It's Back

I stayed home again today since last night was so rough and this morning wasn't anything better... but we did try to send Emersyn to daycare for a couple hours in hopes that just being out and about might help her get over the infection somehow... Plus, with Boo Baby growing, Mommy needed a teeny break... It didn't last very long though. Even after 4 doses now of the amoxicyllin, Emersyn's still feeling horrible and daycare called to tell me that her fever is back. When they took it, it was "only" at 100.3 but by the time I got there, her teacher said she felt warmer already. I gave her so Motrin right away and we went to RightTime around the corner.

By the time we got all registered and seen, Emersyn temperature was back up to the 103's and she was just so sad and tired. Quick little promo - the people at (this) RightTime (Arundel Mills) were absolutely wonderful! They all talked to HER and tried to soothe her; they didn't talk to us like we were stupid parents, and the doctor explained anitbiotics the best way I've ever heard. He actually reminded me of Emersyn's normal Pediatrician, Dr. Hill, in how nice and friendly he was. Even the guy at the front desk and the nurse who get Emersyn started were so wonderful. I swear, I will definitely be back there next time we need to see someone right away; it's worth the extra few minutes than going to the Pasadena one!!

Anyways, the doctor was so sweet and did confirm that she "only" has an ear infection but agreed that she never should have been given amoxicyllin since there was such a strong reason to think it didn't work in the past. He did remind us that because you develope immunities to them, antibiotics do have to be rotated, especially when you're taking them so close together. We got a new prescription for Cefdinir and he said to keep up with the Motrin every 6-ish hours. He also suggested that we talk to her Pediatrician about tubes since she's had so many ear infections in such a short time span - 2 doubles, 1 in the right ear, and this one in the right ear, all within 3 months.

We got a dose of the cefdinir with dinner as soon as we got home, and so now it's just a waiting game. Chris put Emersyn down - still with the Sleep Lady's way - and she did much better tonight than she has since about Saturday or Friday. Hopefully she can stay asleep, since we all need rest, but she definitely needs some good sleep to help her fight off everything. Depending on how the night goes, I'm already planning on either going in late or staying home again tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed!!

First ER Trip

Well, I guess it was inevitable, but it doesn't make our first trip to the Emergency Room any easier... Emersyn wasn't exactly in the best of moods this weekend, but she's had a runny nose for a little while and we kind of chalked it up to being congested. Then, Sunday, she was really clingy and just wanted to be held. Emersyn's normally affectionate, but she's never been clingy before... So I told Chris that first thing Monday morning, we'll have to call and get her an appointment to see what's bothering her. Only we didn't get a chance to wait...

Emersyn fell asleep in my arms at my parents' house and was seriously burning me through our jeans. When she woke up - still not happy - she didn't cool off at all; a temperature check told us that she was at 103.1 and we were off to the ER. The hospital was wonderful (AAMC) and the staff were all so nice to Emersyn. The doctor was very nice as well, and told us that Emersyn has (another) ear infection in her right ear. Although she's never gotten a fever with any of the other (5) ear infections, he says the ear infection is to blame for the fever. We got some amoxicyllin and Bird has to take 6 mL of it, twice a day for 10 days.

Her first dose was last night and it didn't seem to make any difference. She got another dose this morning at breakfast - I stayed home - and she still feels a little warm to me, plus she's still really fussy. I don't blame her, I've heard ear infections are horribly painful, but I expected the medicine to make a little difference. I still have my doubts about the amoxicyllin though; her first ear infection (a double) was treated with the same anitbiotics and we're not sure that they actually did anything since she got "another" double ear infection so quickly and so strong. Even though I told the ER doctor that, he still insisted upon trying the amoxicyllin, so hopefully it starts working soon. I hate seeing like this... and it's worse knowing that I can't fix it. More updates soon, if she lets me... Elmo is on now and she's drinking some juice while laying with Dobie, so I have a couple minutes.

Family Pictures

Ok, so we got them done a few weeks ago, but I've been struggling with snapfish and searching for a new photo site and then of course getting ready for a big shopping trip this weekend for Christmas presents... So it's a little late, but nover the less, here are some (yeah, there's tons more) of the pictures from the session we did of the "whole" family; mind you, my mom still refuses to come be in them, so there's no point in having my dad there too, so when I say "whole family" I really mean the "whole family besides the people responsible for starting the whole family". Happy viewing! (And THANK YOU ALI for the fab pictures and being so beyond wonderful with Emersyn and Cameron... much less, for actually getting Patrick to kind of crack a smile; for him, that's like getting an ear to ear, every tooth showing smile!)

Turkey Day...

I hope everyone had a really spectacular Thanksgiving!! Here's a little recap of ours...

Emersyn watching the paradeGetting ready to go to Maw Maw and Pop's houseMommy's attempt at getting both her babies in a picture together... You can't blame me for trying!Hopefully your day was just as special!!! :)

Happy Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for, especially with a new addition on the way... I truely wish that everyone has a magical, grateful, and blessed Thanksgiving!!

GUESS WHAT...

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!! So we found out the day before Halloween... it was a little surprise to all of us, but we're so overjoyed that we get another baby! We were planning to start trying in the new year, but this works out perfectly and better than we could have planned anyways. It's awesome. Although Chris keeps laughing at me for sounding like a rap singer, I've basically dubbed the baby Boo Baby since we found out for Halloween. I just don't like calling the baby "it" and I found myself saying "he" all the time, which of course implies the baby's a boy... but I don't know if it's just Mommy Intuition or the fact that I didn't want to keep the routine of saying "she" after having a "she" for so long... Anyways, Emersyn already kisses my belly and endlessly pulls my shirt up if you ask where the baby is; it was cute at first, but when she tries to do it in the mall because you say the word baby, it's not really that cute... especially when the little hot head gets all mad at you because you won't let her pull your shirt up in the middle of public! Ok, so it's still a little cute because it is Emersyn, but still... LOL! Anyways, Boo Baby is due 6 July - yup, a 4th of July baby. So far Boo is measuring perfectly where he/she should be, 8 weeks 0 days, and the heartbeat is perfect! We actually got to hear it this visit instead of waiting until about the 16 week one like we did with Emersyn. It's really one of the two most beautiful sounds I've ever heard in my whole life!! I wish I could have one of those machines to carry around all the time so I just could listen that little whumpsh, whumpsh, whumpsh sound... We can find out the sex of the baby in February too. Since Emersyn already has a check up on 15 Feb, we're going to try and plan on getting the big sono on the same day since we'll be exactly 20 weeks on the 16th; hopefully I can wait that long, but it's already really hard. I will also tell you that, once again, we really just want a healthy baby and aren't really too pressed either way about the gender. I think Chris and I both go back and forth a lot on what we'd like to have, but it always ends up that we really don't care either way. On one hand, it'd be really nice to have a boy because we already have a girl. On the other hand, it'd be nice to have a girl so that Emersyn has another girl to relate too. But, at the same time, Emersyn's such a tomboy already that she'd probably get along better with a little boy that she can wrestle, climb, play cars with... but, then again, we could have a girl who's just as rough and tumble as Emersyn is, so they'd still get along wonderfully. And so it goes... I guess it just proves that we really don't have a preference. ;) Only time will tell, and right now we're already counting down to February. Although, again, I come to a cross because I really want to know what gender Boo Baby is, I really want to meet, hold, cuddle, kiss, play with, love up on him or her... but I want to cherish every single second with Emersyn even more now, I want time to go in slow motion since it already moves so fast, and I want Emersyn to stay this fabulous little 15 month old forever... I swear parenthood makes you nuts!! But yeah, we're adding to the craziness with another wonderful little blessing!!! We're pregnant!!!

Too Cute

Thanks Aunt Chelsea for the super cute outfit!! We rocked it today for the Toddler Room at daycare... where Emersyn will offically be full time after the holidays when the teachers and kids are back to their normal schedules.

Putting Up the Tree

Yeah, we're a little earlier than normal but we had to get a new Christmas tree this year so we figured we might as well put it up instead of lugging it to the basement for a week or having three curious creatures climbing all over it for a week! Of course, I compeletely forgot to take pictures of it all up and decorated and pretty looking... Still, Emersyn was very interested and a very big helper!!

Sleep Lady

So last night we started the Sleep Lady method, or whatever you want to call it. Basically it's the less painful, less crying, easy way to teach a baby/child to go to sleep on their own. Or, to quote the book, it teaches us "how to get your baby sleep, keep them asleep and wake up a happy baby". Well, I will admit that it was not nearly as bad as I expected and went really great last night.

See, the idea is that you spend 20 minutes calming the baby down and having some quiet time to prepare for bed. Then, you take them in and put them in their bed/crib and sit or stand there until they fall asleep. You can comfor them, talk to them, hold their hand, whatever you want as long as you don't pick them back up. If they wake up during the night, you do the same thing. You're supposed to do this for 3 nights straight. On the next 3 nights (4-6) you do the same thing, but once you put the baby down you go to about halfway across the room towards the door, and console them from there; same place if they wake up at night. Then, the following 3 nights you console them from the doorway. After that, you can console from the other side of a closed (or cracked) door if need be, but the idea is that you won't need to do that.

Yeah, I was fortunate enough to be out with my mom when Chris started... But, all in all it only took about 15 minutes for Emersyn to go to sleep and she hardly cried at all. Chris stayed up there for about a half hour total, just to make sure though. Yay!!

Of course, this morning Emersyn sat down on Daddy's lap to put her sock back on and, well... It appears that we won't need to try the Sleep Lady method for nap time.

Helping Out

Emersyn now helps Daddy empty the dishwasher... She mainly only gets her utentils, but now we find her peeking in "her" drawer all the time.

15 Months!!

I really don't know where the time goes, but Emersyn had her 15 month check up today... Yeah, it's crazy to think that my baby is 15 months old. As is our custom, I tried to get a picture of her today but she wasn't really having it... This was the closest thing I got, until she was trapped in the bath! :) On top of all our vaccinations - we got 4 (yes FOUR) shots today - we also got measured and sized up. Now, I'm putting two percentages down here because Chris swears that he got one and the Doctor got a different one, both using the same chart. So, yeah, you get both just appease Chris. :)

Weight :: 22.2 lbs - 20% (dr) - 35-40% (dad)
Length :: 31 ins - 50% (dr) - 65-70% (dad)
Head :: 47 - 45% (dr) 75% (dad)

Either way you look at it, she's pretty much a little tall and a little skinny.. and no matter what the measurements say, she still can't wear the clothes that match up to her size because they're all so big! LOL!

Emersyn goes back for her flu booster on 28 December and for her 18 month wellness check up on 15 February, but keep checking back for new pictures and stories!! :)

Some New Favorite Things

Well, it's safe to say that Emersyn has discovered a few "new" things and they've quickly become her favorite things to do...

At home, we've found that hanging from the gate while standing on the bottom stair is great fun. We've also learned that there are big windows behind the blinds, and that we can watch the outside through these wonderful windows... Of course, normally Emersyn is accompanied by the puppies in her "outside watching" and all three have made several attempts to take the blinds down completely before Mommy or Daddy could get them pulled up.Our new toy from Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Chelsea and Audrey was a great distraction from the windows and steps. It kind of became a weapon as we tried to leave for Maw Maw and Pop's house and Mommy tried to take it away though... When we got to Maw Maw's house, we discovered that she had brought out Cameron's old kitchen and all the food stuff that went with it. Even better than that though, we discovered the super cool plastic bin that holds all the food!

Emersyn Playing

Just a few pictures of Emersyn playing...

Seriously, I'm not sure who likes the blocks more - Emersyn or Daddy.Emersyn has also re-discovered the laptop Grammy gave her for Christmas. Although, she still prefers Mommy's laptop. She also is starting to be interested in the camera, which results in pictures like this... Thank you Aunt Shannon, Uncle Jeff, Kherington and Kennadi for the AquaDoodle!! Emersyn is finally starting to figure it out, although she still spends the majority of the time sucking on the "pen"... but at least now she's started to use the "pens" too! :) Oh - Emersyn's new thing is to close her eyes...