Sick Baby

It has been crazy busy for us so that explains no updates quite nicely we think. Evie is getting big so fast--she was a yard tall at her 2 year appointment and is about 28+ pounds now, which of course makes her super big stuff!

Evie loves the park, shoes and sunglasses. Here she has on two pairs of sunglasses to be like Nana and mommy who have clip-ons that attach to their regular glasses.
She is also fearless and will hang from the rings and doesn't want anyone to hold her. She let go once and daddy caught her mid-air and instead of being scared she wanted to do it again.She has also started to 'read' our adult books--she opens them up and says line from her real favorite books, such as:

• page 1: Ms Nelson is missing, hmmm, hmmm
• page 5 (she skips a lot): William's daddy said he's a boy
• next page: twinkle, twinkle little star
• and so on

It is a riot. Unfortunately, she has been sick since Wednesday with some stomach bug. Today she started running a fever and has been super lethargic so we had to cancel mother's day lunch plans vs dragging sick, sad baby all over town tomorrow. Hopefully she will be all better on Monday and able to go to school. I hate when she gets stomach stuff. Last time she was sick for over a week--it was awful! The worst part this time is she only throws up at night so we think the entire day that she is getting better and then go in first thing in the morning and find out she is still sick. Poor baby!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there!

I'm blue...three...(She's TWO)

Evie knows she is two now but she is getting a kick out of telling us she is blue or three. She can be so ornery:) On her birthday she went to COSI with mom and dad and had a really good time. Their KidSpace area is really nice for a child of her size. She loves the water stuff!
Here's daddy holding her over the air blower. She had a blast!After COSI we took her to Latitude 41, a restaurant downtown that has a unique kid's menu that daddy heard about months ago and we just hadn't gotten around to eating there yet. The kid's menu was a little fancier than most places but didn't seem that unusual (steak, fish, pasta and sauce, teriyaki chicken). Obviously, no hot dogs or chicken fingers here though!

Once they got off work, Nana and Grandma came over to celebrate too. Grandpa was helping great-Grandma with Aunt Mary's surgery at OSU so he had to wait until Saturday to see Miss Two. She got lots of nice things, including clothes, a doctor's kit, and a wagon from Grandma! She also got a bicycle from Grandpa and Nana. We have taken her for a walk with both a few times now so she can switch between them. She LOVES them lots. She also got a Madame Alexander doll for her collection and a special bed for her twin babies with trundle, bedding, pillows and matching pjs for everyone!Saturday morning she and Nana dressed in their ladybug outfits (Evie has on her 2nd birthday dress. We have professional pictures but she was really not into the experience, so it was a bit of a bummer.) Cool Evie has on her shades indoors, cause she rolls like that!Saturday evening her cousins from Indiana came for a visit and she had a blast with them. She loves copying older kids and there were plenty of things to mimic! They read lots of books together, played make-believe, built towers with blocks, snuggled, colored, you name it!She also got even more clothes (see her Belle costume above) and toys from extended family and she got a renewal for our zoo membership, which we are excited to use with the new wagon once the weather warms up again. She is a super spoiled baby and mommy and daddy are worried we might get forced out of our house from all the nice things she has (if anyone wants loaners on her toys she has outgrown, let us know!).

She was lots of fun and had a wonderful second birthday. Thanks to everyone!

This time 2 years ago

I was at work, running interviews for Optometry students, and people kept asking me if I had felt any braxton hicks, to which I replied 'no'. Meanwhile, I was actually having real, full-on contractions. I had 'false labor' the night before so I figured I would just keep timing them and stay working, then went home and we took both dogs to the vet, ate dinner, and I just kept having contractions about 8-10 minutes apart for forever. We went to bed and I woke up when they got really intense and closer together and we trooped over to the hospital to have Evie the next afternoon.

This morning, my teeny-tiny baby demanded that she wear her pajama shirt to school (with jeans of course) and had to get a drink out of the water fountain at daycare, resulting in the usual soaked baby we experience most mornings. She also deemed a coat unnecessary even though it was only 40 degrees out.

It seems like things have changed, just a little:) I also asked Evie what tomorrow was and without further prompting she said "my birthday" and so I asked how old she would be, to which she replied "blue." Close enough, isn't it?

Easter Bunny!

Evie had a really nice Easter and even got to see the Easter Bunny, although mommy had to be in the picture just like with Santa Claus. She seems to be getting better but is still sick:( Here are some Easter pictures:She loved searching for easter eggs and was a little disappointed that there were only twelve to find! We also got bunny bread from Great Harvest--whole wheat bread shaped like a bunny and she is getting a huge kick out of eating the bunny's legs and ears...even today she was super pumped to eat the bunny. Poor bunny!

She has 2+ teeth coming in right now--two that have broken through and at least that many more poking out so the fact that she has been really fun (except for a 60 minute + meltdown over some Cinderella slippers that was really ridiculous) in spite of all this is good news for mommy and daddy! She is also talking up a storm and a huge mimic--daddy's shoulder was hurting him so he had a hot pack on it and she looked at me and said "it hurting fast mommy" and asked for an 'icee' so she could be just like him. She loves discussing her boo-boos and getting ice packs for them. She also saw some dog excrement on the deck (stupid snow phobic puppies), went and got her toy broom, and then told daddy she would go sweep it up for him. She is just so crazy--I love how she can communicate with us and how cute the stuff she wants to do is--the girl loves chores!

Some of her communicative nature is 'cute' but it is hard too. Daddy was trying to dance with her and she looked over and saw him and said "no dancing over here daddy" so he moved and asked if he could dance in another area of the room and she said "no dancing daddy." What a critic!

Here she is in her easter sunglasses which she wore through breakfast (when I turned off the lights as we left this morning she said "mommy, it's too dark"--duh!) and she kept them on for the entire drive to Nana and Grandpa's house despite dawn not even having hit yet. Here is a picture of when she first put them on, by herself:
So, Happy Easter everyone--hope yours was a blast too!

I can't breathe...

So Evie is having the asthma wheeze problem again. This is (I think) the 4th time since January--and I might be forgetting one. Daddy took her to the doctor yesterday and she had to have 3 breathing treatments there with the nebulizer before they would let her go--if the 3rd one hadn't worked, she would have been sent to ER to be on oxygen and monitored.

She is doing home treatments with an inhaler and she is also on steroids to reduce inflammation in her lungs and has to take Singulair once a day indefinitely. Luckily, they gave us 2 free months of Singulair because there is no generic and the copay is $30/month which is pricey in my opinion. Although it is cheaper than my Crohn's medication by a lot!

Basically, she doesn't 'just' catch a cold or the flu--she catches those and then has asthma stuff going on, and it looks like that will happen every time. it's really hard because I think this might all be stemming off her first cold that gave her the bad breathing--first she gets the cold/asthma, then mommy or daddy gets it, then the other person gets it, then Evie gets it again, then we just keep cycling through this in a never-ending pattern. We are not fans of the uber-cold.

Otherwise, things are good. Work has been insane for both of us so hopefully things will actually be calmer once Spring Quarter starts up next week. Happy Easter everyone.