Izzy is sick ;(

It is so sad to watch your child in pain and not be able to do anything to help.

On Sunday we went to Bull Run for a walk. Izzy loves to throw rock and shells into water and at this particular place, you can get right next to the water. Later I noticed how puffy Izzy's eyes looked in pictures.






On Monday we went Blueberry and Peach picking to Hartland Orchard. It was so much fun! Kids and Mommies enjoyed picking and eating berries and peaches. Again, puffy eyes in pictures.






So on Tuesday I took her to the Dr office for check up. My concern was mostly puffy eyes and now also fever she had night before and funny thing to complain - she has been napping every day since Friday. Our girl does not nap anymore so that is why I know something is going on.
I was so proud of her. She was so good at the Dr office, she did everything Dr asked her to do - look up, look down, stick tongue out, show one ear - other. Izzy even peed in the cup, I know I never thought I would be proud of that or write in the blog about it ;) but common, she is a 2 year-old and only has been fully potty trained for a bout one month now.
So Dr just thought it was allergies and 2 year old molars coming out.
Today is Friday and we had to go back since Izzy has had fever for the past 3 days, is super fussy and is waking up at night every 3 hours and is not eating well or at all and keeps telling it hurts. Today we saw our regular Dr G. and he said - she has sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics. I really hope it will do the magic fast and she will feel much better already this afternoon.

Not a fun blog entry, but that is our reality right now. I am 38,5 weeks pregnant and hoping not to go in labor for few more days since Izzy is super fussy and I know it would be hard for anyone to take care of her. On the positive note, we had date last Saturday and my friend Nicole came over to put Izzy to sleep. It was first time anyone has done it, besides Jason and I and few times in Latvia last summer my Dad did it. Izzy calls Nicole - Mimi, just like her son Everett. It is so cute! And it went very well, the next morning Izzy asked where did Mimi go? she wanted more of Mimi. So I think we are set if baby comes before Jason's Mom gets here on July 25th, as long as we can get Izzy back to normal sleeping through the night and be a happy girl again!!!

Mother's Day vs. Father's Day 2009

Since I had not started this blog yet during Mother's Day and Father's Day, I decided to combine both in one posting.

This year both Mother's Day (May 10th) and Father's Day (June 21st) were really nice and relaxing. We asked each other before what do you want to do for our Special day this year and that is exactly what we did.

Both days started with Crapes for breakfast. Jason made for me Vanilla Crapes and I made for him Latvian Crapes from scratch.


On Mother's Day we went for a walk at Stonebridge, part of Manassas Battlefield Park. It was fun and it was Izzy's first big walk and she loved it.
On Father's Day we went to play mini-golf at Magic Putting Place in Manassas. It was Izzy's first time playing mini-golf and it was fun to watch her to figure out ways you could hit the golf ball with the kids stick she was given.


Both days we went to Nathan's Dairy for Ice cream. It is very popular place in Manassas and on both days you would have to stand in line for 10-15 minutes to get your ice cream but it is all worth it. Also the fact that they would give free ice cream to Mom or Dad on that day helped with their popularity ;)



For Mother's Day we went out for lunch to Tandoori Village, my favorite Indian restaurant in the area. It was disaster, our worst dine-out experience ever, Izzy totally freaked out and we ended up eating our meals separate. It was combination of few things - started with booster seat not having working buckles and our girl loves to be buckled in ;) too spicy food for her and lack of pacifier that she asked due to too spicy food ;)
On Father's Day we went out to Tony's NY Style Pizza and it was awesome, Izzy enjoyed my Hawaii pizza and in was in greatest mood and played peek-a-boo with people in the booth behind us ;)

Both Days Izzy took 3 hours long nap, I think it was her most special gift to us, since she usually does not take naps anymore. I used this time to get my Mother's Day Manicure and Pedicure. Jason used her quite time to play video game unirrupted since I took nap as well ;)

Here are our cards, pretty typical for us ;)

Pregnancy Photo Shoot with Jessica Wallach

Sunday, July 5th, bright and early photographer Jessica Wallach came to our house to do my 2nd pregnancy's photo shoot. In the days before, I kept telling baby in the belly that she has to wait till Sunday, so can get professional pictures taken and after that she can come out any time ;)

While Jessica and Jason set up studio in our living room I was busy trying to get Izzy eat her breakfast. (We got back from 4th of July celebration at Great Meadows very late the night before) Not surprisingly Izzy was very interested in everything happening in our living room and not so much in eating ;) I wish I had taken few pictures of the setting, but just to describe it a little, there was a huge backdrop crossing most of our living room, plus professional octagon shaped light box, plus computer station, since the pictures taken would go directly into computer for the review of assistant - my very great friend Zenobia.

Our goal was to capture growing belly that soon will be history ;) pictures of Izzy and her baby sister still in belly and some of me and Jason and of course the three of us. Needless to say, Jessica did it all and much more.

Funny incidents from the photo shoot were Izzy playing peek-a-boo with "doggy" in the belly, trying to fish out baby sister and feeding milk from her "baby bottle" to the sister/doggy ;)

Jessica took about 300 pictures, I saw about half of them right away, we are meeting on Wednesday to go through them and pick out the best. It will be very hard for me to do that, since I liked so many already but can't really get them all. Good problem to have.

This morning Jessica posted some onto her website as well as Facebook account. I have been resisting to join Facebook for a long time, but I was tempted to see more pictures, so now you can find me on Facebook too. I am going to try hard not to get addicted.

Here is link to few of the pictures that Jessica has picked as her favorite. http://www.portraitplaytime.com/after-the-fireworks/
I am in love with the one of all of our hands on my belly and Izzy pointing to belly botton.