Monday, April 16, 2012
Family Photos!
I'm not sure why I forgot to post our family picture ... It was freezing cold but we'd been dying to shoot at this old homestead so we seized the VERY small window of opportunity before Christmas cards had to go out and this is what we came up with! Not bad for doing it all ourselves!
Spring has Sprung!
Spring is in the air -- even though the weather hasn't quite caught on yet.
The girls were healthy for about 3 weeks, but are again fighting snotty and stuffy noses =( Nothing near as bad as it was a month ago, thank God!
Easter was a blast! The girls were so much fun to watch, running around looking for their eggs! Claire would get so excited and grunt and growl whenever she'd find an egg! (Family picture to come) And I was so happy that Easter Sunday was such a GORGEOUS day! Sunny and warm ... Mmmm!
What's that saying about Spring?? "In like a lion, out like a lamb." Something like that? Well that seems to be very fitting for us this month. I received a letter on April 11 informing me that I had been turned in to the state for unlicensed childcare. My thoughts at that moment? "Well, yes. I do run an unlicensed daycare ...... I thought that was legal as long as I was within these certain conditions!" Well it's not! Now I know. And now I am in the process of making it legit. The last week has been quite the whirlwind of emotions, but I've reeled it in and taken charge! After making list after list and checking off all the necessary boxes, it's just a waiting game now. We're in the process of REALLY child-proofing the house - inside and out, building an appropriate outside play area - shout out to my Dad for the fencing materials! - I've scheduled my TB test (tomorrow), I have my CPR/AED, first aid and blood born pathogens course on the 25th in Tri-Cities ... ALL DAY, Cory and I have the Family Home Care orientation on the 27th in Spokane, food workers cards for the pair of us online sometime between now and May, Cory gets to take a 20 hour basic education course (hehehehe!), then our first home visit with my licensor is scheduled for May 22! Due to the circumstances, and what an amazing and sympathetic and understanding lady she is, my licensor is fast-tracking me and says I should have my license within 2 weeks of our home visit! Thank God, again, for my ECE college classes and 9 years of child care experience!!!
The girls were healthy for about 3 weeks, but are again fighting snotty and stuffy noses =( Nothing near as bad as it was a month ago, thank God!
Easter was a blast! The girls were so much fun to watch, running around looking for their eggs! Claire would get so excited and grunt and growl whenever she'd find an egg! (Family picture to come) And I was so happy that Easter Sunday was such a GORGEOUS day! Sunny and warm ... Mmmm!
What's that saying about Spring?? "In like a lion, out like a lamb." Something like that? Well that seems to be very fitting for us this month. I received a letter on April 11 informing me that I had been turned in to the state for unlicensed childcare. My thoughts at that moment? "Well, yes. I do run an unlicensed daycare ...... I thought that was legal as long as I was within these certain conditions!" Well it's not! Now I know. And now I am in the process of making it legit. The last week has been quite the whirlwind of emotions, but I've reeled it in and taken charge! After making list after list and checking off all the necessary boxes, it's just a waiting game now. We're in the process of REALLY child-proofing the house - inside and out, building an appropriate outside play area - shout out to my Dad for the fencing materials! - I've scheduled my TB test (tomorrow), I have my CPR/AED, first aid and blood born pathogens course on the 25th in Tri-Cities ... ALL DAY, Cory and I have the Family Home Care orientation on the 27th in Spokane, food workers cards for the pair of us online sometime between now and May, Cory gets to take a 20 hour basic education course (hehehehe!), then our first home visit with my licensor is scheduled for May 22! Due to the circumstances, and what an amazing and sympathetic and understanding lady she is, my licensor is fast-tracking me and says I should have my license within 2 weeks of our home visit! Thank God, again, for my ECE college classes and 9 years of child care experience!!!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
And it continues ...
Notice how my last post was in November, and it was about the "Creeping Death"? Well -- it's mid-March and The McLaughlin Creeping Death is still creeping. Since the new year I've had the girls in to see their pediatrician 5 or 6 times (total, not each). ON the 10th I took them in to see the on-call ped. because the girls had been sick and not sleeping well, Friday night being the last straw. After check-ups, chest x-rays for pneumonia and asthma, and an RSV swab the results are ..... RSV, for both. Ellie was sent home with an antibiotic for some swollen bronchioli and off we went. A few days later Claire ended up with a fever, Motrin seemed to do the trick so we didn't think much else of it. Saturday night (17th) after spending Friday night punching herself in the side of the head in her sleep, Nana took her into the walk-in clinic and she came home with antibiotics for a double ear infection. On top of it all Daddy and I both have been battling a sinus infection. Awesome. I'm really hoping that these antibiotics kick the funks' butt and send it all packing for good. I'm ready for sunshine, warm weather, and no sickies!
We are gearing up for Miss Ellie's 4th birthday party (sniff-sniff, tear)! Some friends of ours opened an indoor jumping house downtown so we booked her party there, complete with pizza and cupcakes! She can hardly wait! =)
She is loving preschool, she knows all her letters and their sounds and is starting to sound words out and write them! she blows me away!
Claire is feisty and I love it! She's got her sister's sense of humor and temper. She's finally starting to say words, but only on command LOL! She's so stubborn! hahaha! She's finally calling me "mama" which melts my heart!!! And she knows "more", "please", "thank you" in sign language! She's such a smart baby!
So that's us in a nutshell as of now ....
We are gearing up for Miss Ellie's 4th birthday party (sniff-sniff, tear)! Some friends of ours opened an indoor jumping house downtown so we booked her party there, complete with pizza and cupcakes! She can hardly wait! =)
She is loving preschool, she knows all her letters and their sounds and is starting to sound words out and write them! she blows me away!
Claire is feisty and I love it! She's got her sister's sense of humor and temper. She's finally starting to say words, but only on command LOL! She's so stubborn! hahaha! She's finally calling me "mama" which melts my heart!!! And she knows "more", "please", "thank you" in sign language! She's such a smart baby!
So that's us in a nutshell as of now ....
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