sick again

Well if you can possibly believe it, Jenna is sick again. She has a terrible stomach flu, and is just not herself. As of Friday afternoon, 7 of the 9 babies in her daycare room are sick with this bug. How is that possible?? It most be a strong flu bug. So anyways, she has been vomiting and has horrible diarrhea. She won't drink anything...and I have tried it all, sippy cups, real cups with straws, bottles, filled with water, milk, juice, pedialyte, gatorade, and combinations of the above. She won't have any of it. And the only thing she has had to eat is a few pieces of cereal and a few vanilla wafers. I'm concerned but trying to have the faith that she will get better and we won't have to go to the hospital. She's usually so active and busy and she has been laying around all day just watching barney and cuddling in our laps. Say a prayer for us if you can, that Jenna's sweet little body will heal soon.Yeah...she fell asleep like this, feet dangling and all. So pitiful

Preview: Jenna...the teen years

I couldn't resist posting this picture despite the really awful quality/lighting. Jenna loves to play with my phone and she loves being up on the couch. Put those together, and you get the lounging/texting teenager image. She cracks me up.

crazy baby

This isn't exactly how this toy was intended to be played with

So proud of herself

Seriously??!! I can't hardly get this kid to sit in the real grocery cart and she wants to sit in this one. And no this isn't staged, she climbed in there all by herself.

what a goofball

white flag

Ok....I surrender. My white flag is up. Seriously, we have been having some bad luck with sicky germs around here. It all started back in mid November when Jenna had that horrendous case of viral croup. Pat then got bronchitis, and just about missed Thanksgiving. Then I got a cold which turned into bronchitis. Then Jenna seems to have another cold but also cuts four teeth in a week so who knows if it's actually a cold or not. Then I get a sinus infection right before Christmas. Starting Christmas day, Jenna starts having some stomach issues, which get so bad she clears the room at my mom's Christmas celebration. We take her in and it turns out she has bacterial croup (and oh by the way, asthma), as well as a yeast infection in her intestines. Ummmm...hello?? what??

So we try to take all this in stride. Antibiotics and anti-yeast medications will take care of her infections, and asthma is really manageable and she may even outgrow it. So New Years Eve rolls around and I am super excited to organize our spare bedroom, which has affectionately been named the hoarder room. We get a great start and all is going well until I decide to take a break and unload the dishwasher. As I'm loading my plates into the cupboard, and I bend down to reach for more dishes, the shelf decides to break and all my dishes come crashing down. 4 broken plates, 6 broken bowls, 4 stitches (in my arm), and 1 tetanus shot later....you get the idea. Sometime the next day I start to feel kind of icky. Like whole body aches, chills, headache, and bad stomach pain. I looked on google and found out that it could be a side effect of the tetanus shot. It's now 1045 pm on the 2nd and I have spent all day on the couch or in the bathroom. I have overcome the body aches, but I can't keep any food down. So the upside of this is that it's a great way to jumpstart my new diet. The downside is Jenna walked around for the greater part of today with her onesie hanging out of her pants like shirt-tails because her daddy kept "forgetting to snap it" during diaper changes. Oh well...she didn't really seem to mind. So I must say that I'm hoping that the rest of 2010 will be a little easier.

New Skills

Jenna has become quite the little climber. She loves being on the couch but we don't really let her up too often because she jumps around too much. So she has started trying to think of her own ways to get up on the couch. I caught her in the act....

Hmmm....maybe if I give mommy my cutest squinch, she won't be mad

I just love this pic of my sweet girl in her special Christmas jammies

This is a picture of Jenna on Christmas morning with her new gift, which she absolutely loves. She did push it over to the couch, climb in the open door, out the window on the opposite side, and onto the couch. The car is now outside where it belongs. What a goofball

Jenna Meet Santa

Jenna totally loved Santa!!! I know...I'm shocked too. We took her to go see Santa today and she did awesome! We had to wait in a small line and so Pat stood in line and I took Jenna to watch as the other kids sat on his lap. She smiled at Santa, squinched at Santa, and even blew kisses to Santa. I was still convinced it would be all fun and games until she actually had to sit with Santa. But Jenna surprised both of us and was completely fine with the whole thing. She smiled at him and didn't try to squirm away from him, and even smiled for the photo. What a precious girl she is. We are having so much fun with her right now.

Ugly Sweater Party

Well, I'm another year older....29 to be exact. And I happen to share my birthday with our close friend Brian. So in honor of both our birthdays, we decided to have an ugly Christmas sweater party. It turned out to be really fun, and as you can tell...pretty ugly.