Easter!

This year we made the  VERY long trek to Regina for Easter! It had been a year since we were there so we were definitly due for a visit. I was concerned for this trip as Ottavia was still not eating and feeling good and its hard being sick when your not home. All that aside Regina was good. It was very busy with lots of cousins and such. Ottavia loved playing and having everyone around. By the end she was comfortable with greeting grandma and grandpa at the door by name, it was cute! We also got to meet new cousin Zana who is such a little sweetheart!

Ottavia did great on the drive, 8 hours, one 20 minutes stop and not a peep. Thank god for iPad with Kai lan and Dora! I have no worries for our long flight this week.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Bike season!!

We've contemplated getting Ottavia a new bike. She has a tricycle but we felt she's past that stage so we were going to buy a strider bike. One morning we made a stop at sport check and saw this little bike, just like a strider! We bought it and she Love's it. This picture is right before the helmet of course! She's getting so good at it, hopefully we can skip the training wheel stage and go right to a real bike next year! As big as she's getting, her short little legs just touch the sidewalk! 

Only in Calgary do you see a toque, a bike, and rubber boots all in one picture!!

Are we done yet???

We've had a rough 2 weeks, and just when I thought we were in the clear.. BAM..I'm hit with strep throat and a chest infection. Mommy's arn't aloud to get sick, we are like the unstoppable transformers that lead house...No??

Last weekend I came home from work to a sick kid with a really high fever. Couldn't figure out what was going on and She wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep, was totally dead on the couch. Tuesday came around and just when we thought we she was better, we noticed her face started swelling and fever was creeping up again. We went straight to the children's hospital and they took us in right away. Ottavia's glands were so swollen that they were worried about her airway..so scary. After some medication, 2 licks of a popsicle, a urine sample and tired grumpy girl, we got released that evening with a high dose of medication. She only started eating on sunday. Its so stressfull when you kid doesn't eat, I get so angry and frustrated it makes me crazy but all in all she had fun in Regina with the cousins..thats another blog...

Here is my sweet girl with her sou sou (so bad but she was sick)

So Just when we thought things were better, on our drive home I said to Tino, its freezing in this Van can you turn up the heat?? he's like..its 27 degrees in here. I had no appetite, and my throat started to hurt. By 8pm I had a full blown fever, my hair hurt, I felt like CRAP. Thank god Ottavia went to the day home, I went to the dr. and slept the entire day away. Last night was rough as well, if I wasn't medicated fever would come and back and I could harldy swallow..its moved to my chest now, and I'll I've done is slept...Now I know why My kid didn't eat for so long. I'm hoping tomorrow is better. Its a good thing this happened now before we left for holidays, but I have so much to including work that I don't have time for this...I thought wonder women didn't get sick!!