Baby's sick again! She's been having a fever on and off for the last 3 days. It's so sickening. Luckily it's not a high fever.
Becuase the suspects a urinary tract infection, she made Baby wear a pee bag which is this small bag with a sticky mouth to be taped to the skin of the pokey. Poor Vin spent the entire morning at the doc's office just waiting for our daughter to pee. In the end, he gave up and came home. She refused to pee. Then when she did, the pee wet the whole bag which moistened the sticky part thereby dislodging when she moved. Apparently, you're supposed to hold her upright all the time so you can "catch" the pee. Whoever invented this system of collected a toddler's urine is a moron because which toddler stays still for that long? Anyway, I returned home from work to find a frustrated husband and a baby whose urine, up till now, remains ellusive. We'll try again in the morning to hunt for the pee. However, all three of us (yes including the maid) are in disagreement over how to ensure that Baby either pees into the plastic bag or into a plastic cup. I say we let her run around the balcony without her nappy and watch her really closely then when she gets the shivers rush in with the plastic cup in hand. Vin says that won't work because she'll only shiver post-pee; not before. We can't even lay a plastic sheet on the ground to collect the urine as we have to make sure the sample is uncontaminated. Sigh, only being a parent could make a person so obsessed with urine.
Oh, we were in the car just now and I started singing to Baby. I realised that it's a wonderful way to introduce vocabulary. I'll sing and she'll watch my mouth really intently. I'll go "When you're happy and you know it ..." She'll then clap her hands, shake her head and raise her arms at the appropriate part of the song.
I made little word tags so that I could tape them to everything and show her words of things around the house. She was more interested in throwing the tags in the air and pushing them around on the floor. Oh well, one step at a time. Vin held up the word "Cat" and she immediately said "Kaaa". "Cat" is her first real word because we point the one that lives at the base of our block out to her almost every day. Perhaps its fitting since we both love cats. Not really sure if she really was reading the word since she says "Kaa" or "Paa" to almost everything. Unless, that is, when you ask her a question in which case she'll immediately shake her head.
