Elmo Ate Fingers....

Today was an interesting day.  There was some funny stuff going on .....  like Clairah.  Love her to death.

So we have this Elmo, a LARGE Elmo - I got it from the boys when they were little.  Well someone went through a cutting phase and I had found a bunch of clothes cut up and Elmo was also a was caught up in the cutting.

So Claire was saying "ELMO" today and she was super excited.  I had been meaning to fix him but hadn't had the chance yet.  So I did it today.  I will not tell you WHERE he was cut or what it looked like when I was sewing him up .... use your imagination.

So Clairah was all about Elmo today for a long time.  At one point, she was sticking her fingers in his mouth and yelling - saying "Owie Owie! Help me!" and we'd pull her finger out.... and she'd laugh, and do it all over again.  So Shila put her finger in and when Clairah pulled it out, Shila bent her finger and pretended Elmo ate her finger off.  So she did it again.   And Claire grabbed Shila's hand and put a finger in Elmo's mouth.  She kept doing it - so that Mommy had NO FINGER OR THUMBS on either hand.  I was laughing so hard.

But I was so proud of Clairah today, she is starting to talk in 3 word sentences.  I know this typically wouldn't thrill someone but - Nonna has children who have struggled with a lot of medical things, including speech.  So it's thrilling for me.  I love love love hearing her.  She's changed SO MUCH in the 8-9 months that she's been in my life.

She was so happy today.  She was saying "Nonna" which she's been saying for a couple of weeks now, and she started saying "Pappy" today ....  soooooo  cute!

Daddy found Army guys on top of the fridge (back from when our Elf on the Shelf was around) and the kids (mostly Kaedyn) started to have a ball.   He even gave Clairah a few even though he told her that she had to be 5 and up to play with them.  HA HA HA HA

And this happened.  He had a rough night last night and then today....  he totally had a melt down caused by pain.  Now, Nathan deals with pain by watching youtube or using the computer to play games.  His brain needs to be occupied in order to deal with pain.  So when Daddy took over the computer, suddenly - Nathan realized he was in a lot of pain.  He had a migraine, he has a back molar pushing through, and his ears were hurting.  All this was just too much.  So he was crying so bad - him crying causes me to panic a bit.

I gave him some ibuprofen and then I realized that I should have given him some benedryl because that can help with migraines, and some cold meds for his running nose ...  and decided to give him a melatonine too so that he could sleep through some of the pain and hopefully wake up feeling better.  Before I even gave him the second set of meds (I gave him the ibuprofen by itself) ... he had fallen asleep on my bed as he had been crying.  So he cried himself to sleep.

He slept beside/on me for a bit.  Woke up, said he was feeling a bit better, wanted to go out to the couch.  So we carried him out there.   And he ended up sleeping for awhile longer.

Daddy Kale was playing WOW and Clairah was all into watching him after her bath.  

The two pics on the left, she was trying to get my phone saying "I color!" Cuz she likes to draw pictures on an app on my phone.  It's a Kaleidoscope app.

We had Lasagna for dinner

Mommy let her open up a gift that family friend Dawn brought her to the baby shower.  

She got two awesome books, and a Peter Rabbit that winds up and plays music.

Stopping for some hugs with Mommy

Kissing baby Elly

She was all about being a Daddy's girl today.  She was seeking Daddy's attention and Pappy's too.  She kept saying "Daddy Help ME" when she wanted to do something and Mommy wouldn't let her.

Here she is when she found Gallifrey outside.

Hugs with Nonna

Nathan was playing on the scooter and Clairah was chasing him.   She loves her Uncles.  Uncle Kaedyn is her favorite though.   They really love each other.  Kaedyn was on my bed, with me, Shila and Clairah - Kaedyn was still sleeping when she got here -and she cracked me up.  She kept going over to him, getting on top of him and saying "HUG!" to him... LOL.  He finally woke up and gave her a big hug.

Here are Clairah's art for today

I took these on the way home from taking her home tonight.

Pappy driving :D

Bottom picture, you can see the Dead Fleet in the distance.

Dead Fleet .....

And then Nathan sleeping.  He didn't wet his pull up all day, and he said he only went potty once.  I didn't see him going in and out of the bathroom so I'm a bit concerned....I gave him a bottle of water, told him to drink a lot of it...  wanted to make sure he was hydrated.  He fell asleep pretty quickly.

Just going to keep an eye on him tomorrow.