I'm Back!

I know I have been pretty un-bloggy recently, but I can explain.

Well, not really, but I swear I have been super busy. So let me catch you up a bit on what has been going on...

First, yes, we are Under Contract, but of course the day of the inspection was the day it decided to monsoon rain around here, and since it was the first real rain we had seen in over two months, our basement flooded. Now, we have a concrete basement with a French drain, so it is supposed to get some water in it, but this was way more that we had ever seen living here. In fact, we are pretty sure (and by "we" I mean the plumber we had come over the next day) that the inspector started in the basement and hit the ball on the sump pump so it stopped working. Great job, buddy!

Needless to say, they were pretty freaked out by the water in the basement and we haven't hear a peep from them since...yikes!

Then, my sister has been really sick recently so A and I went over last night to play with little Cousin C, so my sister could get some much needed rest. The girls were beyond adorable. They played for an hour and a half, then we had a delicious dinner of A's famous meatballs (yes, she actually makes them with me), and a fun, albeit wet, tub!

coloring today in the playroom

Then it was on to bath time...

"C, what are you doing with that!"

I think this is the perfect shot of A looking pretty freaked out after C dumped water on her head, and then little C looking so innocent :)

Tackling C's animals

They were moving pretty fast!

After letting the girls run around in their jammies for a little longer it was time to say good night and head home.

And then today...drum roll please...was A's first dentist appointment! I was worried about the little thing that attaches above her two front teeth. Not quite sure what that is called? Sure, I am no dentist but it looked pretty short to me. Luckily the dentist didn't think I was cut out for dental school either, since he declared her teeth and gums perfectly healthy.

He did tell me I had to get her off of apple juice, since it is the leading cause of cavities and gum disease among kids (yikes, way to scare a mom) so of course we headed right for whole food to stock up on coconut water...her favorite drink besides good ole apple juice.  Maybe he does have a point, since a glass of apple juice has on average 28-33 grams of sugar and the coconut water only has 5 grams for the same serving size. And since A is not a big milk drinker, I guess I will be using my milk money for coconut water from now on!

So, that pretty much sums up the last few days of our life.

On a side note it is so beautiful outside today I am trying to get organized enough to have a picnic dinner in the gardens tonight with my cute little girl! Okay, well off to plan and pack a basket!

xoxo

Daily Mom

I Found the Lion...

It all started Friday around lunch time, after a very fun park playdate with little cousin, C....

My little girl is rarely one to get sick. Sure, she gets the occasional case of sniffles, but other than that she has been healthy as a horse. But, while we were eating lunch on Friday, I leaned over to give A a hug since she was being such a big girl eating lunch in a booster and that is when I felt it...she was on fire.

Naturally I panicked and thought of racing her to the doctor for immediate support, but then thought about it a little more and realized I didn't even have any hard evidence. What was I going to say..."um, yes, hello, my daughter is on fire?" Yeah, I didn't think that sounded too good either.

So we headed home to take her temperature. As I am aiming the thermal ear thermometer and praying my body temperature is off and she is not really as hot as I think, I pull it out to read 103.9.

Okay, now I have some hard evidence and I really start to panic. I call the doctor immediately and they reassure me that her temperature is not really that high and to just give her some Motrin and wait it out. Have you ever been told not to panic when every cell in your body is in full blown alarm mode? Well, I had no other choice, I gave her the Motrin and put her down for a nap, sitting outside her door with the monitor the whole time.

And that was the start of our fever filled weekend. The rest of the weekend was spent laying low and tending to a sick little girl.

I know we reached the worst when after a day and a half of fluctuation, A hit 105 at 10pm last night. Again, naturally I go into panic mode assuming her little brain cells are frying as we speak, and jump out of bed to throw on the first outfit I see.

Hubby calls me down a little and reiterates that we are not going to gain anything by going to the ER without calling her doctor first, so I dial the weekend on-call doctor and wait in agony for the six minutes it takes her to call me back.

Apparently the ear thermometers are not quite as accurate as I thought and again the doctor tells me not to worry, and to give her some Motrin. I am a little wiser this time around however and question her on exactly when I SHOULD begin to worry.

"Well, if her fever does not go down at all within thirty minutes of giving her Motrin, then you should bring her to the ER." she calmly tells me.

Great, so I am 30 minutes away from being in a full blown panic attack? Don't you think this information would have been helpful before?!?

I check A's temperature every 5 minutes as she lays in her crib, trying to ignore my probing. After 10 minutes we are down to 104.2 and five minutes later we are in the 103's. Hubby and I decide we do not want her fever to get out of control throughout the night so we set our alarm for 3:30am, which would be about 30 minutes before we could give A her next dose. As the alarm beeps and I throw my exhausted self over the side of the bed, I hold my breath..."please be lower, please be lower" I chant all the way into A's room. Almost without waking her I feel her head and for once don't feel the scalding heat radiating through my hand. I gently take her temperature and creep out of her dark room to read the display...100.4...a number we have not seen since this whole fiasco started.

Relieved, I crawl back into bed for a few more hours of sleep.

And with only one relapse today around 2pm we have been fever free all day!

I know we have to miss school tomorrow (have to be fever free for 24 hours before attending...blah, blah, blah) which stinks because A love school, and it is E's birthday celebration...but I know everyone will have a better time celebrating when A is not a little contagious fire ball, running around, spreading germs.

Here's to no more fever in this house for a while...

xoxo

Daily Mom

In Like A Lion...

We decided to kick off March with a trip to the Zoo!

Since the Zoo officially goes on summer hours in March (open 7 days a week) we grabbed the kids, packed a lunch, and headed out. The weather was gorgeous...almost 65 degrees and we spent longer than we ever had before walking around the exhibits and letting the kids explore, before settling down to have our picnic lunch.

 It really was the perfect day to walk and talk with friends and laugh at our little munchkins. The animals must have thought so also, since we got a private swim show from the otter, came super close to the giraffes, watched the penguins swim around, and snuggled with some friendly goats.

Just chillin' with my friends!

Perfecting her model pose

"E, let's move!"

"Do you need a good scratch?"

I think we might need to work on her bird face...she has the wings down but the face, oh my.

What a day!

 All in all, the perfect way to jump start the spring!

xoxo

Daily Mom