And the Doctor said....

WAIT...I won't give you any hints as to what we did that might have been pushing it a little bit yesterday...
but doesn't fresh air and sunshine help anything....
So I won't tell you, but she really does like it there...and after being cooped up in the house she really wanted to get outside....

okay, so maybe not, but she didn't "appear" as bad on Sun"day" and her fever for the time was at bay and we had family in from out of town that had never met her(or Jon for that matter) and well maybe we shouldn't have, but we did...

Anyhow, after white sores showed up on all over her tongue last night and the fever revisted, and she was up all night miserable and crying, and wouldn't eat, we headed to the docs first thing this a.m. Poor baby! Once he actually(and quite gently I might add) pried her little mouth open, we saw sores on her tongue and back of her throat..did I say poor baby..

So she has one of two things 1)cold sores from being sick ..OR 2)hand, mouth and foot disease....seriously....I had to look that one up....
So doc gave us some meds in hopes that it's cold sores and if not.....we'll be waiting for the sores on her hands and/or feet...either way I guess we'll motrin her up and wait for it to run it's course....But seriously? She only went to daycare for two days?...and now she can't even go tomorrow.....

Last night I was holding Claire as she was hunkered down on my chest...she was crying and I could just feel her pain...tears welled up in my eyes, b/c there was nothing I could do....I really felt like a parent last night.

What did we get out of school?....

Hmmmm....well after two whole days of daycare....
Claire learned how to pick her nose......and share it.....lovely I tell ya, lovely....and she doesn't just pick her nose now...she digs for the good stuff!!
And we also won, one sick little kiddo.
(See Mom I really do listen...notice the cold wet washcloth!!)After bragging on our little healthy Claire Bear, she has had an on again/off again fever since Friday....then we thought she was alls better so we may have pushed it a little too much today. Ooopsss... Now I'm seeing white spots....uggghhhhh......off to the pediatrician early Monday.
Even though our little angel is sick we must look at that silver lining....

1. when she is sick....she doesn't want to run all day and will actually lay on the couch and cuddle
2. and cuddle
3. and cuddle.

Even though neither of us is getting any sleep, we do really relish the hugging and holding. I've said before that Claire is a Daddy's girl, but I've noticed now that she's sick....the bonding runs deep on both sides. And that's a good thing too...

Where's your belly?

So is that not the cutest flippin' picture....all you have to do is just ask "Where's your belly"...have camera ready...and viola...you got it(actually my friend got this shot for me)....But I just love it. She'll also lift up your shirt and attempt to give raspberries on your belly...complete with loads of spit and a lots of laughter.

Some changes....

• Claire is growing growing growing, babbling and having conversations with herself...

• She also has a temper to make her Momma proud...really love that she's independent and feisty although it does try my patience sometimes. I really thought we had a couple more months until the tantrums kicked in, but oh well.
  
• She does push us, and we try to win, sometimes we do...sometimes not so much.

• Working at night and taking care of Claire during the day has taken a bit of a toll on Jon...getting by on very little sleep just isn't working as well anymore especially since his job is working him way more hours then they're paying him for(but that's another story)..

• ...so we've decided on daycare...ummm I mean "school" twice a week.
  
• Yes it makes me feel better to say "school" vs. daycare. Plus she is starting to relate to dogs more then kids...like putting the cheerios on the coffee table and then eating them off sans hands with only her mouth...yes humorous, but seriously I never thought we would repeat 15 times a day to our daughter..."Claire!! NO!! You are not a DOG!!"
  
• Her face always lights up whenever we're around other kids...we've said it before, we think she misses other children, so we bit the bullet filled out 15 pages of paperwork(ummmm...yes really that many pages) and she starts "school" tomorrow.
• On her orientation day, she wiggled to get out of Jon's hands and beelined to the other kids, kinda thought she could at least have taken a second look back, but not our Miss Independence
• Then she snarked another kids snack....see picture above..
• Still totally in awe that we have a little kiddo!!!
  

Driftwood beach

Well our normal beach raised it's entry fee from 50 cents per person, to $3.00 a car. No biggie....except the fact that between Jon and I both, we only had the dollar that we thought was needed to get into the beach...how sad that we didn't have $3...seriously....how do two adults with one crazy child not have more then a dollar, but that's another story....
So we had to venture to our back up beach...the driftwood beach...which by the way has had some major erosion, two new entry cliffs and a ladder to access the white sands...so Daddy had to carry Claire down a ladder...but what a fun day b/c no one else was really there...

She is getting so independent...wanting to do it all...all by her big girl self.

I just love love this picture....Daddy and his girl!!