Brown and Pink Polka Dots : Mothers Day Weekends 2014

Our mother's day weekend started on Friday after work. My gift from Jillian and Brent was flowers delivered to work, bagels from my favorite bagel store and family time at Timber Ridge Lodge at the Grand Geneva.
Brent's work had a deal were we could stay at Timber Ridge for less then a cheep hotel, and with staying at Timber Ridge we got to play in a waterpark.
We met there after work and checked it. We went to the BBQ restaurant at the hotel and Jillian was adorable making faces at everyone in the restaurant. We got ready and headed down to the pool. Jillian loved the pool. They have a nice kid area and she had a blast crawling around. She decided to see what would happen if she stuck her head in the pool with her mouth open... silly girl. This did not work well for her later when she started not feeling good from her split second time taking on water. We played hard in the water park, spending some time in the lazy river at the end. That night Jillian was a little crabby but she had also poked through a molar earlier in the day.
By 6am Saturday Jillian was coughing her horrible, awful, cough. That cough tells me instantly that some of that water made its way to her lungs. We started a neb right away. We got dressed and headed over to the main building of the Grand Geneva and grabbed coffee at their coffee shop. We then went back to the room, got our swim stuff on a headed back to the pool. Jillian was a little sleepy at first but then got excited again. She loved going down the kid slides and playing with the water jets. It was an amazing time and just what we needed as a family. We will defiantly go back sometime. It is close to our house making it easier to go with all of Jillian's stuff. The rooms are huge and have a full kitchen with a fridge and a blender. (we use a blender to make Jillian's formula). I suggest it to anyone with kids.
We then headed back to our house and changed our clothes, grabbed a few things and hit the road for Kenosha. We met my mom at Penara for lunch. Then we headed over to Kohls. Brent needed shorts for the summer and I needed sandals. Amazingly we both found what we were looking for at one store! We then walked down to Tuesday Mornings and walked around. Lastly we stopped a shoe store. Jillian loved the wall of Crocs and took her own shoes off and showed me her feet because she wanted the Crocs on her feet. She is so silly. We tried a pair on but they dont start until a size 4/5 and that is really big for this tiny footed little girl. The one sales associate fell in love with Jillian and talked to us for a long time.
We then headed back to mom and dad's house to get Jillian another neb.
We decided to go out for mother's day with mom on Saturday night because we figured restaurants would be busy on Sunday. We went to Olive Garden and had a good time.
Sunday morning Dad and Brent had to be at church early because dad was playing and Brent had lights. Jilli got a bath in the morning and then after her bath she had a nose killing diaper. Mom, Seth, Jilli, and I went to the 10:30 service. We got to church and realized that Jillian's passy and clip was left at the house in one of her coughing fits. I had an extra passy in the diaper bag and gave it to her. While we were singing Jillian started coughing again and her passy flew out, hitting the floor. Even with multiple people so kindly looking for it we could not find it during the service. It was then 11:00 and she needed another neb so I took her out into the foyer and we did a neb. After the neb she was rather hyper so we stayed out in the foyer until after service was over. We went back in a found her passy on the floor in the row in front of us.
We then headed to Charcoal Grill for brunch with Brent's parents and brother. My cousin and her fiance we leaving the restaurant as we were headed in and we stopped and talked to them for a minute. Lunch was good. We saw Brandon for the first time since Christmas. Jillian was sleepy and needed a nap but was a really good.
We headed back to my parent's house so Jillian could take a nap. After her nap my dad got down my old Little Tikes ride on toy from the rafters. Jillian loved playing with it.
We then headed to my grandparents for dinner. Jillian showed off her new skill... steps! She started last Tuesday with taking two steps. Saturday she took a couple more and Sunday she took even more. She is at the stage were you stand her up someplace and she will take a few steps to someone once she gets her balance. She is so proud of herself. It has taken a lot of work to get her to this place and she has worked so hard. She will be taking off all on her own soon!
After we left my grandparent's Brent headed home and Mom, dad, seth, Jilli and I stopped over at my grandma's house. We visited for a little bit and then headed out. We were all a little hungry and wanted dessert but could not decide what we wanted. We stopped at Pick N Save and Dad, Seth and I went it. You know you are a true Wisconsiner when you stand and stair at a large case of cheese with a big smile on your face. We could not decide what we wanted for dessert so we got 4 little things and took them to the house and shared. We also bought some of that mozzarella and cherry tomatoes and Seth and I made our own little caprese snack. Overall it was a great mothers day!
Jillian has continued to cough and struggle to breathe. She is slowly getting better over the weekend and I am very hopeful that we should only need nebs for a couple more days. This is just a reminder about how fast things can change with Jillian. She got less then a mouth full of water and it is causing a bunch of problems for her. A normal kid would not have struggled with it, but for Jilli its different.