Yeah - not quite 100% yet.
Thursday - woke up quite happy. Had 2 doses of antibiotics on board and no fever so I sent her off to daycare. Lynne called at like 2:30 saying Laura had vomited everywhere... everything she had eaten all day came back up... yuck. She said she did it after she'd eaten a bean that didn't go down the right way though - so I'm sure that's what caused that incident - because that was the last time she was sick (out that end anyways!)
Friday - Laura was at daycare and I got a call from Lynne at about 2:30 again... This time Laura was out of clean outfits. She had a blowout in the first one ... and another blowout in the second one. Poor girl! I was close to home for work so I dropped by and picked up a clean outfit and took that up for Laura to wear while Lynne had her other 2 outfits in the washer.
Saturday - so far... we've gone through 2 outfits in the same fashion we did yesterday. And we're back to her drinking next to nothing again :( Sips of juice and milk here and there but not tanking like she used to...
Plans for SuperBowl - staying home and hopefully getting everyone well! (Richie's had a head/chest cold the end of this week too...) So far though I've managed to not catch anything! ~fingers crossed it stays that way!~
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Random note for today...
Laura decided I was finished reading my magazine that came in the mail the other day. She threw it away for me.
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in the toilet. :P
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in the toilet. :P
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Dare I say she's on the mend now?
YesterdayI picked Laura up from Lynne's house and she was so fussy/whiney and clingy. She fell asleep on the way home and I let her sleep in the carseat in the van (in the garage) until she woke up an hour later. Gave her tylenol. She perked up briefly, fell asleep at 8pm. Up screaming at 10:30pm. Temp 100.7. Gave ibuprofen and we limped along through the night with her alternating between falling asleep with me in my bed then me putting her in her bed - then her waking up a little while later and repeating it again. Richie crashed on the couch for the night. She was up at 2am and I brought her in with me - then she woke up wretching at 4am and puked up a nasty bunch of dried cherries from more than 12 hours before (gross, I know!)... then she slept until 6:30ish.
She stayed home with Richie today. She ran a temp of 101.4 midmorning and then up to 101.9 this afternoon. I asked Rich not to medicate her unless she acted unhappy/uncomfortable or it went above 102. So, she went all day with no meds.
Then I got home at 4ish - looked at her ear and saw the right one all gross and redish brownish draining. Called the doctors and they were able to get us right in. She has a "mad and angry" right sided ear infection. Dr. Bradshaw said it wasn't ruptured, but I find that very hard to believe seeing how much drainage there was and the fact that she was not unhappy all day long. If there was that much build up and such behind a buldging ear drum - she'd be miserable. I bet it was like that yesterday, popped sometime overnight and today was draining. So, now we have one dose of amoxicillin in her and a dose of ibuprofen and she's snoozing away... hopefully she's on the mend now. Oh, and the antibiotic will hopefully kick the crud she's coughing and sneezing/sniffling too...
Can I just say how thankful I am for a great doctor's office? I called at 4:15 and asked how late they're open today. I was expecting them to say the time and tell me they didn't have anymore openings but if I felt the need was urgent, to take her to (not-so) convenient care. But instead, she said "it depends on how many patients we have to see". I told her what was going on and she took my info and had a nurse call me back. Not 5 minutes later the nurse called back and said to bring her right in. The roads were bad beacuse of today's snow/sleet, but she said to take my time and they'd see us when we got there. So, we got there at 4:45 and were seen right away. That is awesome service. I did however get the "why didn't she come in sooner" lecture. (oh well!)
Then, can I just say how thankful I am for drive through pharmacies? I love not having to take Laura out of the carseat to go in and pick up the meds. Just have the doctor's office fax or call the script over, drive through and pick up the meds. Easy Peasy. :)
She stayed home with Richie today. She ran a temp of 101.4 midmorning and then up to 101.9 this afternoon. I asked Rich not to medicate her unless she acted unhappy/uncomfortable or it went above 102. So, she went all day with no meds.
Then I got home at 4ish - looked at her ear and saw the right one all gross and redish brownish draining. Called the doctors and they were able to get us right in. She has a "mad and angry" right sided ear infection. Dr. Bradshaw said it wasn't ruptured, but I find that very hard to believe seeing how much drainage there was and the fact that she was not unhappy all day long. If there was that much build up and such behind a buldging ear drum - she'd be miserable. I bet it was like that yesterday, popped sometime overnight and today was draining. So, now we have one dose of amoxicillin in her and a dose of ibuprofen and she's snoozing away... hopefully she's on the mend now. Oh, and the antibiotic will hopefully kick the crud she's coughing and sneezing/sniffling too...
Can I just say how thankful I am for a great doctor's office? I called at 4:15 and asked how late they're open today. I was expecting them to say the time and tell me they didn't have anymore openings but if I felt the need was urgent, to take her to (not-so) convenient care. But instead, she said "it depends on how many patients we have to see". I told her what was going on and she took my info and had a nurse call me back. Not 5 minutes later the nurse called back and said to bring her right in. The roads were bad beacuse of today's snow/sleet, but she said to take my time and they'd see us when we got there. So, we got there at 4:45 and were seen right away. That is awesome service. I did however get the "why didn't she come in sooner" lecture. (oh well!)
Then, can I just say how thankful I am for drive through pharmacies? I love not having to take Laura out of the carseat to go in and pick up the meds. Just have the doctor's office fax or call the script over, drive through and pick up the meds. Easy Peasy. :)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Parenting Lesson #38
When your child has been sick with a stomach virus - put the cloth diapers away and use disposables until it has TOTALLY passed through her system.
Yuck.
***Don't worry, although I do like to photograph everything about my daughter's life - this is not one of those photo worthy moments!*** :P
Yuck.
***Don't worry, although I do like to photograph everything about my daughter's life - this is not one of those photo worthy moments!*** :P
Friday, January 23, 2009
Still home on the mend, but definitely better than yesterday.
Laura had a good night ...until 3am. Woke up crying out for "maaaamaaaa"... I went in and she had thrown up again. Also felt quite warm. I was surprised with how warm she felt that her temp was only 100.4. Brought her into bed with us and she just wouldn't settle in very good. Laid there for a little bit and then threw up again... At that point (maybe 4am?) her and I came out to the living room and cuddled in the recliner. She actually slept good until 7am. She felt much cooler by this point. And once we got up, she actually has been acting fine most of the day - just won't eat and won't drink. At least yesterday she was attempting to take sips here and there - today I can't get her to even do that. She did manage to get down a half of a rootbeer popsicle and then later on a half of a banana popsicle. Now I'm out of popsicles though! She's had about 10 goldfish crackers today and is not eating a couple of frozen strawberries.
Total wet diapers in past 2 days:
Yesterday's overnight dipe - soaked.
Next wet dipe was mid afternoon yesterday. Then one nasty dipe. Then one damp diaper before bedtime. Overnight at 3am it was wet enough for me to change. Changed a damp dipe mid morning today and just did one more damp dipe change at 3:30ish. So... she's still going, but definitely not her normal.
Total wet diapers in past 2 days:
Yesterday's overnight dipe - soaked.
Next wet dipe was mid afternoon yesterday. Then one nasty dipe. Then one damp diaper before bedtime. Overnight at 3am it was wet enough for me to change. Changed a damp dipe mid morning today and just did one more damp dipe change at 3:30ish. So... she's still going, but definitely not her normal.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Update before I go to bed...
As of 1pm, Laura was vomit free. She ate those two aforementioned popsicles, then perked right up after she napped until 3:30... she acted like she wanted to eat/drink more so she had 4 or so ounces of water juice and a few goldfish crackers... over the next few hours she was totally back to her normal happy talkative running around self! I even let her try a piece of cheese and a few bites of pear. She was fine... until she "asked" daddy to flip her up in the air ... the floor was covered at 6:15... and so was Richie! I sent the two of them into the bathroom to do bath number 2 of the day for Laura. I got to clean up the mess. Then she was a bit whiney until bedtime at 7:30. She snuggled in and wanted a couple ounces of milk. I know I know! I shouldn't have! At 7:45 she erupted again all over her blankie, the pillow, poor bunny, herself and me. New PJ's and we snuggled in the recliner. She passed out very peacefully at 8pm and I snuggled with her until 9:30 at which time I laid her in her crib... we'll see how the night goes.
Meeting Neleh June!
Rich and I both left work a little bit early yesterday to go visit our new little niece last night!
Neleh June was born on January 20th at 6:35pm. Weighed in at 7#9oz and 20 inches long. Her daddy said she came into the world just a kickin' and a screamin'!
Aunt Andrea snuggling the newest little princess in the family...
Laura meeting her new baby cousin for the first time...
Proud Grammie and daddy.
Uncle Richie can't wait until she's big enough to toss around and throw in the air!
Neleh June was born on January 20th at 6:35pm. Weighed in at 7#9oz and 20 inches long. Her daddy said she came into the world just a kickin' and a screamin'! ***Edited to add: Neleh is named after her two great grandmas that passed away this past summer while Dawn was pregnant. Helen (Dawn's Grandma) June (Kevin's Grandma)
Proud Mommy and Daddy!
Proud Papa!Proud Mommy and Daddy!
Aunt Andrea snuggling the newest little princess in the family...
Laura meeting her new baby cousin for the first time...
Proud Grammie and daddy.
Uncle Richie can't wait until she's big enough to toss around and throw in the air!
Settled in but then got sick.
I'm happy to say that Monday Laura went back to daycare and slid back into her normal routine like nothing had changed. It's like she didn't even miss the whole 3 weeks she was out! She ate really good there, slept awesome, and wasn't shy going back. Monday night at home she was happy, ate great dinner - and then slept through the night! wooo!
Tuesday - same kind of thing :) (including sleeping great overnight)
Wednesday - took a 3 hour nap at Lynnes - ate so-so - and then she was great for the evening... but this morning at 5:30 she fussed for a short bit. I didn't want to get her up that early and she settled back down until 6. At 6, she was calling for "maaaamaaaa" so I went to get her - her sheet was wet in two little places - she'd puked a little, but I didn't really think more of it. Grabbed her bottle and brought her to bed with us. She took about 3-4 ounces and laid still for 10 minutes - and that's when the trouble started... puked all over the bed... surprisinly missed me even though she was snuggled up in my neck. She acted happy enough though - so I gave her a bath and then gathered up the dirty laundry and tossed it in the wash. While I was doing that and she was with Richie - she puked on him. Richie left for work and Laura and I have been snuggling up on the recliner all day. She'd cycle between sleeping and puking... about every 20-40 minutes. I tried giving her a few sips of water at 9am and again at 10am and again at 11am...but they all came back up very quickly. I made myself some toast at 1pm and gave her a bit more water. The water actually stayed down. And then she was Crying for my toast - so I got her a popsicle. She ate a whole banana popsicle and I'm happy to say that it's now nearly 3 and I've seen no pukies in nearly 2 hours. She's passed out asleep now. Hasn't wanted me to set her down all day. She's still got tears when she fusses, but as of 1pm her diaper from 6:30am was still dry. I've got a ton more popsicles in waiting and we'll see how the rest of the day goes.
Lynne (at daycare) said to watch out...because it starts coming out the other end after the pukies pass. ...... hmmm...maybe daddy can stay home with her tomorrow! ;)
Tuesday - same kind of thing :) (including sleeping great overnight)
Wednesday - took a 3 hour nap at Lynnes - ate so-so - and then she was great for the evening... but this morning at 5:30 she fussed for a short bit. I didn't want to get her up that early and she settled back down until 6. At 6, she was calling for "maaaamaaaa" so I went to get her - her sheet was wet in two little places - she'd puked a little, but I didn't really think more of it. Grabbed her bottle and brought her to bed with us. She took about 3-4 ounces and laid still for 10 minutes - and that's when the trouble started... puked all over the bed... surprisinly missed me even though she was snuggled up in my neck. She acted happy enough though - so I gave her a bath and then gathered up the dirty laundry and tossed it in the wash. While I was doing that and she was with Richie - she puked on him. Richie left for work and Laura and I have been snuggling up on the recliner all day. She'd cycle between sleeping and puking... about every 20-40 minutes. I tried giving her a few sips of water at 9am and again at 10am and again at 11am...but they all came back up very quickly. I made myself some toast at 1pm and gave her a bit more water. The water actually stayed down. And then she was Crying for my toast - so I got her a popsicle. She ate a whole banana popsicle and I'm happy to say that it's now nearly 3 and I've seen no pukies in nearly 2 hours. She's passed out asleep now. Hasn't wanted me to set her down all day. She's still got tears when she fusses, but as of 1pm her diaper from 6:30am was still dry. I've got a ton more popsicles in waiting and we'll see how the rest of the day goes.
Lynne (at daycare) said to watch out...because it starts coming out the other end after the pukies pass. ...... hmmm...maybe daddy can stay home with her tomorrow! ;)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Hi Everyone. This is Laura. I'm home from my exotic Southern Caribbean Vacation and we all had a wonderful time. I'm not giving my mommy a lot of time to get pics from the cruise uploaded yet - but they'll be up eventually. I just wanted to say we're all well and we're home.
Here's some things about my trip:
I did not sleep through the night at all. In fact, some mornings I was up at 4:30 and 5:30 am... and that was after being awake 2-3 other times in the night. Yeah, mommy and daddy got sleepy. We all took quite a few naps in the afternoons!
I did not eat a single vegetable on the trip. Who do they think they are not serving frozen foods? They think everything has to be fresh. I showed them. Not a single veggie in 10 days. But I chowed down on my frozen broccoli when we got home.
I really like climbing stairs! We were on the 8th floor and most of our food was on the 12th. Mommy decided on day 1 that it'd be "fun" to take the stairs instead of the elevators. She thought it'd help prevent a 10 pound weight gain from all the good food. Mommy and daddy let me climb and go down a lot instead of always getting carried.
I did not take a bath. Yet, I learned how to say "bathtub". My mommy kept pointing out our window and saying we were in a "big blue bathtub"... so, now I know how to say bathtub. And yes, when I got home I ran into the bathroom, pointed to the tub and proudly exclaimed "bathtub"... of course, it doesn't sound that clear - comes out more like "batub".
I also learned "beep beep". Sounds like "bop bop". You'd think I picked that word up while we were driving the streets in NYC, but surprisingly we heard more "bop bops" in St. Maarten than we did in NYC.
Here's some things about my trip:
I did not sleep through the night at all. In fact, some mornings I was up at 4:30 and 5:30 am... and that was after being awake 2-3 other times in the night. Yeah, mommy and daddy got sleepy. We all took quite a few naps in the afternoons!
I did not eat a single vegetable on the trip. Who do they think they are not serving frozen foods? They think everything has to be fresh. I showed them. Not a single veggie in 10 days. But I chowed down on my frozen broccoli when we got home.
I really like climbing stairs! We were on the 8th floor and most of our food was on the 12th. Mommy decided on day 1 that it'd be "fun" to take the stairs instead of the elevators. She thought it'd help prevent a 10 pound weight gain from all the good food. Mommy and daddy let me climb and go down a lot instead of always getting carried.
I did not take a bath. Yet, I learned how to say "bathtub". My mommy kept pointing out our window and saying we were in a "big blue bathtub"... so, now I know how to say bathtub. And yes, when I got home I ran into the bathroom, pointed to the tub and proudly exclaimed "bathtub"... of course, it doesn't sound that clear - comes out more like "batub".
I also learned "beep beep". Sounds like "bop bop". You'd think I picked that word up while we were driving the streets in NYC, but surprisingly we heard more "bop bops" in St. Maarten than we did in NYC.
Oh, and if I had my choice of clothing to wear while we were in Tortola - it would have been this - the sun was out and it was raining. Got to see plenty of nice pretty double rainbows. Yes, my mommy has pics, but like I said - not giving her a lot of time yet to work on them.
I still am not sleeping well since we got home. The hour time change on the 9th night of the cruise threw me for a loop. I was getting up at 5:30 each morning for 5 mornings and then today I slept until 6:30. Although - that does not mean I'm sleeping through the night here at home yet... I've been up 3-4 times each night since getting home. Last night I was only up once in the night. Hopefully tonight I figure it out and we'll all get some good sleep. Afterall - it'd only be fair to let my mommy and daddy get one good night of sleep before we all start back to our daily routines tomorrow. (Oh wait - daddy already did go back to work on Thursday!)
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Christmas Recap #3...
Laura fell right to sleep on Christmas Eve in hopes that St. Nick would appear overnight...
And he DID!
And he DID!
***I have no idea why these pictures look so grainy and muddy :(
Christmas Recap #2...
Here's the rest of the pictures from Christmas on the 21st :)
Oh fun! A gingerbread man...
Oh yum! I'll have another please!
Opening presents with Uncle Kevin and Aunt Dawn...
Opening a couple presents with mommy's help...
Oooh! A noisy toy! A pet puzzle :) She loves this puzzle. Poor mouse though - found him in the dishwasher this morning. I was able to save him before I ran the load, but I fear he is a bit greasy now...
Opening one with Daddy's help...
Watching Grammie and Papa open the book of pictures from Laura's first year! I loved watching everyones reactions and am sad I couldn't be there to see Great Grandma and Great Grandpa opening each of theirs! Those books were definitely my favorite gifts to give this year :)
Laura digging into the wrapping paper...
Laura is saying ... come out come out come out Cousin Neleh! I want to meet you :)
15 months!
Had Laura's 15 month check up on the 29th of December.
24 pounds (68th percentile)
31 inches (68th percentile) - she hasn't grown any inch wise since her 1 year check up ...she was 31 inches then too and at that time in the 95th percentile! We thought she'd be off the charts this time, but they measured her twice and sure enough - no height change. That's okay - means her clothes will fit a little longer now :)
She has not had her MMR yet or the chicken pox vax.... we decided to wait until 18 months for those. She got her 18 month shots (DTap and Prevnar) in place of the 15 month ones so she's still technically on track for getting everything on time.
She gives Hi Fives and has "blowing kisses" down.
She still has only 4 teeth. Yep, 25 months old and just 4 teeth. We're thinking a couple are getting ready to come through though - she's chewing on all her toys again, a bit more fussy, and drooling more...
She is little miss independent! She wants to do everything for herself.
She's wearing a 5.5 shoe...but that is a little big to get her through until the spring.
She's in size 4 diapers, although a lot of mornings she's damp so even though she's not in the size for a 5 - I bet we could use 5's for the absorbancy factor. Still in her medium fuzzibunz! Woo! Year two is where they say you see the savings for cloth diapering :) She's wearing 18 month clothes and a few 24 month things.
Her hair is long enough finally to hold a clip in it. Her bangs are in her eyes a lot, but she'll luckily let us pull them to the side with a little clip now :)
She likes to copy what we're doing and tries to help out a lot. Brushing her hair, brusing her teeth, feeding the cats, wiping her tray off, wiping the floor, putting stuff in the dishwasher (so, who cares if it's her puzzle pieces - she thinks she's helping!), puts things in drawers for us (so, who cares if it's her dolly in the tupperware drawer!), puts (some) things back where she got them if we ask her to show us where she got it from... the list goes on.
She will play independently for awhile now - getting really good at entertaining herself.
Words:
mama
dada/daddy
kitty
woof
meow
stop
ball
uh-oh
boo
thank you
down
get down
hi
bye
sit
sit down
blow?
go?
grandma? (1/2/09 after a day with Grandma Clark and Grammie and Papa had visited the night before - so she heard "grandma" a lot those previous 24 hours) :)
The question mark ones are ones we thought we heard, but not sure if she used them in the right context or not... or if it was just playing... we only heard them once each.
Of course, those are the official words, but she babbles and "talks" all the time - we're just not sure what she's saying most of the time!
She's very mobile - walking/running/twirling/dancing/climbing all over the place.
She takes one nap a day - usually 1.5-2.5 hours.
And the best 15 month update of all... SHE SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT! I can say this with confidence now because she's been doing it for 2 full weeks now! YAY!!! I'm sure the next 10 nights will throw a wrench in the plans - but we should be able to get her back on track pretty easily once we're home.
24 pounds (68th percentile)
31 inches (68th percentile) - she hasn't grown any inch wise since her 1 year check up ...she was 31 inches then too and at that time in the 95th percentile! We thought she'd be off the charts this time, but they measured her twice and sure enough - no height change. That's okay - means her clothes will fit a little longer now :)
She has not had her MMR yet or the chicken pox vax.... we decided to wait until 18 months for those. She got her 18 month shots (DTap and Prevnar) in place of the 15 month ones so she's still technically on track for getting everything on time.
She gives Hi Fives and has "blowing kisses" down.
She still has only 4 teeth. Yep, 25 months old and just 4 teeth. We're thinking a couple are getting ready to come through though - she's chewing on all her toys again, a bit more fussy, and drooling more...
She is little miss independent! She wants to do everything for herself.
She's wearing a 5.5 shoe...but that is a little big to get her through until the spring.
She's in size 4 diapers, although a lot of mornings she's damp so even though she's not in the size for a 5 - I bet we could use 5's for the absorbancy factor. Still in her medium fuzzibunz! Woo! Year two is where they say you see the savings for cloth diapering :) She's wearing 18 month clothes and a few 24 month things.
Her hair is long enough finally to hold a clip in it. Her bangs are in her eyes a lot, but she'll luckily let us pull them to the side with a little clip now :)
She likes to copy what we're doing and tries to help out a lot. Brushing her hair, brusing her teeth, feeding the cats, wiping her tray off, wiping the floor, putting stuff in the dishwasher (so, who cares if it's her puzzle pieces - she thinks she's helping!), puts things in drawers for us (so, who cares if it's her dolly in the tupperware drawer!), puts (some) things back where she got them if we ask her to show us where she got it from... the list goes on.
She will play independently for awhile now - getting really good at entertaining herself.
Words:
mama
dada/daddy
kitty
woof
meow
stop
ball
uh-oh
boo
thank you
down
get down
hi
bye
sit
sit down
blow?
go?
grandma? (1/2/09 after a day with Grandma Clark and Grammie and Papa had visited the night before - so she heard "grandma" a lot those previous 24 hours) :)
The question mark ones are ones we thought we heard, but not sure if she used them in the right context or not... or if it was just playing... we only heard them once each.
Of course, those are the official words, but she babbles and "talks" all the time - we're just not sure what she's saying most of the time!
She's very mobile - walking/running/twirling/dancing/climbing all over the place.
She takes one nap a day - usually 1.5-2.5 hours.
And the best 15 month update of all... SHE SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT! I can say this with confidence now because she's been doing it for 2 full weeks now! YAY!!! I'm sure the next 10 nights will throw a wrench in the plans - but we should be able to get her back on track pretty easily once we're home.
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