Just So Much To Catch Up On!

So I want to at least make mention of my trip to Michigan with Quinn - over 4th of July weekend. I'm only about a month late. It has just gotten so crazy with trying to live life and keep a blog current!

Our trip home was a great one. We really enjoyed ourselves and Poppy and Manka Swanson had lots of fun with Quinn this time around! We spent lots of time riding bikes, riding rides at the Pickerel Tournament, playing in the kiddie pool, and eating lots of good grilled food! We spent a day with the Coppenses and the Koltzes, hung out with Uncle Swany and Aunt Jessica, and just did lots of nothing (but it was SO great) in Algonac. AND, who knew Trouble could draw such a crowd!

Seriously, this game will PISS YOU OFF!!!

Uncle Alex and Aunt Sara are keeping me company!

I'm on the ride all by myself!

Uncle Swany, Poppy, Manka and Aunt Jessica at the Pickerel Tournament

Me and Soapy eating lunch!

Uncle Pat, thanks for letting me help you fix the door!

I LOVE playing in puddles!

I actually got a couple of hours out with Shane and Brad to watch the fireworks and sit in the hot tub, and had dinner with Grace and her boyfriend (yep, I said it - BOYfriend!) Cameron. Who knew Grace would fall in love with a guy after being a lesbian her whole life! Go figure :-)

My new boyfriend, Brad

Me & Grace!

So, it's not a long post, but you get the gist of it - we really had a great time!

One tuckered out little girl...

A Promise to Blog...

I have several events to catch up on... our trip to MI and my girls trip to New York, most importantly. But not tonight - I finally just caught up on sorting and putting away pictures from the past 3 months.

I will blog soon - I promise! Until then, here are a couple pictures of my cutie...

Blue Sucker Tongue!

Now, that is some crazy bed head!

Metro Riding!!!

Mom Purse

I am not one to carry a big purse at all. I mean ever.

Well, I finally broke down today and bought a "mom purse" at Target (for $13.95, thank you very much!). It was time - Quinn is in that transition between pull-ups and undies, so I needed a purse big enough to carry one or 2 pull-ups and wipes so I could finally lose the diaper bag. Here it is... sort of makes me sad to carry this:


Is it that bad? Girls (guys, too, I guess), please leave your comments - I need to know how uncool I just became...

104.1????

No, that's not a radio station - that was my daughter's temperature late Saturday night! Another narrow escape from the emergency room - but we've finally visited urgent care... Ugh!

Anyway, Saturday was great all day - I took Quinn to the National Zoo in the morning, where we met some of the group for our June playdate. We strolled along in the sweltering heat, and the highlight of the trip was getting to see a panda bear ba-dump ba-dumping through the grass and water right in front of us! Here is the video I was fortunate enough to get...

Saturday afternoon we dropped Quinn off at Jenn and Josh's and headed over to Rosella's for her 30th birthday party. What a great time! Jeannine and Mark were there, and it ended up with several of us couples in the living room talking about everything from our weddings to comics to whatever was the hot topic of the moment. Oh, sweet adult time. I forget how much it is needed every now and then...

When we got to Jenn's at about 7:30, Quinn looked beat, but happy. They had gone to the pool for a few hours and she had the chlorine blurry-eyed look. But we could tell she'd had a great time. Jenn said she was so good all day - she told her every time she had to go potty and then at the end of the evening she was standing with their 2 dogs near the couch and peed in her pants. When Jenn asked Quinn why she was standing in a puddle, Quinn swiftly replied, "The doggy did it!" I have NO idea where that came from, but Kirch and I about died when Jenn told us that story! She blamed it on the dog - how original!!!

Well, we headed home, and then it all began - in the 10 minutes it takes to get to our house, Quinn broke out with a raging fever. She was burning up when I got her out of the car seat! We got her inside and took her temp, which was 103.7. Oh my gosh! What the heck? Well, Kirch and I knew it was another ear infection - we could just feel it in our bones. So Kirch called the on-call nurse and she just told us as long as Quinn was acting ok, to give her some Tylenol and keep an eye on her overnight. No need for ER or urgent care just yet, but to definitely have her seen by an urgent care doctor within 24 hours. Let me tell you how thankful I was that we had put her in her big girl bed earlier that week! I slept with her and we both woke up about midnight, where I checked her temp again -and.... 104.1? Woah! But we remembered the nurse saying we didn't have to worry about taking her to the ER until it was over 105. But I don't care what anyone says, it's stressful when your kiddo has a fever that high! I had a 106 fever when I was about 2ish, and my parents had to take me to the ER because I was hallucinating!

Well, Kirch jumped in bed with us and Quinn stayed up for over an hour - not complaining, not asking to get up, just restless - like she couldn't get comfortable. Never ONCE did she complain that her ear hurt! Tough cookie, that girl... Well after 1am her fever finally broke and she fell asleep until 8am Sunday morning. We called Urgent Care and got in at 11am when, viola - the doctor said she had an ear infection in her left ear. Shocker. That's 3 in 6 weeks! The doctor says 6 ear infections in 1 year or standing fluid for 6 months constitutes tubes... I think we're pretty much on our way.

Quinn is still her normal self. She's taking her medicine, and fighting a fever on and off (apparently it can take up to 2 days for the medicine to really grab hold and squeeze out the fever), but going to daycare at the doctor's orders and we are still allowed to fly home tomorrow night - thankfully!!! So it's been a crazy couple of days, backed up by the past 6 weeks or so. We have to go see Dr. Potter as soon as we get back to get a recommendation of what to do next. I dread tubes, but if it keeps Quinn from getting infection after infection, I know in my heart of hearts it is the right thing to do.