Teething.

Yeah.. :/ Leia is teething and it is pretty bad. :(
After her nap yesterday, she was really warm - so I took her temperature and it was about 101.7 degF (38,7 degC). So we gave her some Baby Tylenol and it went down without a problem.

She won't eat much of anything at all. :/ She'll eat about a ½ of a banana, and a rice cake here and there. And some cheerios, but she isn't eating much more than that right now. Even after giving her some baby orajel, she still doesn't want to eat. :( So we hope this quickly passes for her.

She has a horrible, horrible cough too. :( So things aren't too fun for her right now. :( Her throat gets really dry and she has a dry cough. It gets so bad sometimes that she starts gagging. :( Fredrik will call the BVC tomorrow and see if there is anything that we can give her to help.

She will drink milk, juice and water without a problem, so we are encouraging as much of that as possible.

Leia made a few Easter things at daycare last week. :) Here they are:





Thumb-print chicks in some grass. :) And then the egg shell has some seeds in it and it was supposed to grow - so said Leia's daycare teacher, but nothing has happened so far.. :/ :) She also colored a few pictures as well.

And as per Swedish Easter tradition, some branches with colorful feathers, to welcome in the budding trees of Spring:







This is the first year that I've ever done the branches ... my husband thinks it is silly.. :P But this year I didn't give him a say in the matter. :)


Today we did go to Töcksfors, and even though Leia was under the weather, we had a fantastic day! :) Leia slept in the stroller most of the time we were there. But if we stayed in a store for too long, she would get warm and start coughing a lot and wake up. :/ But we kept her asleep and we enjoyed our day. :)

We had nothing else to do today, so we decided there was no use to sit inside by ourselves. Not saying that going shopping was the best solution, seeing how crummy the economy is and all.. But like I said - we wanted something to do and we had a nice day. :)

We bought a final gate for the house. We put it between the kitchen and stair hallway. That way Leia can run around inside and we can keep an outside door open without worrying about her leaving the house. It will give her more freedom downstairs. She isn't so thrilled about it right now, but hopefully she'll get over it soon enough. :)

Fredrik bought me a present too. ;) Always nice. :))
I wanted a bag to take with me on our trip to the US. Since we will have a bookbag and baby bag full of extra clothes for the 3 of us, and tons of baby items - I wanted a small purse to go over my head that would be easy to carry around and keep track of all of our tickets and passports, etc..

We looked for little toys or things to take on the plane with us for the flight. I thought that stickers would be good for her. So I picked out cat stickers (she *loves* cats) and a sticker book. We also bought a set of stackable cups. Won't take up much room in the luggage, and she loves to stack things, so hopefully we can keep track of those on the plane and she will find it entertaining and it will keep her busy.

We also bought some American items at one of the grocery stores there. Not as much as we would have liked seeing as everything is sooo expensive (import taxes), but we bought some favorites. :)

Fredrik and I had a movie night tonight and watched a Western with Clint Eastwood. The Unforgiven. Great film. :)

Tomorrow Fredrik goes back to work, Leia goes back to daycare, and I will continue Spring cleaning and try to start studying for my Swedish driver's license.