Nesting, big time

Today I decided this baby better come soon or I am going to go crazy from all the nesting impulses I have been having. With Bailey, my nesting manifested itself with a few little things I sewed for her, no big deal. With Claire, I was obsessed with curtains and crocheting dish clothes, a little worse than Bailey but not bad. But this baby, oh boy!

Not only do I do the regular cleaning and organizing but I have been ripping apart rooms and closests, taking out countertops, painting walls, sewing and crocheting like a mad woman. In the last few weeks I have crocheted 3 1/2 blankets, several dish clothes, 4 baby hats and over a dozen booties. Plus I have a laundry basket full of half finished sewing projects. I need it to STOP. My fingers are sore and I don't know if I can afford the cost of my corcheting habit much longer.

I guess the only good part of all this is my girls now have warm blankets to cuddle up with in the "cold" 80 degree weather we are having.

Favorite Quote of the week

"Share me cha cha milk, sista."

Claire Sherwood

Finally!

"It's autumn time, it's autumn time. The leaves are falling down...."

and being raked jumped in

rolled in
and making two little girls very happy!

Gumball Stand

(Photo courtesy of Bailey portfolio)
My conversation with Bailey today:

Bailey: Mom, I have been thinking and I think I am old enough now to set up a gumball stand.

Me: What are you going to sell?
Bailey: Gumballs and my stuff that I don't want. (Then she proceeds to tell what "stuff" she is going to sell, most of which belongs to her sister)

Me: Why are you going to sell gumballs and stuff?
Bailey: I need some cash.

For Grandma Sherwood

Looking lovely in their black Christmas dresses from you!

Thank you!

Toxic What?

A few days before Christmas, our little Claire woke up with a limp in her right leg. I didn't think anything of it because sometimes she thinks she is a gangster and purposely limps around. But the limp never went away.

Then the next day and the next (Christmas day) the limp got so bad that she wouldn't walk and couldn't get up off the floor without something to pull herself up on. She mostly sat in one place and if she had to go somewhere she crawled. Of course I started to get really stressed because we couldn't see any bruises or swelling in her legs but she wouldn't walk. It was also heartbreaking to see my baby surrounded by all her Christmas presents and not be able to move to get to them.

On Friday we finally took her to the doctor. After a long day of trips to the medical lab for a blood draw, not something you want to do the day after Christmas, and after a lot of tears, mostly mine, we found out she had toxic synovitis in her right hip.

Toxic what? Yup that was what I was said. After doing some research we found out that it is a viral infection in her hip. The best way to put it is, she has temporary arthritis in her hip. We don't know how she got it but we were told that it doesn't cause any long lasting problems, thank goodness.

Well it has been two weeks today and she is finally back to her regular self. It seemed to go away as fast as it came. After an experience like this, I am even more grateful for my healthy kids and my heart goes out to parents who have kids that don't get better after two weeks and some medicine.

Claire inspecting the bug we found on the wagon