Back to the Pediatrician…

Lisa September 15, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today Nana took me back to see my pediatrician.   While she and poppy seem to be feeling a little better, and less COLD like.. I am not.    Nana wanted to have the pediatrician look at me again.  They weighed me to make sure I am not losing weight, and I was not.   I weighed exactly the same.   It has only been a week!   The doctor examined me very carefully, and I am breathing good, my lungs are clear, even though I am coughing a lot from the drippy crud in my nose and sinus cavity.   I have a double ear infection… and that is why laying down is so hard for me.   The doctor has me on an antibiotic for ten days.   Nana will be on the watch you can be sure to make sure I don’t get any rashes or have any problems taking a new medicine.   Nana says she is so sorry that I got an ear infection since she tries so hard to keep me healthy and happy.  GREAT NOW I WILL BE WEARING A PARKA IN 70 DEGREE WEATHER… OR  HAVE A SNOW SUIT ON WHEN THE LEAVES BEGIN TO CHANGE COLOR!  

Wow, it’s a bit much to handle getting teeth and a cold with an ear infection too… but I laugh in the face of difficulty…

All in all, I am doing okay.  All campers busy, but Nana kept me ‘ENTERTAINED’ and with the exception of hating the little blue boogie sucker, I had a pretty decent day.   Nana knows I love Baby Einstein so she got me a new DVD to watch…  and aside from a crusty or running nose in most of my photos…. I am still clearly Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Hide-n-seek….

Lisa September 14, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So today marks seven months here at Camp Nana.  For the most part I am having a blast.  Constant pampering, and attention, as they say… ‘it’s all good’, or at least most all of it…  let me tell you the one problem here at camp or my little words of wisdom after seven months… do not come to camp if you have a “nose full” mom or dad… cause No Fun Nana has officially EARNED HER  No Fun title today.   Look – I know I cannot blow my own nose, and I know… it is not fun to look at baby goobers coming out of my little baby nose, but I HATE THAT SUCTION THINGY and hate having my nose wiped!   I spent the better part of my entire day dodging my nose being constantly wiped, sucked and just plain irritated.  

Yea, so I kept dodging her wiping and that little blue suction thing… well it may just get mysteriously lost when Nana is not looking.    She tried to distract me with books… as if reading could divert her true intentions….  and if you’ll notice there is nothing to wipe, or suck!

Her antics of distracting me worked temporarily.. I still don’t see a problem… do you?

Okay… I know… I get it… it is gross…. but I STILL HATE THE BOOGIE SUCKER!   After it is over, and I can breathe easier…I am happy as ever!

I spent the day in jammers again, and am working at fighting off this nasty little cold… I hope you are both well, and maybe tomorrow I will be free of the ‘crud’.   I am not swimming this week… sorry little mini’s.   But really don’t want to infect anyone else.   Until tomorrow Mom and Dad, please know I love you, and please know I have a great little blue boogie sucky thingy that I would really like to give to you, (or maybe I will just play HIDE THE BLUE SUCKY THINGY AND WATCH NANA SEEK IT OUT)… as always, Little Miss Adorable, Little Miss Snuffy Nose, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Day dreaming…

Lisa September 13, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am hanging out at Camp Nana this Sunday… it is fall, and football season is underway.   Here in Michigan… it is great if you are a college football fan, Michigan, Michigan State etc. , but how about those Lions… I may be only 9 months old… but … even I know… when the opposing team gets more than 40 points… well, it just can’t be good.   Not unless the Lions did too, and that was not happening.    Nana says she needs Daddy’s help.   The campers all pick who they think will win, and last year, Uncle Nick could help Nana, since he was in the South Pacific, this year Nana is on her own.. AND SHE PICKED THE LIONS TO WIN… DOES THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING.  Any way… Nana- not a football fan… just playing with the campers…. I am surprised she doesn’t make them all sing the anthem before a game… ha…. but tell daddy she picked daddy’s Chargers for Monday night to win!   It is all in fun, Great Aunt Pam and Great Uncle Brian play too… just to see if anyone can keep up with Uncle Brian whose middle name is “Mr. Football” .   No body wins anything, they all just try to see if they can guess more games correctly than Uncle Brian… personally, if you ever met great Uncle Brian, he is one tall dude… and just as a little note to self… WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO MAKE THE BIG GUY MAD?   I bet I would vote LIONS every time… just to make sure he had the best picks!  I bet that is Nana’s strategy too. 

Life at camp keeps me busy.  I felt better today, but still have a nose full.   I hate that suction thingy!   CAN I MAIL IT TO YOU, I bet it would work wonders on sand boogies.   For me, it’s a big point of contention… HATE IT!    Now I know… it is just there to help me, but boy oh boy… do I despise it.  Maybe if I hide my nose…

Here I am just thinking maybe someone is going to use that nose thingy on me..

Nah, really I was just chompin at my hand… anything and everything these days… gnaw, gnaw, gnaw…

I was playing with my Gymboree Jimbo the Clown Nana got me…. I love him, he is so bright and colorful.   He is a puppet… and yes, Nana makes him sing.   (IDEA!  Hey, maybe if we tell Uncle Brian, that the winner gets to have Nana sing to them at the end of the season… well that may give the other campers a chance …? )

I enjoyed playing today.   I dream of the day we play together.  Nana shows me your pictures every day.   She shows me one of daddy making a silly face, and I smile at it.   It is so silly.  

I am so adorable , aren’t I?

Now that I traveled to the Pacific Northwest, and to Northern Michigan…. summer has pretty much ended… and I am nearly over this teething cold thingy…. I am going to work on getting back to Goldfish Mini Swim class, and waiting on your visit.  I may not be able to go swimming this week if I am not in tip top shape… but we will see.   Nana is all about the stay home and rest thing.   I was to have a field trip to visit Great Grandma Sharyn and Papa this weekend for Aunt Arri’s birthday… but no fun Nana, said… NO.  Hmmm, imagine that.  I could have shared my cold with everyone… it could have been fun!   But no… she says no mini swim class either cause Maddie, Etta and all my buds don’t want this awful cold in the nose thingy!   Oh joy… maybe we will stay at camp and ‘sing camp songs’.  Or maybe someone will have a frog in her throat (she does have a cold you know) …. and take a sabbatical!  

I hope you and daddy are doing well and had a decent day.  I will write you tomorrow and tell you about my day at CAMP QUARANTINE.    Until then, I am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Fall In Michigan!

Lisa September 12, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So all my camper buddies are back in school.  The professors at the University are no longer on strike, and you know what that means…. it is just Nana and I… singing songs… all week, all day, every day… including Saturday….exciting times in Michigan, AND the ‘all hands on Guillianna’ factor is NOW limited to two hands and a bunch of paws a good percentage of each day.   Uncle Nick is at Culinary Arts school… (I say, let Nana show him how to cook, who needs a real chef, I mean if Nana can cook for 8 every night, then she can probably teach Uncle Nick… BUT NOOOOOOOOO he is gone chopping and dicing elsewhere… and Aunt Mikayla, well she goes to college every night but Friday, and isn’t home until after ten!   Aunt Alyx, Aunt Allyssa and Aunt Arri about the same,  two of them even have Saturday classes and the other two work Saturday’s.   SO IT IS NANA  – HER TWO HANDS, AND  the 28 PAWS (not so helpful paws) combined with lots and lots of singing at Camp Nana.  Did you know there are bottle making songs, and diaper changing songs, there are spit up songs and songs I don’t really begin to understand there are dogs barking songs, and the baby is growing hair songs.   If you want I can jot down the lyrics for you both, incase you are bored or need something to do in your spare time…. ‘really’ you’ll love em…. and when she sings them with a cold… oh… it’s just awesome I kid you not.   It’s the kind of thing that can get a princess thinking….

and I have been  –   I have been thinking about this whole “school thing” and figure if no one is comin’ to my sing fest of a ‘party’…. then I will go to their ‘party’! 

So… here I am… fixin’ to go to school with the campers….

What?   You kidding me?

Everyone has one of these?

For what?  Books? 

But I don’t read!

And my books are so tiny, with tiny pictures… so  what’s up with the book bag?

Come on…  if I can carry my own books I can go?

I think I can… I think I can….

I CAN…

I CAN….

Look at me mom and dad… I am ready!

I could do this school thing… hey, do they sing to you at school?   Like all day… everyday?

Lectures you say…?

Hmmmmmm is that like singing?

Aunt Arri says, maybe I should wait until I am a bit bigger, and can use pencils and crayons and stuff like that…

I can figure out how to do or use most everything…

I am not the type to give up easily…

Today I spent all day in my jammers… and am feeling much better than I was.   I am able to sleep a bit longer without having a hard time laying flat!  So that is great news.  I played with the campers and loved the HANDS ON factor.  We played and the “black beast” caught me smiling away…

After thinking about it all… I guess hanging with Nana at camp is probably a better idea, besides… I figure I would really rather wait and let you take me to a school for princess’ where there are no LECTURES, I think I will let those wait till I am a big camper. 

But do you think you can pick a school with a slide, and toys… and lots and lots of crayons and stuff.   One other thing… how about you and daddy carry my book bag for me?

 Now that is a good idea, and I will hang out here practicing my princess wave and we can look forward to when you two can take me to school when we are all together again.  Cool beans!   I can put up with Nana’s singing – I am after all  ‘Army Strong!’  

Until tomorrow, please know I am as cute as ever, and as always am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

(This is what Nana calls, TOTALLY ‘TUCKERED’ OUT!)

Guillianna!