funny moment

Today Calvin, Clare, Lex and I were out in the living room hanging out while Jo was in her room napping. (Jo's room is still my closet and her bed is the pack-n-play.) While we were standing around Jo came walking out of her room ALL BY HERSELF!  We all saw her and started laughing. She had just woken up and was kinda groggy still but once she caught on that we were excited about her, she was smiling and proud of herself. It was her first time coming out of bed by herself. She is a cutie!

I am planning on moving her downstairs into her own room once the kids start school in a few weeks. Hopefully she won't be too mischievous in crawling out of her bed and getting into trouble at night!  She really loves sleep and often asks to be put to bed so I not too worried.

Jo continues to sleep with lots of little animals and blankets. She for sure takes two or more "mimis" and a blanket or two or, her bird puppet, a baby or two and a teddy bear or two. Sometimes after she goes to sleep I'll go in and take things out of her bed so she has more room.

Jo got croup recently. It was my first time having a kid with croup. She woke up one night about 1:30 crying and she had a loud barky cough and was wheezing pretty bad. It was kinda scary. She calmed down in my arms and slept in my lap for an hour or so. Then I took her to bed with me so I could be close. She was a little warm so I also gave her some tylenol.  She slept on an off for the night. around 5-6am she was pretty warm so I gave her more tylenol and stuck her in her own bed to sleep for a bit and she did rest well for a few hours.  I took her to the dr. the next day and he gave her a liquid steroid to help with her inflammation in her throat. (He said when he examined her he could hear whistling sound in her throat). During the day she had a normal cold. Night two she woke up and cried a bit in the night but wasn't as bad as the night before. By night 3 she slept fine.  The cold lasted a full week but it wasn't anything unusual or more severe than a usual cold.  Kind of a weird sickness. It is strange how it is just a normal cold during the day and then at night turns into a severe cough and trouble breathing.