Mom Cave

I think I'm going to jump on this new bandwagon of women designing "mom caves".  Basically rooms for themselves whether is an office, craft room, guest room etc.  We have officially moved Bella into her new bedroom (pictures to come as soon as the new bedding gets here).  Her old bedroom is going to become the new guest room/office/craft room.  I have some exciting plans, and I'm sure it will be awhile before it all comes together.  But I would like to base the design on a rug I found at Target the other day.

Can you even see it (for some reason I couldn't zoom in without distorting the image)?

Does anyone else notice that most of Bella's pictures are taken in the same location.  Well it might be that we mainly hang out in our family room and kitchen.  But also that she generally takes better pictures when sitting up, which tends to happen in the kitchen near feeding times.

We are practicing wearing hats in order to get used to our Halloween costume.  I got all the supplies needed this weekend and hope to sew it within the next week.  If I said the colors were black, brown, red and white stripped; would you know what she is going to be?  We also hope to incorporate her kidkart, that will be dad's job.  I'm really hoping the weather is warmer this year than last, so we can actually go out on Halloween.

The Pumpkin Patch

On Tuesday morning, Bella's preschool class took a field trip to the pumpkin patch.  I went along as a parent volunteer.  I wasn't quite sure how Bella would do out in the sun, but we were stylish in our sunglasses and did pretty well.

Our favorite activities were the petting zoo (only by default since it was inside and out of the sun).

We had a friend named Bria who got to hang out with us for the morning.

Our second favorite activity was laying on the large bouncy pillow.  Bria was nice enough to jump by us, so Bella could get some great bounces in.

Our favorite activity was the haunted barn, we didn't get any pictures.  The haunted barn was not only out of the sun, but it had pretty lights.  It got a few "aahhs" from Bella.

And here is a picture of Bella all strapped up in the bus.  She has her harness on and her lap belt from the kid kart, and then a harness and lap belt from the bus, and tie downs from her kid kart to the bus.  That child isn't going anywhere.  It also explains why it takes them so long to load her onto the bus, I didn't realize how much they were strapping her in.

Artwork

Bella did some coloring at school on Thursday.  The teachers help to hold her crayon in her hand, and she moves it herself.  Bella was asked to draw someone who was safe to go to.  They were learning about firemen, policemen, etc.  Bella's teachers thought she was drawing a person who looked like mommy or daddy.  Jesse thought it looked like an abstract Jesus.

 What do you think?

And on a separate note, here is a sneak peek of Bella's new bedroom colors.

Baking time with mom

We decided to keep Bella home one more day (or at least I hope it's only one more day).  She had another bad night of coughing, but is in good spirits this morning.  We decided to make some pumpkin cheesecake muffins.  Bella helped me run the mixer, although I wasn't talented enough to get a picture of that.  So here she is posing behind her masterpieces.

Notice she is still in her pajamas.  I think anyone who stays home from school should get to wear their pajamas all day long.

It's Pink

We started painting Bella's bedroom this weekend.  It's very pink.  You know how most people will blame their children when the room is a bright bold color.  Well obviously I have no one else to blame but myself.  Bella definitely didn't tell me to paint it pink.

Do I have your interest yet?

Well it's a two scheme color and we only have the first one done, so you will have to wait another week to see it done.

Granted with Bella being sick, I was really wishing she was in her bigger bed, so that if needed we could sleep with her and make sure everything was going alright.  As it is now, she gets to join our bed, and that means one of us gets kicked out.  So we best get on painting and then out to buy a new mattress for her.

I'm sick.....or sick and tired

We had a little bit of a scare on Saturday morning.  Bella woke up around 5am and I went in to check on her.  She seemed to be doing her, I'm up and happy, but it's way too early to actually get up.  So I left her to talk to herself as I went to get a little more sleep.  At 6am I told Jesse that maybe he should get Bella and put her to bed with me, so that she could possibly fall back asleep.

Jesse went into her bedroom and Bella was lying in bed staring wide eyed at the ceiling struggling to breathe.  He grabbed her and brought her into our bedroom.  Once in our bed she was still struggling to breathe and her arms were shaking, she was not making eye contact with either one of us.

I began to wonder if she was having a seizure and told Jesse to grab the video camera and film her.  I was holding and rocking her and trying to get her to come around.  We then took her downstairs, where I was holding her in my lap.  We were trying to figure out what was going on, and in the back of our heads were even contemplating that we might be running to the hospital.

I thought about how when I have a fever and am sick, I tend to get the shakes.  And usually it means I feel freezing cold.  So I told Jesse to grab and blanket and wrap her up while still in my arms.  Moments later her breathing went back to normal and the shakes stopped, and she immediately went to sleep.

We still are not sure what happened that morning, but since then we have been dealing with a child who keeps coughing and is very irritable.  We aren't sure if she is fighting a cold or just teething again, as a big one is on the move through the gums.  Regardless it's been a couple nights of bad sleep in this household, so let's hope whichever it is, it gets better soon.