Happy St. Patrick's Day!

My little Shamrock!

Slide!

Well, Ashley has gotten quite brave and now goes up in the playgrounds by herself and goes down the big slides on her own!  When we get to the parks now, she says slide, slide, slide...and that is followed by weeeeeeeee!!!!!

Taxi!

Drive in Movies!

With the nice weather we got Ashley's car out, however, she wanted to be in it all the time!  So, I brought it in the house.  Pete took this once night when I was out...

First Smooch!

Ashley started tumble tots last Thursday and a little boy, Ethan, who was in Tot Rock, is also in this class.  They both tend to stare each other down at each class, I just thought it was because they recognized each other. Well, today, as they were playing on the mats during free time, they were sitting together and Ethan leaned in to give Ashley a kiss!

Who could blame him?  She's awfully cute!

Aw, poop!

Poor Ashley got diarrhea from her antibiotics which caused a horrible diaper rash.  The doctor changed the antibiotic and the pharmacist recommended something to help her become more regular, Florastor Kids.

She is now on Zithromax and it's cherry flavored.  I remember cherry flavored medication, and it wasn't a pleasant memory (I'm sure my mom has that same feeling as I recall it being less than easy to get me to take it).  Ashley was really good with taking her amoxicillin, she would hold the syringe in her mouth while I pushed a little in at a time making sure she would actually swallow it.  Today was not as easy with the new cherry flavor.  At least the antibiotic is only once a day for 5 days, so 4 more doses to go.

After her bath, I let her run around nude while her bum dried since it was so red.  This was the first time I had the guts to let her go diaper-less for for than a minute or two.  I had her on the first floor since it would be easy to clean the wood floor if she were to go.  No more than 5 minutes later that she squatted and took a dump on the floor!  I was not expecting that, I couldn't help but laugh!  I screamed for help and Pete thought I was joking but he ran to take over cleaning the floor while I diapered her.  It'll be a long time until I let her roam diaper-less again!  On a positive note, it seemed like this was progress at potty training.

Parenthood is definitely interesting!

Bronchitis!

Well, I guess we are lucky that we made it 18.5 months before Ashley got sick enough to need antibiotics.  Her fever from the weekend seemed to finally be gone Monday after she took a 3 hour nap, however, Tuesday she woke up with a cough and a low-grade fever.  Today, she woke up and was coughing for about 30 minutes, so I decided to take her in.

She was so out of it that she didn't move for the exam.  I knew something was wrong when they took her temperature and she didn't care (usually she'll cry) and then Dr. Kalenowski checked her ears and she didn't even move!  Last week she screamed and squirmed when he looked at her 18 month exam.  Her ears were clear (she was pulling on them last night) but he could hear congestion in her lungs.  I said I could feel it when I was holding her.

He sent us on our way with an antibiotic of Amoxicillin.  Luckily, it's berry flavored like her ibuprofen.  So even though she'll fight me on it, she'll usually take it once she realizes it's not horrible tasting.  He was nice enough to give us more than we need since she's so good as spitting it out.

I think she's enjoying the sick treatment as I'm letting her eat while watching TV and she's having noodles (from soup) and a juice box (she seems to love straight juice)!