Friday, June 27, 2008

Home

We were able to bring the little girl home late yesterday afternoon. It was such a relief to be able to have her home with us and for us to know that she is on the mend. No fever for over a day now. She's eating and drinking some which was the biggest challenge.
In this situation the effects of the illness ended up being worse than the illness itself. Who knew that 36 hours in the hospital would feel like forever. I'm just glad we're home.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Hospital Day 2

So monkey ended up getting dehydrated and so here we sit....waiting and checking for wet diapers. At this point she's off the IV but isn't drinking much...her little throat hurts too much. Unfortunately it's hard to reason with an almost 2 yr old that if she would just drink enough she could go home. It stinks. So here we sit...hurry up & wait.

Monday, June 23, 2008

So I thought....

That keeping Brenna home for the summer might make a difference in the sickness factor at our house...apparently not. Oh well. Hopefully its just a virus and not strep...waiting to find out. I guess that is what happens when you go to the park multiple times in a day and have lots of playdates and sleepovers. She's bound to pick something up somewhere right? Other than that Brenna is great...amazing us every single day with the number of words she can say and the fact that she is starting to string words to form sentences. I can't believe she will be two in a couple of weeks! Have a great day everyone. I hope to have new pics up very soon.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Ten on Tuesday ~ Finished on Thursday

8. Brenna's new best friend is a stuffed Barney that she got from one of the retiring teachers. She loves him..."reads" to him, plays with, sleeps with, gives him drinks, brings him everywhere...who knew that that would be the thing she would become attached too. We knew it was only a matter of time.

9. Things to hope for over break...transition to big girl bed and master potty training. One might be fairly easy...the bed. The other rather difficult ~ potty training. It may just be a full week (or more) of staying home and being diligent with frequent potty breaks...this is probably going to be an end of summer event before school starts.

10. I have already missed a day on the photo a day for summer break but am hoping to keep up. I should have grabbed the camera last night when Brenna and several other kids in the neighborhood were running around and playing in our yard last night. It was fun talking to our neighbors and watching the kids play. I did manage to snap a couple shots at a red light this morning on our way to Grandpa and Grandmas. She was sleepy but loving Barney and wearing her baseball hat...which she always asks for if we are going outside. Thank goodness for that...it makes keeping the sun off her little head much easier.

That's all for now, hope to get pics uploaded soon! Have a great week.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Tuesday Ten Spot ~ Summer Vacation Begins!

1. Blogging has once again gotten the best of me. Hopefully now that I am officially on Summer Break with Brenna, I will be a better blogger. I can only promise to try!

2. Yesterday was our first official day. I am going to try to do a "photo a day" of our summer together. We'll see how that goes.

3. Our day yesterday was suppose to look like this:
~Mommy gets up and walks Bailey and herself (exercise is good for you right? sure)
~Brenna gets up, has breakfast, gets dressed, plays while Mommy does dishes,
vacuums, showers.
~Story time at the library
~Lunch, nap, and afternoon playtime (inside because of course it was 9000 degrees)

4. Our day yesterday looked like this instead.
~Mommy gets up and walks Bailey and herself (exercise is good for you right? sure)
~Brenna gets up, has breakfast, gets dressed, plays while Mommy does dishes,
vacuums *oh wait, the vacuum won't suck...that is a problem when there is a whole 2nd dog's worth of dog hair on the floor and I just vacuumed 2 days ago!* and showers.
~Uncle George stops by to visit and picks up a stool that he needs for his apartment. Brenna loved this visit...running to him with arms out saying "unca grge", dragging him into her playroom to show him her toys.
~He leaves, mommy goes out to let Bailey out and start the car so it will cool off slightly from the 9,000 degree weather before we go to the library for story hour. *Garage door won't go up...car with car seat (and extra car seat) in said garage.*
~Call grandpa because he is luckily at home on summer break too...comes up to help save the day (he and action door man who fixed the broken spring and adjusted our apparently swinging garage door so that it is no longer a swinging garage door). Daddy is unlucky in that he doesn't get to have summer vacation all summer long like Brenna and I, and was stuck in the office with a tightly packed schedule.
~Brenna naps early, wakes up, has lunch of pbj, pretzels, banana with mommy and grandpa
~While waiting for action door man, Brenna stays and plays with grandpa while mommy goes and gets parts for the vacuum (belt - hasn't been changed since we got the vacuum 7 years ago, that's right 7 years, and filters) man at store says he can't believe it lasted 7 years...well believe it because it did. Return home, take vacuum apart, attach new parts, put vacuum back together, start it up....WORKS LIKE BRAND NEW! woohoo...fixed something on my own!
~go to Target just to get out of the house after feeling slightly trapped after having only carseated car stuck in garage.
~played with playdough purchased at Target with only 2 or 3 instances of attempted playdough eating.

5. While this was not the way our day was suppose to go and things happened that were definitely not part of the summer plans, we still managed to make the best of it.

6. Friday we took B to have her first ice cream of the summer. Her very own child size portion in a dish with a spoon...she had a little ice cream moustache but didn't make much of a mess and didn't seem to get brain freeze either which was impressive since some of the bites she took were huge!

7. Munchkin is up so apparently this is going to be a Tuesday 7 spot with no pictures.....I'll be back sometime soon to finish and upload some photos!