Cabin Fever?

Ugh. I am so stinking tired. I am on the tail end of a 2 week cold (at least I hope) and has me completely exhausted. I don't feel all that terrible (sick wise) anymore... just really tired! Is it from the cold? Or did I slip into some seasonal depression...? Who knows . What ever it is, I wish it would just go away! I am having a heck of a time getting out of bed in the morning, and staying awake at my desk! Today has been the worst day yet, so I am not going to worry about it or see a Dr. just yet. We'll see how the rest of the week goes.

Last Saturday, 80's Night at the bar, was a lot of fun! Our outfits turned out pretty good too :) Here are a couple of pictures I took with my camera phone (didn't bring the big ol' SLR with).Yeah, we looked pretty HOT! lol!

Never did get any 2 year old photos taken of Haley on Saturday. I don't know what her deal is, but she is been crabby and whiny. Oh wait... she's 2, that's normal, right? Oh how I love this stage! Well, I really do, other then the crabby whiny part she is tons of fun!

Whats not so much fun is switching daycares. I forgot to mention in the last few posts that we switched Haley from her old daycare to a new one... again. We really loved bringing her to Michele's, but one day she got very upset and kind of freaked out on Brandon for being a little late. I went to visit my sister in the hospital (when she was in for her gallbladder) so Brandon had to pick Haley up. He was there at 5:47 (I am really just guessing, I honestly don't remember the exact time) and when he walked in the door he was greeted by a not so happy daycare provider who said "YOUR LATE!" If you know my husband, you know he's not always the most cheery of people. He simply said "I'm late?" in a mono-tone, confused sort of way. She went on about how Haley has not once been picked up on time the entire time we've been bringing her there (Which is simply UNTRUE).

In October I received notice that she was changing her hours (and also upping her rates by $10/week) so she closed at 5:30 instead of 6:00pm. Our original contract stated Haley's hours were from 7:15-5:30 and in her handwriting was a written note stating "maybe a little later". I've always explained that coming from my work it takes 30 minutes give or take and I always drive straight from work to daycare. When you live in MN, there are a lot of factors on whether or not I get from point A to point B in 30 minutes. Take for example Weather. If it snows or rains, you never can tell how long it is going to take; but more than likely it WILL be LONGER than usual.
Then there is always Construction Season. Nothing I can do about either one of these things. I do not have a Jetson's car, or a flying carpet or broomstick. I cannot click my heals three times and magically appear where I want to be. Not only that but I am not a mind reader. I don't know that you are upset about my arrival time unless you tell me. Instead of yelling at the dad that has picked her up a hand full of times, please talk to the person who picks her up EVERY DAY. Anyway... She told me she was going to start charging me $1/minute past 5:30pm. I told her I can't afford that and that I drive directly from work to her house and get there as quickly as possible. She stood her ground, so I found a new in home daycare to bring Haley to.

She started the daycare 1/10. She cried the first few days when I dropped her off, and quit with in a few minutes of me leaving. She seemed to be having fun when I picked her up and her good daily (written) reports given by the provider. A few of them have said that she is crying for mommy after lunch time. The last three have said that now. On Friday when I went to pick her up, she was walking up the steps to the entry way where I was standing and I noticed the tops of her hands were beat red. I asked "Honey, what happened to your hands??" She replied "Owies, Mommy. Owies." I looked up at the new daycare lady and said "What happened?" She tells me that she was doing a craft with the older kids involving a hot glue gun. Haley was burned by the glue because she was grabbing at the "pom-poms" they were gluing to magnets. First of all, glue does not burn as bad as the burns she had. They were blistered. It looked to me like the metal tip on the glue gun is what burned her. Second of all WTF are you doing with a hot glue gun around my TWO YEAR OLD!? Or any kid that is young enough to be in daycare, for that matter! I was totally shocked. I didn't say much, I was like "um.. ok..." I dressed Haley and took her home. Over the weekend, I was more and more angered by this careless accident. This woman was supposedly awarded with "Provider of the Year" through our County. How could the "Provider of the Year" (also she mentioned she is President of the PTA at our local Elementary School) be so irresponsible? Not only that, but it happened at 3:30pm, why didn't I get a phone call??

Anyway... I don't know if I am over reacting. I know accidents happen, but this happened not only once, but twice (she had burns on both of her hands ). Like I said before, she's two, she shouldn't be around a hot glue gun in the first place, so it shouldn't have happened. I don't know. Do I keep her there and hope this is an isolated incident? I did tell her on Monday that I don't want Haley anywhere near a hot glue gun ever again (she agreed and said it was irresponsible and apologized). I wish I could just be home with Haley. That's just not possible.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

It is waaaaay too cold out! Looking at Accuweather.com right now it says 4° . The high today is supposed to be, well, 4°. The low, -22°. NEGATIVE TWENTY TWO DEGREES. I know I've lived here my whole life, but seriously people! Way too cold. And why is it snowing when it is only 4°? I thought it was too cold for that?? Oh well, nothing I can do about it. Besides move.

Sickness has hit our house yet again! Haley came home on Jan 6th with a fever of 103.8° and no other symptoms. I got her cooled off relatively quickly, and went about our evening. After putting her down I went in and checked on her at about 11:45 that night and it was back up over 103° so i got her up and put her in the bath tub to cool her down (which is what we were told to do last summer when she was having the bladder/kidney infections). I called the nurse advice line and told them about her past infections and what had happened all night. She told me she should be seen soon. We got her fever down some more, and put her back to bed. Every time the Motrin wore off, the fever spiked.

We thought she had another bladder infection because she had no other symptoms. So I was trying to get an appointment for the urologist. I brought her down to their MPLS office and had her tested. She did NOT have a UTI. Boy was she unhappy about being tested for that. I can't blame her though. Poor thing. She is terrified of dr's because of all of the times she was cathed in the last year.

As we were leaving that dr's office I was on the phone with her primary dr trying to get her in for an appointment. They didn't have any available appointments left that day, but they got her in for a Saturday appointment. It ended up being an ear infection. She kicked and screamed and cried when the dr was trying to check her ears, but he said one of them is definitely infected. He gave her some antibiotics and we went on our way.

That night Brandon and I went out to Bucca's for dinner for his company Christmas party. It was a fun night. Haley went to my parents house and hung out with her Gramma, Grampa, and Auntie Christy. She also had a fun night, but ended up with laryngitis. From there things went down hill. She ended up with a cold and on and off fever for the rest of the weekend and at night a couple of times the next week. She cried when we put her down to sleep at night, which led me to believe her ear infection was not going away.

I brought her back to the doctor again the next saturday and sure enough, still infected. The dr prescribed a new antibiotic and sent us on our way. This one (thank goodness) seems to be working. No more crying at night. When I ask her if her ear hurts she tells me no. So that is good news! :)

Hmmm... What else. I also had a cold. But whats new!

This weekend my sister and I are going to meet up with my BFF, Erin at a local watering hole for 80's night! Pretty excited about it too. I have to get my outfit together though. And by that I do mean, go out and purchase it :) Should be a good time.. can't wait!

Hoping Haley is in a good mood Saturday morning. We are going to try and snap a few pictures of her for her 2 year photos. She's 2 years and 2 months now, but things have been soooo busy what with Haley's birthday party, my sister's surgery, snonomi, Christmas at the Rydel's, regular family Christmas's on the Eve and Christmas Day, Dirk and Mona visiting, my sister's birthday, New Years Eve, Haley being sick, Brandon's company party, last weekend Haley still being sick... oh and that brings us to this week. So much has been going on in the last two months!

That's all for now, I know it was all so exciting for you. I will try to make sure my next post is just as exciting :)