April 2006

At the end of March Rya and I went to Victoria to visit Grandma and Grandpa... and our friends.
When we visited Lyn and her two girls Eden and Anna... Her oldest, Eden who is three, just loved Rya and couldn't get enough of her.
Eden and Rya had a great time playing together...




Anna, on the other hand didn't think Rya was so special and didn't want to have anything to do with her. These pictures did not happen with ease... Anna was none to pleased to have Rya there taking all the attention.






We had a minor incident when Eden and Rya were sitting feet to feet and Rya lost her balance and toppled over. Eden cried just about as much as her new best friend Rya.
Thats ok Eden we know you didn't push her over.

In early April Rya was willing to let me place her in this crawling position... so don't be fooled... Rya is not crawling, she is posing.

It looks real enough though... but we can't keep up the facade... she isn't crawling yet. She does sit very well and at times reaches way out and falls into a crawling position... but quickly flops down to her tummy.
She is thinking about it though... just not really hard.

On April13 Rya was being really fussy and crying a lot. This is not the norm. She is usually quite a happy little girl.
I thought maybe she was teething, (she does have a bottom tooth already). But she started to get a fever and things continued to get worse.
We went to the hospital friday morning and found out she had pneumonia. On top of that she had a nasty cold virus that was giving her the fevers.

On Friday night she had a temp of 39.4C

(103F) this was not fun, to say the least. Cool sponge down and lots of Tylenol kept it under control. She has been a real trooper but it has certainly been a tough week. It is April20th now and Rya is doing much better. She is still really stuffed up and because of this she is snoring more loud than her father! She is trying her best to get better and get back to being her happy little self again. Sleep at night has been worse than it ever has so we are hoping everything will go back to normal soon. When that happens we will all feel better


It is all well and good when everyone is healthy but when illness comes in... this parent gig gets a lot harder! and this is just the begining!