Sweet Times

Paisley is finally feeling better after a week of the yucks so she and I celebrated with some sweet treats.

We began our morning with some donuts.

While Ollie napped away the afternoon, Paisley and I made some monster cookies.

Poor Paisley

Our little Paisley girl had quite the week last week.  She threw up a little bit Sunday morning, but acted fine afterwards so we assumed she just drank milk too fast.  She was fine the rest of the day Sunday and fine Monday too.  

On Tuesday, I dropped her off at daycare and hadn't even made it to school before getting the phone call saying that Paisley was throwing up.  I took Ollie to preschool, got things together for being gone, and headed to get Paisley.  She and I spent the day together at home and she acted completely normal. 

Obviously, the puke bowl wasn't really needed.

We anticipated sending her back to daycare the following day, but she threw up that night at midnight.  Riley stayed home with her on Wednesday and she finally started acting like she didn't feel well.  She slept lots, but only threw up in the morning.  We cut her off of milk thinking that maybe it was contributing.

She was still pretty puny the following day so we called in reinforcements and Papa stayed home with her Thursday and Friday.  We ended up taking her to the doctor Thursday afternoon where she cried the entire time for mashed potatoes (which she usually doesn't even really care for). 

The doctor thought that maybe she just had a tummy bug, but perhaps she was backed up.  (Thursday evening she did have some diarrhea so perhaps it was that, who knows.)

All I do know is that it was a long week for our little girl.  She definitely wasn't herself until Friday when she finally started to perk up a bit.

Tornado

Neither of our kids have ever really been afraid of storms.  With Ollie when we had to take shelter in the basement because of a possible tornado, he was disappointed that it didn't come to our house.

We had some severe weather on Tuesday and poor Paisley girl was scared to death.  I'm not sure what she even thought was going to happen because she is so young to understand much, but it broke my heart.

Future Teacher?

Kaylee's Birthday

We kept with the tradition of celebrating Eric's kids' birthdays at Haley and Dalton's house this past Sunday.  Kaylee was the birthday girl this time around.

Paisley's Two Year Well Check

We were about a month behind with Paisley's well-check, but got it done today.  She is meeting all her milestones and was very compliant at the appointment which is a big change for her.  

Paisley has alway been at the bottom of the growth chart in terms of height and weight.  Typically she hangs out in the 2-5 percentile range.  However, the appointment today revealed that she has actually fallen completely off the chart and is now <1 percentile for both height and weight.  The doctor said that it is a concern, but not yet a problem.  He recommended that we be sure she is eating plenty of fruits and veggies (which she does) and we will see how she is at her two and a half year well check.

We know that Pais is small, she always has been, but we were surprised to hear that she fell off the charts completely.  She's a pretty good eater and usually eats whatever we give her.  Often times we give her nearly the same amount that we give Oliver and she eats it.

At this point, we are just kind of waiting and seeing how things are in a few more months.


In other news, we will soon be sizing her up to to 12-18 month clothing.  Finally!  And we will be moving Ollie up to 4t here before long too!  We sure get our money out of our kids' clothing.

Dad's Retirement

Saturday was my dad's final formation before his retirement from the military.  He served for 30+ years and we couldn't be more proud of his accomplishments.

(His final day of actually going to work isn't until mid October and his official retirement date isn't until February, but he decided to just celebrate now and call it good.)

Summer Snapshots

Labor Day marks the end of summer, so here are some snapshots of the second half of summer.