Fever AND Teeth, Oh My

If you haven't already, check out "Ramblings by Steve" for some hilarious videos of the last week, as I'll try not to duplicate too much here.

Catherine has without a doubt had a wonderful week with her grandparents. She is just starting to wrap her brain around the idea of saying goodbye for different lengths of time, so tomorrow morning's farewell could be worse than those previous - we'll just have to see. Mary would have had a much better week had she not been sick for the last four or five days. She started with a low fever I think Thursday, and had that with some extreme tiredness until yesterday, when her fever went down but she broke out in a rash, and the whole time she has been very unsteady on her feet and breaking out in seemingly unprovoked screams, which I assume were prompted by some pain. The doctor said the fever-followed-by-rash is a normal chain of events when young kids pick up a virus, so other than a little bit of a red throat she is fine. She was picking up some energy again today and was much happier this afternoon, so although the timing was bad, it was nothing serious. And I figured out that the seemingly unprovoked screams were actually quite provoked, because on top of her sickness Mary randomly cut through a molar in the back of her mouth. And a birthday party in the midst of it all - she is seriously a trooper.

Mary did have a very well timed spurt of energy during her party (it might have been cupcake-induced, which is fine) so we got some good pictures and people enjoyed themselves. The ice cream sundae bar was a big hit (it turns out a surprising number of people don't really like cake) and it was a beautiful day.

Although she doesn't feel like eating much else, every time we walk past the cake now Mary tries to dive on it.





She also gave a giggle for alphabet-singing Elmo.


And took a spin in her new ride-on toy. Look at sweet Uncle Chris taking care of his niece...



And I do have to repost the sleeping on the floor picture, because what is cuter than a kid conked out on the floor after a party? She slept here for at least three hours.


Everyone else enjoyed lots of ice cream and some croquette outside. Until Catherine ran away with all the balls.




Stay tuned to Ramblings by Steve because I hear there is a post in the works about the morning they all spent learning to sail...