Our Everyday

Well this week was a wild ride. Sunday night Sadie's cold began to progress into her typical bad reaction. Difficult breathing, lethargic and totally not her self. When she was going to bed I could hear the beginning of a wheeze coming on and by two am she was throwing up because it was so hard for her to breath. I did not realize this was the reason until later. So I nursed her through the night hoping to see some sort of improvement but by the next morning she was only worse. So I made an appt for the doc first thing and after a breathing treatment with little improvement we were sent off the ER for more thorough treatment. Three nebulizer treatments, an iv for steroid, and one chest xray later, Sadie was coming back to herself again. About three Monday afternoon we were home again and I knew Sadie was feeling better because she was saying "No!" again. Thank goodness.

So we have had to continue with treatments every few hours everyday this week and she is just acting like she has a regular cold again. The doctor was happy to see her happy and babbling one hundred miles a minute today at her follow up. Of course we all have received a bit of the virus as well, with Emma really showing signs last night and today. The doctor said she looked good, that I could call her this weekend and we were ready for anything will all the pharmaceuticals we have accumulated over the week. So the diganosis for Sadie's condition is "reactive airways". She does not have asthma but has similar symptoms from certain stimulous, i.e. the cold virus. We have been dealing with this since after her first birthday and have not really had any sort of game plan for preventing this. It is incredibly stressful for Sadie and us so we are happy to have some preventive measures to use in the future.

In other news, thanks to blogs and the internet I have been back in touch with two of my freshmen year college roommates. It is so great to hear from them and read their own life stories they are publishing into cyberspace. Thanks Alisha for connecting the dots.

Also thanks for all the well wishes for Sadie, everyone!

Still out no pull-ups! I think she had made it thru potty-training. Yippeee! I know, something only a mother could get excited about.

Shh. Don't tell anyone but Sadie has been without pull-ups at night this whole week and no wet bed! We ran out of them and so we just decided to go with it. When we were at Target this weekend I knew there was something that we needed from the diaper section. I just stood there staring in the direction of the BABY CARE sign wondering what is was we needed. Diapers? no bought a bunch on our last trip. Wipes? no. I just remembered as I was writing this that I was going to get some more pull-ups. Oh well, guess my brain was actually handling the situation correctly rather than malfunctioning!

For some reason I have been checking our blog, thinking that some how something new would magically appear.

Sadie has her first school cold, yay! Isn't it fun picking up everyone else's germs?Oh well, I am trying not to think about it and dread the fact that we all might be sick by the end of the week. Fresh air and sunshine will hopefully keep us healthy this week.

We start Story Time at the library this week on Wednesday. Nathan is living adato these days and it has him a bit on the stressed side of life. We had an uneventful weekend, which was good I think. We finished up the details on the bathroom downstairs, found the paint color for the family room, began thinking more about the kitchen face lift and watched a really depressing movie that had great costumes since it was set in the fall of 1950 England; lots of great knits, dresses and skirts. So I guess it was not all that bad.

Right now Sadie is bargaining for a biscuit to take to bed after her swig of Robitussin. I think she is out of luck.

There are all these little things that I have wanted to post. Above is a picture from Sadie's first day of school. I did not bring a camera but many people did,one mom actually had a camera and a video camera that she used to capture the day. I am sure that child has all his milestones including his own birth recorded for his review at some future date.
Emma is getting her first tooth. I had just talked to Nana and Papa on Sunday and the topic had come up," No teeth yet,"I had said. Well, I spoke without consulting my crystal ball, for it could not be considered too soon because there was not a tooth there when I made my claim. The next day while Sadie and I were at the library I discovered the little bumps forcasting the arrival of a new tooth. It is not truely showing yet but each morning it has made some progress. So this afternoon after dropping Sadie off at school I spent and hour and a half with a not too happy baby. She was too impatient to eat and too grouchy to just lay down. Now she is sleeping but soon I will have to go get Sadie and wake her up again! I was hoping to get started on a new bunny but looks like it will have to wait for later.

Do you know that babies and tye-dye go to together like beans and cornbread. I found this great shirt at a yard sale and now I want to make a million! She is soooo cute!

















This is why I love the double stroller!

Tonight is a knit meet, yah!

Sadie says," Babies really like to sit forward," in reference to Emma leaning way over in her bouncy seat at dinner tonight.
She also told us as we were driving to a sale today," Emma said 'buildings', listen Daddy Emma is saying 'buildings', hear her?"

In other news, the news out here is soooo bizarre. It is entertaining. We hardly ever watched it in SD but here it is just wacky. Too many people in too little space, I think.

the post dinner funk had come over Sadie and she was tired. Nathan was upset with her for talking back about changing into clean underware. She came down stairs in a grumpy mood about the whole thing. She finished her cookie and began to wave a napkin around that had been used to mop up the milk and cookie crumbs around her place at the table. Bits of soggy oatmeal were flying by my face when I asked her to stop and she kept on. So Nathan pulled out her chair and told her to get down from the table if she was done. At this, she removed herself from her chair and stood up with her fist pounding the table like a judge in a unruly courtroom and declared,"No more people moving my chair!" And with that, headed for the kitchen to negotiate for another cookie.


In other news, Happy Five Months, Emma!


Sadie's big twirl...


Compare and contrast

...grabbing thread hanging from a feather pillow that may weigh more than Sadie, she says,"Come on pillow, let's go."

We have now officially completed the first week of school. The first day was just an hour long and the kids played the whole time and ended with a story. Today was the first full day. Now many parents dread the day they have to make their child go to school, and I was a bit concerned but mainly because it is a big new adventure.
So today I took Sadie in with her blue school bag. We made it into the hall and were waiting with everyone else for the door to open to be let in for class. As we got near the door, Sadie bolts into the class and the teacher has to call her back to hang up her bag on the hook outside the door. So she obliges by quickly walking back out and handing the bag to me and off she goes back into class. No goodbye or see you later.
Meanwhile, I have been holding Emma in the carrier while streams of children and their parents are trying to say their goodbyes are swirling around me. It was a bit crowded to say the least. So I think to myself, "do I try to peek into the room and say bye or just leave." Well I just left.
Soon enough it is time to go get Sadie from school, so I load Emma into the new double stroller and off we go rushing to get there not a minute late. Of course, by the time it is Sadie's turn to be checked out she is not in any mood to leave. I con her out by saying we can play on the playground. Well, everyone else was going to the playground(at school) as well so when it came time to leave she really did not want to go. The screaming match, which is a telltale sign of a badly needed nap began. It took a good ten minutes to get her to sit in the stroller and start our ride home. She was so upset because I would not carry her! Yeah, right. But it may have had something to do with the iccident that happened yesterday...
Okay so we got a new double stroller. Yes, I am admitting that I am somewhat stroller obcessed. I read an article about a mother in San Fran area who had bought seven strollers before she found the perfect one, which by the way cost $729. Well I think(?) I have spent less than that on all the strollers that we have purchased over the years, and after reading this article I felt that I was not the worst of the stroller fanatic but did have a mild case of stroller-itis. So anyway, I decided that we needed a new stroller that could accomdate two kids at a time because walking with a three year old can be well, a bit of a strain on my nerves at times. Especially when every stone must not be left unturned or ant followed.
Well, after a bit of internet research and price checking, I found a great deal on a stroller that seemed to fit the bill of what we needed. So the stroller arrived yesterday and we decided to take it for a spin in between downpours. We went about our regular route and were on the home stretch when, of course, Sadie decides that she is not ready to be done and so then tries to find every possible thing that could slow us down. I get tired of this game really quick so I had finally got her to sit down and ride so WE COULD GET HOME! Well, she was playing with a stick and rubbing it on the ground as she rode along but then she dropped(I think) and bent way forward to try and pick it up and just as I was saying, "Sadie, sit back!", she tumbled out of the stroller, using her nose as landing gear. A total face plant.
(Roll the guilt drum please..)
So here I have a child that almost scrapped her whole face off because I did not put the 5-point harness back on her after her third time in and out of the stroller in the last ten minutes. Great! Yes, it hurt and yes she really cried a ton and yes she wanted me to carry her all the way home but I had to make her sit in the stroller so I could steer it and not do a face plant myself down the hill to our house. But most important she is alright. And so now we have come full circle to today at school and getting Sadie to sit in the stroller. Do you think she may have had some reservations about riding in it today?

Sadie is wearing a beautiful new dress from Great Aunt Lil. It is smocked with tiny pearls and blue embroidered flowers which equals lots of work and even more patience. Thank you Lil ! Emma's dress is one I knitted.

Here is a better one of all the details.

Sisters

cool kids
We are on our way to the park in this photo from today. Sadie ran and jumped and climbed and ran and did swings and ran and toughed it out when the boy in the blue shirt was being mean and ran some more. Afterwards she said, "Mama, you wore me out," followed by a big sigh.


Emma received a beautiful quilt from her Great-Aunt Judy last week. Here she is showing it off.

After telling the story of the three little pigs for the thousandth time in the last couple months, Sadie says" The wolf should not eat pigs, they're not food! He should eat macaroni!"
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I rolled over a spider with the rocking chair on the porch and one of the legs came off.
Sadie says,"Is that a leg from the spider?"
Me:"Yes."
S:"Oh,no he broke his leg. He should go get a new one...at the spider store!"
M:"At the spider store?! We don't have a spider store here."
S:"No we don't have a spider store in our town."
M:"Do you think they have one in NYC?"
S:"Yeah, there is a spider store in New York City. I think we could find one there."

...running up to the top of the stairs with me and Emma trailing behind. She stops, crouches and mutters, "Mama, I love hopping!" Bound, bound, bound up the next set of stairs.

Tonight we were off to pick up Nathan at the train station in downtown Newark, and boy was that colorful. I was thinking it is probably not a good sign when you come off the freeway and all the people you see milling about are: 1.wearing wife-beater tank tops (or for those of you unfamiliar with this phrase, a white hanes ribbed tank top for men made famous on the tv show COPS), 2. all those people also have many various tatoos inscribed on their well defined,(maybe prison made) arm muscles, 3. you see a cop or five every other block, 4.lots of people are sitting out on the stoop of their brownstone apartments(kind of like Seasame Street, only a lot darker, scarier and Big Bird is nowhere in sight). If you find yourself in a neighborhood that seems to fit this description you may want to make no detours and follow the directions exactly as printed out on the mapquest directions and hope this time there are no mistakes.
So anyway while we were visiting this lovely part of town, we were stopped at a light and there was a really tall building that I pointed out to Sadie and she said," That is Nate's building, he really likes it."
Don't worry we made it to the train station, found Nathan and got back to the freeway heading toward home but as we came up over the overpass facing toward the airport and the New York skyline, Sadie proclaims," Wow, that is the whole world."
" Yes, Sadie it is the city", says Nathan.
" NO,"says Sadie," it is the world that I live in."
These are the things! This is the three-yr wisdom that presents itself everyday and I wish I could remember them all because there is never an end to the great stuff that comes from her little mind.
Sadie also has a way of using the word frap to describe many things as the hit against something or get stirred up or any other numerous ways. I think it is quite funny. She was describing something tonight in the car about how something was going to frap up against the building and slide down. Or sometimes it is used to describe stirring in the following example, mama is going to take the milk and chocolate and frapped it all up into chocolate milk. It has been one of the few made up words she has used for awhile.

Here is some good news, Sadie really likes to rake and I found her outside in the driveway and she had put together quite a large pile of leaves. I asked her to come in so we could get ready for the car ride to the above mentioned ordeal and she replied, " I need to finish raking, Mama." There will be plenty for her to rake in the next month, it has already started.

Lastly, I have some how managed to "NEED"coffee everyday. I don't even drink the caffinated sort. But I crave iced coffee with milk all the time now, what is my deal?