Time away from the blog...

Don't have too much to say at the moment. I do plan on getting back on here and reconfiguring the site. As I don't know squat about HTML it takes a lot of research and trial and error.

I also have become addicted to the games on Facebook, but am slowly working through that. Always the first week or two of something new is when I have a hard time breaking away to do other things. Can't help it, I love farming!

Anyway, I will be back on eventually. I really want to get this up and running and get more info on this site. I just need to make the time to do it.

Thanks for hanging in here with me.

Nothing New...

Well nothing major to report. The last couple weeks have been fairly uneventful. Last Sunday E woke up with a fever but was still in a great mood all day. She wasn't coughing or stuffy nosed hardly at all. Other than the fever she was great. Called the clinic Monday morning, took 10 minutes to get through to the switchboard without a busy signal. Than another 30 minutes on hold. The earliest appointment we got was 3:15 in the afternoon. Again she was feeling pretty good and still acting relatively normal. Got to the clinic and of course the first thing you do is santize your hands and put on a face mask if you have a fever. Cute little mask for E but of course she wanted nothing to do with it. Mr. Bear wore it more than she did. The lab came to our exam room and did the strep test right there. We didn't have to leave the room at all. Note to self, next time bring books and toys to clinic as the room was stripped bare (to make it easy to sanitize). But 30 minutes of waiting with a toddler and the only things she can reach are the swivel chair and the computer keyboard. Long 30 minutes...Doctor came back and was surprised when she told us E was postive for Strep. I was of course thrilled. Rather have a bacterial infection we can treat with antibiotics than a virus we just have to let run its course. Either way I wasn't too concerned as she was still acting like a Bookie. Completely normal. Very little coughing. Hardly acting like a sick kid at all.

So anyway, here we are a week later and she is a toddler through and through. She and I walked to our little park yesterday after we got home from shopping at the mall. She played peek-a-boo with me and then went down the slide a few times. We then walked on the trail looking for birds/ducks. She needs a reason to walk on our trail and we have to look for something for her to willingly walk there. Crazy kid... She carried a dead dandilion flower with her the whole way. Dropped the first one and had to go back to the park to find a second one to take back to Daddy. She is just too cute sometimes.

She finally has her normal appetite back. She is eating like a typical toddler this weekend. I am so thankful that she likes most anything we offer her. The only thing we have a hard time with is meat, like normal meat off a bone or hamburger. She did however eat some taco meat the other day for the first time. She is also so impressionable right now when it comes to food and table dining. Today (late lunch) Daddy pushed away his plate and declared he was done and E proceeded to do the same. As soon as Daddy pulled his plate back adn took another bite, so did she. She wants us to join her in so many things. She wants us to color with her and eat with her. Of course usually for breakfast if we just ignore her while she is eating she will eat so well. Crazy how that works.

Speaking of crazy right now she has her head inside a shoe box making noises. The things she does to entertain herself are just out of this world sometimes.She loves to dance around also to vairious types of music.Which is why I had to get her this shirt when I saw it. When she rides with Daddy, they jam out to Poison and other rock music. So she can be a rock and roll princess anytime. She has such a good time with Daddy, too bad it gets to be such a chore for him to take care of her once in a while. He watched her this last Friday cause she got sick Thursday night after I put her to bed. While she had no fever and it could have been any one hundred and one things that could have caused her to vomit, we decided that she should stay home from daycare that day. They had a good time that day and she had a nice long nap so Daddy had plenty of time to himself.

Not Me! Monday...

Welcome to my first Not Me! Monday post... Not Me! Mondays was started by MckMama of My Charming Kids blog. She is one of my favorite blog authors. Straight forward, tell it like it is. That is MckMama. So in an effort to try to live up to her standards, here is my Not Me! Monday posting.

Potty Training...

I am just going with the flow (no pun intended!). I don't want to rush E into potty training. At daycare she sees other kids use the potty so she got very interested in it. Since then she has requested to sit on the potty. We got her a little Baby Bjorn potty seat that she uses sometimes. Lately she has been requesting to use our big potty. She manages to balance up there very well. She can even hold a book while sitting there all by herself. Will have to get a pic at some point just for memories sake. Last night she did poop in the big potty. So proud of her.

She's getting so big!

We are doing some cosmetic work on the van so we had to install E's carseat in Daddy's truck. Daddy took us to work and daycare this morning, so I snapped this pic with his cell phone camera on our way. E is just too cute. It was pretty cold this morning so she had her little winter hat on and her warm fleece jacket. We always have Mr. Bear and "kie kie" (Blankie) with at all times. She was in the center of the back of Dad's truck and was resting her foot on the back of the passenger seat.Glad this isn't a permanant setup. It's really hard to get her into the back of the truck and then get her strapped in. She is currently 22 months old! Almost 2!

Weekend...

How was your weekend? Mine was pretty uneventful. Went uptown on Saturday and did a little winter clothes shopping for E. I managed to find two very nice winter jackets for her at a local thrift store. One even has an inner liner that will be a great fall jacket. Trying to find hats, gloves, and boots was a bit tougher. Went to the mall for that. I kinda have a mismatched assortment of clothing but at least she will be warm.