Holiday Happenings

We had a very busy month! After finals were over we waited for a break in the weather to go to Boise for a pre-Christmas celebration at Mom's. We were there from the 17th to the 22nd (again, choosing to travel when the roads were the best). We made a couple of trips to the mall, got her Christmas picture taken at Kiddie Kandids, got her picture taken with Santa, and walked around a lot. The mall is decorated so beautifully for Christmas, and I just love having a warm place to walk. We made and ate lots of Christmas goodies, exchanged some presents, and just hung out a lot.

Carolyn started having a fever a couple of days before we left but it was easily controlled with childrens' motrin/ tylenol. By the time we left we were alternating - one every couple of hours. She had a really hard time with the elevation changes over the blue mountains even with her pain meds and a binki so I could tell her ears were really hurting. I figured we could probably wait til the next day to get her into the pediatrician, but her fever spiked really high that night (103.6 at home with motrin), and we took her to the ER where it read 103.9. We stripped her down, they gave her some tylenol in addition to the mortin she already had, and waited. After an hour it had gone back down below 103 so they sent us home with some amoxicillin. Poor B :(. We all slept pretty late on the 23rd after that whole ordeal (other than me getting up every couple of hours to try to give her more meds to keep her fever down). So the 23rd and 24th are pretty blurry to me. I wrapped a lot of presents and spent a lot of time in and out of the pediatrician's office on top of normal pre-Christmas errands, and of course spent a lot of time cuddling my sick girl.

We didn't realize how complicated her gift from Santa was, so we were up til 3:30 or 4 Christmas Eve haha (I will post pics soon). Christmas morning we got up, opened presents, had some breakfast, then got ready and drove to Renton where we saw Craig's aunts/uncles/cousins, grandparents, and later his Mom. It was a lot of fun, B adored them, and we headed back that night.

After a few days at home relaxing, on the 30th we went to the Leethams' house again in the Portland/Vancouver area for New Year's Eve (we had been there for Thanksgiving too). It was a short trip filled with lots of games and goodies. Dan, Jessica, and Truxton joined us for New Year's Eve and we all ate way too much and had a lot of fun. It was really nice to be able to celebrate with them. It's even nicer that with the 3 of us living in the same state now, we can pretty easily get together for any holiday we want!

We had good roads with each trip, for which we are very thankful. It was a lot of traveling in such a short time, but with one child it's still relatively easy to do that so it's probably good that we are taking advantage of it while we can!!!

For those of you not on Face Book

If you haven't heard already . . . WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER GIRL! She looks great. I do have a partial placenta previa, but all that means for sure right now is that I get another ultrasound :).

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas season and staying reasonably healthy and warm!

You okay?

B started asking if I was okay frequently when I had morning sickness. She never actually saw me puke, but she is a very observant and intuitive little girl. Now she asks if I am okay, and Daddy, and even Gama while we were at Amy's for Thanksgiving. Every night as she was going to bed she would say, "Gama, you okay?". Such a tender little heart.

Today was a very busy day with normal goings on, plus we had two visits: the first from Craig's sister Heather with her husband Klaus and baby daughter Eva. They live on the West side of the state, so we see them very rarely and it was a lot of fun to have them over and watch B play with a 1-yr-old :). After they left, I finished up cleaning the floors and then we got a call from LeAnne (Craig's stepmom) asking if she and Jayme could come by for a bit (they had an hour to kill before Jayme's choir rehearsal). So they came over and we had a nice visit. B LOVES playing with Aunt Jayme, who is 9.

So it was a very fun afternoon, but by the end of it my back was killing me, my ankles were starting to feel a little bit of pressure, and I was just plain pooped! So I got myself set up in the recliner with a pillow behind my back and a warm blanket, and put my feet up. B toddled in and immediately asked if I was okay. I told her yes I was okay, I was just resting for a minute. She checked on me every 5 minutes or so and at one point she said, "you tired Mommy?" and brought her soft and Madeleine in to cuddle with me. Eventually I dozed off and woke up to her puting the thermometer in my ear! Such a sweetheart :).

Daddy's Sweetheart

B did the cutest thing yesterday morning . . . she woke up and was very excited that Craig was still here. Sometimes we get up before he leaves for school, sometimes not. On Fridays he doesn't have class til the afternoon so he gets to sleep in. So B was very happy to see him and ran in to "cuddle Daddy". After a few minutes he got up and B ran in again, jumped into his arms, gave him a big hug, and said, "I like you, Daddy". We just thought it was the cutest thing! She says, "I love you" all the time, but this was a new one. So sweet.

Have you ever . . .

walked out of the bathroom after a bath to find your bra that was hang-drying in the hall riding in your toddler's playskool bus? I have!

Finger Painting

Okay so a lot of the time I post Carolyn's latest shenannigans on Face Book, but this one is a little long and just wouldn't be the same if I shortened it.

This evening I was reading and Craig was watching tv in the living room, and B went into the kitchen. She stayed in there and was being quiet and happy, so Craig was suspicious and asked her what she was doing. She said, "ABC's". Innocent enough, so we said ok. A few minutes passed and I was wondering what was going on so I called to her and asked her if she was being a good girl. "Yeah" was her reply. A few more minutes passed, she was still quiet and happy, and Craig decided he just didn't buy it and went in there to see what if anything was going on. She had grabbed all but 1 tbsp of a cube of room temperature butter and used it to finger paint the floor in addition to one cupboard and drawer. Butter is really, REALLY hard to clean off of hard surfaces. I wiped it up AND mopped it, and still 2 hours later she came running through the kitchen and slipped on the floor. Sigh.

I love my precocious 2-yr-old!

Dear Pregnancy

Dear Pregnancy,

I have to say I'm a little peeved at you right now. You advertise that part of your condition includes bigger boobs. My boobs have not grown, not even a little bit. I was hoping the first time was just a fluke, but now that I'm on my second time through I'm beginning to think you are just holding out on me. You have followed through just fine on all of the other advertised side-effects . . . nausea, fatigue, bloating, constipation, sleep issues, breast tenderness, cravings, baby brain, cramps, gas, back pain, acne, hemmorhoids . . . couldn't I just get the one I want in addition to all the others? Please?

Love,

Megan