Sickly sickos

Our house is full of sick people right now. My Father-in-law was the first to fall to the Doom and we are pretty sure he’s had two different things already. For about two weeks he coughed and I think had a runny nose, then all the sudden his illness turned and became so much worse. About three or four days after FIL’s nasties turned even nastier Lily and I started showing symptoms. For the last week and a half Lily and I have had terrible coughs (that keep me up most of the nights), fevers, runny noses, chills (me), headache (me again) and overall feeling like crap. Luckily Waldo and his Mom stayed healthy and took care of us.

The past week Lily and I have spent most of the day snuggling on the couch watching the same episodes of Clifford over and over. I would toss a Sesame Street in every once in a while and usually she wouldn’t notice, thankfully.  I still had to work, but I couldn’t make my normal work phone calls because on Thursday and Friday I had pretty much no voice and even today when I talk I end up coughing in the middle of most of my sentences.

My FIL is just about 2 weeks from when the newest flu or whatever hit him and he’s getting close to being over it. I don’t have a fever anymore, but I’m still coughing like crazy and have a super sore throat. Lil still has a very low grade fever, runny nose and coughing. I think we are going for the time record here and I do not approve.

A few days ago both Waldo and his Mom started showing symptoms, luckily we know how bad it can get so they started taking things to shorten the illness’ life and what not. So far they both seem to be doing better the the rest of us did.

Oh, how I love this kid

A couple of nights ago after dinner Lily hung out with Waldo till story time because I need some time off.  Lil’s been staying up way too late for the last few days and I was about at my wit’s end so Waldo suggested I take some “me” time.  It was really nice. I sat at my computer playing Civ 5 while he did the dinner dishes and played with Lil in the other room.  It only lasted about 90 minutes, but it was just what I needed.

Anyway when Lil came into the family room for story time she stopped in the door way and when I turned to face her she ran to me and said “Mama I missed you so much”.  Waldo had to scrape me up because I melted into a puddle from the sweetness.  Needless to say there was much snuggling after that and thankfully Lily feel asleep in literally 4 minutes.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

A few weeks ago I found a pin on Pinterest about playing veterinarian during pretend play and since we had just been to the Vet twice in the last few months I thought Lil would enjoy it.

I wrote out a checklist and put it through my laminator (I love a good excuse to use that little thing) and made a stethoscope out of pipe cleaner and walked Lil through the whole thing. She enjoyed it, but I didn’t think she really cared about anything but writing on the checklist. The next time we were out thrifting I found a little doctor set that included a stethoscope and grabbed it up. Today Lil begged me to play Vet. I was so happy. I grabbed the checklist (so glad I saved it) and the doctor stuff from the toy shelf. Lil grabbed Clifford and we went to work on him.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

We went through all of the items on the list I made and then Lil came up with a whole list of her own.  Most of her items involved Clifford stinking.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Then it came time to make him better, so I kept asking Lil what she suggested.  For his bad fur she brought him plates of new food.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

She used the reflex tester for a eye dropper to fix his stinky eyes.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

His tail got stuck in a bucket, because you know it was stinky too.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

His ears stunk so Daddy gave her the funnel and bowl to pour medicine in.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

The blanket covering him is to make his back better and the funnel/bowl medicine didn’t work for the stinky ears so now she’s trying the toy tweezers.

Dr. Lily Bean's patient

In the end Clifford is going to be healthy soon and he was a very good patient according to Dr. Lily Bean.

I’m playing along with Nanette from Say it, don’t spray it and her Pinteractive linkup.

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A name is like art

I am totally obsessed with Pinterest and I think I’ve made that clear in my recent posts.  Well here’s another idea I got from a Pin, I can’t find the link though.  Anyway it’s totally easy.  I got some 8×10 canvass at Hobby Lobby and some blue painters tape. I used the tape to shape Lily’s name, luckily her name is all straight lines. Another idea I saw was to use vinyl letters in place of the tape.  Once the tape is all stuck down (and I had to keep pressing it down, it wanted to pop up so badly) Lily and I painted the canvases.  I don’t normally paint with her, but I found with the last canvases she painted that if she left globs they cracked as they dried so I would spread the paint around. I also helped out because I wanted the whole canvases covered.  Once the paint was dry we pulled the tape up.  I love how they turned out.  The paint bleed a bit under the tape, but I think it adds to the whimsy of the paintings.

The L from Lily's name before it was finished

She started out painting the tape, I had to explain a dozen times that the blue part was coming off and she needed to paint the white part.  She finally got it.

The L from Lily's name before it was finished

Do you see the sideways cat?

The capital L in Lily

The I in Lily

Sorry about the blurry pictures.

the little L in Lily

The Y in Lily

Lily's canvas name together

I love how they turned out.  We had a hard time deciding where to put them up and finally decided on the wall of the family room above the animal clings.  I love how it all came out.  This wall is right at the top of the stairs so it’s the first thing you see when you come up. It’s great.

Sticky Table Play

I saw an idea on Pinterest that I thought Lil would really like.  I’ve seen a few different variation of this same idea, I like Allison’s best.

It really couldn’t be more simple.  With some blue painter’s tape I taped some clear contact paper to Lily’s little bench with the sticky side up.  I have her a bunch of different things to stick to it and she went crazy.  We talked about how it was sticky, well I talk to her, she ignored me and stuck things to the contact paper.

Sticky table

Sticky table

She really liked it and I think it’s going to become a part of our play routine.

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