Snow and other April happenings

April was apparently a busy month. On 4/6 Maya woke up a little snotty. She seemed to feel ok so I left her with Derek while I went to a baby shower, for which I made cute little fondant faces.

Maya got progressively worse over the weekend. By Monday morning she had a pretty high fever and I thought she was having trouble breathing again. I gave her some ibuprofen and a nebulizer treatment and called the doctor. Of course her doctor isn't in on Mondays. By her appointment in the afternoon, she was definitely having retractions. The doctor thought that she sounded worse on the left side and was concerned that she had pneumonia. He prescribed her a antibiotic on top of the nebulizer. We made it to two without needing any antibiotics so I guess that's not bad. I got what she had this time instead of Derek. But I wasn't as sick as she was.

On 4/11 we started our garden. Hopefully things will go better this year than last.

On 4/19 we went to the mountains for the weekend . On Friday night we lost power in the cabin. The neighbors were like yeah it usually is off for a few hours or weeks when this happens. Fortunately, it was only off for a few hours. Unfortunately, it was during the time we were trying to do Maya's nebulizer and get her ready for bed. We did the nebulizer in the car and found enough candles and flashlights to get around the house. Maya was really concerned about the lights being broken and wanted Derek to fix them. On Saturday we went to play in the snow. Maya really enjoyed it this year. She loved sledding. Her mittens wouldn't stay on though and her hands kept getting cold. Our cabin had a hot tub. We turned the temperature down to bath water temp and used it as a kiddie pool. It was also right across from a small "lake" that had a sandy beach area. Too cool to play in the water but Maya had a blast throwing stuff in. Sunday afternoon Derek wanted to go on a hike. The two trails he had in mind though were covered in snow. We ended up walking around a lake, having a picnic, then taking the scenic route home. Maya slept for over 3 hours on the drive home.

Derek had the job of flinging her back uphill

I'd catch her and then nudge her back down

(Compared to us at the same place last year.)

partially frozen lake we walked around

scenic drive home

Maya on 4/22. She refused to stand still at look at the camera. How has she been two for two months already?

On 4/24 we had a bit of excitement. We were at our usual Bible study when we noticed cops right outside, then the big guns they were carrying, and then the whole swat team. They were appaerently there for a guy across the street. Maya's still young enough that she didn't understand what was going on. She was just upset that she had to sit in the corner with everyone instead of running around playing. Gave me a bit of a scare though.