We had Taryn to the Doc last Friday for this stupid cold that she has. Thursday night scared me spitless because there were long pauses in her breathing three different times and then when she woke up on Friday she nursed and then choked on the mucus that she had in her throat and then threw up all that she had just nursed. I am a fairly calm person most times but that night scared the pants right off of me so I took her to the doc. Doc left it up to me if I should take her to the hospital for the duration of the cold or take her home, and did some cultures for RSV and flu. The stipulation being should either culture come back positive she would go to the hospital regardless. I of course chose to keep her home. As a mommy I want to keep her from trauma not rush headlong into it. Those cultures came back negative and she stayed home. Whew!!!
Doc told me that the 4 or 5 day of the virus is the worst and then they get better usually. Well that held true for us. She did indeed start getting better. She hasn't had any more apnea episodes and isn't snotty through the day... she wakes up that way, but we park her in front of the humidifier and she is better for it.
So this Saturday we went to the Fall Fest that our little town has. We weren't there long and the outside air did Taryn good. It actually took us longer to walk one direction than we stayed there. We bundled both girls into a stroller and off we went. I got my funnel cake and Dave got his elephant ear. We let Ash go fishing and win a prize ( she was so proud) and we were out of there. We turned around and walked back to the house. It was nice and Ash was thrilled with the lights and people walking as we took a turn around the fair searching out our various vendors. Taryn conked out lulled by the noise that the fair makes and when we got home night night was as good as done. Even though she hadn't actually done the walking Ash was pretty tuckered out.
On Sunday we went to the Apple Orchard!!! Ash is such a perfect Age for this!!!! No pictures I am sorry but I was too busy helping her to pet the farm animals and ride the ponies and go on the wagon rides etc etc etc. This child is Animal Crazy. She went right up to the draft horses for the wagon to pet them with zero fear! I am so glad to see that. We were in the barn with the animals for nearly an hour because she went from one animal to another repeatedly. She pet the pigs and the goats and the calf they have there. She would have pet the chickens if they would have gotten close enough. The only way to get her out of the barn was to tell her there were ponies on the other side of the yard... and then she was so eager for the ponies that she didn't even WANT to play in the play yard... and that says a lot because there are tractors and all kinds of really really cool play equipment that she didn't even see... she was so focused on a pony ride.
So of course she got to ride the pony and was so very proud. And it makes this mama's heart proud to see how well she gets on with the animals. Dave and I have already decided that next weekend we will be going back to the pet store, where she loves to pet bunnies and all of the other little creatures. She loves all the fish too... the only animals that she is a little skittish of is the birds. And I don't blame her!! We will in a couple of weeks be going to the pumpkin patch where once again she will be able to see all kinds of animals. A llama or two that time.
She is at such a fun age... though at times it is such a frustrating age. I am beside myself half of the time trying to figure out how to outwit her. I do a lot of hollering these days, because she is well aware that once I sit down to nurse I am incapacitated for a bit. And I can yell my head off and she just laughs. But what she isn't noticing is that as Taryn gets older it takes less and less time for her to get full ( because she is more efficient at nursing), and mama is taking the household back. I had to give my power away during the end of the pregnancy and the first few months of Taryn's life.... but I am not a mama to be messed with. So Ash is learning that mama has a few tricks up her sleeve. We have also just got a potty seat and pull-ups. She has been asking. So my parents picked one up for her this weekend. This is a process and I know it won't happen in one weekend, but we are off and running on the potty training. It will be nice to have only one in diapers! Though it is more labor intensive while we are training. ( and like every thing else Ash is so into it that we spend 1/2 our day in the bathroom)
So I don't have any photos of this weekend to post but I have a few from last Thursday while we were playing outside and Ash found the bike that was bought for her brother Keagan when he was her age. I will post some of those and hopefully I will be better about getting photos of the fun we have. But I make no promises. Sometimes we are just having too much fun to stop... and that is fine by me!