A Fun Weekend!

Auntie Bubbs, Uncle Brian and Amelia came down to visit for the weekend! It was great seeing the 2 girls playing together - they looked like they were having a great time!

On Saturday, we took everyone, including Riley and Murphy to the dog beach in Huntington Beach - while it was FREEZING and super foggy, everyone had a good time...especially Riley and Murphy. Afterwards we went to Sprinkles in Newport Beach and picked up a few cupcakes (red velvet...yummmm) then off to Islands in Irvine for lunch. A long but fun day!

Sunday, Sarah woke up with a teary and red eye. I took her to the doctor and they said she had an infection...either sand got in her eye at the beach or she rubbed sunscreen in it (yes...she wore sunscreen even though we NEVER saw the sun that day at the beach!). So now we have to put drops in her eyes 4 times a day...yes, 4 times a day into eyes that clamp shut as soon as they see both Chris and me coming at her! Everyone left at around 11 am to fly back home to the Bay Area - we miss them and can't wait to see them again!!

Sarah also mastered using her sippy cup! I sent it with her to daycare on Friday and they showed her how to do it...I gave it to her Saturday morning and she picked it up and starting drinking! (And yes, she's drinking out of Amelia's sippy cup in the first pic!)

Monday, the little miss woke up with a "perfect" eye but with a runny nose - like a faucet! I took her to daycare and at 1pm they called me...she had a fever of 101.3! I brought her home and gave her some tylenol and she took a nice nap...but still had a fever. To make matters worse, now I've got a cold too! So Chris took care of Sarah while I tried to get sleep and "get better" but Miss Sarah just wasn't "right"...she was up most of the night crying and whining - it was so sad!! Chris took her to the doctor Tuesday morning and yes, you guessed it...another ear infection!!! Holy Cow...I swear daycare must pass these out to the kids there!! So now she's on Amoxicilling for the ear infection, Gentimicin for the eye infection, Tylenol for the fever and teething pain - yup, she's also teething!! The poor baby!!!

Let's hope she gets better soon!!

Our Little Gator!

Auntie Bubbs and Daddy are going to love this picture of Sarah!!

Daycare said to dress her in fall colors today. Well, she has about 8 different Halloween costumes/shirts/onesies but otherwise, nothing "Fall"...then Chris found this...what's more "Fall" than Gator football? And...she's even wearing matching socks!!

Crawling Soon?

So last night, after we got home from school, I put Sarah on the floor with her toys. I looked away at something and when I looked back at her she was on all fours, rocking back and forth and trying to reach for a toy (OK, guess that makes her on all threes?). She's been trying to get up to do that for awhile now and has become quite the mover just by scooching and rolling...but I think she might start crawling soon! One of the other moms saw her doing it this morning at school and said that Madyson did that for awhile then one day she crawled and the NEXT day she was walking! Oy...hope Sarah crawls a bit longer than that before breaking into a run!!

She also has her 2 teeth coming in on the bottom! You can see the white through the top of her gums! Our little girl is growing up so fast!!

Here's a pic from her at school this morning. I think she's going to be a redhead!

6 Month Well Baby Checkup

I know she's 6 and a HALF months old but this was the soonest we could get the little miss in for her checkup - especially since she just went off antibiotics for her ear infection on Sunday.

She's up to 15lbs 12oz which is up 1lb 2oz from the 11th when she went in for her ear infection! Woohooo! Which is just a hair shy of the 50th percentile. She's also 26 inches long and her head circumference is 43cm - both put her in the 50th percentile. He's extremely pleased with her growth! Go Sarah!!

She also got her 6 month shots. The poor thing just cried and cried and kept reaching for her "ma ma" the whole time then when she finished and I was holding her she stopped, like someone turned off a light switch. Our next appointment is January 5th! Although, not to be a pessimist or anything but she IS in daycare so I'm SURE we'll be seeing Dr Detereville before then!

Here's a picture of her NOT liking her green beans...

Date Night

Kindercare had a Parents Night Out tonight from 6:30 to 9:30. We decided to take advantage of it and go out, just the 2 of us...it had been a long time since we'd done that! We went to a great restaurant in Corona (we even had a coupon!) then went to Barnes and Noble and took our time walking around looking at books and magazines...we used to do that almost every weekend before Sarah! We got to Kindercare at about 9pm to get Sarah. When we were walking up to the front door we could hear the music and all of the kids laughing inside! We got into the room and Sarah was just sitting on the floor, right in the middle of it all smiling and having a great time! Miss Jill said that at one point she started rubbing her eyes so they gave her a warm bottle and put her in her crib, but then she heard Madyson laugh and that was it...she was up and ready to party again! She's STILL awake and it's almost 10pm!! Next time I'll have to leave them the camera so they can take pics for me!

It's such a great idea...daycare offering nights like this (even just once a month) for parents. I think we ALL had a great time tonight! Thank you Kindercare!

Just a Couple of Pics...

Here's a shot of Sarah and her favorite teacher Miss Jill. Taken at daycare this morning...she loves chewing on those fingers!! Kindercare is also having a Parents Night Out tomorrow night! Chris and I can't wait! We're dropping off Sarah (who will be watched by Miss Jill) and going out to dinner! Our first date night in a LONG time! :-)

Yea! She's Feeling Better!!

We had a great weekend! The antibiotics and tylenol kicked in pretty much right away and the little princess is feeling much better! I have my happy baby back!




She's also back to eating again (finally) so we started her on squash on Saturday (she's had sweet potatoes which she loves and peas which she hates) and she seems to like them! Hooray! Next up is carrots! She's getting more and more difficult to feed though...there are just way too many things going on to actually pay attention to eating! It's like feeding a moving target!





She's also decided she doesn't want to sit anymore and that she really likes standing up. When I put her back in her crib this morning after her bottle, so I could get her school clothes out, she wouldn't bend her knees...she grabbed onto the aquarium (the same aquarium she likes to turn on, over and over again, in the middle of the night by slamming it with her foot) and held herself up...nice, huh? Same thing happened at daycare only Miss Jill wound up holding her for about 5 minutes before she finally decided to sit and play with the toys.







She also started clapping this weekend! Took us totally by surprise! She loves it when I clap and sing the ABC song (on her exersaucer...that song is burned on my memory FOREVER) for her...she starts to clap along with me!

Looks like she's also starting to try to figure out how to crawl...she's been trying to push her hind end up...almost like the downward facing dog yoga position. She's almost there!!

What a weekend!!

ANOTHER Ear Infection!!!

I knew something wasn't right with Sarah when I picked her up from daycare yesterday. She just didn't seem like her usual self and she had only eaten 6oz of formula all day at daycare. At about 5:30pm yesterday she started screaming and crying...I tried feeding her - she didn't want it...I tried the bottle...she didn't want it...gave her a bath (which she usually LOVES) - she just sat there...tried to put her down and she just cried and rolled from side to side. She didn't have a fever so Chris and I thought it was "growing pains" from her 6 month growth spurt so we gave her some Tylenol and she fell asleep...until 12:30am. She finally fell back into a fitful sleep until 6am when she woke up to be fed. She seemed OK...we thought she was just constipated (seemed like she had a tummy ache and her legs were all scrunched up - she wouldn't straighten them out). We fed her some prunes and pears and sent her off to daycare. I called Kindercare at noon and they said she was doing much better! Hooray!! Then they called me at 3:30 to tell me she had a fever of 101 and to come get her. I picked her up and brought her to the pediatrician and yup...she has another ear infection!!

So...she's been in daycare since August 7th and this is her second ear infection AND she had the stomach flu FOR 5 DAYS, which she so lovingly shared with her mommy and daddy!

I picked up her antiobiotics and will start them tonight with some Tylenol to get her fever down. Let's hope she feels better soon!! I miss my happy baby!!

The Swing at the Park

Sarah finally got over her stomach flu from last weekend on TUESDAY!! Daycare sent her home because she was still so sick...the poor baby! We kept her home on Wednesday...Chris took the day off to stay with her (while I worked) and was completely exhausted by day's end! She was obviously feeling better! We sent her back to daycare on Thursday and despite the little cold she now has (as do I) she's doing great! We made it through our first (and I'm sure not last) episode of the stomach flu!

Because we didn't do a thing last weekend we really wanted to make sure this weekend was a fun one. We had our friends Joel, Louise and their little boy Rhys over for dinner on Saturday night and had a great time!! Then on Sunday we took the little princess to the park...I was dying to get her in the swing and on the slide! She seemed to enjoy the swing...although she was barely moving! I kept trying to push it a little harder...so she'd feel it, but Chris was being a cautious daddy! I then put her on the little slide and she slid down while I held her...and HATED IT!! The poor thing! Guess it will be awhile before I get her on one of those again!

Here are some pics of her on the swing!