Mike and Julia had a baby boy on Feb 15th.
Jon and I were still really sick on Wednesday and didn't make it into work. Isobel was feeling much better, and while she liked having us at home, she wanted us to play with her more than we were able to.
We both went back to work on Thursday, although not for full days. Jon left early to take Isobel to her doctor's appointment and I met them there after work. Isobel's ear is all cleared of her ear infection and Jon and I seem to be on the mend. That evening, while Jon was putting Isobel to bed I broke out in hives.
It was Jon's Friday to start late. Somehow we both made it through work; although I was really miserable.
On Saturday, we picked up my new glasses. Went to a doctor's appointment to check out my hives and then headed downtown to Dr Sun Yat Sen Garden and Park to get Isobel some much needed sunshine. Cynthia and Nicholas met up with us. Isobel had a blast with Nicholas and Cynthia told us that Nicholas had told her that him and Isobel got married. While it was sunny out, it was really cold and Isobel's nose was running. We also checked out a bakery that April and Bobby recommended (it was very yummy) and Jon bought Isobel a couple of really cute Chinese style dresses (I'm looking forward to getting some nice pictures of Isobel in them).
Sunday was swim lessons. Jon went in the pool with Isobel. And she did a much better job of listening and trying to do what the instructor asked. This weeks topic was jumping in the pool. And while Isobel seems to prefer to take the safer method of getting into the pool, she did try as long as one of us was holding her. Things went downhill after swim lessons. Isobel was crabby and argumentative. Jon went gaming at Drexoll Games and after a while, Isobel and I headed home; the entire car ride was spent listening to her say "me no wanna go home". It was a very long afternoon. Got some cleaning done in the afternoon/evening. Isobel ended up with a bad case of diarrhea and we suspect that she may be lactose intolerant like Jon.
Back to work on Monday. Cally watched Isobel for us at Matty's. It was starting to snow when I picked her up, so we didn't stick around too long for a visit. We had salmon loaf and lactose free scalloped potatoes for dinner. Isobel seemed to like it. We're going to try to avoid lactose foods for a week and then slowly introduce them back to confirm our theories about Isobel's lactose issues.
Cally watched Isobel for us again on Tuesday. Isobel and I got home and played until Jon got home from work. I was hoping to get dinner started, but Isobel wanted attention and told me that daddy could make dinner tonight. So Jon made lactose free alfredo pasta. I actually liked it; normally I'm not a big alfredo sauce person, and Isobel really liked it. Will definately have to make this again soon.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
16/52 - Enjoying the Nice Weather After Being Sick
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
15/52 - Happy Valentine's!
On Wednesday, Jon called me to say that Isobel wasn't feeling well and had a fever. He came and got me from work early with Michelle and Ashley who had come over to watch Isobel for us. Since they had given Isobel some Tylenol we went to the mall and let Isobel play with the plastic houses. We then went home and watched "Despicable Me" while Isobel fell asleep on me. The movie was really cute. After getting Isobel up and ready, we picked up Jon from work and met up with Michelle and Ashely's parents at the Pho place I like. Isobel complained about her ear, so I tried to call her doctor's office but it was already closed. While at work in the morning, I got a phone call that Trisstan had had a baby girl that morning, Kyla Marie 5lbs 13oz; she was about a month early. Because Kyla's brother has the stomach flu and Isobel has her ear infection we're waiting for a bit before meeting the new baby.
I had taken Thursday off for an eye doctor appointment. We headed out first thing in the morning. My eyes have gotten better. I had told Jon I wanted him to go with me in case I got drops and to help pick out new glasses. He assured me that I would not get drops, but I ended up with drops. I picked out glasses and picked up a pair of baby sunglasses for Isobel. Jon managed to get Isobel a doctor's appointment in the afternoon. We went home, Robyn and the kids came over for a visit and Jon went to work. Isobel and I sky trained it to her appointment and she threw a temper tantrum on the way to the train. Having a two year old is a lot of fun sometimes. The doctor confirmed that Isobel's left ear was clear, but the right was a bit red and starting to get another infection. So we ended up with a different type of medicine and headed back to Richmond. Isobel decided she didn't want to go home, I wandered around the bookstore while she slept in her stroller waiting for Jon to get off. I finally headed to Jon's work to walk home with him and shortly after arriving got a home call from him asking where we were; he hadn't got my message to come meet us. So he drove to pick us up. I was then cranky so Jon ordered us dinner from Foggy Dew and picked it up.
On Friday, I was back to work but it was my week to leave early to watch Isobel. Somehow I managed to get her to take an almost two hour nap in the afternoon. When Jon came home, Isobel was so excited to give him his Valentine's card. She also ended up getting her Valentine's present early - a Smarties Heart and a board game. She was really excited about the board game and wanted to play it right away. And what we ended up playing was pretty close to the actual rules. She won.
On Saturday, we started out to go to the Chinese garden in Vancouver, but after walking past our driveway realized it was too rainy outside. So we headed to the video store only to realize that the one we went to was not open and no longer open for renting. After eating breakfast, we headed to a different video store. Rented some videos for the evening and then headed to the mall to get Isobel some sushi beans and pick up something for Trisstan and Dave's new baby girl. Went home and started watching some videos. We ended up taking a nap; Isobel slept for over two hours. Since it had stopped raining we went for a walk to return some library books and feed the bunnies. It's been a long time since we feed bunnies and Isobel was super excited to see them. Unfortunately, it gets darker faster than I remembered and we ended up leaving quickly to get home as it was already dark by the time we made it to the park. Jon had bought Isobel "Toy Story 2", since she liked the first one. We watched that and then put her to bed. Jon and I then had our Valentine's date and watched "Easy A" and "The Social Network". When Isobel woke up in the middle of the night, I crawled into bed with her. She now has a deep cough and I seem to have gotten it as well.
We decided to skip Isobel's swim lessons on Sunday since we were planning on taking the train and walking (due to road closures near the pool for the day), but figured it would be better for her ear to not be out in the cold with wet hair. And we all ended up feeling sick. I napped a lot during the day. We had no hot water as the tank in our building broke the day before, so we heated up some water on the stove and took a quick shallow bath. I went to bed shortly afterwards. Jon put Isobel to bed for me.
Monday and Tuesday we were all sick; mostly Jon and I though. Having two sick parents and a toddler who's on the mend is not a lot of fun. I am so sick of getting sick. I was taking vitamins, but apparently, they didn't help. Any other advice on avoiding getting sick?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
14/52 - 27 Months Old
On Wednesday, Isobel seemed better. Michelle watched her for us and reported that Isobel was hyper and told her that she loved her so much (which made Michelle's day). Jon left work early as I was supposed to go to a work dinner but cancelled as Isobel had been sick the day before. We went grocery shopping and then came home and watched "Toy Story 3" which I had borrowed from a coworker. And then put Isobel to bed. Jon and I watched the first episode of "The Walking Dead".
Thursday was Chinese New Year and Mason's fourth birthday. Robyn and the baby birds came over to watch Isobel. And this time Isobel ended up with diarrhea for Robyn and was clingy again. On the plus side her and Cordy got along a little better this week. In the evening, we took Isobel's 27th month old pictures with penguin and played in the tent. Jon packed up the tent while Isobel and I were in the bath tub. Put Isobel to bed and then Jon and I played a couple of board games.
Friday morning I was trying to find my glasses before heading to work. After searching the usual places I normally leave them, I remembered leaving them in the tent after taking pictures and before cleaning up dinner and taking a bath with Isobel. Since Jon took down the tent, I woke him up to see if he had removed them first. Since he didn't know they were in there he didn't. We found my glasses in the tent snapped in two. At least I can still see without them, but it's still very annoying. After taking Isobel to dance class, Jon handed Isobel over to Brett and his niece Kayla for part of the day. Isobel had a lot of fun with them. Brett picked me up from work and drove us home. Since the sun came out in the afternoon, Isobel and I did some finger painting on the balcony. Isobel really likes finger painting and was annoyed when it was over. We took a quick shallow bath to wash the paint off, played a bit, decorated empty paper towel rolls that she uses as scopes, and tried out a new recipe for dinner - pasta with roasted vegetable sauce (I was the only one to think it was okay, but not great). After dinner headed to Save On More to pick up the few grocery items that weren't at the other store on Wednesday. Jon ended up buying Isobel a Dragon and Knights Playmobil toy; Isobel loved the dragon so much she brought it to bed with her.
I've decided to unlock this photo, but I'll be updating it throughout the week.
On Saturday morning we got a bit of tidying up done. And baked some banana chocolate chip muffins. Jon went to work (normally he can't work on Saturday but they had voluntary hours this Saturday so he went in). Isobel and I went to the mall and had her hair cut. It's a bit shorter than I would have honestly liked but it'll grow back and it's now where near as short as my hair was once when I was a toddler. Jon met us after he got off work and we headed downtown. Isobel took a nap in her stroller while we wandered around. We then met up with Cynthia and Nicholas to check out the Lantern Aquarium outside the Art Gallery for Lunar New Year. I really like lanterns. This was really cool and well set up; I loved the jelly fish and flying fish lanterns. But I must admit that I preferred the lanterns at Winter Solstice. Saying that, I would still consider going back to the Lantern Aquarium before it closes. We then went for a late dinner with Cynthia and Nicholas at The Cactus Club (I had eaten Japadog earlier, but Jon didn't as he had a late lunch after he finished work). On the way there, Nicholas taught Isobel to throw coins in fountains and make a wish. Not sure if she got the make a wish part, but the throwing money part she understood. We got home past Isobel's bed time and she was really cranky. A few temper tantrums later we were able to get her into bed and asleep. She insisted on sleeping with her new dragon again.
Sunday was a busy day. We had swim lessons in the morning. This week's topic was kicking using the noodle. Isobel was not good at listening this class and did not want to use the noodle. After swim class, we drove to Go Bananas in Richmond for Mason's birthday party. And then Robyn, Brian and Matt came over to watch some of the SuperBowl with us and play some games. After the game was over, and everyone had left, Jon gave Isobel a bath and then put her to bed.
Back to work on Monday. Cally watched Isobel for us. When Matt got home, Isobel had fun making paper airplanes with him (although hers were just crumpled up balls of paper). Had perogies and sausage for dinner. Thought about going to the library but decided to postpone it due to the wind. We modified one of our boardgames to play with Isobel in the evening (she did really good at matching the animal figures to their cards. And yet Auntie April does not like Snorta). Took a bath and then read Isobel a bunch of stories before bed. Once again she insisted on going to sleep with her dragon. She also wanted Kitty, who hid from us and fell asleep somewhere on the couch; after she was asleep I snuck Kitty into bed with her after finding it.
Cally watched Isobel again for us on Tuesday. In the evening, we went for a walk to Richmond Center and the Library. Isobel got her Valentine's present from my parents - Toy Story (which she wanted to watch when we got home). I went to bed early and Jon put Isobel to bed. I also stole the blanket he likes to sleep with last night so I may be in trouble today. Sorry honey!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
13/52 - Friday Afternoon at Mommy's Work
Michelle watched Isobel on Wednesday. She brought Jenny and Benjamim with her; Isobel was a little nervous of Ben and clung to Michelle.
Robyn watched Isobel on Thursday. Isobel hadn't seen them for three weeks, with us being sick, and was not very nice to Cordy; she kept crying whenever Cordy was around. Robyn managed to get Isobel to take a nap (since she had woken up at 6am) but forgot she didn't have a diaper on and had to strip a very wet bed when Isobel woke up. I got home and started washing sheets. Robyn phoned me when she got home as she had left her retainer at our place. We had made plans to go to Park Royal with Angel in the evening so Robyn met us there to get her retainer;
i, however, did not notice the other retainer.
On Friday, Jon dropped Isobel off at my office before he headed to work. I had a lunch event at work so we stayed for that. Isobel ate the pasta I brought for her, while the rest of us had a taco/nacho potluck lunch and meeting. Brett was excited to see Isobel, Isobel was excited to see Lynda and her bag of suckers, Frances had fun playing with Isobel's play dough, and Isobel had lots of fun making phone calls with Rosie. It was a fun afternoon. Isobel crashed about two minutes from home and continued to nap when we arrived home, giving me some time to read. Raven stopped by in the evening to pick up the rest of Robyn's retainer.
On Saturday, I slept in. Jon's mom came over for a visit and took us to lunch. She bought Isobel a Go Diego Go bike helmet for early Valentine's day. It was a nice visit. In the afternoon, Jon set up the camping tent in the living room for Isobel to play in.
Sunday was swim lessons. Jon took Isobel into the pool this week, while I sat on the sidelines and took pictures. This week's topic was submersion. We have a lot of work to do in this topic on our own before Isobel turns three. We then stopped at the mall for lunch and shopping. Isobel got a pair of black Chucks like her daddy's. She actually wanted pink but they were too big. We then headed to the library and took some stuff out. Karla came over in the evening for dinner and a movie. Jon selected Night Watch and after about the first five minutes, I decided to read to Isobel instead.
Cally watched Isobel for us on Monday. Unfortunately for her, the beans I had feed Isobel the day before ran through Isobel and Cally had to deal with a lot of poop; she even almost ran out of diapers and Isobel went once on the potty. In the evening, Jon, Isobel and I went for a walk despite the cold weather. We transferred money for rent, and returned the DVDs we had taken out of the library the day before that we couldn't get to work in our player (and I had a book on hold to pick up), and then picked up a couple of groceries for Isobel's breakfast tomorrow.
Tuesday.....Isobel got sick while Cally was watching her. My phone was on silent and I was busy with month end, but Cally was able to email Jon who left work to go get Belly and then pick me up. We spent a lazy afternoon at home and heated up leftovers for dinner. I think Isobel was feeling better towards the end of the day.