Today

We had a rough start to the day. The fever that Eleanor had over the weekend wasn't related to teething like we thought it was. For several days she's been getting these red rashes and had it all over her body and on her face as well yesterday . I took her to the doctor first thing this morning and found out that she has Roseola. It's apparently very common in babies from 9month to 2 years but how come I've never heard of it. It's supposed to last a week. Poor baby looks like she has a mild case of the chicken pox. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be bothering her.

It snowed a lot last night and I had to clean off my car before going to the doctors appointment only to have a baby poo in the car. It was so bad that I had to change her pants and socks. I didn't have an extra pair of socks and only had sweat pants for her to wear but at least she had a clean bum on the return trip home. Since she's mostly potty trained, at least for number 2, I wasn't prepared to deal with it outside of our house. I was all sweaty and stressed by the time she was changed.

Since we had to make an impromptu trip to the doctors office I didn't get to be by the computer to register Elle for winter classes right at 9am. By the time we got back and remembered, it was close to 10am and all but 2 classes that I picked out for her were already filled and all the alternate classes that I wanted to register her for were filled too. I was waiting for this day for a few months now. It's ridiculously competitive to sign up for park district classes here in Chicago and if you're not ready to do it as soon as registration opens, you're out of luck. This was my first time registering and I heard about the competitiveness but had no idea it was this fast. There are literally hundreds of classes and they were mostly full and closed before the hour was up. The summer is going to be even worse, I better get a baby sitter for that day so I'm ready to type. I'm used to getting concert tickets right when they go on sale to get a chance at good seats but I honestly didn't think this would be like that. I guess for $45 a class for a 3 month class, it's well worth the wait.

Eleanor has started to bite again and it seems like she's doing it just for kicks. I try to reason with her and show her that it really hurts. After a kiss and a sad face, I get suckered in to give her the other boob and get bitten again. So two strikes, you're out! I either let her cry it out in my arms and put her to sleep but if she's persistent about wanting to nurse, I have to get A-man to put her to bed because she doesn't attack him as much. He does amazingly well and was able to nap with her for over 2 hours. He has no problem napping and said he'd do it anytime and I'm glad to know that he can do it without a hitch.

Most of the day past before I realized that today is her 17th month birthday. I didn't get a chance to take any pictures until dinner time when I mentioned it to A-man who snapped a shot quickly. We bathed and went to bed right after dinner so I didn't get to take any more pictures. The picture above was from Friday at the stables. It was such a nice weekend and now it's full of snow. I'm seriously done with snow.