It was a busy day for Jilli and I. We started off by stopped by the daycare to drop off some of my bacon cupcakes with maple frosting and to give her teacher a gift. The last week of school was kinda crazy for us and I did not get the gift made that I wanted to for her teacher so we made it yesterday and brought it to her today.
Then we headed to the Milwaukee Zoo for their carousel zoo class. To say I was amazed is an understatement. As an early childhood educator I will fully admit that I find two year olds in large amounts to be a lot to handle sometimes (there is a reason I worked in the baby room and in 4K). When we walked in the room each child was greeted and given a name tag. You could tell the name tag made Jilli feel special. Then the room was set up with different centers for the kids to play in. Jilli wanted to start by making a paper carousel. She then wanted to make her own zoo counting book, and her last center she chose was to paint a horse. I loved that they let her stay in her umbrella stroller for the center part because it made it a lot easier with her feeding pump and oxygen. They also had moon sand, play-dough, books and a few other centers for kids to play with during the beginning of class (it does not surprise me that Jillian chose to do all the art projects). Then they called everyone over to the carpet and each child got a circle to sit on. Each child got a flannel board with cut outs of different animals in different groups. They counted the animals and got to put them up on the big flannel board (this is where a little boy and Jillian's oxygen line got a little tangled). Then everyone went over to a different group of tables and they got to make a tiger that looked like he was on the carousel. Next it was time to come to the carpet for snack and a story. They passed out animal crackers to the other kids and Jilli was just happy to listen to the book. The story was SO cute! Lastly we headed out and rode the carousel. Jillian chose to sit on one of the benches that looked like a bird (if you ask her it was a horse). I was grateful because it made it a lot easier to sit and go around with her equipment.
Then we headed to Children's for Jillian's tube change out in IR. One of our favorite IR people were there today. He has been with Jillian since she was 5 months old and we have not seen him in a little bit because we were doing change outs on the day he was not on (not intentionally, we really like him, it is just what worked best for us schedule wise)
IR was a reminder to me today of praying for the little things. I had blogged after last tube change out that they told us they were switching brands of tubes and that I was not excited about that all. When I talked to GI about it they had not heard anything about it, so we went in today not knowing what brand we were getting. They are still going to be stocking Jillian's size in the tube brand we love and moving to a different brand for some of the other sizes. WOW! I know I have had some friends that were specifically praying about this and to walk in today and find out they they were going to be keeping Jillian's size in the brand that works best for her was amazing news (not to say the other brand is bad, just the brand Jillian has is what works well for her and I hate messing with something that is working for her)
Jillian did amazing during tube change. She laid on the bed without a whimper. Everyone in the room was amazed. When Jillian first started needing tube change outs in IR she would scream and scream and scream. Change outs broke my heart and where exhausting for everyone involved. Now they are relatively easy and she lays nicely. Sometimes she makes a face that shows she is not loving it but then we ask her a question about something she likes and she is happy as can be. Today they let her play with a toy laptop while she laid there and she had a blast. I am SO grateful that tube change outs have gotten so much easier for her.
Then we went to Barns and Noble to try to get the book that we read in zoo class but they did not have it so we walked around the mall and looked at all of the cool Lego stuff around. Mayfair has tons of Lego stuff all over right now and it is really cool. Then we headed to Target to pick up some Fathers Day gifts. We then had an hour to do something before Brent was meeting us for dinner. We went to Southridge because I wanted to look for capri length white leggings (proving to be hard to find) and Jilli loved looking around the Mickey store. If you have a little girl who loves Disney princesses go to the Disney Store now! They have the princesses dresses on clearance at really good prices. They are all way to big for Jilli but she loved looking at them. We have been looking at different princess stuff for Disney, it is just tricky to find in her size, but we are creative :)
Then we met Brent a Quaker Stake for dinner. It was bike night outside so it was crazy outside but inside it was calm and we had a nice meal.
Jillian fell asleep in the car and I think she might be out for the night. I am typing this to the sound of her snoring (I still thinks she snores a lot more then a two year old should...)
So that was our busy day!
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| Jillian painting a picture as a gift for her teacher |
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| The other day she insisted that she needed to be Snow White |
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| We stopped at the Zoo on Saturday after Brent helped at Church and I went to some rummage sales with Jilli (know anyone selling a nice little tikes outside playhouse?) Brent had not been to the zoo yet this year and Jilli wanted to ride the train! |
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| The was walking around with her maraca says "cha cha cha" |
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| Brent fell asleep on the couch... Jilli tried to pick him up |
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| Since Jillian's birthday and Christmas are so close together we put some of the things she gets up in her room and slowly open them over several months. She was so excited when she found this book reader in her room the other morning that she wanted to bring it down and read books. She played with it for a really long time the other morning. |
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| Jilli coloring her giraffe in zoo class (she was proud to have her giraffe shorts on today) |
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| I don't know why she looked worried in this picture... she was loving coloring! |
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| Painting time at zoo class |
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