sick peanut

To start off so I don't forget to say it, I am going to make Alyssa's blog private soon. With dave starting to be away more I don't want people to figure out when hes home and when hes not. And that will be pretty obvious through pictures and all. If you send me an email at LindsayB727@yahoo.com I can send you the username/password to read the blog and see the pictures. Also if you want any information on Dave/care packages email me at that same address.

Alyssa is now scared to death of the vacuum cleaner. Our entire house is hardwood (well laminate hardwood) flooring. We have one area rug in her playroom that Brody isn't supposed to be on so I don't have to vacuum it all the time. But over time the hair still piles up on it so I took out the vacuum and put it in the playroom and Alyssa freaked out. It wasn't even turned on yet. Then I turned it on and my poor baby was scared to death. I've never seen her scared like that before. I turned it off and let her see it and touch it and she was fine with that as long as I was holding her. She would cry if I put her down in the same room with it. She was also fine helping me vacuum as long as i held her. As long as I was in the room with the vacuum, Alyssa just wanted to snuggle me. Although this may sound mean since she was scared, I loved it. She is SO active that she will only take like a 2 second break to give me a hug and a kiss and then shes off. She never just lays on me for 15 minutes.

My baby girl is running a fever of almost 104 as of yesterday. Poor thing is soo worn out. All she wants to do is lay on my shoulder (which i do love) but I'd obviously rather her feel better. She has a double ear infection and possibly the swine flu. Now don't freak out too much, the swine flu isn't as bad as the media made it out to be. The doctor actually said the symptoms are a little more mild than the flu. He asked if we wanted to test her for it but he said it would not do any good as far as treatment goes. We were already in the ER for a few hours, still had to wait at the pharmacy for her prescription, and it was already 6 pm. She was also sleeping so I didnt want them to have to draw blood and wake her just for us to sit and wait for the results. He said if her fever goes down in a day or two with the antibiotics then the fever was probably just from the ear infections. However since her fever is so high and she has other flu like symptoms, we're afraid our little sweetheart has the piggie flu.

She keeps waking up from her nap every few minutes crying so I'm going to go snuggle my baby and rock her while she sleeps. :) I added new pictures to the 12 month album.