Visitors

This week my niece and nephew from Louisville are visiting. Emie is going to the Young Women's Writing Program at Women Writing for a Change. She loves it just like I do which makes me so happy. It really is a good place doing good things.

Sam is just chilling and going with the flow despite the fact that we had a hiccup in our plans for him this week. Tonight he helped cut the grass and he and SP are going to play a little golf on the Wii.

SP still has hand, foot, mouth and can't eat anything but milkshakes, mashed potatoes, and soft things like that. He is miserable. I am trying VERY hard to not get it. Cross your fingers.

Bug bite

Look closely at my left arm. The dot is a mole that is now swollen due to what we believe is a bug bite or bee sting or something. This happened yesterday while on the bike trail. Miss C was napping and I was lying on a blanket reading. I thought my watch pinched my arm...obviously I was wrong.

One of the docs at work drew a circle around it and said if it expanded more than the circle I should go to the doctor. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.

Bikes and Airplanes

This is Miss C before our walk on the bike trail. The bike trail is one of the things I LOVE about Cincinnati because it's miles of traffic-free paved trail that we can walk or bike whenever we want. Love it.


Miss C is fascinated with airplanes right now and will fall over backwards to point them out when they are flying overhead. So we decided take her to a small airport here to watch the planes land. Unfortunately the 3 that actually landed while we were there did it before we got to the spot where she could actually see them clearly.

Father's Day Part II

Father's Day Part I

We had every intention of getting pictures with Dad, Mia and Miss C yesterday for Father's Day. We were also supposed to take Miss C to Father's Day Catch as well. But, then Miss C got sick and we had to scrap both. Well, we scrapped the pictures and Nana and Papa came up anyway and watching Miss C for us.

Again?

Really I should swipe the phase, "that was the worst night ever" from my file folder market commonly used phrases for parenting. We've had some pretty rough nights, don't get me wrong. Those times when she was first born and was screaming all the time were brutal but this past Thursday was in the running for one of the worst.

Miss C had been fussy all week and we thought it was her two incisors that were coming in causing her to be so irritable. We were wrong.

Thursday she screamed the whole way home from day care like she was in horrible pain. Then she wouldn't eat. She had massive amounts of drool and didn't want to drink anything either.

I saw some sores on her tongue so we gave her Tylenol for the discomfort but nothing helped. NOTHING. From the time we put her to bed until the time we took her to the doctor on Friday at noon, she woke up screaming crying every hour on the hour unless she was being held and then she maybe slept for 90 minutes instead of 60.

I held her in the rocking chair off and on until about 2 AM. Then we moved to the chaise in the living room where she slept briefly reclined between my legs and slept briefly. Then we moved to the family room and tried the sofa. That didn't work. So we tried the sofa in the basement in a effort to allow SP a little bit of scream free sleep. There she slept on and off until about 7 AM.

It was BRUTAL.

When we were finally able to get her to open her mouht so we could see her tongue we found it covered in huge sores. A visit to the doctor helped a little...we got the exact dosage for the Benadryl (1/2 tsp) and Malox (1/2 tsp)mixture but otherwise it wasn't much of a diagnosis. He thought it was a strain of Hand, Foot and Mouth but typically you don't get it that close together and she just had it in May. It sucks because there really isn't much you can do about it other than let it run its course.

Today, thankfully she is starting to seem like herself again. The sores that were on her lips are gone. She never got them on her hands or her feet. The ones are her tongue aren't as big and she is eating and drinking more.

5 Years - Cancer Free

Today marked a major milestone in our lives. My Mom is cancer-free. Breast Cancer...take that! While I am a girl who loves words, there just doesn't seem to be the correct words to express how thankful I am to have my Mom in my life today. Here are some pictures that I hope can help convey that...