Barfo

Yep, it's finally happening.  Senor Barfo has visited Willa and the results were not pretty.  Actually, this post is less about that and more about what a sweet little baby girl she is.  She was such a good girl yesterday and played happily all morning.  After her nap we left to run to the store and she just played and jabbered to herself the whole ride until we pulled into the parking lot.  Then, unexpectedly, there was a whole lot of Blagh, Blagh, ARgh, Argh... You get the idea.  I hurriedly parked and got out to see how she was.  Poor baby must have ralphed up her entire body weight in vomit.  It was truly disgusting and it covered her, the carseat, parts of the car, and pooled in places.  I hurriedly wiped her face and then jumped back in the car to drive home.  Believe me, it smelled pretty bad, too.

She started fussing pretty bad back there, but I started singing to her and she LOVES that.  By the time we got home, she was singing along with me and when I went back to get her, she smiled at me even though there was tons of snot coming out of her nose and she was covered in barf.  She's just a little bit of sunshine.  I'm sure a lot of it was that throwing up finally made her feel better, but even before that she hadn't been fussy at all.  She was a little whiney the rest of the afternoon and I'm home from church with her today (believe me, those kids at church don't want this), but overall she has been so good.  Today we've been visited by rear end of things, if you get my drift, but hopefully it will all be over soon.  I'm not sure how much more of this Ryan can take.  Since my job has been to bathe the baby when this happens, Ryan has done a lot of disgusting fluids clean-up.  

This photo is of her being smiley and cute while Ryan takes apart the carseat and washes the plastic parts outside.  There were pools of vomit on it, so only a complete take-apart and machine wash would do.  The other photo is from a few weeks ago when this busy bee found my phone in her crawling explorations.


Willa turns one this coming Friday.  Approaching the mark has been a little bittersweet for us.  Our lives have certainly been extremely happy and fulfilling with Willa, but it is sad for us to remember how different things were and how much time has passed.  Mainly, we get sad thinking about being in Los Angeles and that it's almost been a year since we moved away. We think about who we would invite for a little birthday party if we were still living there, maybe we would go to the beach or Disneyland.  I miss our birthing classes at the hospital and taking Ryan to get his tonsils out when I was 37 weeks pregnant.  Anyway, life moves on and you have to move with it!