Sick Little Girl

So, I have been home this week with Alyssa, she has been pretty sick. It all started on Friday afternoon, she woke up from her nap with a fever. I started giving her Motrin, but throughout the night her fever stayed at around 102. I started to get pretty worried, I couldn't get it down. I had to go into work Saturday morning, so I thought that I would take her to the ER and get her checked. Her fever was still up, and she defiantly was not feeling well. The ER doc couldn't figure out what was wrong. Her throat was red so he thought that she might have strep, we did a quick strep test and it was negative. He gave her a shot of antibiotics just to be safe. I stayed at work and my mother-in-law came and took Alyssa home. That night her fever kept getting high and would only drop to 99. We had her birthday party planed for Sunday. We decided to go along with the plans figuring by then that the shot would be working.
Sunday morning, she still was not feeling well and was still pretty cranky. We could get her fever to stay around 99 for 4 or 5 hours so we thought that she would be ok for the party. Everyone came over at 2:00 and we had cake and ice cream and opened presents. You could tell that Alyssa did not feel well the whole time though. After everyone left she just wanted her blanky and the couch. She fell asleep for about 4 hours and woke back up with a fever of 102.8. We started her on the Motrin again, and decided to defiantly take her to the doctor in the morning. I called work and got coverage so we could go to the doc.
Monday morning with still a high fever and very cranky we got into the doc at 10:00. Dr. Michalek took one look at the mouth and throat and new what was wrong. She had some sort of Herpes virus in her mouth. (There is a specific name for it but I can't remember.) Her whole mouth, gums, cheeks, lips, and throat is covered with sores. The doctor said that it is extremely painful, and very contagious, so no daycare for 8-10 days! I never really want to go to work, but I have vacation planned for the next two weeks, so now this means 3 weeks without work, and really short paychecks.
We have been home this week taking it easy. I realized that I need to make sure to have a lot of patience with her. She gets so cranky because her mouth hurts so bad. We do have some Tylenol with codeine that helps with the pain some, but not much. She has been very clingy and doesn't want me away from her for to long. It has been a very long week! It's nice to be able to spend some time with Alyssa, but it sucks that she is so sick. Hopefully she will start getting better soon. Her fever is finally gone, but she still is not eating or drinking much. Her 2 year birthday is tomorrow and it is so sad that she has been so sick. I am hoping to be able to take her back to daycare Monday. Then we have to go back to the doctor to check the sores and for her 2 year immunizations on Tuesday. I think this is as sick as Alyssa has ever been, hopefully it will be over soon.

Bath Time

Every time I watch Avery, her and Alyssa love to get in the tub. It doesn't matter what time it is either. They have so much fun playing together, it is hard to get them out. I just thought that I would share a couple of the cute pictures I took of them the other night.

Kaydence Mae Hughes

Here are pictures of Shane's cousins new little baby. Kodey and Jodie had this little sweetie in the early morning of September 5th. We were all very excited especially that it was a little girl. They didn't know what they were having, and to say the least it surprised the both of them when the doc said "It's a girl".

We are so excited for the both of them, and Alyssa can't wait to play with her new little cousin. Congratulation guys, we love you!!

The proud daddy!!

The proud mommy!!

Sweet girl..

I just wanted to pay tribute to my sweet little girl. I grabbed a picture of here the other day with my phone (yes, I now have a camera phone, I know it took me a while, but I'm so cool now!) Anyway, we have a half hour drive every morning and afternoon, and Alyssa is usually so good in the car! I know that she has to get sick of it, going to and from everyday. Most of the time she is so happy though, singing, playing with her toys, and always making me laugh. She was being so cute the other day, when I grabbed this pic. I just have to remember to never take these precious moments for granted. I love my little monster!!

Photo Shoot

For anyone that has ever taken more than one little kid to get pictures taken will know what I mean by this little 3 letter word.....WOW!!

I never thought that it would be that hard. Get them all dressed so cute, matching, now all that needs to be done is sit down and smile. YAH RIGHT!! It really doesn't quite work that way. Mindy and I had tried to get a picture with all three kids for about 2 hours. It was total chaos. The kids were usually good by themselves, just not so great together at the same time. Anyway here are the pics that we ended up with. I think that they did turn out pretty good for uncooperative kids!

This is the best one with all three together.



Hunter was Mr. Smiles he always wanted his picture taken, just not with the GIRLS!

After trying to get three kids to hold still for pictures together, I decided to just get Alyssa's two year pictures done at the same time. Here are some of my favorite pics.

Beautiful eyes
So sweet


Defiantly my little monster!!

Swimming party at Grandma's

Shane's mom and dad have a pool in their backyard. The kids all love it. When Mike, Mindy and the kids were here we had a little pool party. Fun was had by all. I'm sure I would of had more fun if I dare wear a swimsuit!!! TOO SCARY!!!

Grandma & Lyss

Two little bathing beauties!
Silly Hunter
Alyssa loved this little floaty, she was so impressed that she could go

wherever she wanted all by herself.