I’m thinking of getting Isla blocks for her first birthday.  Good idea?  Bad idea?  I remember loving Lego as a kid, but I can’t remember ever being all that into blocks, but that could be because I liked them when I was very young, and I just don’t remember.  Or maybe I never had blocks.  Do you remember what your child’s favorite toy was at age 1?

I’m planning to also make her a couple of photo books, which she might appreciate later.  First, I’m going to make one with 52 pages with my favorite picture from each week of her life.  I’ve also been keeping a private blog with periodic letters to her with photos, and I’m going to turn that into a second photo book, which I’ll set aside for her.  I know a lot of bloggers write public letters to their children each month of their life, but I wanted to be uninhibited, so I decided to do private letters.

Isla has a cold at the moment.  It doesn’t seem that severe, but it is keeping her up at night.  After three blissful nights of all three of us happily sleeping through the night (from 11 to 6 anyway), she woke up once, the following night, twice the next, and three times the night after that, including a solid stretch from 2:30 until 5 am.  Last night, she woke up at around 11 and didn’t go back to sleep until around 2:30 am.  Basically, she just has a hard time dropping off with her nose all stuffed up.

I was planning to run a 5K this morning, but I’m coming down with I’s cold, and around 1 am last night, I decided to put it off a week.