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Another week, another Easter celebration.

This week, we went to my folks’ to color Easter eggs (because, of course, everything got postponed due to flu).

CareBear had a great time helping to make the colors and coloring the eggs. She also liked hiding them herself and then finding them again. She fell in love with her green egg and slept with it for a few days, until it cracked and we had to say goodbye.

 

LiliBee, on the other hand, was very concerned by the egg coloring. She liked it when she could stir the egg around in the cup of color, but got really mad at every other part of the coloring process. I’m still not sure what her problem was, she’s usually a pretty easy going kid.

Apparently, it was terrible to subject the eggs to things like drying and moving around.

We celebrated Earth Day by planting some seeds.

Both girls thought that was a lot of fun and particularly enjoy the watering part of gardening.

The weather has been nice enough to play outside most days, even when it’s overcast and sprinkly. LiliBee has learned how to climb up the ladder and go down the slide all by herself. She’s a scary kid.

CareBear likes digging in the dirt and we usually all come in covered with sand. The other day, LiliBee somehow ended up with a diaper-full of it when I wasn’t looking!

This weekend was fun. We did some birthday gift shopping at Freighthouse Square, which is always a fun place to visit. We also stopped at DeCoursey park downtown to play and look at ducks. LiliBee was so enchanted by the ducks that she was inspired to learn how to say “duck”!

CareBear is off at a sleepover with her cousin tonight. I miss her terribly and it’s way too quiet around here, but I hear she’s having a blast at Grandma’s. I think LiliBee’s enjoying “only child” status, though.

We’re looking forward to a nice week of doctor visits and a birthday party. The party will probably be more fun.

 

We’re finally flu free around here. It’s been a long three weeks of fevers and staying home. We more than made up for that this past weekend, though.

After toddler gym on Saturday, we headed to the Spring Fair. I love fairs, have I mentioned that? It was pretty crowded being Saturday afternoon and all. We managed to have lots of fun in spite of the long lines, though. CareBear got to go on a few rides and won a new ball at the “fishing” game (plastic, magnetic fish). LiliBee complained about not being able to do that stuff yet but enjoyed the people watching. We all enjoyed visiting the goats and chickens in the barns.

Sunday was our belated Easter Egg hunt down in Olympia. Auntie Trina hid sugar filled plastic eggs all over Grandma’s yard and the girls had a great time finding them. CareBear is an egg finding machine, her basket was over-flowing! LiliBee wasn’t sure what the fuss was at first… it was fun to put eggs in the basket, but she doesn’t have the competitive streak yet and was more than happy to just look at the eggs. Grandpa did some grilling and we had a whole Easter Party! The girls slept all the way home.

Today, we had CareBear’s appointment to recheck her vision. She tested as normal this time around, so there’s nothing to worry about at this point. It was a pretty painless appointment.

Then we headed out to the park to take advantage of the nice weather. After walking the paths with Grams and Pas, we turned the kids loose to play at the playground. CareBear got over her initial hesitation about the slides (I don’t know where that’s coming from) and spent a lot of time going down the tunnel slide. LiliBee wasn’t sure which slide she wanted to go down for awhile, but she sure did enjoy climbing around the smaller equipment.

It’s nice to be well in time for the fleeting warm spring weather!

CareBear loves to go down slides. She goes down big slides at the various playgrounds we visit with little to no apprehension. She’s a big kid who goes down big slides. So why did the little slide in her backyard cause her to panic?

You can do it, CareBear!

Of course, it’s easier when someone catches you…

Greetings from flu-ville. Chris came home early Tuesday with a fever… the flu strikes again! Because he was watching for the symptoms, he was able to go to the doctor early enough to get Tamiflu. It seems to work very well for making the flu symptoms much milder than they would otherwise be. He still had several days of not feeling well, but little in the way of fever, cough, aches, etc. Though having the flu on his birthday was no fun.

And then on Friday, the last holdout succumbed… LiliBee came down with the fever. She’s doing pretty well right now as she’s in the middle stretch of lower temps and feeling better. If it follows the same pattern as the rest of us, she’ll have another couple of days of fever and then be done with it by the end of the week. She and CareBear had the flu shot, which seems to make it a bit milder for them. Neither of them got the terrible cough that I did (and still have) and CareBear certainly recovered faster!

Consequently, we didn’t get to have much fun again this week. We’ve had to postpone Chris’ birthday and family Easter fun and we missed out on the first week of classes at the Y. My mom pointed out that we at least have an end in sight now since we’ve all had it! It will be nice to be done with the flu and able to leave the house again. The girls and I are dealing with a bit of cabin fever.

This week, I’m looking forward to no new cases of flu in the house! And lots of fun stuff this weekend, assuming everyone is feeling better.

I hope everyone is having a better week than we are!

My little fever and cough from last week ended up being the flu. The real flu. (For my lab friends, the rapid test was positive for influenza B and the np swab was lots of fun.) I spent most of the week in a fever-induced stupor, hoping that the flu shots would protect the kids from me. I forgot to get one for myself this year. We had to miss out on the wedding, the parade and all of the other fun stuff we were going to do last week and the kids watched way too much tv. My fever finally broke on Friday so now I’m just dealing with being worn out.

Unfortunately, we found out that this year’s flu shot isn’t doing a great job with flu B… CareBear came down with a fever Saturday afternoon. She’s spending a few days on the couch, but says that she feels ok. She actually gets really upset if she hears me and/or Chris talking about her being sick. “I’m normal!” she yells. She actually hasn’t had any symptoms other than the fever, though that’s making her touchy enough.

If we’re lucky, LiliBee will be protected by the antibodies she’s getting from me through the breastmilk. And if we’re lucky, Chris will avoid getting it. I wouldn’t count on it, though. We’re already going to have to postpone Chris’ birthday. Hopefully, not Easter though.

Chris is finally off of jury duty… after 3 days of jury selection, 2 weeks of trial and almost 5 days of deliberation they came to a verdict. Info on the trial he was on is here if anyone is interested. He finished up just in time to take care of me and CareBear!

We did have one outing over the weekend, during the brief period between my fever going away and CareBear’s arriving. We took a drive Saturday afternoon and had a little picnic in the park. It was such a nice day and a local group was doing some barrel racing trials at the park, so we were able to watch the horses while we ate. CareBear was particularly impressed by the horse who peed while he was waiting for his turn. She’s still talking about that. Both girls had fun playing on the playground and LiliBee was thrilled about going down the slide.

This week should be fun, once we get over the flu! Chris will get older and there will be Easter Egg fun.