All Better...I think!

After another long night, I stayed home with Jolie and her medicine finally started working around noon! She took a huge nap this morning and then had a pretty good bottle so I was super excited! She's still not quite drinking as much as usual and she's pretty stuffy still, but no fevers and more smiles!

Here's a demonstration! And if you look closely you can see her two little toothers!


And these long nights are especially hard on Petey. He'll probably remain in this position for the next few days! :)

Ear Infection #2

I don't have any pictures from this weekend-Boo! But I can give an update anyway. Friday night Jolie started running a fever and didn't sleep very well. Saturday morning she seemed okay so we thought maybe it was just a fluke thing. She was smiley and such and we had her first swimming lesson so we decided to try it out. Josh decided to catch up on some of his sleep since we had tag-teamed rocking Jolie all night, so we were down a photographer! :)

She loved swimming lessons! It's pretty much just the parents splashing around and singing songs (that's right, I had to sing! It was NOT pretty!) while the babies splash and kick. We are very excited to show dad next weekend!

Pretty much as soon as she got out of the pool things started going downhill. She was very mad and wouldn't drink much and started running a fever again--saddest thing! It's so hard because you want to make them all better, but there's nothing you can do! After a rough night last night which included a fever of 103 we decided we needed to go to the doctor. She has another ear infection so we got medicine for that, but waiting for it to start working is making me crazy! She's still not drinking much and needs to be upright all the time or else she cries. Poor pumpkin! It looks like we'll be spending tomorrow snuggling and hopefully being on the mend or else I'm going to have to pull the 'crazy, over-reacting mom' card and go back to the doctor! :)

Play Day

Thursday Grandma and Grandpa Buechler stayed with Jolie for a play day! They went for walks and took some naps and played, played, played! Then when I got home we went to the park as fast as we could to play with leaves. We got a little smarter since our last attempt at the park and just had dad meet us there, picked a park closer to our house, and ate supper after the park--how smart are we?

Jolie had played with leaves earlier in the week at school and they said she loved it so naturally, we wanted to see too! And she did love them--although I had to pull a couple out of her mouth, she had a great time crunch and throwing them.



She also got to swing, but as you can see, the swing was HUGE for her! But she did a great job of hanging on and she loved it!

Every last drop

The weather has been so nice lately and we are trying to enjoy every minute before we'll be stuck inside for winter. So after work and school on Wednesday we wanted to play outside. They had done a lawn treatment recently at our place so we really didn't want to play in that so we thought we'd go grab some supper and go to a park. Well we didn't really consider how long it would take for Josh to shower, get Petey and Jolie ready to go, us to order supper, drive to pick it up, then drive to the park, so by the time we got there it was almost dark! We hurried up and ate as fast as we could and thought we'd try to play with some leaves but apparently this park had just cleaned up the leaves because there was none to be found!

Needless to say we didn't stay long because it was starting to get chilly. So we quickly snapped a few pictures and went back home. And Josh and I learned plenty of lessons for next time, especially about the shorter days!

Pedersen's Visit!

Great grandpa and grandma Pedersen came with Grandma and Grandpa Buechler to visit Jolie! They came all the way from Scotland (South Dakota) :) on Saturday afternoon and stayed until Sunday. Uncle Matt came from Omaha on Saturday too! Jolie was very excited to show them how big she was and show off her two teeth! She was still a little scared of guys (sorry!) at times and had a few tears but we'll just keep pushing through it and hopefully she'll be over it soon, that silly girl! Oh, they also brought pumpkin pie and it was awesome!!!

While we were waiting for our table at Perkins, Jolie wore her stylin' shades!


Thank you everyone for coming to visit!

Pancake Feed

Saturday morning we went with some of our neighbors to the Waukee Fire Department's Pancake Feed. They had so many things to do! Addison got to shoot a fire hose and put out a fire with a fire extinguisher. Jolie and Kynley just took in the sights but they seemed very interested in everything!

Flu Shot--no biggie

I had to take Jolie in for her flu shot and I was so nervous. Apparently I'm known for sending Josh to get Jolie's shots because I get too sad! The nurse at the clinic even noticed and said she was surprised to see me bringing Jolie--dang it--they are on to me!! So after getting all worked up about Jolie having to get a shot, she did not even cry, flinch or ANYTHING! What a stud!!! And who would have guessed that I'd get myself all worked up over nothing? Me??? NEVER! Geez, sometimes I'm amazed at what a 'crazy mom' I've turned in to! I always swore I'd be all laid back and smooth, but I am not even close!

Well now that I've talked about myself enough...Jolie and I made it home and were able to catch a great nap! Then once Dad got home, we went to play outside! Yay! Jolie has been having lots of fun playing with our neighbor Kynley. Kynley is 3 weeks older than Jolie so they have so much fun together. Petey also enjoys playing with them and giving kisses. Lovely. Kynley also has an older sister, Addison, who is 3 years old and is so much fun! She enjoys coloring our driveway with chalk and keeping it pretty. We have lots of fun with them--hopefully I'll actually get some pictures of all of them some time!

Day Off With Dad

Since Josh worked all weekend he got some days off during the week. On Tuesday, he played with Jolie all day and even visited me at work for lunch! We had Jimmy Johns and Jolie loved the paper wrapper that covered our sandwiches. She showed everyone at work how exciting paper can be and they were quite impressed!

When I got home, we got to play outside a lot since the weather has been amazing! Check out her funny shirt too!

Party in Omaha!

Josh was working all weekend so Jolie and I decided to head to Omaha and meet Grandma DeDe and Uncle Brett. (Uncle Michael and Grandpa are in the field picking that corn!) So after prying Petey out of the vehicle and explaining to him that we would come back soon, Jolie and I left for Omaha Saturday morning. I planned it perfectly because she slept the entire way! Score!

We checked out some fun stores and ate some delicious food! Then we spent the evening at the hotel and we were so wore out, we didn't even check out the pool! But you know who wasn't worn out--Jolie! We kept trying and trying to get her sleep and her head would just pop right up and she'd laugh and smile. So after about an hour and a half, we thought we'd try a walk outside so we took the stroller and walked to Target that was right next door. She still stayed awake, but we were finally successful on our walk home!

Sunday we did a little more shopping (gotta stock up on that Husker stuff!) and Jolie loved it! She is quite the experienced shopper! I tried to schedule our drive back so that it would be during a nap time and it worked again--she slept the whole way back! She was very excited to Petey when we got home and 3/4 as excited to her dad. Geez--Jolie just thinks Petey is so cool and we are chopped liver!

Thanks Grandma DeDe and Uncle Brett for meeting us and everything else! We had a great time!!

Teeth are popping up like weeds!

So we definitely have a tooth in and it looks like many more are starting to follow. So that means we have are keeping those icy rings fresh at all times. Jolie even likes to have two at a time!