Catching Up, A Positive Test and A Few Pictures....

I was doing so well keeping my blog updated last week and this week I have missed two days. I do have a good excuse though. Yesterday, after two visits to the doctors office I found out that the Princess has strep! We went in yesterday morning after I spoke to the nurse on the phone but her ears looked good and I guess her throat was not red. She just had a low grade fever and did not want to eat her breakfast. She has had a low grade fever on and off and I always think it is teething because she is teething a lot these days. When she would not eat yesterday morning was my sign something was not right. After we left the doctors office thinking it probably was just teething we ran several errands.  We ended up back at the doctors office after her fever went up to 103.4 and then even after giving her Mot*in it was still   100.7 a hour and a half later.  They told me to bring her back in.  I thought she had probably developed another ear infection - I was not even thinking it was going to be strep.  When the doctor looked at her throat it was a little red so she decided to go ahead and test her.  I am so glad I went ahead and took her back in so that we got started on the antibiotics last night!  We were suppose to go to the Pumpkin Patch for a playdate today with my MOPS group. I found the Princess a cute pumpkin shirt and socks to wear today but it doesn't look like we will be going. Luckily, we have the whole month of November to wear it:)!! Here are a few pictures of here while we were waiting on the results of her Strep test.  She actually had a little energy after her fever started going down - so in these pictures she was happy.

Playing with my keys.  She is trying to say "keys" these days too.  I guess she does say it because I can understand it when she says it.....

It was cool here last night but I dressed her in short sleeves and I had on long sleeves but since she was running a fever I was trying to cool her off.  She looked so cute in her pink t-shirt with her pink tennis shoes. 

I included this picture because I think she looks like such a big girl in this one! You can also see how much hair she has gotten lately in this picture too:)

Poor baby girl has had a restless night.  I am thankful that is seems her fever has stayed down throughout the night.  I was up with her about every 2 1/2 to 3 hours all during the night though.  She would just cry out alot while she was sleeping and then sometimes she would wake up.  I have been alternating the Mot*in and Tylen*ol all night.  Since she fell back to sleep right before time for her last dose I am just waiting until she wakes up again - since her fever seems to be down right now.  Hopefully, we are almost past the fever part of this!!

We had a cold front come through here. It is in the 30's according to my phone this morning. Yay!! Cool weather is here....I wonder for how long??

Sometimes the Princess will get the pillows off the couch and play with them.  A couple of days ago I had walked out of the room for a few minutes and when I walked back in this is what she had done!

I just realized that all the pictures in this post were taken with my iPhone.  
Hope you all have a Fantastic Friday!!!!

Shoes!!!

One thing the Princess really likes to say right now is "shoes". She loves shoes! If I take my shoes off and they are where she can get to them she goes and gets them and will usually bring them to me. The other day I had left my shoes in the living room and caught her trying them on! It was so cute!!!

Another thing she likes to do is help me when I fold laundry. She does not actually fold the laundry but she will usually come and find a few pieces that she would like to play with. In the picture below she had gotten a couple of her washcloths!

We had a busy, busy day today and the Princess went to bed early for her!! I plan on staying in most of tomorrow and hopefully getting a few things done around home. We have been up and out early every morning this week. Sunday for church, yesterday for MOPS and today I had a meeting so the Princess stayed with a friend. I think I could have gone to bed two hours ago I am so tired right now:)!! I have a few things to do and then I think I will call it an early night or early for me anyways!!

Hope you all had a Terrific Tuesday!!!

Before we left for church on Sunday I wanted to get a picture of the Princess in her outfit. The outfit she has on was given to us as a gift for Kate and I think it is adorable! I remember pulling it out when we pulled all Kate's stuff out to see what the Princess could use and wondering if she would be able to wear it because she was so little when we brought her home. The outfit is an 18 month - ok, I did not realize she would be wearing 18 months when she was around 12 months so yes, this does fit her now because she is still wearing 18 months right now. She was in a very happy mood before church as you can tell from all the pictures.  You should be able to double click on the picture below to make it larger.

Let's Color

Last Friday, the 15th of October I got out a coloring book and colors that the Princess had gotten at a birthday party she went to a few months back and we colored! I taped two pages to her highchair tray and gave her the colors. I did turn my head one time and she put one of the colors in her mouth. I think she liked coloring though.

A Simple Friday

So, we did not have much going on Friday. The princess and I just hung out at the house most of the day and mid/late afternoon we ran over to a friends house for a quick surprise that I had for her. The princess had fun playing with her kids while she and I got to chat and she gave the princess a ton of books that she had after cleaning out her kids bookcases! The princess loves, loves, loves her books lately. I actually tried to get a picture of her where she had taken the pillows from the couch and put them in the living room floor and was laying on them looking at her book...it was too cute! By the time I got my camera out she had already moved and then wanted me to pick her up instead of taking a picture!! I decided to play around with my camera a little. I used a different setting with no flash, edited one of these a little and this is what I got. 

Friday was also Mom's Night out.  We went for coffee and had a great time! The Princess and Hubby hung out together for the evening. They actually went and bought a movie that just came out for the Princess and watched that or I guess I should say Hubby watched it. He said that she only watched part of it.  The Princess was already in bed when I got home.  I am sure they had a blast together!

These are more of my favorite pictures of her as is the first one on this post! I am thinking we are going to have to have one of these from this day blown up and framed!  Wow, picking which one will be really hard because we took so many that day and I like so many of them!!!

Hope you all have a Super Saturday!!!

We Have Molars!!!

Thursday we met a friend for lunch. She has a little girl that is just 1 1/2 weeks older than the Princess. We went and the girls sat across from each other and both were so cute!! At the end of our meal the Princess and I were sharing an ice cream cone - yes, I let her have sugar sometimes, I am sure that surprises some people!! She does not eat sweets everyday but every once in a while I think is ok:). Anyway, she opened her mouth really wide for the ice cream and I saw a little part of the molars have broken through!! Yay!!! Her hands are still in her mouth alot so I know that we are probably not done with all the pain until they come completely through but at least they are coming. Just last week at her 15 month appointment her doctor said her gums were bulging so that has happened just this past week! She does not normally open her mouth very wide for me so we may have to go for ice cream again in a few days so I can see if they have come through anymore!!

I was so excited that she still took about a 2 hour nap when we got home!! She fell asleep on our way to lunch so I figured there would not be an afternoon nap but she went down pretty easily when we got home.

I told y'all yesterday we took alot of pictures and I would be posting more of them. There are so many that I like - at least I can keep posting these until Thanksgiving:). We normally shoot our pictures in RAW Format so this is also making me sit down and convert them over to JPG. The only thing is she really did not smile alot that day - I think those MOLARS have been bothering her for a while now!!! Here is a picture with a smile though!!

Have a Fabulous Friday!!!

Our Little Pumpkin

My friends hear me say way too often "isn't she the cutest thing". Ok, I know I am her mommy and I am probably a little biased but I can be - just like every other mom out there:)  But I am still amazed that she is mine - or I guess I should say ours!  We just love this little girl to pieces.  She is such a blessing!!  I try and treasure every moment - when she is happy, when she is crying, and just when I am trying to figure out what she is wanting.  I never want to take any of it for granted.  I really feel like our parenting is totally different than what it would have been had Kate lived.  Some of you know there have been times I would be so tired and would love to be able to sleep but the Princess did not want to sleep but I never want to complain about my lack of sleep or anything else when it comes to this little one because I am just happy to be able to have a little girl causing me to lose sleep or whatever it might be that day!

We have so many cute pictures from the day we took these so I will probably be putting quite a few of these in different post. This was when we first started and she was not too sure about standing around all the pumpkins and hay so I gave her some goldfish to eat and then she was happy! Actually, we had just started eating goldfish earlier that week I believe it was so it was like a whole new snack to her!!

Sweet little baby is working on her 1 year molars and I think they are bothering her a little. She seems to be a little fussier than normal lately. Actually, she is normally not that fussy but the past few weeks she has been at times. I will be glad when those teeth come through and quit bothering her!

I have a busy day tomorrow so I probably should get off my computer and go to bed! I have had a busy evening between going to a MOPS steering meeting and working on some Women's Ministry stuff so it is time for me to call it a night....

Hope you all have a Terrific Thursday!!!