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Monday, May 5, 2014

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Turned my back...

I guess we have another cabinet to childproof.

We went to Penny's friend Kiyan's 2nd Birthday this morning at the Playground just a few blocks up. We know Kiyan and his mom Nerali from the Newborn Connections Mommies Group we used to go to when Penny was a little baby. We are always amazed when we see the kids how big they've gotten. We met when they were little peanuts!

At the playground Penny went on the big kid swings for the first time.

She also enjoyed not one but 2 cupcakes. The breakfast of champions.

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Licking off the icing[/caption]

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Her face got even more chocolately.[/caption]

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"I see you!"[/caption]

Girls Night Out

With Gabe out of town, Penny and I had a Girls Dinner last night. We went to Pasta Pomodoro just a couple blocks away. It was so fun to have dinner out with my girl. We've done lunch but never a real night out.

What a well-behaved girl she was. She maybe didn't eat as well as I wanted - her kid's meal pizza only got a few bites taken from it, the rest came home, but she had no problem with the ice cream. She was a great dinner companion and I can't wait to do it again.

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Big girl apple juice[/caption]

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Cheers![/caption]

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2 spoons are better than one.[/caption]

Under the Weather and a Clinic Visit

Last Wednesday I got a call from Ana asking me to pick up Penny. She had a fever and was very fussy. When I got to her, the first thing she asked for was "Calliou?" :). She couldn't be that sick, right?

She ran a low fever for the rest of that day and I stayed home with her on Thursday. By that evening she seemed like her old self and had been fever free for 24 hours. Friday we took her back to Ana's and boy was she glad to be back.

But Saturday night, at around midnight our poor girl woke up crying which is very unusual, and did not want to go back down. She had gunky eyes and I was convinced she had pink eye. She was the last kid at daycare to become ill, they all had one sickness or another. One little guy even had Hand, Foot and Mouth disease, but no one had pink eye. So an appointment at the After Hours clinic across the street was made for Saturday afternoon.

When Penny work up that morning she was gunk free and seemed just fine, but I still wanted to get her checked out. We obviously stayed home from Tumbling but she burned that energy by running around the apartment, literally bouncing off some of the walls.

The visit at the clinic was quite successful. Minimal crying - she even let the Doctor listen to her chest and look in her ears without any tears, and they were both clear. She gave us drops for Penny's eyes, just in case, but felt that unless the goopy comes back she is fine.

As a precautionary measure I tried to administer the drops. Is there anything more difficult that trying to put eye drops in a kids eyes when they don't want it? Even if I could get her to lay still long enough to aim properly, her eyes were shut so tight, nothing was getting in. So hopefully she remains goop-free and all will be well again. Just chalk it up to another Sickie Adventure.