All Better!

Well after 2 1/2 weeks of house bound cabin fever, we have been given the clean bill of health! No news to share really, just enjoying getting back into the swing of things. I felt like I should post a few pictures of my new healthy kiddo to make up for last weeks poor pathetic shots.

I also went to Dr. R today for my 28 week check-up. Graham seems to be doing great. I can't believe he will be here in only 11 weeks! It looks like we are going to be scheduling his birthday on December 2!

Seriously!!??.

Make that a FOURTH visit to the doctor.

Forgive me for taking these pitiful pictures, but I had to document.

If you read yesterday's post, you could see how excited I was that we were finally in the clear.

Today she woke up like this....

with no fever, but still...covered in a red rash from head to toe.

Look at her poor little cheeks.

Turns out that the doctor says this is a little souvenir left over from her virus. He says it's harmless and there is nothing you can do. He also said she is NOT CONTAGIOUS. I should have gotten that in writing because after being cooped up in the house for two weeks straight we are READY to get out and go, but I know we're going to be getting a lot of weird looks. Poor pumpkin.

Sick of Being Sick

We are sick....

of being sick!!

What happened to my kid who hardly ever ran a fever?

The last two weeks have been loads of quarantine fun.

It started last Monday when my sister in law noticed that Addison had a bit of a runny nose and asked, "is she sick?"...

No....I'm sure she's fine.

Fast forward 10 days and here is what we've been through since last Monday.

10 days of fever ranging from 101-105

5 calls to the doctor

3 doctor visits

1 antibiotic

2 bottles of Motrin

1 bacterial eye infection

2 ear infections

1 sinusitis infection

1 stomach bug

10 days of CABIN FEVER!!!!

Awesome.

Thankfully, her fever broke today and she seems to be doing SO much better. We are fully stocked in anti-bacterial products and hope to have built up LOTS of antibodies over the last 2 weeks. Dr. B did warn me it might be a "crap" winter. Ok, he didn't say crap, but might as well have.

On a different note....

I think it might be time for a hair cut. Andy's trying to protest, but the bangs are speaking for themselves.

Also....Addison said 2 new words today!!! This is a huge deal because she has been a little delayed on the talking thing. Oh she'll have full on conversations with you, but you don't understand a lick of what she's saying.

I have been stressed about it. But today I asked her if she wanted some juice and she said, "Jew"...close enough.

Then she spotted her favorite food of all time and said "cheez" We're making progress..

She has been loving her accessories lately.

Sunglasses...check

Snack....yup

Phone...good to go....

Last Days of Summer

August may be all but over. The pools may be closed. But when you live in Houston, summer sticks around longer than the calendar says it should. So why not take advantage?

The Harts (Addison's cousins) came and stayed with us last night, so Aunt Sarah, Eloise, Owen, and Iris got to come to the fountains with us today. It was a lot of fun, and it was almost...dare to say..... pleasant outside!

Love it

!

I could eat her up!

Sweet tired thing...having so much fun wears us out.

La da da da, la da da da.....

ELMO's WORLD!

There is pure elation on Addison's face every time she hears this song....I caught a few blurry pics this morning as I tried to grab my camera to get her reaction to the TV. In the last one she is practically dancing.

Family Weekend

Oh we were so excited for Andy to come back in town on Friday! He had been gone for almost a week and a half between a trip with his dad and brother and a work one as well.

We decided to celebrate everything finally being done with the house by getting OUT of the house and doing a lot of fun stuff around town. House & move stuff has been going on since the end of April, so this was the first weekend in almost FOUR months that we could just enjoy!

We drove into town Friday afternoon and took Addison to the Childrens' Museum. She spent most of her time at the "tot spot" and loved just exploring. If we lived closer, I know we'd be there every week. It was great.

Spent most of her time in a car of some kind

Then...although I don't have any pictures....

We went to Collinas to pick up some of our favorite pizza and went to visit our good friends Sawyer & Lauren and got to hang out with Brayden and their newest little beauty, Laney. Shoot, I'm so mad I don't have pics!

Saturday morning we got to go eat breakfast at Empire Cafe....oh it's all about the food whenever we actually go into town. Food and shopping....

Because after breakfast we went to Rice Village and poked around some cute baby stores. I sucked it up and bought two maternity shirts (I was trying my darndest not to actually buy maternity stuff this time around), and we found our double stroller at the Right Start that just opened up again. Why did this place have to disappear up here? I miss it so much!

So here is the double that we decided on.... It's a Baby Jogger City Mini and I love how light and narrow it is for a tandem. You can also put the little one in it as soon as they can hold their head up at 2 months, so you don't have to cart the car seat around. Love that!

Saturday afternoon, it was off to the pool. Andy had never been to Creekside, so we introduced him. He disappeared for about 10 minutes to the water slide, so I think he liked it as much as the other 10 year old kids around him.

Little fish

absolutely

loves

the water!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Tiny "Dancer"

Addison started this little "Mommy & Me" dance class this week. I think mommy was doing most of the work. I was absolutely zonked after 30 minutes. There wasn't much dancing, but there was music, which is pretty much all Addison cares about anyways....that and maracas...oh and she got a balloon & sticker when she left, so she was good to go.

It was an excuse to play "dress up" with her though....I wasn't the only mom.

I couldn't take pictures at the class, but I did get a few right before we left.

She still kind of has that "drunken sailor" walk and I LOVE it.

Tiny dancer playing with rocks...

enough already

On a side note...I walked into the playroom the other day and found her on TOP of the play table. It's her new thing....climbing on everything. The only problem is she can't get down.