Fast Asleep....

We have had another bout of sickness in the Dever household this week.  Since Monday we have been dealing with a high fever and then Monday night in the middle of the night, it turned into a very bad cough.  Let' just say we didn't get much sleep that night (you know it's a bad night when you're doing a breathing treatment at 1:30 am).  So we headed to the doctor on Tuesday to find out that Emerson has Croup (and possibly the flu).  The doctor really said she couldn't treat her for the flu because her fever had been going on for 48 hours.  It makes no sense to me, but I guess you have to trust the doctors, right?  So the doctor said she thought the main thing to treat would be the croupy cough and decided the best course of action would be two steroid shots....not fun when you have a toddler that starts to whimper immediately when you walk in the doctors office because her last memory of the place is two shots in the leg.  So now, not only did we have a croupy baby, we had a hysterical one from the pain of two injections to her upper thighs.  Emerson seemed to do better during the day yesterday (she did take a 3 1/2 hour nap, a bit unusual for her but she had been up for 3 hours in the middle of the night) and into the night, but she was still running a slight fever.  Danny and I decided to keep her out of school today (mainly because that is the rule at our daycare - children must be fever free for 24 hours before coming back to school). 

Danny had to go to work today, so I was the lucky one that got to stay home with our sweet girl :) !!!  Emerson seemed to be her normal self all morning...a bit stir crazy, but seemed better and only ran a low grade fever (low enough that she can still go to school - the rule is 101).  She did great with her breathing treatments and her coughing and breathing seemed to be getting better.

Yay, we were in the clear.  So, like most naps on the weekend, I gave Emerson a sippy of milk and let her watch a Dora.  Usually while she is watching a Dora, Danny and I will continue to do things around the house (well on the second floor of our house), checking on her occasionally, we trust her not to get out of bed, especially because we know how much she loves Dora.  So I folded some clothes while Emerson watched her Dora this afternoon....when I went in to check on her, this is what I found:

Our sweet girl was FAST ASLEEP...she didn't even make it through Dora, so you know she didn't feel great if she didn't stay awake for Dora.

Flashback Friday

It's Flashback Friday Ya'll!!!!

(April Update)

Ahhh yes, another Friday for flashing back to the past.  When I last left you, on my weekly updates, we had just looked at pictures from March.  April was just as busy for the Devers as March was.  We were so excited that our Tar Heels won a National Championship.  Danny was actually here this year and got to experience the madness that is Franklin Street after the game.  It truly is a once in a lifetime (well, hopefully not) experience and any good Tar Heel fan should at least see it once.

Brooke and Danny were also very busy at work.  I was in the throes of event season with an average of 3 events a week and Danny had trips to Charlotte, Ohio, Detroit, and Jacksonville. I was also busy preparing for the Beach Ball,which is annual fundraiser I participate in for UNC's Lineberger Cancer Center.  I am the fundraising chair for the auction aspects of the event and I am in charge of securing all donations.  At times it can be rather time consuming, especially towards the end; but it is for a great cause and I love doing it!!  Brooke and Danny also celebrated their 7 year anniversary in April and, like all good tired parents with a toddler and full time jobs do, we did absolutely nothing.  Maybe we did dinner, I don't really remember; I guess we need to get better at celebrating things like that!!!

Emerson was also a very busy little girl this month and April was all about having fun.  This is the first year, Emerson really got to enjoy Easter.  She still didn't quite understand the concept of the Easter Bunny but she loved finding eggs.  She had an Easter Egg hunt at her school that the parents were invited to attend.  So I headed out to take some pictures of all the fun.  (This was also picture day at school....Emerson didn't do so well and refused to get her picture taken.  Let's hope this Fall goes a bit better).  Emerson was visited by the Easter bunny and loved getting all her goodies.  I think there is a picture, that you will see, of her face when she came down that morning....it was classic!!  We also did a great Easter Egg Hunt in our yard with our neighbors, The Hermans.  I think the girls really enjoyed it and I am hoping we make it a yearly tradition.  More fun continued at Ivie Herman's third birthday party.  Ivie had the Party Bus come for her party...it looked like tons of fun but Emerson was still a bit weary, so she watched from the sidelines.

April was also an unfortunate month for Emerson.   We had been battling ear infections since about January and we were told by our doctor that Emerson would have to get tubes, so we had our consultation with the doctor and made our appointment for May....more on that next month. 

So that was April in a nutshell....I hope you will enjoy the pictures and until next week.....

April Pictures

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*Reminder: the captions for pictures are above the picture and if the caption is too long and gets cut off...just mouse over it and you can read the whole thing!!! 

Show and Tell #9 - (9.17.09)

This weeks Show and Tell item is brand new in the Dever household and was prompted from my softball blog on Monday evening.  Emerson's god mother and my dear friend, Monica, was so excited to see that Emerson showed an interest in softball.  Monica has two boys, Carter and Cameron, and has been a soccer/baseball/softball/tball mom for awhile...she knows all about sports.  She couldn't believe that I, Brooke Dever, let my little girly girl play around with such things.  She immediately called me after she got the blog post from Monday evening and said..."I am sending her a glove and ball today, don't go buy it!!" Which I promptly replied, "that is great, just make sure it's PINK." (She had already planned to get Emerson the pink one after seeing it in her local Target).  Well sure enough, the glove and ball arrived on Wednesday afternoon and Emerson was super excited to see it and play with it.  I know most people think I won't let my child play softball or soccer or anything that isn't girly, and that I will put her in cheer leading, dance and gymnastics instead.  Well the truth is, I will support Emerson in anything she does and will cheer her on to the best of my ability.....as long as it's pink and she can wear a tutu!!! (wink, wink)  All kidding aside...I will support and love anything she does!!

Recycling

We all know that recycling is very important for our environment. Here at the Dever Dish, we think it is key to teach our youth and next generation about the value of recycling. Danny and I started this initiative very early with Emerson; we made recycling fun and almost game-like for her. We saved (and still save) everything, that is possibly recyclable, for Emerson and she is the one to put it in the recycling bin. As most of you know, I recycle pretty much anything that can be recycled. I'm not a tree hugger yet (especially driving that big SUV of mine) but I am doing my part to recycle and teach my daughter the value of recycling, so hopefully she and her kids (and their kids) can have an earth to live on.

Here's a little Dever Dish PSA on recycling......excuse the annoying woman (me) in the background who literally says "Recycling" about 50 times!!

Softball!!

Danny is playing on a Parks and Rec softball team this year named The Children Left Behind (most of the team is made up of teachers). "Playing" isn't really a good way to describe what his team is doing.....they are mostly losing, BIG TIME; but it isn't about winning or losing, right? The games are on Monday and Wednesday nights at either 6:30, 7:45 or 9:00 pm. Most of the games, thus far, have been at 7:45 or 9:00 but tonight's game was at 6:30, so Emerson and I thought we would go cheer Daddy to (hopefully) a victory.

Immediately when we got there, Danny had to go throw the ball and warm-up. Well, Emerson wanted to be right next to her Daddy (for the whole evening actually). Luckily Danny didn't have to play for the first couple of innings so he was able to play around and throw the ball with Emerson. She wouldn't let go of that yellow ball. She loved it and carried it around with her all night. Once Daddy got put in the game Emerson stood at the fence and just yelled for her Daddy. "Daddy, Daddy, Go Daddy!!! Good Job!" She was so happy to watch him on both the catcher and pitcher position. She had no clue they lost 24 - 1...she was so proud of Daddy no matter what!!! Although she should have been proud of his pitching. The one time he did get to pitch, he got 3 up and 3 down! (You all like my new softball lingo, right?? I totally had to ask Danny about that to explain it in this blog!!)

Needless to say, Emerson was not happy when we told her it was time to go home. She had a small meltdown but we told her we would come back soon....(Wednesdays game is also a 6:30 game.) Emerson had a great time and I am pretty sure this Sunday's trip to Target will include a small glove and ball on our bill!!!