A Busy Weekend!!!

Wow how time flies!  My little one is already 7 months old!  And such a smiley little girl, too :)  These pics were taken on Easter Sunday, so she's 2 days shy of 7 months, not that it makes much of a difference though. 

And onto another note....

Elena just had her 4th birthday on Saturday!  Isn't that an awesome grin!!!  She played with her Baby AllGone all day - or at least when she was able to.  She tried on every one of her clothes and has worn them all in the last few days ALREADY!  I guess that means she likes them. 

 

 

And on another note....

We visited Opa and Oma on Monday afternoon (the kids did their school in the morning first).  Anne and her kids were there too, so they all played together.  We did some egg decorating in the afternoon.  Check out our crowd of eggs!

Quite the crowd, eh? 

Happy Easter to all!  Christ has risen. He is risen indeed!

We visited with Arend and Rosee and Colin and Abby after supper.  The kids played while we chatted.  Arend seems to be doing better.  Little by little he'll get there, the Lord willing.  He's able to smile almost a whole smile now, and he can feel soreness in his muscles.  That means the feeling is come back, albeit slowly, but it is!  We'll see what the Lord has planned for them.

Till next time!

Wow, it's been a while since I posted on my blog.  Other than being sick, not much has really happened.  No, we haven't ALL been sick at the same time, it just seems to be spread out.  The more in the family the longer it seems to take to get everyone healthy again. 

Anyway, we found a table on Kijiji for a great price.  Now you may ask why we needed a new table.  Ours is extremely large and our dining room is not huge.  Plus, we want to put benches with the table in an effort to seat more, so we wanted a table with a pedestal.  Take a look at the one we found.

Not bad for 20 bucks, eh?  We didn't think so.  It didn't come with any chairs though, so we're still looking.  The chairs we have are just not nice (and now they don't match).  Anyone know where we can find some very sturdy chairs?  The table is oak, just so you know.

On a not so nice note, Last week Monday, I brought Cole and Olivia in to see the doctor because they both had spots all over them, looking like a heat rash.  But Olivia had had it since the Wednesday before (almost 2 weeks ago now), so I didn't think it was that.  Cole also had a sore throat.  So he was diagnosed as having tonsillitis along with symptoms of scarlet fever, and Olivia was treated for the symptoms of scarlet fever - although neither one had had any kind of a fever. 

Weird, eh? 

But that's not all.  They were put on Amoxicillin (did I spell that right?) for 10 days.  Friday, Olivia had a fever and slept for most of the day.  I took her to the walk-in (cause my doctor isn't open after 12:30 on Fridays - yeah, I know, that in itself is annoying!).  They said the fever was because her body was fighting the infection. 

Okay.  So I took her home, and it seemed to go away.  The problem was she didn't seem to be very comfortable.  She didn't want to really sit, or lay down, or play for longer than 10 minutes.  Very unusual for her.

Monday afternoon, I noticed new red spots on her body.  Okay.  What now?  By the time Dave got home (after doctors hours), her face had large blotchy spots on it.  So I called in the morning and got her in to see the doctor this morning.

She's had an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin!  We're very thankful it was just a skin reaction and not some other kind of reaction.

My poor baby... and yet she stills smiles.  Hopefully she clears up in the next couple of days.