Spray Park 2012

HELLO, SPRING!  The girls had a blast at the first spray park outing of the year.  Fun, sun, and water!

Crib Progress

Last Sunday, I started the transition of putting Alyssa in the crib at bedtime.  She's been napping in the crib for a few weeks now, so it was time to start bedtime too.  I still nurse and rock her for the one nap she takes daily and do the same at bedtime.  She usually sleeps in the crib for a few hours and when she wakes up I bring her to bed with me.  I'm sure this goes against all the parenting books, but it works for us (right now).

Dora Bike

We had a little mini early birthday party for Addison this weekend.  Grams & Pappy got Addison a bike & since we are moving soon they decided she needed it early!  We have a super long driveway that is perfect for bike riding & Addison has already peddled a couple of miles on it :)

Addison got to blow out a candle on her cupcake in Texas AND she 'helped' Pappy & Grams blow out their candle in Australia, too!

The look on her face was priceless when B wheeled the bike in the living room.  Best of all, the webcam was setup so Grams & Pappy could watch it all happen.

A stinking tornado watch isn't going to stop this little girl from riding her new bike!

First Sleepover

I'm not sure how I missed blogging about Addison and Maggie's FIRST sleepover!  A couple of weeks ago we invited Maggie to stay the night with Addison.  Everyone thought that we'd be walking Maggie home at bedtime, but she surprised us all!

Bath Time

My little girls love taking a bath.  When I need 30 minutes of rest I can always count on a bath to rejuvenate us all!  After washing hair I noticed what a difference in length Addison's hair is between dry and wet.  I wonder how long she's going to keep those curls!  They are a pain to keep under control, but sure are cute!

Mini Salon

Last Friday, Alyssa went to the pediatrician for her 2 week ear check.  Her ear is healed and so is her hip/leg that was giving her problems previously.  The pediatrician looked at the pictures I had taken of Alyssa's hives and determined she had a delayed allergic reaction to the antibiotic for her ear.  No more Augmentin for us!

Addison's imagination is out of this world and she's really into pretend play lately.  One day she setup a mini salon in her room and Alyssa was her very patient customer.

Alyssa has seen one too many episodes of Dora.  Now when I say 'let's go change your diaper', 'let's go take a bath', or anything with 'let's go' she says 'vamanos' (Spanish for 'let's go').  When Buddy runs to the door she always asks 'dada home?'.  Talk, talk, talk, talk.

What A Week!

Let's see,  last Sunday Alyssa developed hives.  I dosed her with Benadryl continuously until Tuesday night.  For those 3 days each time the old hives would fade, new ones would pop up.

Tuesday night after dinner, Alyssa fell in the hallway.  I didn't see it happen and neither did Blake.  She didn't cry like it was a bad fall.  I believe she's taken much harder falls.  That night and Wednesday morning she was favoring her left leg.  Walking slowly and not being too adventurous.  I took her to MDO and told Ms K to call me if Alyssa wasn't her usual self.  After I got out of my dr appointment (asthmatic bronchitis) at noon, I checked on Alyssa and Ms K said she was fine.  Once I picked the girls up from MDO and fed them a snack, Alyssa seemed to be in more pain than when I picked her an hour before.  So, I gave her ibuprofen and waited a while to see if that helped.  Around 4pm, I kept trying to get her to walk and move around, but she wouldn't.  I called her pediatrician and she said I could either take her into the office then or observe overnight and take her first thing this morning.  Well, I chose the latter, which I regretted around 10pm last night.  This is one of those times where it's hard not living close to family/friends.  I got the backpack together with snacks, phone, water, diapers, etc and off we went to the ER.  Blake stayed home with Addison.  The x-ray didn't show any injury to her little bones and after the dr examined her he concluded that it was a hip injury and to apply moist heat and continue with ibuprofen/tylenol.  We got home around 2:30am.  She is doing better as the day goes on and is walking more, but still slow and cautious.  Needless to say, I'm sick and exhausted, Blake is tired from waiting up half the night to hear about Alyssa, and our little Addison is well-rested and partying like the true rockstar that she is!  Alyssa has a follow-up appointment in the morning to get her ear re-checked, so the pediatrician will take another look at her little hip/leg.

Our nebulizer died and this is the new one that Addison picked out at the pharmacy.

Last night in the ER, Alyssa was playing on the iPhone.  There is a Dr Seuss ABC app that she has recently started playing.  Well, for the letter C there is a picture of a camel on the ceiling and she kept turning the phone trying to turn the camel the wrong/right way!  It was hilarious because each time she flipped the phone, the screen flipped too!  This went on about 10 flips before she moved on to the next letter.