Party!

Ella's first party was allot of fun, and allot of work! I rented a local clubhouse and put up a little bouncy house (thanks to my bro and sis-in-law) and we also had a ball pit. Now that I have done a Birthday party I will know a little bit more in the future as far as what was a waste of time and what wasn't. It's all a learning curve.
Ella really did okay at her party. I was worried as I think she may have some attachment issues. She was overwhelmed at first and cried a few times. But after about 45 minutes she loosened up and had fun. She loves watching other kids play, she just doesn't want to play WITH them. She also doesn't like attention from adults unless she has solicited it.

After the party my sister noticed some weird sores on her sons feet. Turns out her had hand foot and mouth disease. If you have never heard of this it is a highly contagious disease in the chicken pox family. It spreads quickly among young children and seems to taper off at about age 6. Adult cases are extremely rare. We ended up being one of the unlucky ones. Ella came home early from daycare on Wednesday for a fever and just plain miserableness. We did end up in the doctors office for several hours for respiratory distress (caused by the fever). She had that for about 2 days...then the spots. She doesn't have many on her hands or feet but the ones she does are blisters. One on her right heel is about dime size. Her face has lots of little tiny ones. Where it really causes the problem is the ones in the mouth. It's hard to know exactly what is in there because she isn't super thrilled about me looking in it at all. I do know that the inside of her bottom lip is covered in them. They are painful and she still has a low grade fever off and on. It is SO sad! We also had 3 other victims from her party. Two of them being my coworkers children which is really hard because we can't all not be at work and our children can't be anywhere where there are other kids. They also all want their Mommy's.