Saturday, June 6, 2009

I can haz Stickerz!!!

Claire's favorite little place to sit is in our back doorway!
She is madly in love with these Barbie shoes. I only paid $1.70 for them at the Consignment store, and she is obsessed with them.
She is also obsessed with stickers. Luckily I have quite the stash left from my teaching days! I suppose she can use them in the meantime!

Pat-a-Cake fun!

Here is a video of Claire from about this time last year. Her hair has started to come in really well. Check out how bald she was here:



I have a lot of videos from before I started blogging, so here is one I thought I'd post for you!

Our Little Nudist

Claire, well, she likes to be naked...observe...

Actually, Claire loves to be naked. Of course, I don't know any small toddler who doesn't enjoy being naked...after her bath she runs down the hallway and runs to "her laptop" as she calls it and plays with the mouse.

Botanical Gardens

Here we are at the gardens, which are a part of the Indy Zoo. Check out their site: http://www.indyzoo.com/content.aspx?cid=281









































We got to feed a giraffe a chunk of sweet potato for only $1! What a good deal!














Friday, June 5, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Nestle Boycott

I don't usually buy anything Nestle anyways...but now you can be sure that I won't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott Ugh. Stupid marketing.

Our Trip to the Zoo

Amelia and Claire at the dolphin show!
Monkeys or something like that swinging from the trees...or the netting:

We brought our lunches into the zoo...not sure if it's allowed but they didn't check bags either.


Claire loves the Fuji apples. She can eat almost a half of one by herself!



These little guys were so hilarious to watch!




It did smell in here though. It was the "Desert Biome" house.
Garden pictures still to come!












Natural Age of Weaning

Here is an interesting article about the Natural Age of Weaning: http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.html I like how she ends with that she could go on and on, but is choosing to stop there.

Dental Issues & Breastfeeding

Here is an interesting article about dental issues and breastfeeding from the LLL site: http://www.llli.org/NB/NBJulAug03p138.html It is written by a mom who had some kids with teeth issues and some not...so read it and tell me what you think.

Monday, June 1, 2009

House of Sick

Claire has been very flushed lately. I was slightly freaked out it could be Scarlet Fever. She must sleep with her baby and some books. She is more insistent on this when over-tired and not feeling good.
She's been a little bit cranky and just wants to be held all the time. :(

We are all sick. Well, mildly...Josh and I both have a slight cold/headachey/coughy/sore throaty...Claire had a little runny nose and cough since about last Tuesday, when we went to the zoo. So maybe she picked up something else there? Or maybe she picked it up on Wednesday when we ate at Yats and explored Broad Ripple. Or maybe she got it at the airport on Thursday when we dropped off Anja and cruised around the shops there...plus I let her press lots of elevator buttons. Oh joy! Or maybe she got it from the shopping cart at Target where we went afterwards. Or maybe she got it from one of the approximately 10 garage sales we hit Friday morning....or maybe she got it from somewhere previously...or somewhere else I failed to mention visiting...but she woke up from a long, late nap Friday at about 5 pm. Ahh. Just in time for the doctors to be closed for a weekend. She felt REALLY hot. Her temp. was 102.6 the way you're supposed to take it for babies. Seriously...I need to buy an ear thermometer...why didn't I put one of those thingys on her baby registry for her shower? So Dr. H told me to alternate Tylenol and Ibuprofen every 3 hours and see what her temp was in the AM. So I did...it was 101 3 hours after a dose...so I took her to the urgent care clinic and baby got her first X-ray. Yikes.

Her ears looked fine. Her quick-strep was negative. But her oxygen saturation rate was low. It should be 100. Hers was about 90. The highest was 93. So they did chest Xrays to see if she had bronchitis. I got suited up in the apron, as well, and they tried to get me to hold her arms above her head while another lady held her waist still against the wall. Her lungs did not show bronchitis, RSV, pneumonia, etc...but they were concerned about her not breathing so well. Well, she had a sinus infection...duh...so they gave us amoxicillian and abuterol syrup Saturday. They told me to continue with the Tylenol regime to keep her fever down. Of course, she wasn't eating or drinking well...she ate maybe 2 animal crackers on Saturday all day. Luckily, she was still nursing, although not as much because she can't breathe and swallow at the same time so well. They told me to take her to the regular ped. dr. Monday if she was still running a fever...which she was.

So I got a 2pm slot with Dr. R today...their "only" opening...right. So he looked at her and again, ears looked great, but her Oxygen again, was not above 93. Her throat looked red, but not just from drainage. It also has small little white blisters, which is an indicator of herpangia (not to be confused with your heart getting herpes, lol) Read more about it here: http://www.drgreene.com/21_1113.html it's basically just a virus similar to the Hand, Foot, and Mouth one. LOVELY! So this is why she is still running a fever today of 99.9 WITH Tylenol. My poor little baby. :(

The urgent care clinic also called me and said that her long-strep/mono test were negative. Seriously...babies get mono! But it did show another bacteria: pseubomonas-like bacteria came back positive. Whatever that is. Lovely. Thank god for nursing or we would probably so have had to been to the hospital for dehydration or something worse. I really don't see a 22-month old doing well with an IV.

So we are going to lay low for a few days and catch up around the house until she gets better. Anyone want to come over for a playdate!?! LOL! You know the line..."they're not contagious after being on antibiotics for 24 hour rule..." Yeah...not always true. Come on, you know you want to come over tomorrow...instead of a chicken pox party, we can share sippys and suckers and have a herpangina party...come on! What's the difference? I know someone out there gave it to US...man...they need to make a vaccine against this, too. :)

So Dr. R. added another script on top of the other 2. It was "Mary's Magical Mouthwash" to help with the blisters and is basically something the pharmacist mixes. It's a combo of benadryl, cortisone, and nystatin. Fun, fun. So now I'm keeping track of three scripts, plus the OTC stuff. Hey, I though toddlers who were still nursing weren't supposed to get sick. Boo! Actually, maybe that's why she got sick...she nursed very little this week with all of our outings to the zoo, etc. Who knows...I'm off to bed myself. Night all!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

We're going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo!

On Tuesday, Claire, Anja, and I headed to the Indy Zoo with our neighbor Jessie and 2 of her girls. We had a good time. We got an early start and made it in for the 10:30 dolphin show. If you go, don't expect too much from the dolphin show. It's all of 15 minutes, so don't be late, either. Here is a little video to tide you over until I get around to posting more stuff. I am about 2 weeks behind on laundry. I am always behind on laundry. Seriously. Ugh. Oh, so here is a video that is actually from the Botanical Gardens, which is connected to the Indy Zoo in White River State Park, which we did later in the day, as you can tell since all the girlies are sleeping. Claire wanted to ride with Amelia all day, so Sophia rode in Claire's stroller. It worked out quite well; check it out:



It was supposed to rain...a 60% chance...so man, did we luck out!

Cooking with Anja

Anja is an awesome cook. One night she made us some yummy curry chicken complete with pineapple and mandarin oranges in it. Yummy-ness in the making: