In the past Cupcake has hated showers. We've tried a few times but someone takes after her mother who at that age hated water on her face.
Last weekend though, it was a different story. Cupcake got in with Mommy. She initially insisted on being in my arms. I washed her hair, scrubbed her body, and then tried to shave my own legs with one hand while holding her. I couldn't manage so I put her down slowly and stooped to her level to show her it was ok. Then I slowly inched my way up while she checked it all out. Daddy brought her one of her tub crayons and I urged her to color while I finished up.
Color is an understatement.
Cupcake colored, erased, and colored some more! She colored while I shaved and while I conditioned my hair. Then she kept on coloring when I got out and Daddy got in. Daddy finished and she was still working on her art. Daddy turned off the water and she STILL wanted to color. Needless to say she warmed right up to the shower by way of crayons.
I couldn't wait for Monday! I had the perfect plan of taking a precious tutu clad cupcake to her Daddy's office with a balloon and some homemade treats so she could wish her Daddy Happy Valentine's Day. Whenever plans are "perfect" I should expect the curve ball:
Monday morning Cupcake wakes up and starts crying. She doesn't cry when she wakes up. She hasn't for many many months, maybe even a year. I casually suggest she could be sick but I don't really believe it as sickness has been so so very rare with her. (Thank you Lord, that is a praise, not a complaint!)
But Monday she was sick. The fever running, throw-up, lay in my lap all day, sick. It was shocking really. In 2 years she has never had a fever last all day, she has never throw up multiple times in a row, and she has never, ever, not even in my belly past 16 weeks been still for so many hours on end. Needless to say I didn't really know what the day would look like....but I knew all tutu wearing, balloon bringing plans were off.
We cuddled all day long. Actually it was really sweet. Her eyes were so sad but she still laughed at funny things on tv, told me she loved me and when I finally tried to put her in her bed she said "No!...more cuddles with Mommy please!!!" I could barely resist because even when she is sick she is still our cutie pie (seriously, could I look this angelic the next time I'm sick? I look more like death warmed over):
Lucky for me my hubs is the romantic type that still managed to sneak a dozen red roses in the house with some chocolates before he left for work. Can I say LOVE!
I do love him! I also love these fun candy pretzels. My Mother-in-law sent us a little Valentines package which included all the supplies and the mold to make these. Clearly I'm not a natural when it comes to mold as it looks no where near the picture. BUT it was yummy and fun to make. We had planned on delivering these to friends after the office trip but I figured no one would want pretzels from germ land. So, alas, more for us :).
The good news: the next morning the bug was gone! We were fever free! Lock-down was off! I guess if the worst sick we've ever been around here was 24 hours I should be thankful. I am thankful. Today has been a sanitizing, laundry doing, operation bug removing kind of day. For those who found out on Facebook and had been praying for Cupcake, Thank you!!!
And, Happy Valentines Day! I hope the rest of you had a LOVEly day.
If you've been wondering where I've been....I've been freezing. Living on the top of a hill has it's downsides (like feeling the lowest of the recorded wind chill factors firsthand). When I was moderately defrosted I was planning and executing the Hubs' birthday or trying to be inventive with my cupcake as being stuck inside for days on end gets old!
Luckily, last Friday, though it was day four with temperatures below freezing, we got a little frosting. I certainly understand that for at least a handful of my blog stalkers 4 days in a row below freezing is nothing and our frosting is what marks your October. BUT we're central Texas and both of these are rare for us. So excuse us while we hunker down at 20 degrees and a dusting is worth of a full on sledding event.
Cupcake has seen snow both here and in Indiana. Both times she was too young and too cold to care. She was still too cold but she was willing to brave that for a whooping 20 minutes to play with us. And it's amazing that 20 minutes in the snow can make being back inside fun and thrilling all over again.
Check out our snow cupcake:
She was really cold though completely layered to the point of inability to put her arms all the way down:
But give her a little adventure:
And she can forget, temporarily:
When our small hill in the front yard got old, we went to the larger one near our mailboxes. The only problem was that our cupcake didn't weigh enough to get a ton of speed going. She did however like it:
Of course then I had to show her how to really rock it. Just a disclaimer: the hill looks smaller on this video than it is. My speed was also faster in real life. Oh...and you might not want your speakers on full blast. You've been warned.
The hubs also did a turn on the mailbox hill, face first, rocket speeds, and had the video camera in his pocket. Drat. Trust me, it was awesome and cupcake clapped!
When we came back in and I started to peel off layers, cupcake decided at a rather unfortunate point fashionably speaking that this was what she would like to wear the rest of the day:
But, she's so cute even still that we just went with it and made some hot chocolate to warm up! Luckily this week we are in the 30's. It's a long way to 100 but I know we'll be there all to quick so we're making the best of our 2 week (so far) winter.
He's got a sense of humor that Hubs of mine. Most times I laugh, I confess others I roll my eyes, and finally when the camera is rolling....my eyes aren't...at least on the outside they aren't.
