Yes, its finals week at ISU and both of us have our share of mental anguish to go through. Michael is done, as of today, with his finals, and by done we mean done for good because he is graduating from ISU (finally). Though he's lucky to be done so early, he did have two lengthy papers, two exams and one online quiz since he started on Tuesday morning. Needless to say he is happy to be done, though he feels a little weird to be done with college. After all, he's been at it since the Bush administration.
Elizabeth is working hard on her finals. She has been taking three online courses and she has finished up those already. She was taking a music class, which was the bane of her existence, but luckily she had Michael around, a veritable music genius, to fill in the blanks. She also successfully passed Library at ISU, a .5 credit course that really does suck but everyone has to take. Currently, she is studying for her only on campus final, which is tomorrow morning. Unfortunately she still has to get up at 5 Am, go to work and come back home all before she takes the test. Let's wish her good luck, though I'm certain she will do great.
BellaRose has been very eventful lately. She has successfully rolled over from both her back to her front many time and her front to her back (only once). We feel all these successes came purely out of chance but she does "try" to roll over, usually in an attempt to reach a toy she desperately wants or that you are coaxing her with, much like you would a dog. Furthermore, she seems far more able to roll from her back to her front, which is apparently the less common version babies start out with. But that's our BellaRose, she's never been one to do anything the "normal" way.
We have also have been attempting to give Bella some solid foods. We don't mean steak. It's always ground up or something. For example, whilst at Hickory Park we gave her beef gravy and mashed potatoes. She loved that. Also, she nawed on a pizza crust at Pizza Hut (a stuffed crust, mind you, Mom's favorite). She liked that as well. And just today, she ate some cheesey hashbrowns, which again, she adored. But just last night we attempted to give her actual baby food. We mixed up apple sauce, for babies, and oatmeal cereal, for babies. Did BellaRose go crazy for deliciously sweet apple sauce? No! She made a face and gagged as if we were force feeding her dirty socks. Again, our little girl continues to intregue us. What manner of child likes only salty, mashed up, adult foods , i.e. beef gravy or cheesey hashbrowns, and detests sweet flavors? Answer: BellaRose.
Lastly, she has been coughing a lot lately but its not a painful cough or a sick cough, though she has a bit of stuffy nose. She coughs a lot more frequently when she is on her back as well. Since she has no flu-like symtoms we are fairly certain its not H1N1 and neither one of us is sick at all either. I hear tell that if she is teething, which she might be starting, coughing is common since they drool a lot and it drains when they lay on their backs. We'll keep you posted on that.
Well, that's all folks. Enjoy and remember, if you sneeze, cover it up and if you've been to Mexico or plan to go to Mexico (which I don't know why you would) lately then stay away, we don't want any. Toodles!
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