our week at home

The Sunday of Keegan's party, Lydia stayed home from the day's activities because of a little moist nose. We thought it was nothing. By Monday, she had a really low fever, but by Tuesday she had a runny nose and her fever got up to 102.

Long story short, her fever spiked to 105!! on Wednesday but we got it down with multiple cool baths and meds ... I worried about her most of the week .... we took turns sleeping in her room at night to check her temp often ... and we basically quarantined ourselves at home for the week.

By Saturday, the telltale rash of roseola showed up, which was actually a relief just to know what we were dealing with and that she was on the mend.

poor, poor baby

It was a crazy week, and definitely a challenge to just be at home without the ability to have friends for E to play with everyday {I/home cannot compete with school's daily circle time, playground time, song time, craft time, snack time, and 10 other friends}. I will say we did rather well -- one major strategy was to announce "Oh, it's time for (made-up activity)" and then do something/anything different like just going outside. It helped with E to make it all sound official.

Anyhow, some pics from our week at home {actually a lot of them since we didn't have a lot of other distractions} ...

practicing her full name

It was way too hard to explain roman numerals to a

4-year-old, so I updated our clock

took some pics of L on Sunday before the illness kicked in

I took a ton, and ended up with this one I love!

upset because Daddy left for work

this was the first time she noticed -- she's growing up

more practice with her new dry erase markers

I want this in our next house - minus the staircase.

I'm thinking a pulley system to open the curtains

will go over great with E and her sis.

Since Lydia is now obsessed with climbing in and out

of this chair, it finally dawned on me to move it out to

their play are in the den. Lots of reading in it now.

Daddy got his new toy,

but had to wait a week to use it due to Lydia's fever.

her new ballet studio

being a puppy dog before work

copying Momma's drawing

sentences E can read, with help keeping her focused

more "copy" drawing and the "finish the letter" game below

I drew all the blue parts without her watching.

Then, I told her what each letter was supposed to be

and she finished it in red. I thought this game might be too hard,

but she blew through it like it was nothing. The version with

lower case letters was much harder. She didn't like it as much.

clothes for Henry Winters and E's thumbprint faces

of herself and her cousin

drawing Bebop flying a plane and drawing Daddy below

crazy 80's hair after sleeping in a french braid

chairs are now at the ends of the table so little bit doesn't hit her head

laundry day kitchen picnic

her baby car seat with belt as strap

a new roll of tape

first run -- somehow this was L's first ride ever

scavenger hunt for the run

SuperBaby - courtesy of Eden

making Aunt Sarah's card

visiting Daddy on campus

This was Monday, and baby girl was back!

Whew. What a week.