Welcome to Project Life 2018! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to 6 year old Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins.
I missed posting most of last year and am determined to do better this year!
And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week) -
Monday - Maddie lost yet another tooth today. This one was on her bottom left, position 2 and she lost it at Pier One Imports while we were looking at rugs and furniture. This is the 6th tooth she has lost! She has a pretty funny smile right now, but 3 of the teeth are already coming in so it won't be for too long.
Wednesday - As I was getting ready for work this morning, Maria said that Maddie felt really hot. She did feel hot and was complaining about her head and throat. I checked her temperature and it was 103.5 degrees. Since she's really never been sick, I was immediately concerned. I gave her some acetaminiphen and put her in a sitz bath. About 30 minutes later I took her to the ER to make sure it wasn't flu or strep. There's been a ton of that going around her school and class and there's been thousands of flu deaths this year; so I was extra sensitive. She tested negative for both flu and strep and they said it was probably just viral, give her alternating motrin and tylenol every 6 hours to reduce her fever and watch her. They gave her motrin when we arrived at 7:30am and by the time we left at about 9am she was already feeling better. Keeping her down and resting today was a chore. She didn't really have any other symptoms and felt pretty ok as long as she had medicine in her. This evening I put her to bed and then checked on her at about 10pm and she was soaked through with sweat. I changed her clothes and put her back in bed, she already felt cooler so I was hoping her fever broke.
Thursday - This morning Maddie woke up humming, jumped out of bed, made her bed, got dressed and was ready to start the day. She was fever free and hungry for food. I was hopeful that her fever broke last night and was recovered. I headed off to work without giving Maddie any medicine, but we kept her home from school. At about 11 Maria called and said Maddie was hot, she had broken the thermometer and wanted to know if she should give Maddie medicine. I came home at lunch to check on things. Maddie was definitely feeling poorly again, although she had cleaned up the scrap room all by herself and was pretty proud. She napped and her fever persisted at 102 through this evening. On a brighter note, our table and rug arrived today and I got to do a little redecorating of our entryway and living room.
Friday - Maddie was finally fever free all day. "Sitting here, in a box." Maddie took advantage of the huge box our new entry table came in. She found my little box a few weeks ago that bounces and talks and was mimicking it, "excuse me, excuse me, can you let me out of here?"
Saturday - We went to see "Early Man" at the movies today. Also, Maddie and I finally removed the climbing men silhouette on our living room wall from her birthday party two years ago. This evening was the Moss Haven Elementary Auction. It was a crazy event and the neighborhood parents went all out. We arrived right when the doors opened at 7pm and split up, going right to the sign and gos. We didn't have an assigned table, so we were outside the main auction room for dinner. We ate quickly and left, but managed to spend a ton of money. It's easy to see why they raise six figures each year. It's great to have such an active PTA and neighborhood.
Sunday - Still decorating our living room today and we found a cool metal leave sculpture that goes perfect with our new room. Now we need to get it repainted!
Thanks for visiting!
I missed posting most of last year and am determined to do better this year!
And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week) -
Monday - Maddie lost yet another tooth today. This one was on her bottom left, position 2 and she lost it at Pier One Imports while we were looking at rugs and furniture. This is the 6th tooth she has lost! She has a pretty funny smile right now, but 3 of the teeth are already coming in so it won't be for too long.
Wednesday - As I was getting ready for work this morning, Maria said that Maddie felt really hot. She did feel hot and was complaining about her head and throat. I checked her temperature and it was 103.5 degrees. Since she's really never been sick, I was immediately concerned. I gave her some acetaminiphen and put her in a sitz bath. About 30 minutes later I took her to the ER to make sure it wasn't flu or strep. There's been a ton of that going around her school and class and there's been thousands of flu deaths this year; so I was extra sensitive. She tested negative for both flu and strep and they said it was probably just viral, give her alternating motrin and tylenol every 6 hours to reduce her fever and watch her. They gave her motrin when we arrived at 7:30am and by the time we left at about 9am she was already feeling better. Keeping her down and resting today was a chore. She didn't really have any other symptoms and felt pretty ok as long as she had medicine in her. This evening I put her to bed and then checked on her at about 10pm and she was soaked through with sweat. I changed her clothes and put her back in bed, she already felt cooler so I was hoping her fever broke.
Thursday - This morning Maddie woke up humming, jumped out of bed, made her bed, got dressed and was ready to start the day. She was fever free and hungry for food. I was hopeful that her fever broke last night and was recovered. I headed off to work without giving Maddie any medicine, but we kept her home from school. At about 11 Maria called and said Maddie was hot, she had broken the thermometer and wanted to know if she should give Maddie medicine. I came home at lunch to check on things. Maddie was definitely feeling poorly again, although she had cleaned up the scrap room all by herself and was pretty proud. She napped and her fever persisted at 102 through this evening. On a brighter note, our table and rug arrived today and I got to do a little redecorating of our entryway and living room.
Friday - Maddie was finally fever free all day. "Sitting here, in a box." Maddie took advantage of the huge box our new entry table came in. She found my little box a few weeks ago that bounces and talks and was mimicking it, "excuse me, excuse me, can you let me out of here?"
Saturday - We went to see "Early Man" at the movies today. Also, Maddie and I finally removed the climbing men silhouette on our living room wall from her birthday party two years ago. This evening was the Moss Haven Elementary Auction. It was a crazy event and the neighborhood parents went all out. We arrived right when the doors opened at 7pm and split up, going right to the sign and gos. We didn't have an assigned table, so we were outside the main auction room for dinner. We ate quickly and left, but managed to spend a ton of money. It's easy to see why they raise six figures each year. It's great to have such an active PTA and neighborhood.
Sunday - Still decorating our living room today and we found a cool metal leave sculpture that goes perfect with our new room. Now we need to get it repainted!
Thanks for visiting!
