Second Easter

So here I am once again. I can't believe I've actually stuck with this for over a month LOL. 

Anyway for the past week and a half or so we've been having trouble with poor Em. She is normally an extremely relaxed and easygoing baby and always has been, but this last little while she's been up during the night, whiny, crying... At first we could NOT find out a cause, there were no telltale bumps on her gums from teeth coming in, she wasn't sick, her diaper was dry, she wasn't hungry (she was the first night, but after that we smartened up). We were stumped. What had happened to our amazing, jealousy-inducing super baby? I was freaking knowing that I wouldn't be able to handle much more. Then for a few days she seemed fine. We were happy. Then it started again, badly. A cold came on, and hard. Diaper rash came fast and hard too, poor baby, and she was really starting to dig at her ears and chew and drool - the awful teeth were coming in. She would not let us look in her mouth until today where I saw THREE molars coming in, one on each side of the top jaw and one on the left side of the bottom jaw :( poor girl. We went to Trenton yesterday for Easter and we didn't get home until about 1030pm. She had slept the entire way home which we anticipated, and we thought for sure it would be an easy transfer from the truck to bed like many other times, but NOPE! She did not want to go back to sleep. We fought with her from 1030pm until almost 2am. Not fought literally of course but sit with her, relax with her, try to put her down then she cries for an hour, try again, then she cries for an hour etc. Finally she either worked out what was wrong or got too tired and fell asleep. We felt awful - definitely not a normal thing in our house to let her cry for that long at least but man, there wasn't anything else we felt we could do! It was SO late and we were SO tired from driving 4+ hours round trip we were out of ideas. She was fine as far as we could tell - full, dry, had some advil a few hours previous, not hot nor cold...and she MAY be getting to the age where she can test us to see when/if we will come in and get her if she cries long enough. I'm not 100% sold on that idea that toddlers try to manipulate - I don't think they have it in them really - but its possible for sure. You never really know if what you're doing is right by them but you just try your best. Today she was so off. She was so sucky, quiet and kind of lethargic in the sense that she didn't really want to play or chat or even eat much. We got her to eat a bit of breakfast and a whole dinner, with an (unsweetened!) applesauce before bed plus lots of sippies full of 30% juice and 70% water so she should be okay as far as food and drink is concerned today. My dad came down for an Easter dinner today and I felt really bad that she was totally not into visitors today :( she didn't want anything to do with anyone else before her nap and he even brought her an electric four wheeler as an Easter gift! lol. I did feel bad though there's nothing we can do about it. After dinner she was a bit more up and at'em so she did end up playing a bit and so far she's gone to bed okay. Those teeth must hurt SO MUCH! They look painful. Poor girly. Fingers crossed she sleeps, I'm off tomorrow but Chris isn't, so he needs his sleep.

On another note, I'm so pumped - I got my Class 3 Water Treatment in the mail last week! Woot I'm a Class 3 Water Treatment Plant Operator and Class 2 Water Distribution and Supply Operator! (There are only 4 classes total, so I'm almost done!).
If I decide to move on from my current job, I now have a big step ahead. Very pleased indeed!

All in all it was a pretty good Easter weekend, Em charmed everyone with walking and smiling even if she wasn't really herself and it was great to see and hang out with (almost) everyone! 
I hope everyone out there had a great Easter if you celebrate it and if not hope you had a great long weekend :).