30 June 2011

We're Back to Twelve

Yes, that's right. After two nights of tough love and little sleep, Cora has stopped waking up for her midnight (and 2am and 5am) feedings. She's back to sleeping through the entire night. YES!!!  

The payoff? Not very many naps during the day.

(How 'bout them Mooma ribs!)

28 June 2011

Commissary Fun

To start with, how neat and patriot to stack the sodas in the shape of a US flag. Secondly, Elayna and I both love when we park next to the cart bin and find one of these puppies inside. It was Cora's first time to drive around the grocery store and she loved it.

24 June 2011

Carved Leather Bracelets

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these.  Just wish I'd discovered them before Father's Day.  Keep it a secret, I have plans for next year.  Find the tutorial here.

22 June 2011

"The Sun is So Bright."

We had fun this morning at a local pool. Elayna kept telling me how bright the sun was. (And it IS way more intense here compared to Kentucky. Scorch you in a minute hot. We've already gone through a gajillion bottles of sun screen.)

Today, Elayna even swam "all by herself" ...with water wings. She swam herself into a ton of circles. We'll have to work on forward motion next time. I wish I had pics of it because she was so stinkin cute and very proud of herself.

15 June 2011

"No, She Likes Me."

Elayna has become a little monster of a sister.  She mauls Cora Lise with hugs and kisses and mostly choke-holds at every opportunity.  So this was happening yesterday afternoon when Ryan got home.  (For some mysterious daddy reason, he can get them riled up with just a look.)

"Elayna, I don't think she wants you laying on her like that."
"No, she likes me."

(Squeezing Cora with everything she has.)




Although it's usually Elayna doing the beating, something tells me it won't be long before the tables are turned.

12 June 2011

EV's ABC's

If she's not talking, she's singing.  All. The. Time.  She sang church songs and made-up songs the entire way to worship this morning.  Then she sang her alphabet on the way back.  She's a hoot, constantly making Ryan and me absolutely crack up.

08 June 2011

"I Love Him"

This is what I find as I turn the corner into the living room.  Elayna & the Ju are watching Dinosaur Train together. 

"Uh, Elayna--" (I was going to tell her she needed to take her shoes off.)

"I love him."

"... okay."

And just when I feel like this is a kodak moment, Elayna starts in on, "Shake the booty!  Shake the booty!" as she shakes him from one side to the other.  Juju is pretty patient, but at this point, he was feeling a serious need to get out of her clutches.  So I told her that she needed to let him go or she'd get scratched.  Well guess what.  She didn't want to and insisted on shaking his booty some more.  So he bit her.  Not even hard enough for me to see where.  But I'm just taking Elayna's word for it.  I heard Ju squeak, Elayna cry, and then she said he bit her.  Maybe she'll learn to let go the next time he's struggling to get away.  He's a great cat, but he can only take so much crazy.

06 June 2011

103 what?!

Pin-an-o

She's pretending to be RaRa.

01 June 2011

EV's Got the Plague

Actually, it's HAND

FOOT

and MOUTH DISEASE.

We're not exactly sure where we picked this up.  It could've been the gym childcare, church, wal-mart, anywhere really.

She woke up with blisters all over her feet and hands.  I chocked it up to some sort of chicken/barn rash or allergy because the only unusual place she'd been this past weekend was out to a farm to feed chickens with Mooma. But she'd been out there before, so that didn't really make much sense.  The blisters started out really tiny and by early evening, they'd quadrupled in size.  Ryan decided she needed a doctor, so I took her to the Emergency Room.

I'm not a fan of the ER.  For one, the wait is always too long.  Trying to entertain two small children for hours on end is exhausting.  Thank goodness for iPads.  Secondly, I feel as though since we're not dead yet, we can usually wait a few more hours and get a rush appointment the next day.  But that's almost like trying to win the lottery.  There aren't a whole lot of same-day appointments and you have to beat eighty other moms on the phone at 7am sharp if you even have a hope of getting one of those time slots.  One option is no better than the other.

Thank you United States Army.

As soon as we were in a room, the nurse suspected what was wrong but didn't want to say since he wasn't a doctor.  He did say it was a childhood disease and kept trying to check inside her mouth.  Of course Elayna was a toot by this point and refused.  Okay... it's a good thing 3G didn't exist in that room.  Because I had no idea what he was getting at and I'd have been googling as fast as my fingers could tap trying to find out what was wrong before I had to wait another hour for the doctor to "officially" say.  One bar on Edge was barely enough to squeeze out text updates to Ryan.

Well our doctor FINALLY officially said, "Hand Foot and Mouth Disease."  How do you treat it?  You don't.  It's a viral infection and you just let it run its course.  The blisters will go away in a few days and that's that.  Oh, did I mention it's highly contagious?  Elayna's not allowed near Cora for the next week.  Pfft.  Like that's gonna happen.  Maybe if I had a Mooma, Bala, or RaRa to help me out (hint hint).  I just hate that she's going to miss out on Vacation Bible School.  She loved it last year (all three of them) and we've been really excited for this year's.  Maybe we can catch a late summer program.

The good thing is she's not sickly in any other way.  Well, that's not true.  She's got a fever, the runs and is extremely tired.  But there's no vomit and that's the one I really can't deal with.  She's smiling and laughing and running around like her usual lunatic self.  Yay!

So if you have a child that's been around Elayna in the last week, watch out for itty bitty blisters and go to the hospital if you see any.  Although, you'll probably just wait forever to be told what you already know and then be sent home without any medicinal treatment.