Roseola!

I got a call from daycare on Tuesday September 18th that Lillian was runnign a temperature of 101.5. They reported that she was fussy off and on during morning (very unusual for her) and didnt really want to eat so they put her down for a nap and when she woke up she was very hot. So, I left in middle of my experiment to pick her up from daycare. I fully expected it was her teeth since she had been drooling alot lately. When I showed up she seemed unphased and was playing and smiling. I asked them if nothing developed overnight and her fever went away if I could bring her back next day since I didnt think she seemed sick.


BOY was I wrong! I could tell within an hour she was definately sick. She was so cranky. That night once she woke up at her normal first rousing time of the night (11pm) she came to bed with us and then about 3am she was nursing I thought oh my gosh she is on fire! We took her temp, 104.6! Of course I had to drag out my 'what to expect first year' book, what a lifesaver that is. I read about fevers because i was trying to decide if I should call doctor, by this time she was awake so I took her PJ's off and let her play in her room with me until 4:30am and I watched her temperature drop alot right after giving her tylenol so I did not call.


The next morning I called Pediatrician who said if fever lasted more than 3 days or got above 105 to bring her in. Everything is goign around since kids just started school so a fever is no big deal to them but it surely is to the new parent!


The fever lasted tuesday, wednesday, thursday and was peaking close to 105 but not quite, I got a reading of 104.6 a number of times though. Thursday the fever went down so I thought we were through the worst of it. She was still feverish friday so we took her in. Of course, by the time they took her temp it was normal and she seemed better. Shortly after we got home from the doctors office her rash came out. She was still out of sorts the rest of the weekend and too crabby to go to daycare on monday. She went to daycare on teusday but Jared had to leave to pick her up half way through the day as she was so tired and fussy off and on. She slept most of the day, went back to daycare on wednesday and did fine.

The worst part of it all was about three weeks later when verbatim same thing happened except it started on a thursday and Jared was stick as well. He toook off thursday friday with her and I took off monday tuesday wednesday. I took her to the doctor and they though Roseola but since you cant have it twice and they never saw the rash come out last time they said hard to know which time was or was not roseola and lots of viral illness's can make the young ones get rash's. Fun it was not! Thought it did not seem as severe the second time around.

First Haircut!

On Friday September 7th, 2007 Lillian got her first haircut. It works out absolutely perfect that cousing Caitlin cuts hair, who better to give the first haircut than family?

Mommy needed a haircut too so we went after work on friday to visit with Aunt Jenny, Grandma, and Caitlin and get our hair cut. It was a regular girl's night out, since friday is video game night for Daddy.

I went first then came the real fun. Trying to convince a wriggly 8 month old to sit in one spot long enough to snip the back of her hair. Of course she was much more interested in the mirror, the scissors, and especially the comb! She loves combs and every night after her bath I comb her hair and I let her play with the comb afterward so I have enough time for lotion, diaper, and dressing; in hindsight maybe that wasn't the best idea?

We don't intend on keeping her hair short. She had a few wispy strands in the back that were super long compared to all the rest. Those extra strands would get stuck in her lovely little 'neck roll' and they looked a bit stringy. But they were long and so cute so I was sad to see them go, now that it's done it does look better and it will all be able to grow long at the same rate now. Of course I saved them and intend to keep them along with other firsts: first boootie, first picture, first outfit for coming home, first tooth etc and then I will do a shadow box of them.

Our little girl is getting all these 'firsts' out of the way too quickly!



I like this chair, now what?



Mommy got her hair done, now's my turn.

Better be quick cousin Caitlin, this comb won't last forever!

Yeah! All done, what a proud cousin.

9 Months Old

Well, it seems this month that Lillian is set on making each weekend a weekend full of accomplishments. I like her timing since it seems that we get to see so much development in such a short period of time, and I am afraid we miss so much being away from her all week.

The weekend right after she turned 8 months she started crawling more than 2 steps; she did 5, then 7. She still drags her left leg behind her a lot and isnt fast though. She also started playing peek a boo earler in the week, looking out from under her standing toy that has toys hanging down and doing peek a boo, it was self iniated but now we do it with her all the time at home and at daycare. Started sayind a dogdagdagdagdog sound when I say doggie and play with stuffed dogs sounds VERY close to dog.

She stayed at this pace of 5-7 crawl steps most week then the following weekend I set her down and opened kitchen door since I was cooking and she crawled aross kitchen 3x in a row to get to the door I had opened (not fast yet).

Now she is also standing and pulling herself up on everythign--even things that she shouldnt even try, before it was hit or miss as to when she did it, now its constantly and the kicker is that she is letting go with one hand then she even held on and walked the length of DH today while he was laying down--my eyes about bugged out of my head and I asked DH "DID you see that, did you see that???? He was like UH, yeah, layin right here remember" LOL, anyway it was sad but happy and amazing.

As I sit here typing she has terrorized the room and all the toys I have layed around for her and managed to crawl under my chair and is ripping apart a magazine. She loves paper!

This week (September 8th) she says DG consistently when excited around the dogs. She is babbling up a storm all time, when I read her evening book I dont think she can hear it!

She also started solids 3x a day on weekend after she turned 9 months, started solids 3x a day at daycare too the week before turning 9 months.

Aren't I beautiful?

Mommy & Me - next month maybe we'll get Daddy too

They caught me mid-laugh, how embaressing!