Roseola

This week was one of the most difficult weeks of my time with Bella.  I recently joined the local Mom's Club to have Bella play with other babies and to meet other moms in the neighborhood. We've gone twice to the play dates and both times Bella got sick.  The first time she caught a Cold which wasn't so bad.  She just had a runny/stuffy nose that didn't seem to bother her much. She was her usual happy self despite the Cold.  I agree with the philosophy that it's actually good for her to get sick a few times before starting school to build her immunity.

Well, I think this week she caught Roseola after her play date and had a fever of over 103 for 3 straight days.  Fever combined with her teething made her so miserable all she did was cry and cling on to me 24/7.  It was pretty difficult to deal with to say the least.  Not only was it physically draining, it's difficult to see your child suffer so much.  Motrin really saved the day/night this week.  I think it helped her to sleep through the night. The Pediatrician didn't know the cause of the fever until she broke out with the rash today which is typical with Roseola.  

I think I almost reached my breaking point today.  Even though her fever died down, her teething still made her irritable with crying spells all day long. It was a tough week to say the least.  However, when we put her to bed and started looking at her newly arrived photos from her 1st year Birthday, I just felt so much better.  (The thick slice of ice cream cake helped too)  

I knew that being a Mom would be hard work, but I never thought I would be so physically tired all the time.  I guess I am pretty weak and need to do some muscle training to keep up with my little one.  In that way I can't wait until she can walk!!!  Everyone tells me it'll be harder once she walks, but at least I won't have to hold her so much (or so I hope).

Birthday Pictures II

We finally received our pictures from our photographer from her birthday party.  We are so happy with the pictures and she was really awesome to work with.  We really enjoyed Bella's birthday party with our friends and had a great time doing Bella's first professional photo shoot.  I felt bad for not taking any professional photos of her the entire year so I was pleased that the photos came our really great.  Here are a few of our favorites....enjoy!

Here's her princess cake.  It looked really great but I heard it didn't taste very good.  I was so busy with her that day I think I managed to drink a sip of water and that was about all the food I had the entire day.  Here Bella's in her traditional Chinese dress.  She had Korean one and a princess dress too!

We had to help her hurry and blow out the candles.  She was reaching for the flames with her hands!

Family photo where we're all looking somewhere different.

This photo looks neat with the mirror as the background.

I really like this photo of Daddy and Bella.  They look so happy together~

Another fun one with Daddy.

Here's Princess Bella clapping for us during the photo shoot.  Did I mention it was a Princess themed party?

Me and baby happy together.  The photos look great but the weather was actually pretty cold.

Here's Bella looking postcard perfect.  Our photographer did a great job editing the photos.

Pretty in Pink.

Happy Birthday Part 1

This is the  "cake" I made for her on her actual birthday with a banana and blueberries.  I don't think she's ready for eggs quite yet due to her eczema and milk products makes her skin irritated so it's my version of cake for her.  She loved it and ate the whole thing in a minute!  =)

Here's a video we showed at Isabella's first birthday party.  It was so much fun to dress her up in 3 different outfits and to have all our family and friends to celebrate with us.  I'll post the pictures once we get them from the photographer.  We hired a photographer for the day since we didn't take any professional photos for her first year.  We're hoping it looks great.

Here's the Youtube site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN42fZrgTGA