Winter Sickness

Its no surprise that the winter cold/flu season has infected our house. Its been a roller coaster few weeks that started with Karl getting the stomach flu right when he was supposed to leave for a conference in Las Vegas. It was so bad that he ended up cancelling the whole trip to stay home in bed. It took 3 full days for him to recover but now he is back to normal and feeling fine. For me its been an on-and-off cold/cough for a few weeks. The week after Karl had the flu I felt the worst for a day or two but I seem to have kicked it now.

For Ally, she had been fighting a cold for a few weeks just like me and it made her so crabby and tired. It finally got the best of her with a cough that kept her up most of the night for 2 nights. We tried elevating her matress, vapor rub, humidifier, etc... but nothing was working. I decided to take her to the doctor just to be sure it wasn't bronchitis because a cough has never really been one of her key symptoms before. Turns out her chest and lungs were fine but both ears were infected. Got her on antibiotics and all was improving (including her mood finally) until last week Monday when she spiked a 102 fever that would not go away. Karl was out of town and I stayed home with her on Tuesday but still couldn't get her fever down. She was happy as could be and acting totally fine so I called the doctor for advice in the afternoon. He decided to switch her antibiotic to a stronger one to see if that would help and sure enough, gave her a dose of the new stuff with some Tylenol and she was back down to a normal temp by bedtime.

We know that we are very lucky to rarely have any health issues to deal with. Unfortunately having a little one in day care means that when she brings it home, we all get it and most of the time its worse for us than for her. I have also learned through this that when Ally acts out of control crabby that she has an ear infection!

Ally Having Fun

Ally dancing to one of her favorite songs. Truly mommy's girl!

The funny things she does when she thinks no one is watching.

Top 10 List

Top 10 signs your child spends a lot of time at sporting events:

1. When the buzzer sounds she tells you to stand up and put your hand over your heart
2. Yells "Get 'em, Get 'em" when running down the field
3. She asks where her ticket is
4. She claps to the fight song and knows to stand up
5. She asks to wear team colors on game days
6. She wants to know whats for lunch at the tailgate
7. She cheers for the band
8. When watching on TV, she asks which color team you want to win
9. She brings her own pom pons
10. She wants to go to the next game when she gets home from the last one

Our Valentine

We didn't have much planned for the day but it was fun to see Ally so excited about Valentines Day. She had a party at school and brought monkey valentines with mini tattoos for her friends and came home with quite the collection of goodies. Karl made us a great dinner and Ally showed us all her cards in the bag she made. We had a few deliveries come to the house so after she opened her present from us, she dug right into the boxes from the Grandparents. Earlier in the week she got a giant box of goodies from Great Grandma Marilyn with pounds of candy in it so she quickly figured out these other boxes needed to be opened asap. She loved the big stuffed gorilla from Grandma Sharon and her princess pjs from Grandma Julie, plus all the candy too. She loved that many of the packages were loaded with M&Ms which are her "potty candies". She was very excited about going potty a lot so she could eat them all. She is almost fully potty trained but we just stick with what works so its important to always have M&Ms on hand.

Opening the big box earlier in the week.

Dumping out her goodies from school- a lot of repeats but she liked them allOpening her cards from mom & dad

Showing off her new purple running shoes from mom & dadPrincess jammies from Grandma JulieGorilla she decided to name Stinky Pete

Funny Things Ally Says

Time for another posting about the funny things Allyson says. This week she received a giant Valentine's Day package from Great Grandma Marilyn and Grandpa Jack. It was full of all kinds of goodies so on Friday I let her have a little package of Skittles rather than her usual fruit snacks on the way home from school. Not sure if she ever had them before so here was our conversation on the ride home.

Me: Ally, are those good? What color is your favorite? (expecting her to say yellow because she always does)
Ally: I like the red ones
Me: Red? Because they taste like cherries?
Ally: No, they match my dress.

No argument from me, she was right!