Life has been a little hectic around here lately, and the blog is usually the first to suffer. I don't even know where I left off!
February 10th was the last entry!?!? Wow I fail so hard.
Well, I'm over the daycare thing. No big deal. Besides, every pacifier that makes it home is added to the arsenal is randomly depleted due to AJ flinging them everywhere anyway, so no loss! Binkies are like magical little beings that disappear only to reappear later in a spot that is unexplainable. For example, she was napping on the couch and at some point, the yellow paci disappeared. We check the cushions, the blankets, her clothes, under the furniture. Nothing. Two weeks later it showed up... in the middle of the floor! *puzzled*
The latest big news is that we finally decided to trade in the Wrangler. It was a long and arduous decision and an even longer and more arduous process finding the right vehicle. I looked at the Jeep Commander more than once and was convinced I should buy that one. Yet I had a nagging feeling that it wasn't right. I decided to go look at Nissan Pathfinders and Toyota 4Runners if for no other reason than to eliminate them from the list of possibilities. I fell in love with a 2010 4Runner. After the first dealership lost our business, I went elsewhere and got a gun metal gray one that I dubbed Gandalf. LOL!
It's good for us though because the 2010 can do everything a Wrangler can do but with more comfort and more interior space. Score!
Dad is in town which is awesome. He was supposed to fly in last Sunday, but ended up surprising me by getting in on Friday evening. S-Factor, Sistah, and my friend J were all in on the surprise. He flies out tomorrow but he said he plans to come back out again for a while in July. Can't wait! It's going to be nice to actually get to do some hikes this summer haha!
Speaking of being outside, we bundled AJ up in her pram and went for a couple of walks this past weekend. That was fun. She slept through the first one but looked all around at Garden of the Gods. She's so funny.
But alas, today she has a fever of 102.9. I don't think it has anything to do with being outside because she was seriously bundled up like Ralphie in Christmas Story haha! Just another infant fever. Poor thing.
Pics will be posted (either here or on FB) soon.
Much love!
-t
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I really don't expect much
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I think I'm pretty laid back when it comes to childcare. I know they can't pay attention to each infant every hour of the day, and I'm actually happy they don't. I feel babies need time where they must entertain themselves. I don't mind the days AJ spits up or has a blow out and comes home in strange pants, because I know the laundry gets done multiple times a day there.
However, I am not very thrilled by the idea of AJ coming home with someone else's pacifier. I don't know if it was a spare that has been sanitized because they couldn't find hers (two were in her car seat in the hall, and one was in her bottle carrier in the room), or if it was on the floor near her and they assumed it was hers.
It just gives me the willies. I know kids stick things in their mouths and she'll probably lick another kid's face later on down the road... but that's not something the day care can prevent. They CAN attempt to prevent the workers from randomly sticking some other kid's binky in my kids pie-hole.
Anyway, it's not that big of a deal, I just wanted to get that out.
The weekend was great. Unfortunately, we were so wrapped up in the game, we didn't take Superbowl pictures with all of our gear on. We will stage a photo shoot soon and post those pics here or on Facebook. I tend to update the blog during breaks at work, and I can't upload pics from here, which is why this blog has like none. Sorry!
A-Train is rolling over lately. Yesterday, she did it twice like she was "showing" me what she can do now. She would roll over and look up at me with this HUGE smile so of course I made a big show of it like she just won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. She only rolls to the left so far. She's not an ambi-turner.
10 points to whomever can name what movie that last line is inspired by ;)
-t
However, I am not very thrilled by the idea of AJ coming home with someone else's pacifier. I don't know if it was a spare that has been sanitized because they couldn't find hers (two were in her car seat in the hall, and one was in her bottle carrier in the room), or if it was on the floor near her and they assumed it was hers.
It just gives me the willies. I know kids stick things in their mouths and she'll probably lick another kid's face later on down the road... but that's not something the day care can prevent. They CAN attempt to prevent the workers from randomly sticking some other kid's binky in my kids pie-hole.
Anyway, it's not that big of a deal, I just wanted to get that out.
The weekend was great. Unfortunately, we were so wrapped up in the game, we didn't take Superbowl pictures with all of our gear on. We will stage a photo shoot soon and post those pics here or on Facebook. I tend to update the blog during breaks at work, and I can't upload pics from here, which is why this blog has like none. Sorry!
A-Train is rolling over lately. Yesterday, she did it twice like she was "showing" me what she can do now. She would roll over and look up at me with this HUGE smile so of course I made a big show of it like she just won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. She only rolls to the left so far. She's not an ambi-turner.
10 points to whomever can name what movie that last line is inspired by ;)
-t
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Rollie Pollie Ollie
Thursday, February 4, 2010
She rolls over now! Not consistently, and sometimes she needs a little help, but she's getting there.
I also have a couple of pics to share of her holding her own bottle for the duration of the six ounces she consumed. More later!
:)
-t
I also have a couple of pics to share of her holding her own bottle for the duration of the six ounces she consumed. More later!
:)
-t
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Friday, January 29, 2010
The worst has passed... for now
Friday, January 29, 2010
AJ is doing much MUCH better. The verdict was that she has an ear infection in each ear, and they were bad. She is on the kick butt antibiotics now until they run out and it is obvious they are helping. She is happy and smiley again, and she's sleeping better.
The downside of the kick butt antibiotics is that they cause the worst diaper rash on her little hiney :( So bad, in fact, that a blister on her bum is leaking fluid. She cried inconsolably when I changed her and put a fresh new diaper on. I put her on a waterproof mat yesterday for about an hour without a diaper just so she would be a little more comfortable. Of course, to her, this meant TIME TO PEE AND POOP ELEVENTY BILLION TIMES. hahaha But I think airing out the rash helps it heal faster and it was already looking better today.
My Mom, AJ's GrandMaMa, is in town and they are lovin' each others' company. A-Train smiles and giggles whenever GrandMaMa makes silly faces, and she has G-MaMa completely wrapped around her tiny little fingers. They're hanging out in the mornings while I work half days at work and they will also be chillin' together tomorrow evening when S and I go out for my BFF's birthday (Roller Derby WOO!).
It's nice having family in town :)
-t
The downside of the kick butt antibiotics is that they cause the worst diaper rash on her little hiney :( So bad, in fact, that a blister on her bum is leaking fluid. She cried inconsolably when I changed her and put a fresh new diaper on. I put her on a waterproof mat yesterday for about an hour without a diaper just so she would be a little more comfortable. Of course, to her, this meant TIME TO PEE AND POOP ELEVENTY BILLION TIMES. hahaha But I think airing out the rash helps it heal faster and it was already looking better today.
My Mom, AJ's GrandMaMa, is in town and they are lovin' each others' company. A-Train smiles and giggles whenever GrandMaMa makes silly faces, and she has G-MaMa completely wrapped around her tiny little fingers. They're hanging out in the mornings while I work half days at work and they will also be chillin' together tomorrow evening when S and I go out for my BFF's birthday (Roller Derby WOO!).
It's nice having family in town :)
-t
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Can't catch a break
Monday, January 25, 2010
When it rains it pours... cats and dogs.
I know that having a child in daycare means the child will catch whatever's going around, but it really gets under my skin to see the daycare worker do nothing to separate the child with a contagious respiratory cough from the rest of the kids. Now, I know you can't segregate the lil dude, but here's the kicker: He was climbing ON TOP of A-Train last week. So I knew it was inevitable. Luckily, that particular daycare worker is no longer employed there. The rest seem to have decent brains in their heads. This was also the same worker who let AJ sleep all day every time she worked.
That's another rant, maybe. Today blog post is an update on Tiny Hiney's condition.
She got The Cough starting on about Thursday. No big deal, it didn't seem that serious. She didn't sleep well, of course, because of the phlegm and snot-factory she had become. Naturally, Thursday and Friday nights were pretty sleepless. I knew not what I had in store for me.
Saturday morning, AJ was lying on her back on the floor. I was propped up next to her, getting ready for our weekend morning ritual of playing and some tummy time. Not this time.
She projectile vomited INTO MY MOUTH!!! *cue freakout dance* S-Factor took her while I showered and brushed my teeth since it was in my mouth, eyes, hair, down my shirt, etc. She threw up a couple of more times that morning, and twice in the evening. It was bad.
We took shifts Saturday night, hanging out with her all swaddled up on the couch. She slept fitfully, which means whoever was on shift slept fitfully, as well as anyone within earshot. In other words, even the dog got no sleep.
Sunday morning/afternoon, she was lethargic and just had zero energy. Didn't feel like eating much. I picked up some Pedialyte to help keep her hydrated. Her fever was around 99 both days (Saturday and Sunday).
Around 4 or 5 pm (right around the time for kickoff for the Saints/Vikings game), she started cooing, squealing, and blowing raspberries. We were thrilled! Our little personality was back! She was smiling and playing and even laughing. The bedtime routine went as per normal albeit a little later than usual (had to watch the Saints game!).
About half an hour after we put her to bed, she woke up and simply would not stop crying. It wasn't an ear-splitting wail, just that constant whine/cry when they feel really sick. S took the first shift so I could get some sleep. He even took her for a drive in the Jeep to try to get her to sleep. He says she took about a 2 hour nap so he was able to nap some too.
But then HE started feeling bad around 1 am. Dry scratchy hurty throat and headache. Great. Fantastic. It was time for my shift anyway, so he took some Nyquil and went to bed while I camped out with AJ on the couch.
No rest for the weary.
She still had a fever of about 99.5 this morning, which isn't enough to keep her out of daycare, so we dropped her off till we could get her a doctor's appointment. No dice. 45 minute after I dropped her off, they called to say she had a temperature of about 102. So S went to pick her up and her appointment is in half an hour or so.
Fun times.
I know that having a child in daycare means the child will catch whatever's going around, but it really gets under my skin to see the daycare worker do nothing to separate the child with a contagious respiratory cough from the rest of the kids. Now, I know you can't segregate the lil dude, but here's the kicker: He was climbing ON TOP of A-Train last week. So I knew it was inevitable. Luckily, that particular daycare worker is no longer employed there. The rest seem to have decent brains in their heads. This was also the same worker who let AJ sleep all day every time she worked.
That's another rant, maybe. Today blog post is an update on Tiny Hiney's condition.
She got The Cough starting on about Thursday. No big deal, it didn't seem that serious. She didn't sleep well, of course, because of the phlegm and snot-factory she had become. Naturally, Thursday and Friday nights were pretty sleepless. I knew not what I had in store for me.
Saturday morning, AJ was lying on her back on the floor. I was propped up next to her, getting ready for our weekend morning ritual of playing and some tummy time. Not this time.
She projectile vomited INTO MY MOUTH!!! *cue freakout dance* S-Factor took her while I showered and brushed my teeth since it was in my mouth, eyes, hair, down my shirt, etc. She threw up a couple of more times that morning, and twice in the evening. It was bad.
We took shifts Saturday night, hanging out with her all swaddled up on the couch. She slept fitfully, which means whoever was on shift slept fitfully, as well as anyone within earshot. In other words, even the dog got no sleep.
Sunday morning/afternoon, she was lethargic and just had zero energy. Didn't feel like eating much. I picked up some Pedialyte to help keep her hydrated. Her fever was around 99 both days (Saturday and Sunday).
Around 4 or 5 pm (right around the time for kickoff for the Saints/Vikings game), she started cooing, squealing, and blowing raspberries. We were thrilled! Our little personality was back! She was smiling and playing and even laughing. The bedtime routine went as per normal albeit a little later than usual (had to watch the Saints game!).
About half an hour after we put her to bed, she woke up and simply would not stop crying. It wasn't an ear-splitting wail, just that constant whine/cry when they feel really sick. S took the first shift so I could get some sleep. He even took her for a drive in the Jeep to try to get her to sleep. He says she took about a 2 hour nap so he was able to nap some too.
But then HE started feeling bad around 1 am. Dry scratchy hurty throat and headache. Great. Fantastic. It was time for my shift anyway, so he took some Nyquil and went to bed while I camped out with AJ on the couch.
No rest for the weary.
She still had a fever of about 99.5 this morning, which isn't enough to keep her out of daycare, so we dropped her off till we could get her a doctor's appointment. No dice. 45 minute after I dropped her off, they called to say she had a temperature of about 102. So S went to pick her up and her appointment is in half an hour or so.
Fun times.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Outbreak Monkey
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
I think we have a pandemic on our hands, and the outbreak monkey appears to be A-Train. She hasn't gotten sick, Thank GOD! Still keeping a close eye on her, but she seems ok.
Her hair is awesome today. The back is ratty looking as usual, even though it's not knotted up. The front has a spike and the top looks like a peacock plume. I didn't have time to take photos but if it still looks like that after daycare, pics are a must. Every time she moved her head, the plume would wave around like dandelion fluff.
I still have a ton of videos to upload and post, but it takes so long to do it that I never seem to have time. Time is a valuable commodity of late and I won't have any after work because I have 2 homework assignments due. What a week.
She's been attempting to sit up lately. She'll do little crunches when she's placed in her carseat or butterfly bouncy chair. She has also been holding her bottle for the most part. She hasn't quite mastered the process, and tends to place her hands on the top which pushes it down and out of her mouth. She also can't seem to tilt it so she needs assistance, but every once in a while she nails it and can hold it through the whole feeding.
Gave her a little rice cereal with a spoon yesterday. Her faces are classic and we'll post video of that hopefully soon. She's learning not to push it back out of her mouth, and she managed to eat more cereal than she ended up wearing which is a plus.
She seems to be everyone's favorite at the daycare. One of the teachers from the 4 year old class says she loves relieving the infant teachers for lunch because she gets to play with AJ. Her little smile is infectious, even to those who work with babies all day long. The new girl at daycare is funny and so far I like her. Every time I've picked AJ up from daycare since the new girl started, she was holding her, playing with her or rocking her.
A-Train can't help it that she's the most awesome!
-t
Her hair is awesome today. The back is ratty looking as usual, even though it's not knotted up. The front has a spike and the top looks like a peacock plume. I didn't have time to take photos but if it still looks like that after daycare, pics are a must. Every time she moved her head, the plume would wave around like dandelion fluff.
I still have a ton of videos to upload and post, but it takes so long to do it that I never seem to have time. Time is a valuable commodity of late and I won't have any after work because I have 2 homework assignments due. What a week.
She's been attempting to sit up lately. She'll do little crunches when she's placed in her carseat or butterfly bouncy chair. She has also been holding her bottle for the most part. She hasn't quite mastered the process, and tends to place her hands on the top which pushes it down and out of her mouth. She also can't seem to tilt it so she needs assistance, but every once in a while she nails it and can hold it through the whole feeding.
Gave her a little rice cereal with a spoon yesterday. Her faces are classic and we'll post video of that hopefully soon. She's learning not to push it back out of her mouth, and she managed to eat more cereal than she ended up wearing which is a plus.
She seems to be everyone's favorite at the daycare. One of the teachers from the 4 year old class says she loves relieving the infant teachers for lunch because she gets to play with AJ. Her little smile is infectious, even to those who work with babies all day long. The new girl at daycare is funny and so far I like her. Every time I've picked AJ up from daycare since the new girl started, she was holding her, playing with her or rocking her.
A-Train can't help it that she's the most awesome!
-t
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
ER
Sunday, January 17, 2010
I feel like the boy in The Velveteen Rabbit except I don't have to get rid of my favorite toys, I just can't play with them yet. I went to the ER this morning around 8:30 to get a $250 IV and some anti-nausea meds. $250 co-pay. Yuck.
S dropped me off and I stumbled into the ER after being checked for metals and what not. Gotta love metal detectors in a hospital. I was actually thankful for this later, but I'll get to that. He drove AJ down to my girl friend's house (our regular babysitter) and then he came back to sit with me.
Before he returned, I was put in a small check up room and my vitals were taken. While waiting to be placed into a triage room, a woman came in claiming her doctor was wrong, and he had said she was psychotic. She intended to sue him and needed someone to go to court with her. Here is where I was thankful for the metal detectors. I wanted to scream at her that 1) it's SUNDAY, wth is anyone going to be able to do TODAY and 2) could you please not be a psycho... go away and let people with real emergencies get seen. A couple with two small children were waiting for their children to be seen and it broke my heart to hear the little girl crying when they took her blood.
After all the IVs and meds and drive home, I made my way back upstairs to the guest room at home to sleep it off. I had been up since about 3 am and had no energy. I slept decent thanks to the meds and exhaustion. I was ready to be awake at about 3 pm and came downstairs, careful not to touch or breathe on anything. My head was pounding though so I took some Excedrin Tension and went back upstairs.
I read my book for a while and it made me want to cuddle with A-Train. It's about a missing girl and a tragedy in her little life. Sad! I called (lol yes called on the phone) S-Factor and said I wanted to hang out but was afraid I would get them sick. He convinced me to come down and quarantine myself on one end of the couch. So that's where I've been for the last couple of hours.
Despite all of the hours I slept today, i'm still worn out and ready for bed. If I feel like this in the morning, I'm staying home. Blah!
Here's hoping this bug skips AJ and S-Factor.
-t
S dropped me off and I stumbled into the ER after being checked for metals and what not. Gotta love metal detectors in a hospital. I was actually thankful for this later, but I'll get to that. He drove AJ down to my girl friend's house (our regular babysitter) and then he came back to sit with me.
Before he returned, I was put in a small check up room and my vitals were taken. While waiting to be placed into a triage room, a woman came in claiming her doctor was wrong, and he had said she was psychotic. She intended to sue him and needed someone to go to court with her. Here is where I was thankful for the metal detectors. I wanted to scream at her that 1) it's SUNDAY, wth is anyone going to be able to do TODAY and 2) could you please not be a psycho... go away and let people with real emergencies get seen. A couple with two small children were waiting for their children to be seen and it broke my heart to hear the little girl crying when they took her blood.
After all the IVs and meds and drive home, I made my way back upstairs to the guest room at home to sleep it off. I had been up since about 3 am and had no energy. I slept decent thanks to the meds and exhaustion. I was ready to be awake at about 3 pm and came downstairs, careful not to touch or breathe on anything. My head was pounding though so I took some Excedrin Tension and went back upstairs.
I read my book for a while and it made me want to cuddle with A-Train. It's about a missing girl and a tragedy in her little life. Sad! I called (lol yes called on the phone) S-Factor and said I wanted to hang out but was afraid I would get them sick. He convinced me to come down and quarantine myself on one end of the couch. So that's where I've been for the last couple of hours.
Despite all of the hours I slept today, i'm still worn out and ready for bed. If I feel like this in the morning, I'm staying home. Blah!
Here's hoping this bug skips AJ and S-Factor.
-t
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