Charlotte's 3rd Birthday

Charlotte's 3rd Birthday! October 20, 2013

We celebrated Charlotte's 3rd birthday by taking her and her sisters to Build A Bear Workshop at Downtown Disney in Anaheim,CA. It was our first time going to this store and we thought it would be a nice idea for Charlotte to be able to pick out, stuff and dress up a stuffed animal of her choice so that she could take the toy with her as a companion to her follow-up doctor's appointments. She picked out a rainbow tie-dye colored teddy bear that she named Rainbow Bear and Ava picked out a brown and white horse that she named Princess Horse. A month and a half later they are both still sleeping with their teddy bear and horse. They love stuffed animals to begin with. I made a small cake for Charlotte and she opened up a few gifts from Grandma Evelyn, Omi and Grandpa Claude. She had an awesome day.

                                                  Charlotte picking out an unstuffed animal.

                                                         Waiting to get her teddy bear stuffed.

                                                        Giving her new stuffed teddy bear hugs.

                                                                Ava and Princess Horse.

Natalie at 11mo Old

Natalie at 11 mo Old:     

                                                       I like to give hugs and blow kisses.

                                  I love vanilla pudding and hard boiled eggs with a pinch of salt.

                                             And like many babies I also enjoy the dishwasher.

                                                                        I told ya I love it!

                                                 OMG! Little climber and calendar stealer.

                                                   I picked out my pumpkin at Home Depot.

    Hmm. Let's see here. What else can I get my hands on? Books and maps sound good!
                                                             The CD's and DVD's are next.

                                                    Reading is my favorite past time.

And here I nearly gave my mother a heart attack with this goose egg. I slipped on the bathroom linoleum and hit my head right along the ledge and corner of my sisters' white bathroom stool. With the help of an ice pack my goose egg went down considerably after a couple of hours. My goodness! My sisters never had any major bumps and this was really worrisome to my mother. Thank goodness I am okay.

A couple of hours later my bump has gone down considerably and I have a bruise in a line shape from the ledge of the stool.

                            My first Halloween! Grandma got me a pretty white unicorn costume.

                                                                          Halloween 2013

Natalie with Roseola in October

Poor Natalie also contacted Roseola somehow. Even though we pretty much where only home or going a few places like the grocery store with the kids, Natalie caught a virus called Roseola. It's fairly common in children 6mo-2 years old. It starts off with 3-7 days of fever and followed by a rash on the upper torso that is not ichy. There is no medication for this other than to just treat the child with the fever symptoms. Poor Natalie had a fever for 5 days straight. I took her to the doctor the fever started off on a Wednesday night and I took her to see her pediatrician on Thursday. Since she didn't have any other obvious symptoms we waited till Monday to see if she would get the tell tale signs of the Roseola rash. Finally, she got the rash on Tuesday at about 11:00AM and I say finally because that afternoon she would have had to get a blood draw to try to determine the cause of her 5+ days of fever. The fever subsided just as the rash was appearing. She had the rash for a week and didn't seem to be bothered by it on her torso, but was bothered by it on her scalp. I rubbed coconut oil on her head hoping the oil would add some moisture to her scalp and make it less dry and bothersome. Thankfully, Charlotte and Ava were too old to be contact the virus.

                                                          Natalie's back with the roseola rash.

                                                  With unrefined organic coconut on her head.

She was understandably not a happy camper during this illness. Here is a picture of the rash on her forehead and scalp. I had given her a piece of chocolate at the time to help cheer her up.