small style #37

phew,

i think Isla may finally be on the mend!

here is some heart day style.

finally back at daycare

{at day care, photos courtesy of Kattie}

{watching silly songs for the umpteenth time}

{poor girl still has a bit of a rashy face}

Isla girl and i have been on our own this week.

Thom is away doing training for work.

it has been a longer week,

but it has been a challenge that i (and little Isla too!) have risen to meet.

more on this later.

this momma needs to get herself to bed. 

one more day sans Thomas.

phew!

long sleeve t: George, consigned

onesie: Carter's, consigned

pants: Carter's, consigned

socks: Old Navy

sick Isla update.

poor Isla.
friday morning she woke up with a fever of 40.1
that's the temperature that febrile seizures are made of. shudder.
thankfully we got some tylenol into her right away and she seemed ok.
we brought her in to see a nurse practitioner at my work.
she has an ear infection again, so more antibiotics
(apparently the resident at my doctor's office did not prescribe the last ones for long enough-for an ear infection on a child who is 6 months to 2 years old they should have antibiotics for 10 days... not 7 as had been prescribed initially-so we're not actually sure whether or not it is a new ear infection or the same one)
she also has rash.
Isla girl has been pretty out of sorts again today.
sleeping a lot and pretty much crying when she is not sleeping :(

she was supposed to be getting her 15 months vaccines tomorrow, but i guess we'll just go in to see how she is doing.

Thom leaves tomorrow morning for a week for work training.
pray for a peaceful week for this momma and her wee sick lass.

i hope that all your families are well.  sickness is not fun!
i'm praying for full and complete healing for miss Isla, and no return of colds and sickness!!

small style #36

sad news. 

Isla girl is sick.

a-gain!

it started with a random rash on Tuesday 

and then this morning a fever broke out.

she seems to be mostly in pretty good spirits, but the grumps do appear fairly easily.

Thom has been home with her the last few days.

next week he'll be away for work training, so pray that Isla is well!

those tired red eyes.

that runny nose.

that red rashy mouth.

poor girl.

lastly here is a bit of reality chez nous.

pretty silly.

pj's: Gap Kids, consigned.

sure hoping that you guys are not having a cold and flu season like we are!

Ottawa has been hit rough this year.

helloooo!

well, i announced it on facebook, but i neglected to announce it here.

whoops.  ;)

we are indeed expecting our second baby, due around July 30th.

if this one is anything like Isla, they will make an appearance around August 7th.

we'll see.

i am now 15 and a 1/2 weeks along.

with Isla we told quite a few people very shortly after we found out we were pregnant,

 partly due to the molar pregnancy,

we wanted people to be standing in faith with us,

and we had early ultrasounds that showed us a little beating heart and then a little baby body.

this time around,

for some reason we kept it a little more quiet.

we told a few close friends, we didn't even tell our family until we were about 10 weeks.

and the rest of our friends we didn't tell until we were 12 weeks.

i'm not sure why exactly, 

but it felt like we just wanted to have this little secret to ourselves.

it was fun to think i was walking around with a little secret living inside of me that was all my own.

miss Isla really has no idea what is going on, as my stomach gets bigger, we'll explain things to her (as much as she can understand)

but she had one of her first encounters with a new born, 

and she was in awe!

she kept on bringing over Taflyn's soother to have it put it, and she loved peering into her car seat to check out that wee sleeping babe.

so nice.

needless to say, we are super duper excited.

we will find out if baby A #2 is a boy or a girl sometime in the end of March.

hurray!

it has been strange this time around, with Isla we had so many early ultra sounds to make sure she was alive and healthy, but we've only had 3 so far for this one

(btw, i know that 3 is a lot by most momma's experiences, but we had an early one to rule out another molar, and the first one there was no heart beat-it was too early but you can just imagine the nerve-wracking 2 weeks that followed that-then we had one at around 6 and a 1/2 weeks and we saw a heart beat and then we had the IPS* testing done at 13 weeks)

just wanted all y'all to know about us and our ever expanding family :)

*i'll write another post about why we do IPS testing, i know not everyone does it but it works for us.

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this has been a tiring week!

i have been very busy at work, the last 3 days i have seen about 120 patients.

that requires a lot of patience (hee hee)

the saving moment was when i realized that today was thursday not wednesday!

which means that a little scrambling was done for small style.

Isla has been a bit of a bear this week as well

(a small cute bear to be sure!)

but a bit of a bear none the less.

she gets grumpy in the morning when she sees people eating cereal

(she usually eats breakfast at day care, since she is there at 7:30)

and for some reason she has been grumpers in the evenings as well

tonight she cried and cried about not having a spoon, she refused to say (sign) please

and ended up going to bed soundly and sleepily at 5:30

here's hoping she sleeps through the night!

here she is on an early morning day

 getting dressed with daddy

 don't you love watching little toddlers stand up?

look at how far over her feet that little booty is!

and i swear, she is standing up, not falling down!

what a cutie.

shirt: Carter's, consigned

sweater: Joe Fresh

jeans: Mexx, consigned

socks: Old Navy

boots: Robeez

weekly dozen

a good friend of mine, a faraway friend who despite distance and a lack of constant communication, remains a very very good and close friend, started a group of us off in the New Year doing a weekly dozen list.

this is a list of 12 things that we have been thankful for in the last week.

there are 8 of us.

me, the above good friend, her sister (also a good friend), their cousin in law (who, though briefly meeting at first good friend's wedding, i would consider a good friend as well), a good friend of the first 2, 2 good friends of the good friend's sister, (still with me?), and a new good friend of the first good friend.

i have met 4 out of the 7 (7 not including me). I have heard of 2 others through facebook and emails and conversations, and 1 is a brand new friend.

5 of us are moms, 3 are god-moms to one of the others kids.

this is confusing.

the point is this:

i am loving being part of this little email group. i look forward to Sunday when i get to let these lovely ladies know how my week has been, and it is a good practice to reflect on the week and pull out some of the moments to be thankful for. big moments, and small moments.

when i was in high school and journaled like it was going out of style, i went through a time where i wrote 10 thank yous each evening. it was a very good way to remember to be thankful in all circumstances, and to always thank God.  again, there were big things, and small things.  for some reason today i can picture the words of this thank you: "Jen always says 'bless you'" - she sat behind me in english and always said bless you when i sneezed, and one week it did bless me indeed.

how do you keep track of the thankful moments?  do you journal, blog, email, talk to someone regularly? 

it seems like a practice that we should all make an effort to have in our daily/weekly lives.

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it's been pretty nice to have miss Isla back to her usual happy go lucky self :)

she's back at day care, and lovin' life.

this is another new trick

she makes this face and says: "hoo hoo hoo"

all dressed up and ready to go to day care for the day.

shirt: Old Navy, consigned

jeans: Old Nacy, borrowed

slippers: Robeez, consigned

bellaclava: Joe's, $1.99!

jacket: Mexx, from Auntie Danielle & Uncle Alex :)

mittens: Roots, consigned

i surely love the thrifty-ness that i have been able to adopt when buying 'new' clothes for her.

i also love love love Isla's new coat, it's warm, it's long, it's fur trimmed, 

and bee-u-ti-ful!

thanks Auntie Dani and Uncle Alex!