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Here is what's left of the Tucker vs. Taylor battle scars. This is a day or two afterwards so it doesn't look too bad, thank goodness!!! She's got some more bite marks up under her hair, too. The shiner was only there for about 2 days, turned yellow on day 3, and was gone by day 4---they are freakishly quick healers, these kiddos!!
Anyway, they are the best of friends again and all is forgiven from both parties involved :)
Here's a little ditty to get you in the holiday spirit (in case you need a translation, it's Jingle Bells:).
A couple more translations....after the first round, she says "see? see?" because she thought I was taking a picture and in her generation, they can see the picture instantly on the screen. Also, the main distraction at the end was Bailey simply sitting up on the couch armrest, but Taylor---seeing the dire urgency of the situation---dropped everything to yell, "Bailey! Careful!!".
Aaahhhh......the attention span of a 2-year-old :-)
For those of you that didn't see these sad little pics on Facebook, I thought I'd post them here. Yesterday (Thursday) she woke up whimpering quietly in her bed with tears silently rolling down her cheeks, so I knew something was up. I still went to work later in the day, but then got a call from Josh that her fever was climbing to 103.2, even with Motrin. So I left work and we took her to the doctor, where they told me it was most likely a virus going around that would take 3-5 days to run its course. They said her throat was really nasty looking with blisters on it and blisters inside her cheeks (apparently a clear sign of a virus). So, sadly, the only thing we were told we could do for her is keep up on the Motrin and try to not let her get dehydrated---which is easier said than done when she won't even take her bottle. Anyway, we assumed her birthday would be canceled; however, she is Super-Immune-System-Girl and woke up today with a lighter fever (100.1), and with her usual sassy attitude in full effect. She hasn't eaten yet today, but at least she drank a little water and some rice milk. As much as I secretly loved how she snuggled into me all day yesterday and last night, I love even more that she's feeling better :) That was the first really scary experience of being a mom with a REALLY sick kiddo and I'm glad it's over!! It was literally as if she was in a coma with her eyes open yesterday! She was just a rag doll, staring straight ahead, drifting in and out of state of wake, and not eating, drinking, or saying a word. I'm not even sure she was aware when she was in the car all the way to the doctors office in Madison--she just stared straight ahead with her mouth hanging open. Poor baby!!! ANYWAY, it seems to be over and we will still celebrate tomorrow and hope for the best :) Oh, and as you can tell by the pictures above, Bailey LOVED the heat emanating from Taylor Bug!
So we took Taylor to see Santa Claus for the first time and it went as expected: she wanted to keep him near her and in her vision, but don't even THINK about trying to put her in his lap. But hey, I see nothing wrong with being uncomfortable with sitting on a strange man's lap who is saying "HO HO HO!" and has an enormous amount of facial hair! Mrs. Claus suggested I sit on Santa's lap to see if Taylor would be comfortable then, but I sweetly declined that generous offer. Ewww.
Well, today was the first real snowstorm so we took Taylor out to see how she liked it. She seemed to find it pretty fascinating (i.e. delicious), she loved to help shovel, and liked watching Tucker jump around, but she wasn't a huge fan of the freezing little morsels raining down upon her face while being pulled around on her pseudo-sled.
For those of you that didn't see these sad little pics on Facebook, I thought I'd post them here. Yesterday (Thursday) she woke up whimpering quietly in her bed with tears silently rolling down her cheeks, so I knew something was up. I still went to work later in the day, but then got a call from Josh that her fever was climbing to 103.2, even with Motrin. So I left work and we took her to the doctor, where they told me it was most likely a virus going around that would take 3-5 days to run its course. They said her throat was really nasty looking with blisters on it and blisters inside her cheeks (apparently a clear sign of a virus). So, sadly, the only thing we were told we could do for her is keep up on the Motrin and try to not let her get dehydrated---which is easier said than done when she won't even take her bottle. Anyway, we assumed her birthday would be canceled; however, she is Super-Immune-System-Girl and woke up today with a lighter fever (100.1), and with her usual sassy attitude in full effect. She hasn't eaten yet today, but at least she drank a little water and some rice milk. As much as I secretly loved how she snuggled into me all day yesterday and last night, I love even more that she's feeling better :) That was the first really scary experience of being a mom with a REALLY sick kiddo and I'm glad it's over!! It was literally as if she was in a coma with her eyes open yesterday! She was just a rag doll, staring straight ahead, drifting in and out of state of wake, and not eating, drinking, or saying a word. I'm not even sure she was aware when she was in the car all the way to the doctors office in Madison--she just stared straight ahead with her mouth hanging open. Poor baby!!! ANYWAY, it seems to be over and we will still celebrate tomorrow and hope for the best :) Oh, and as you can tell by the pictures above, Bailey LOVED the heat emanating from Taylor Bug!
