kisses needed. She also smacks her lips if she wants a bite of what you are eating. She has recently started pretend play. If you ask if she's ready for breakfast/lunch, everyone gets a pretend bite. She got a little play kitchen for her birthday and she pretend eats and feeds us. She also kisses her baby and rocks it. She loves to play outside. She begs to go out almost everyday. Unfortunately, this week has been pretty rainy so we haven't been able to go outside. I feel like we've been stuck in the house all week between the rain and illness. We've had fun though. Plenty of new birthday toys and their boxes to play with. We made a tunnel and cave in the living room out of two big boxes.

We are still working on drinking from a cup. She does really well getting the liquid out of the sippy, straw, or normal cup and loves to "drink" but doesn't quite know how to swallow it. This has been an issue this week trying to get electrolyte solution into her. I finally found that if I blend it with a frozen banana to thicken it she does really well with it. I think she's getting tired of the bananas, rice, applesauce, toast diet. Yesterday she was eating all the floor cereal and puffs from under the couch and such. And today I gave her some puffs and she was cramming them in fistfuls at a time.