Restaurants

Last night Jilli and Brent brought me out for dinner for mothers day. This weekend we will be with family in Kenosha and it gets really busy for us on holiday weekends trying to see everyone so Brent decided a couple of weeks ago that he and Jilli were going to take me out last night so we could celebrate mothers day the three of us.
We went to a restaurant in Lake Geneva that I like. The waiter asked if Jillian wanted anything and I told him no, that she was good. As she is getting older more and more when we are out we are asked if she wants a drink or a small plate or food. We try to keep it simple and just tell them that she is good and does not need anything. The waiter last night brought her a kids cup of water with our drinks (he was just trying to be kind). After he walked away Jilli looked at the cup with a funny face and moved it over by me. She said "I a Jilli, I don't drink! I only eat meds!" She was really confused as to why he would bring her a cup. We explained to her that he was just trying to be nice and that he does not know that she does not drink but that it is ok, mommy will keep the cup by her. That was enough for her and she went back to coloring. I giggled a little too when at the end we ordered dessert and they brought us three spoons :)

Going out to eat we can't expect people to understand that she can not eat, it is just not something you come across every day. When waiters bring us water for her they are just trying to be nice and Brent and I just smile and say thank you and move it to the side. If a sever really pushes us to order something for her I will explain that she has a feeding tube and can't eat, but I don't feel like every person we run into needs to know she can't eat.

We have only had one issues so far with one place wanting to charge us for her being there even though she can't eat even after I explained that she would not be eating anything. I did a little educating and explained that I would not be paying for a child who can not eat and eventually they agreed with me. We will see as she gets older how restaurants go. It seams to be a split with older tubies where some enjoy going to restaurants with others because of the socialization, while others prefer not to go to restaurants. As she gets older we will gauge what she wants to do. Currently she does not care that we go to restaurants, she thinks they are a fun place to color and play iPad. To her it is normal that everyone else eats and she does not, she essentially has been NPO since she was 4mo old.


This morning we had a fun mommy and Jilli morning. We headed to the library for story time and then we walked around Lake Geneva and went to Starbucks. I love mornings like this with my girl! She is super cute and stylish today! She is finally fitting into 18mo shorts!!!

She had me laughing yesterday afternoon. We were waiting for the oxygen guy to come and he was later then normal (I was getting worried they forgot about us). Jilli started singing "oh where is my oxygen guy" to the tune of the Veggie Tales Hair Brush song. It was cute. A different guy brought the delivery and ask he was walking up I said to Jilli "lets not scare this guy by talking about blood, or any other bodily things!" She has really been into telling people about blood, muscles and bones lately and she has freaked a few people out.

Yesterday I did just a basic preschools skills "assessment" with her. I wanted to know where she is at right now since I knew she can name some of her letters and such but I had not sat down and figured out exactly which ones she knew. She knows 8 of her uppercase letters, 10 of her lowercase, she can identify the numbers 1-3 & 7, complete AB, ABC, and AABB patterns, and counted to 13 (she has counted to 20 before). I am so proud of how much she has learned. We do most of her learning by play and she also really likes structured school time but I am really laid back about it. I have a bunch of different things ready to go so when she wants to do school time so I just have to pull something out. I was talking with someone this weekend about how awesome it is that she is learning so much. Logically from an educational standpoint the amount of times she has turned blue or not had enough oxygen, or from the lack of nutrition when she was younger she should have some educational delays but so far she does not. From the 18mo old who did not even babble she has come a long way and worked really hard at it and I am very proud of her.

She loves her camera game! We decided to play a game together while daddy mowed the lawn

Last night she decided that baby Elsa needed to play too! I hope she is this good about including her sister in things too.

Baby Elsa gave me a back rub too!

My mother's day gifts from Brent and Jilli. I was at Bible Study last week and they went to the store and bought art supplies and he helped her to make the handprint art for me. She picked out the card because it has Minnie Mouse on it. They also bought extra supplies so Jilli and I can do a project together. My big gift is an Ergo baby carrier for the new baby! I am really excited to try it out.

She was just so excited this morning to have her picture taken!

It took many pictures to get her to look up at me and smile :)

She was very interested in the parking signs today. She gave it a kiss before getting in her stroller... silly girl!

Off to walk around downtown Lake Geneva. We also went over and looked at the boats in the water