Brown and Pink Polka Dots : Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! I hope it was fun!

We started our Easter celebrations on Wednesday. We met Brent's parents in Burlington for dinner at Fred's (wanna make a restaurant go silent... apparently all you have to do is walk in with a kid on oxygen, lol!) Before we went for dinner, Jilli and I went to the park. I brought her trike with as that is something we are working on in therapy. She is one smart little girl! Her left leg is stronger then her right leg and she figured out a funny way of peddling so she does half a turn with her left leg and then brings the peddle back and does another half turn with her left leg... nice adapting child... but we want you to work both of your legs please! Like many things in life, Jilli just finds the way of doing something that works best for her, it will serve her well in the long run and she is a tough little fighter.

Thursday Jillian had an appointment with audiology. Turned out just the same as the last 5 times... they do the normal tones and she reacts fine, they move to the high tones and she reacts just fine and then they move to the low tones (the ones I know she can not hear) and she does not react. Well after sitting there for a while she gets board of not hearing anything so she starts to get antsy so they end the test. We have now done this 6 times and 6 times is has gone the EXACT same way. We met with the audiologist at the end and she said the test was inconclusive because she started to get antsy... ahhh! She said that Jillian does not have a profound hearing loss, which I agree with, it is just low tones that she struggles with. She wanted to repeat the test in June, I told her I am delivering a baby in June and do not wish to repeat this 38 weeks pregnant or with a newborn so I told her we would come back in May. If I thought there was some good reason it needed to be done in June I would be more then happy to make it work, however I have a feeling we are just going to do the same thing for the 7th time with the same results... I think someone once said insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results...

After audiology we drove to Lake Geneva in the snow and met Brent at Potbelly's for dinner. We then headed over to the library with PJ story time. Since it was snowing we were the only family that showed up. Jilli thought it was great to have story time to herself. She also really liked getting to bring daddy to story time. Brent took her to the bathroom at one point to get a new diaper and the librarian asked me about why Jillian has all the tubes. She was really kind about it and I did not mind at all answering her questions.

Friday Brent only had to work a part day so then he came home and we headed into Kenosha. He went to go see a movie with friends and Jilli and I hung out with my parents. Saturday morning Jilli got her first hair cut! Brent and I had both been putting it off as it was something we were planning on having grandma Jill do before she died, so scheduling Jillian's first hair cut with someone else was really hard for both of us but Jillian's bangs were in her eyes so we needed to do something. My hair has been cut most of my life by the same person (grandma started cutting my hair when I was 17 until they moved to Florida) and she was very excited to help us with Jillian's first hair cut. Jilli sat like such a big girl! Saturday night we had a family friend over to my parent's house for dinner and it was nice to just hang out and eat and talk.

Sunday morning we got up and did an Easter egg hunt (Brent was already at Church as he was doing sound) Jilli was all excited that the eggs were filled with passies and jewelry. We then headed to church. We came home from church and got a few things ready and then my mom's side of the family all came over for brunch. We had fun hanging out. Jilli got to do another egg hunt and she got two Easter baskets. Everyone headed home and then we worked on packing our stuff up and headed home too.

Since its Easter and someone always has to be sick for Easter (this was a thing when Seth and I were little, one of us were always sick around Easter... we both have allergies to Easter Lillies and spring) Jilli decided this year was her turn. Saturday morning I woke up to the crashing sound of Jillian's pump (she pulled it down) and her barking. She was mainly stomach breathing. We got out the neb and started that right way. Her nose was running and her cheeks were bright red, but no fever. After the neb she started to perk up. On Saturday she only needed two nebs and on Sunday she needed three. She still had a fun weekend even with a runny nose. You could tell a few times that she was not feeling well, but most of the time she just kept going. She is a trooper!

It was a fun weekend and even though busy, still relaxing. Today I need to put all the Easter stuff away and then I think we are just hanging out. She is still asleep which does not surprise me, so I am guessing that other then PT today she will just rest.

Getting ready to ride!

She loves to pretend to drive (a few weeks ago she had a melt down because I would not let he drive the car...)

She had a blast at the park!

She wanted to drive one last time before we left... she sang we wheels on the bus

She painted GG a bunny for her birthday... she loves to do projects!

daddy reading to her at the library before story time started

She was looking at the hair cut books... I asked her which one she wanted and she told me they were all to crazy for her

Sitting like a big girl

For some reason part way through she insisted she needed to hold her arms up

All done!

She approved :)

Opening her Easter basket

She and Bumpa have a game of putting buckets on their head and yelling bucket head... so obviously you must do that with the Easter bucket too!

Opening her eggs... she also got a Questcom from Miles from Tomorrowland. She frequently will talk into her wrist pretending to be Miles and she was SO excited to get a Questcom that she had to put it right on!

Jilli in her Easter dress!

Taking her neb! She said she needed her Barabies to sit with her

She decided the neb was a trumpet (normally she uses a mask but the mask got left at home so she got to do it with her mouth) She was also not happy that I told her she could watch live TV while she took her neb... she did not like any of the kids options at that moment, I told her welcome back to the 90s, choose something thats on or don't watch tv, lol. Oh the on demand generation!