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!

Lucy's birthday videos

Here are a couple of our videos from her birthday--cake time! Don't mock the singing; I know, we're good.



All of the sugar and lack of sleep are getting to her... everything is suddenly so funny!

Big girl, big girl...

Lucy moved up to a "big girl" bed last week to celebrate her big girl status as a 2-year-old (and because her doctor told us we could NOT wait any longer with her being so tall... mostly because of her doctor, I'll admit). So... we bit the bullet and bought a nice little toddler bed on Craig's list. I was mentally preparing myself for the loss of sleep that was likely to come from this new adventure, but it's actually turned out really well! She only woke up twice, and she may even be going to bed easier now than before. She's excited to be a "big girl" and runs to her room at bed time and nap time. In addition to this, she's graduated to a big girl chair at the table (no more high chair, finally)! Yay for Lucy! And THANKS for being so good (so far).

Happy Birthday Lucy!

Better late than never, I always say. :) It was Lucy's birthday on the 16th, almost 2 weeks ago. She's 2! She LOVED it this year. Her grandma Colleen and grandpa Bob were able to help us celebrate, which was wonderful! We were so happy to have them here, for more reasons than one. I'm working on uploading a video from her birthday, but these pics will have to do for now.

We went out to lunch and Lucy got her very own ice cream sundae! Yippee! I think her eyes were as big as the cup when she saw it.



Lucy's birthday cake... I WAS going to do a really cute Clifford theme, but ended up going into super time-saver mode and buying at Albertson's. I'll be better next year.



She loved the tiara and "magic" wand, though.



And she wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to be pretty, even daddy... What was her favorite part, you might ask?




Playing in her super sweet tent (thanks gma and gpa) all weekend! I think we all actually had a pretty good time playing in her tent.

January in CT (finally!)

I'm finally getting some of our CT photos up. I can't believe I'm such a slacker. Anyway, we had a lot of fun, as you can see from the photos. :) Thanks mom and dad for letting us crash at your place for a while, and we're SO glad your leg is finally on the mend, mom. :) Love you!