Our day out did Jesse in!

We had such fun at the zoo, then of course, the bottom fell out. That night Jesse ran a low-grade fever that had passed by morning. However, Tuesday she had a runny nose and a cough. I tried the following day to take her to work at the library, but when we got there she was just tired.

By Wednesday afternoon, her eyes were gunky and pink. I feared pink eye. I took her to the doctor Thursday morning, no pink eye but two ear infections and a sinus infection. I blame the hill at the amphitheater they rolled down on Monday. She'll be on antibiotics for two weeks and Claritin until the end of April.

In case you were wondering, yes, this puts us four days behind in school. :(

I love spring. ;)

Time changes everything

Sunday morning as we sat watching the news, I glanced over at John. His chair is now sitting across from the love seat where I was sitting. A perfect position to see the laptop on his lap. I admit I was confused...he was typing an email. The man does not email people, at least not at home unless he is working.

That is when I found out he had placed a Craig's List ad for the girls pink Cadillac. We (as in us and the girls) had been discussing selling the Cadillac since early this summer. The girls were all for it, especially since they knew the funds were going toward a vacation. :)  But I had no idea he had placed an ad the night before. Within three hours, the Cadillac had been sold and picked-up.

A nice young couple bought it for their two girls. I'm glad it is going to a family with two girls to enjoy it for years to come. Their girls are a bit younger than ours were when we purchased it, so they will have a great time with it.

Of course this had my mind reeling with memories. I searched our computer this morning and found these:

John was trying very hard to figure out where all those stickers were suppose to go.

They looked so excited!

The first of MANY times John was run over by the car. Looks like that hurt.

Here they were yesterday, just after it was sold.

Eventful day.

We headed out early, for Charlotte, this morning. Just short of our regular exit we hit construction. Three lanes out of four were closed. You can imagine the insanity! Twenty-eight minutes later we finally hit the first exit (about 1 1/2 miles up the road) and we were out-of-there! It was the Carowinds exit. lol Anyway, we took the path I remembered, which led us right through the middle of downtown Charlotte. My girls have not been through downtown Charlotte in a long time. In fact, I don't think Chloe as ever been through there. They were amazed by the buildings lurking over us! I guess the traffic was worth their excitement and John's.

We spent the day at my parents. We actually went up for a particular purpose. Dad is redoing his daffodil bed, so he was giving us the bulbs. We just had to dig them up. :) Dad, Chloe and I found so many I couldn't count them. They probably weigh close to ten pounds those. He also let me have about a dozen irises (white). Yeah! Now, I have to plant them here. Boo! LOL Next time I am hoping to get another butterfly bush too. My trunk was too full this trip.

Quick note

John saw I had not posted anything since Boykin. He was shocked! So, I thought I would write a few things.

We took the girls to have an eye exam on Monday; Jesse's new glasses will be here next week. Yep! She needed glasses. Most of her correction will be her right eye. She picked out a couple of cute pairs of glasses (one will be sunglasses). She is not looking forward to it but realizes in this family ten is usually the magic number.

School is coming along. I believe the girls are both enjoying their science this year. So many experiments. I do need to make a run across town for some blank slides because one of Jesse's upcoming experiments requires one. So, I need to purchase some. :)

Jesse is turning in her first ever application today. She did a great job filling it out. She even had to send a couple of emails to request references; the responses she received made her and Chloe both laugh. We know such great people! Oh, you are probably wondering what kind of application. She is putting in an application with the Richland County Public Library to be a volunteer. She is very excited. Chloe is anxiously waiting to be hold enough to do it too.

John spent Tuesday night in Charleston. He had an afternoon meeting so they paid for him a hotel. I have to say I did not sleep well with him gone. He slept wonderfully...he took a "sleep aid". I told him next time he needs to leave one with me.

I still have not posted any pictures from Music Man Jr. anywhere. IF I can find the time in the next week or so I'll try to do that. I did post the one on our blog. The picture is one of few I have with Jesse AND Chloe and not a large group of people. The other person is Miss Nicole, one of the co-directors. This is the last picture taken with her; Monday morning after the final show she moved back to New York City. Chloe was heartbroken but is doing better now.

Sick one

Tuesday started out well, but in the afternoon Chloe started complaining about a sore throat. Wednesday morning she woke barely able to speak. By the end of the afternoon she had a low-grade fever. Thursday morning more of the same, but John and I felt she needed to see the doctor.

The doctor said her throat was slightly red, but she couldn't see her ears because of the wax. The nurse flushed out her ears and I have to say I was totally amazed by the amount that came out. The poor child, after one ear was cleaned, was elated, "I can hear!" Well, I didn't know she couldn't. I felt horrible.

So after the ear cleaning, the doc looked again and sure enough she had an infection in the right ear. Ten days of antibiotics.