The Attack of Nasty Mr. Strep Throat

Ashley wasn't feeling very well on and off last weekend - I knew that by Monday night when she would cough and immediately start crying in her sleep that something was wrong. The weird thing was that she never ran a fever the entire time! I snapped a few pictures of her awful week. If you know Ashley very well you can tell by these pictures how bad she was feeling...the child (when feeling well) NEVER sits still...so for her to lay like this on a pallet on the floor for hours at a time with a wet wash rag on her forehead definitely says something!

We took her to her peditrician on Tuesday and sure enough Ashley had strep. YUCK! Daddy got it too...so mommy got to play doctor all week to two sickos :) It must have been a really bad strain of strep because Ashley didn't truly start to feel better until yesterday (Sunday). Poor little thing!!! She is doing better now though and we celebrated by taking her to what we thought would be a fun outing....The Wiggly Play Center in Frisco. Not so much! I'm sorry to anyone who reads this blog if they actually like this place, and maybe it is fun for some kids...but since we paid $9 to get in, I expected that they would have actually had some stuff for Ashley to play with/on. I even asked the lady when we got there if there would be stuff for a 14 month old to do inside...she was like oh yes, tons to do...there is a stage where they can get up on and sing/dance, a climbing area with slides, tubes, tunnels and blocks to climb on, a bounce house that she can go in if there aren't too many big kids in it. So we thought that sounded good enough, paid the $$ and in we went...we stayed MAYBE 30 minutes. Here are some photos that we took of Ashley while she was there...I do think she had a good time...but she has a BLAST at the Willow Bend Mall play area...and it's free....in hindsight we should have just gone there.



Yes, this is me...I climbed inside the bounce house - with all the other mothers and fathers gasping in horror that I crawled in....but the lady at the front desk told me I could...and I was desperatley trying to get $9 worth of fun out of this place for Ashley...so I did it...and she did have fun until a girl almost landed on her and I decided it was time to crawl back out that tiny hole!
One other complaint about this place...see that boy that is at least 5 or 6 - why is he in the "toddler only" area? And to make things worse...this kid was a bully! Did you see above how Ashley carried the blocks to me...and I made a thing for her to walk under out of them...well, before she even got to walk under them...bully boy comes running over almost knocking her down...and then proceeds to knock down what we just built. We tried rebuilding it, but by the third time when bully boy knocked it down just as I put on the top piece - I said forget it...let's go!

I tried Ashley out in the big bathtub a could of months ago and was so terrified by the whole event that I decided to keep on using the small blue tub. But as Ashley continues to grow I must face the reality that I can't keep her in the little tub forever sheltering her from sliding and bumping her head in the big bath tub any longer. Thankfully I was able to find a bath mat that suctions to the tub and provides a no-slip surface for her. So here she is LOVING her new found bathtime freedom.

Here is a cute pic I snapped of Ash in the car on the way home from the Wiggly Play Center...she loves to cross her legs and read books in the car :) What a sweetie!