Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone

It looks like I'm turning out to be a twice-monthly type of blogger. There's nothing wrong with that, right? We had such a great Easter! I can see holidays getting more fun with the joy of a toddler around. Lucy is making me laugh every day, like the other day she and Wade were at the gym. Afterward, they walked on a path behind the gym to get out some extra wiggles. After a few minutes, they saw a woman jogging on the trail coming toward them. Wade asked Lucy to watch where she's going and move out of they way so she could pass. Instead, Lucy ran full speed in direct path of the running woman. When the woman got closer, Lucy stopped and pointed at her as she ran past yelling back to Wade, who was now left in the dust, "That man is FAST!"

Oh, and now that I'm thinking of funny things, we got to watch the Bee Movie on Easter. We were at the part where the bees won the lawsuit and were taking away the bear as the figure for honey bottles when Lucy took off into the kitchen. A few minutes later, we could here her saying, "Oh, honey bear, I loovvee you. Don't worry honey bear. I can make honey for my own self." She had gotten our honey bear out of the pantry and, as she often does, talked to the inanimate object as though it was one of her closest friends. She's so sweet and I love listening to her conversations between spoon and fork, potato and milk, or Molly and Sally (her dolls).

I hope everyone else had a Happy Easter! We sure missed the family, but we're so happy we have some great friends here who help us feel at home.

Lonely days are here again...

Okay, they're not really THAT lonely, but we've had a rough week! Even if we wanted to go out and have fun, which we did, we didn't leave the house because we really wanted to contain Lucy's nasty bug. Lucy came down with croup last Friday night and it was INSANE! It reminded me a bit of having a newborn, being that we woke up every 20 to 30 mins at night, sometimes up to 2 hours, but this time we had coughing to go with the crying. It sounded so painful. After she woke up Sunday morning with a freakishly scary sound coming from her body when she breathed, we called her doctor's office on-call nurse and found that it was croup with stridor (the stridor is the scary breathing sound, and the croupy cough is something I've never heard before in my life... very different). She explained what to expect and how best to control those stridor fits. I put a mattress on Lucy's floor and slept in her room for the next few nights. The nights were horrible, and the days weren't much better. She couldn't sleep no matter what time of day or night, and her eyes were SOOOOO droopy. She could barely keep them open. So, I know some of you have had this in the past with your kids. Did it freak you out as much as me? I finally took her in to the doctor on Tues (I say finally because it felt like we hadn't slept in weeks) and she was then diagnosed with bronchitis. We started her antibiotics right away and, after one more restless night, we're finally on the right track! She's a thousand times better now. I love modern medicine!