Graduated From Mommy & Me Swim Lessons....and finally well!!!!

The Princess graduated from swim lessons last Thursday.  After class they each got a popsicle. I think she did great considering the tears the first day and holding on to me and not wanting to get in the pool. Hopefully I will not be so nervous about her doing lessons next year and she will be a little more adjusted to getting in the pool.

She is finally well I think. She ran a fever on Monday but we are now fever free!!! Saturday night / Sunday morning sometime around 3:00 am I went to check on her because she could have another dose of medicine if she had a fever. Her fever was back up to 104.2! So, we gave her a dose of medicine and put her in a tempid bath and got the fever down again. I do not like her fever getting that high.  The doctor said the ear infection was not caused by the swim lessons because she had a middle ear infection.

104.2....

That is not a radio station but what the thermometer was reading late yesterday afternoon when I took the Princess temperature. Yesterday at lunch I could tell just looking at her little eyes she was not feeling well. I took her temp and it was 101.3 so I called the doctors office and got her an appointment. She had not really had an appetite at all either. She ended up having an ear infection and sore throat. Tonight her fever went up again - we started cooling her down before with wet cloths because it was not time to take her medicine.

Hopefully the antibiotics kick in soon and she is feeling better tomorrow since she has now had three doses of the antibiotic.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!!

The picture below was taken a few weeks ago...I am ready for her the Princess to be full of energy again - running around and giggling!! I thought this was a cute picture of her and Sadie.

Swim Lessons

Swim lessons are now well under way. Actually we only have tomorrow left and we will be done! I am worn out!!! I had no idea how tired I would be from them.

Today was the best the Princess has done! She did not cry nearly as much as she has in the past and I think she was even smiling during song time!!! She is definitely doing better now than she did the first day. It will be interesting to see how she does tomorrow. This week she has gotten in the correct way by herself. She can also "monkey walk" which is holding on to the side of the pool and move to where she wants to be. She has been going under since the second day...that is one of the things I think I was the most nervous about but yesterday she went under four different times and I think it was five times today. The other days has only been either two or three times.

The first three days Hubby was not able to go with us so the first day a friend of mine went with us and she took pictures. My camera battery died while we were there but luckily she had her camera with her. I still have to get the pictures from her but I posted one from the ones on my camera. There are more but posting a picture of me in a swim suit is not my favorite thing to do.

Hubby was videoing part of the lessons today and yesterday and then took more pictures today.  I will have to get those pictures from him after he downloads them.

Tomorrow is "graduation" from swim lessons.  Can't wait to see how she does and then it will be time for us to practice, practice, practice with her until swim lessons next summer.

Today was also my weigh in day for the "Fitness Challenge" I am in.  I lost 1.5 pounds this week. I was pretty happy with that number since I was not able to do my regular walking until Monday.  Monday I only walked 5 miles....then yesterday I walked 10 miles and then walked about 8 miles today.  Hopefully I will have a good weight loss this next week.  Not sure where I am in the ranking yet because the numbers still are not posted.  Last week I did not lose the most weight but I was still the biggest loser overall in my category...looking forward to seeing this weeks results!!

Happy Father's Day

***If you read my previous post before I went in and changed it I am sure the paragraph about the Fitness Challenge made no since. I went back and read it this evening and realized I should not try and proof my post at midnight or later. I had actually started that post last Wednesday. I thought I had gone back and changed any reference to "today", "yesterday", etc....and I totally missed it in that paragraph.***

Hope everyone had a great Father's Day. Today was Hubby's day to serve in the media area at church so he had to be there early and the Princess and I overslept. I woke up at 9:24. Our BFG (aka, Sunday School Class) starts at 9:00. I quickly got dressed and heard the Princess waking up. I got her up, dressed and gave her her morning milk and out the door we went. We were leaving for church at 10:17. I had thought about emailing the above picture to Hubby this morning but after oversleeping there was no time for the computer before church.

By the time we got home from lunch the Princess was asleep so I did not get a picture of her with Hubby all dressed up. Here is a picture of her ready to go to bed though.

WOW!

Ok, a month is way too long for me to go without blogging! I have been too busy lately to take time to download and edit pictures to blog about.

The Princess turned 23 months on on the 6th! Wow, 23 months!!! That means I have been a stay at home mom for 23 months now. I can't believe how much she has grown!!

So, what have we been doing the past month? Staying very busy!! The Princess has learned the sounds to the letters of the Alphabet! I am not real keen on her watching alot of television but I don't feel as bad sometimes when it is an educational video. So, thanks to THIS video we can now say our sounds.  We are working on our numbers now.  She has the number 2 down really good.

I have joined a fitness challenge that one of my MOPS friends started.  We weigh in on Wednesday mornings.  Last week was our first weigh in and this past week I lost 1/2 pound.  I lost 3.5 pounds the first week.  I had started walking about 6 miles a day.  One day I walked 9 miles.  My goal is two pounds per week so that would be my average over the past two weeks.  I have not been able to walk for exercise the past week though...more on that below.

I have not been able to run lately because I have been having a knee problem.  I went back to my follow up visit and had to get a cortisone shot.  I am really hoping that fixes my knee.  It has been a week now and it still hurts sometimes - nothing that is not bearable - it just hurts if I stretch it out.  I have not been able to do my walking this past week because of the cortisone shot.  He told me that I can start back with leg exercises this coming Monday...I know the walking really helps with my weight loss and not being able to walk last week is probably part of the reason I only lost a 1/2 pound.  I am thinking that I may be taking up biking.  I liked how many calories I could burn in a 3 mile run - I can't burn that many walking three miles - although I do burn more when I am pushing the Princess in her stroller than on the days when I get to walk without her.

Last Saturday Hubby and his friend put the Princess big girl bed together.  That was a very emotional time for me....I will do a separate post on this.

This past week the Princess started swim lessons.  That has been quite an experience.  I will do a post just on that this week too.  Hubby downloaded the pictures from our first day on his computer so I will have to get those from him tomorrow.

This evening a friend of ours little girl had her 2nd birthday. It was a Fiesta/Senorita Party.  The Princess had so much fun!  She had it at a dance studio and the kids just played and ran and danced a little too.  I took pictures of the party and that is what the pictures in this post are from.  I really like taking Birthday Party Pictures!  The birthday girls mommy took a picture of The Princess with me and Hubby.  As you can see, the Princess did not really want to cooperate with getting her picture made...

 
Hubby also had a birthday this month.  That can be another post this coming week too!  I did take a few pictures with my phone when we went out for his birthday dinner.

Have a great Sunday everyone!!!