It seems like this has happened a lot lately, but my girl is sick AGAIN!!! I've gotten the reputation with my in-laws for being a slight, or even a medium germ-a-phobe. This is the thing, its not that I'm scared of germs or getting sick myself. The problem comes when my little girl, who is still under the age where you can give medications that treat the symptoms, gets sick. While we are in the current situation, that leaves me as the sole care giver for our wonderful bundle of joy, times of illness are especially hard. She doesn't want to go to Grandma and Grandpa, she just wants to snuggle with mom, which is tricky when she has a bit of a high temperature. That means all day and all night I'm doing my best to remain calm and meet her needs. I love my girl. She is a really neat kiddo, and we have great times together. It is just more difficult when she's sick, to be in a 'single parenting' situation. We are doing our best and are going to continue to keep trucking along, and we're gonna keep trying to avoid sickness in all its forms! One of the funny parts is that Elise has learned to say sorry. She says it when she means 'excuse me'. When she is trying to get past someone, she says, "sorry" repeatedly until she is past them. Since she has been sick, I've had to wipe her runny nose MANY times. It is getting raw and sore, so now as I wipe it, she says, "owie", then she says, "sorry". She knows we say sorry if we give owies. So, she is great at reminding me to say sorry when she gets owies from runny nose wiping. It makes me smile every time.
Well, in the midst of being sick, we took some pictures of our girl looking very grown up in some new outfits.
The blue dress is one my sister made for Elise to match the ones the other girl cousins wore for our other sister's wedding in May 2007. She looks so grown up it in!!!
This cute shirt was a gift from Grandma Parker, and it makes Elise look very "I'm a big girl now", so we had to share this cute picture:
We are finding it ironic that our 'hump day' (the middle day, in this case, the day that is five weeks in either direction. Five weeks from tomorrow Logan went back to Alaska, and five weeks from yesterday he'll be flying back to Oregon to visit again) falls on Valentine's day! I guess that's a good thing, as we can now look forward to being on the downward slope of the countdown, although we're really missing having him here in person to celebrate. We hope to be having some healthy adventures to post about again soon!
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