some more random shots

My sneaky little crawler worked her way halfway under the couch

even though she's not exactly smiling- I love this photo for some reason!

Sickies

What a weekend! Thursday I picked up Maddy at Katie's and she was coughing and sounding pretty hoarse. She had had a runny nose and slight fever for the past 3 or 4 days so I figured that the cold was now draining down into her through and causing her to cough. She did have a "barking" cough and I thought "I need to take her in the bathroom with the hot water on!". Well, being Thursday, I left Maddy with Scott and the instructions to take her into the steamy bathroom if it got too bad, and then picked up mom and off we went to choir.

Scott called on our way there and informed me that he was worried. I gave him the name of our pediatrician and he reminded me that I had the car seat. As we walked into the church where our practice was, Scott called again and said that he was really worried after having called the Dr. office and the hospital and wanted to take her in. Since he didn't know how long the wait would be and therefore, didn't want to borrow the neighbors car and car seat, I drove home.

We went to the InstaCare and signed in. I was worried that everyone there would think that we were overreacting. Maddy was happy and talking and nothing seemed to be wrong until she vocalized or coughed. Well, the nurse and doctor both immediately knew it was croup when they saw her. They said it was good that we came in because she could give Maddy an oral steroid and had we not come in, we would have run into trouble that night. I'm glad that Scott is more in tune than I am! Since the steroid, she has been sick still but is sleeping through the nights. I am grateful!

I think that I have the same virus that she does but in me, it is a stuffy/runny nose, a headache, and a fever. So, there you have it. I think I'm off to take a hot bath - that always makes me feel better.

Go Cougars!

Playing

Playing 2

Here are several pictures of Maddy playing around with her toys and me playing around with the camera. The bad thing about digital photos is that I take a million and then when I'm putting them on the computer, I have a hard time deleting any - even the boring ones. I just adore the subject in every single photo so it's hard to edit!

Boy does she love this blanket. Thank Heaven for Aunts who can knit!

For Dad

Dad, because you asked so nicely - and then because Sarah asked also so nicely, here is a picture of our new posts. Scott does such wonderful work. He really has a great artistic mind - I'm lucky!

Looks like a whole new house doesn't it?!!

Crawling

"Another post from Melissa!" you say. "What has gotten into her?" Crazy I know. Don't get used to it. I'm sure the well of sharing will dry up before too long and you'll have another dry spell.

Maddy's been sort of crawling for a few days now, I thought she'd be cruising by now since the first time I saw her do it was a week ago. But this morning at Katie's she had all sorts of open space and went for it! Go Maddy, Go.