Smart girl starts preschool!

Well, our little girl has been off to "school" for a little over a month now. (I know, I know, you can all be mad at me for not updating the blog in FOREVER!) She started in a program for a half-day one day a week, called Children's Praise N Rainbows. I was a little apprehensive about how she would do in a new, larger group of kids, and being left there by Mommy (plus being picked up about an hour after she normally lays down for a nap), but she has been doing PHENOMENAL! She has not shed a single tear when being dropped off...not one! And when she gets home, yes, she is VERY tired, but she still has been taking a good (later) nap in the afternoon after school.

My favorite thing that she does, that is school-related, is that every time you ask her, "Isabel, do you have school today?", she responds "Uh-huh!" and then when you ask "What do you get to bring to school?" she says, without fail, "Bah-pah!" (backpack). How adorable is that?

Here are two photos of her before her second day. The first day she was being anti-photo, but I figured we would try again the next week, and she cooperated QUITE well!

I have learned this summer that I love....

Peaches...

Playing in the warm rain...

Pushing my stroller...

Riding on REAL ponies...

And high fives and hugs from good friends!

Ahhh, summer!

Isabel's day at the park

Jenna wrote a very amazing blog post about their day at the park today along with some pretty doggone cute photos so I thought I would link you to it here. Enjoy!

On another note - I am SO excited that tomorrow, Isabel will step foot for the first time into a gymnastics gym! We are going to open gym at IGM Gymnastics in Burnsville. Little girl, I hope you fall in love with the sport as much as your mommy loves it! If so, then meet your future! Look out, 2024 Olympics, here we come!

Haiku Tuesday - 4th edition

Bouncy balls are fun

So is sliding with Mommy

Laughing all the way!

Roseola

Isabel came down with a mysterious fever on Thursday evening (in the low 102s) and kept it through Sunday evening. It was pretty strange because she didn't really have any other symptoms except for some irritability and extreme tiredness (she was sleeping a solid 14 hrs at night and was back to two long naps during the day). It is a little uncommon for her to hang onto a fever this long even with a virus, so I took her in Monday morning to rule out anything bacterial (ear infection, strep throat, etc.) They did those tests and they came back negative, and her blood work did show that her body was fighting off some sort of a virus. So, the doctor told us to watch the fever for another 48 hrs and to come back if it had not gone away by then. She also told us they had been seeing some roseola (a virus that causes a self-contained, non-irritating rash after the fever and contagious phase has gone away). Well, lo and behold, today when she woke up from her nap, she was sitting on my lap and I peered into the neckline of her dress to find a rash, confirming that it is indeed roseola! It is all over her chest, tummy, and back, but like they said, it is not contagious and really doesn't seem to be bothering her at all. So, at least we know what it is and that it is nothing serious. The research we did said that almost all kids are exposed before age two but not all end up with the fever or rash. Leave it to Isabel to actually GET the fever and rash and scare her mommy a little before we knew what it was! I just hope it goes away before her photo session this Saturday!

Haiku Tuesday - 3rd edition

Fun in summer sun

On our way to Valleyfair

Hurry, Mom and Dad!

Little people mama?

I had to share something that Isabel did yesterday that was so adorable! She came walking up to me in the kitchen with a Little People character in her hand (the mommy who drives the Little People SUV), and she pointed to it several times and said "Mama, mama" and then pointed to my legs and said "Mama, mama." Apparently she thinks that the Little People mama looks like her mama! I will leave that up to the voting public! :)

UPDATE: Luke just got home from softball and after FIRST telling me about his softball victory, and THEN reading my blog post, he informed me that before I got home from work yesterday, he heard Isabel saying in the living room "Mama? Mama?" He knew I wasn't home yet, and a second later she came toddling around the corner with, you guessed it, the Little People mama, and was pointing to her and chanting "Mama, mama!" Tooooo funny!