Tullip Festival & Checkup

It has been a whirlwind of day.  New Fish had a doctor's appointment for her 18 month checkup.  She had double ear infections (which I had suspected the last few days) because every time she teeths it takes months, her nose runs and then she gets an ear infection.  So that was a bummer, but here are her stats-22.5 lbs -15th percentile, 33.5 inches- 65th percentile, head size I forgot but- 65th percentile.  So she has become a little skinny girl.  Probably because she eats like a bird.  No shots today on account of her ears.  We will go back in a couple of weeks.

It was really funny because the doctor told me that "[New Fish] is an intense personality and she is going to be an extremely labor intensive child."  Pretty funny.  My little blondie is a fire cracker for sure.  She is sweet as they come but as soon as she sets her mind to or against something, she is a FORCE to be reckoned with.  She has literally made me cry over trying to get a diaper on her or buckle her into her seat.  When we discussed some of the sleeping, eating, dressing whatever battles I've been having with my daughter the doctor laughed and said she might be the most stubborn baby he has seen in a very long time.  Great.  I guess she gets that from both me and her father.  Red Fish is pretty stubborn too so we will all have to claim it. That's why they came extra cute and with extra cute personality traits- to make up for the demanding ones.

After the doctor's office, New Fish took a nap while I cranked out some design work and waited for Red Fish to get home from school.  As soon as she got off the bus we jumped in the car and went to a Mexican joint to go to a business meeting.  The girls were pretty good but their wild little selves always show through.  Then it was another round of naps and working and then off to the tulip festival.  The girls loved running around.  New Fish got a little cranky but when they found a big hill to roll down the kids had a really really great time.  A shoe was lost down one of the waterfalls but it got stuck on a rock and I had to jump the fence to grab it.  No day is without it's adventures.  After we got home, we barbecued in the backyard and had a great little picnic outside. Red Fish was calling it "barbie-ing." The girls were super super grubby after a day of rolling down hills and barbecuing so they had a nice bath and we all tried to clean up the toys.  It really was such a nice spring afternoon and evening, I couldn't have asked for more.  It was actually kind of perfect.  Wild, crazy, fun and perfect.