January Update

Has anyone wondered where we have been or missed us? I have been without a computer since the beginning of January and finally got it back or rather a brand new computer, which is so much faster, all thanks to James' brother, Bradley! Our computer had been really slow and we had tried to get Bradley to help us with it and he basically said that we were going to have to get a new one and that it could pretty much crash at any time. I was very scared that I was going to loose all the pictures and videos on it from Jillian's 1st year! I frantically began backing up the pictures but we were not able to get the videos off b/c we did not have the capability to burn them to DVDs. One day I turned the computer on and it said it had like 35 viruses or something crazy. Needless to say I quickly turned it off and called Bradley. He was able to transfer all of our stuff off the old computer on to this new one so all of Jillian's memories from her 1st year are safe!

We started off the month with a birthday celebration for James. He turned 35 on the 8th and we had dinner at his parents house. As you can see Jillian was not very interested in the cake but I will say she was tired and ready for bed.
Our month then got very interesting the following week. I came down with the stomach virus on Friday morning and was in bed, well and in the bathroom all day. The daycare called early that afternoon and said that we had to come get Jillian because she had fever. The weekend was pretty rough as we were all sick but Jillian was by far the worse. We went to the doctor on Monday and they told me that she had RSV and of course that there was nothing that they could do for her. She was miserable! All she did was lay in our arms with her head on our chests and occasionally she would lift her head up to look at us and lay her head back down. She had a terrible cough that sounded like she was choking or not breathing so needless to say we took turns sleeping with her in the guest bedroom. James was off on Tuesday so he was able to stay at home with her while I worked but after that we were out of options. We had to send our poor, sick child to Granny's house for a few days so that we could continue to go to work. This was Jillian's first time away from us and we missed her terribly. I went to get her on Thursday and she was better but not great. We sent her to school on Monday but she got sent home again shortly after lunch. Luckily she started feeling better on Saturday and we were able to grab some lunch and run some errands. While at lunch, Jillian was being a total clown and we were so happy because we literally had not seen her smile the entire week!
She was still all smiles for her bath so we couldn't resist taking more pictures.
I was so excited to update the blog today so I had to try to get a few more pictures since our month was so uneventful. Today was pajama day at school so Jillian got to wear PJs all day. Here she is being silly with Daddy.
One of her new things is that she likes to give hugs. I told her to give Mommy hugs and she laid her head on my legs. It just breaks my heart - I can't wait until she learns to give kisses!
Now that it was safe to remove the videos from my camera and upload them to the computer, I could not resist including a few of my favorites. Jillian loves walking with her toy she got for Christmas! She will not walk at all without it - not even holding our hands. We often have to walk around in circles around our living room furniture but a few times it has been nice enough to go walk outside. She does really well and we can walk about three houses down before we have to turn around and come back home. I just think she looks like such a big girl in this video with her tennis shoes. She likes being outside and looking at things but she always continues walking.

Jillian also has a new word - she now says uh-huh.

That's all for now - I'm sure there will be lots of updates in February as our little girl will already be turning one! Time really does fly!