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November 2, 2003
Okay, I am bad about updating. I just found an entry I never posted. So I guess you could call this two entries for the price of one.
10.11.03
Things are going well for us. Lily had her third birthday. Where does the time go? I can’t believe that she is already that old. I guess she won’t always be my little baby.
I think we just had our last birthday where we can get away with not having a birthday party for her. Now please understand I am not trying to be negative about people who enjoy throwing parties for their kids. It is just not my cup of tea. My closest friend from high school is very into the parties for her kids. I remember how much time she spent planning for her oldest daughter’s first birthday. It was a very detailed princess party down to a princess costume for her daughter. That is just not me.
I am just so afraid with the time of year that Lily is born, that we will plan some elaborate party for her, only to have her sick. Lily has a friend at her school who shares the same birthday. For their second birthday, he had a party at a gym. It was lots of fun. We had an ice cream cake with Disney princess plates, hats and noise makers and presents at home later for her. That year she did not eat that much cake at our little party. At 12:30am she has 102.5 fever and was throwing up. This year Aiden had a party at his house the Saturday before their birthday. It was very fun. Lily got to see all of her friend from her old school. She had been away from them for two weeks.
On Lily’s birthday we took her to the zoo (her favorite place) and then had cake and presents for her at home. It ended up being a wonderful time. However, I was really worried that morning, because she mentioned a couple of times that her friends would be coming to her party. This is why I think next year we will have to have a larger party.
Two days later Lily had Hand, Foot and Mouth disease. It was a VERY minor case. In fact, if her new daycare had not told me to keep an eye out for it… it would not have been diagnosed. Lily only had two mouth ulcers and some almost invisible little bumps on one hand. The bumps only lasted three days.
I do have to say that the way Lily’s new childcare facility handles illness is very positive. When I called to let them know Lily’s fever was 99 (which is considered fever free for child care exclusion purposes) but I was going to keep her out, just in case it spiked in the afternoon, I really felt that they were concerned about her well-being. They let me know that hand foot and mouth was going around and to be on the look out for it.
11.01.03
Things are still going well.
Elise does have her 3rd ear infection in the past three months. The nurse practitioner we saw at our doctor’s office warned me that they would probably want to refer us to an ears, nose and throat doctor for a consult if Elise gets another ear infection next month. We are not too thrilled with the talk of tubes.
Lily had frequent ear infections. We ended up getting the name of an ENT when Lily was about 15 months old. But luckily she went three months after that without getting another ear infection. Then it was four months the next time. I guess the NP is concerned because Elise has had one each of the last three months, and it is not even the time of year for infections in our part of the country. It is just now the start of the season.
Elise seems to be doing well on the Omnicef. Last time they gave her Augmentin and she got very bad diarrhea. She got the worst rash I have ever seen. It was so bad that there were actually spots where her skin was so raw that it was bleeding. She has been on the Omincef for 4 days now and she does not have a rash. Yea!
Elise is sitting up well. She is not yet crawling, but she can get anywhere she wants to go by scooting and rolling.
She loves her solid foods. She is eating between 5 and 7 jars of stage two foods a day, sometimes mixed with cereal. She is becoming less interested in breastfeeding. She is getting very distracted. Lily self weaned at 12 months. I have a feeling I am going to be lucky if Elise goes that long. Both of these girls looked at breastfeeding as just feeding and not comfort. A lot of the books talk about the evening comfort feeding before bed being the last one kids give up. For Lily it was the early morning, “I have been asleep all night and I am hungry, I want food and I want it NOW.” In many ways I think the time a spend breastfeeding is more meaningful to me than it has been to my kids. I think it is just a convenient food delivery system for them :)
Lily seems to be adjusting to her new childcare facility. The teachers are very nice and she seems to be learning a lot. They do a bunch of fun activities. It is a block or so away from a fire station. They took a two-hour field trip during fire safety week. Lily came home knowing how to “stop, drop, and roll” and she also knew a to dial “one, one, one” in an emergency. Okay so she didn’t get the nine.
They also had a wonderful fall festival for the preschool kids. Her previous school does festivals after school hours that are fundraisers. They are fun. But the one at her new school was unbelievable. Parents were asked to sign up to bring something. I brought party favors. I thought it was just for her class. It turns out it was for all 4 preschool classes. They had cooked taco salad (at 9:30am… I thought that was kind of odd) and had all sorts of games and activity stations set up all over the playground. All of the party favors where placed in a treasure chest type box as prizes for games. The kids were all dressed in costumes and they were having so much fun.
I am really pleased with how organized this new school seems to be. Lily was not at a bad center before. It is a quality care facility. This new school just seems to be outstanding. I believe it has been around for more than 50 years. (the current building is from the mid 80’s).
Elise is still at the other center. We are extremely pleased with the infant care there. It is difficult having the kids at different places, but they are doing well. I don’t think a space with open up for Elise until around her first birthday.
When we first transitioned Lily into the new center, she did not talk about the other kids, only the teachers. It the past week or so she has been talking about the other students. It was strange. She told us she did not like her new friends because they were “stinky.” She also told us she did not have any friends (she sometimes tells me she doesn’t love me anymore, only Elise, so I don’t hold too much weight in every word she says. I know she does love me). At her old center the people she referred to as friends and hung out with the most, were the kids she had been with since infants. I was concerned that she was not making new friends. I talked with her teachers and the supervisor and they said she seemed to be playing well with others. Most of the time when I picked her up she would be playing with other kids. When I would drop her off, other kids would come up to her and call her by name and ask her to play.
It was suggested by the supervisor that sometimes kids don’t understand that they can have more than one friend or that they can have new friends. I think this is what was happening with Lily. She did not understand that “friend” can mean a new playmate and not just somebody she has know all of her life.
My mother is in town for a visit. Lily is doing very well with her. There have been times that grandmother was a stranger to her when grandmother first arrived. But this time we gave her a picture of my mother and Lily to carry around for about a week. She also is old enough now that she talks to grandmother on the phone at least once a week.
Lily is not always listening to us like she should. She has run out into parking lots several times recently. Just from the front of the van to her door. But that is something we do not want her doing. We don’t spank her (my DH and I were both spanked, and we don’t think we were emotionally scared by the experience) because we do not think she is the type of child that a swat on the bottom would do any good. I don’t think it would have any effect on her unless we hit her hard enough to be considered abuse. She is very small, but kind of a rough and tumble little girl. She is not a tomboy, just not a shrinking violet.
My mom is laughing at the fact if Lily is doing something bad (like taking a pen that she has been told to put down) and I tell her to look at me, she will advert her eyes and not make eye contact with me. It is kind of like if she does not look at me she cannot be in trouble. I am really mad, but I have to fight not laughing because it is way too cute.
We are going with time outs. They are working marginally. Hopefully if we are consistent with them they will become increasingly more effective.
11.02.03
The saga of sick kids.
Elise has been on the Omnicef for her ear infection for 5 days now. She woke up from her afternoon nap with a rectal temp of 103.2. A tepid bath and Tylenol brought it right down. She was a little fussy, but so far she seems to be down for the night. I am getting tired of having kids that are always sick. (Do you detect some self pity here?) They are not really always sick they are truly healthy kids. Sometimes it seems like one is always sick. They keep telling me at the doctor’s office that this is what happens when they are in group daycare. They also say that we should have it easier when they are school age. I am keeping my fingers crossed :)
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
Sherry
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