Another day, another surgery

We are crossing our fingers that we are officially on the downside of the "sick and can't get over it" hill we've been on the past two months.  Today was Abby's turn to get more ear tubes (her last set was at age 6 months and fell out maybe a year later) and also her adenoids removed.  She was so brave and really only seemed scared a couple times before the procedure.  I was so proud of her!

Once they brought her back out, she was out of it for a while but once she came around, she was back to super happy Abby.  The only thing that bothered her the most was the spot where they put the IV in her little hand.  She will be milking that wound for a while I have a feeling.

Being silly with Pepper before surgery

Cuddling with Mommy post-op. (Poor girl couldn't stay awake!)

Hospital

Abby had another rough weekend.  On Friday evening she started coughing really bad and couldn't breathe well, and we could hear her wheezing.  So after calling our on-call pediatrician, we were instructed to go into the Dell Children's ER.  This happened at 11:30pm at night....by 4:30am after not responding to 3 hours worth of breathing treatments, she was admitted to the hospital on the intermediary floor (not ICU, but not a regular room either).

Fortunately by the next morning she started coming around and the treatments were working.  Her lungs sounded good, so they decided to discharge us with an inhaler to use for the next 24 hours.  Her diagnoses after x-rays and evaluations was an asthmatic attack.  She does not have asthma, at least not yet.  If this happens again, she will be classified as officially having asthma...but we are hoping this was a one time thing caused by our crazy weather this year  (80 one day, 30 and ice the next) and the bad allergy season.

My poor sweet girl.

Abby in her hospital bed with all the wires and monitors hooked up (she was not a fan!).  It's really hard to keep a 4 year old confined to a bed for an extended amount of time too!

Sweet girl doing a breathing treatment.  She did this for 3 hours straight before being admitted. Such a trooper. :(

Blake taking advantage of the fold out bed that Daddy tried to use to get some rest.

Blake and his Kitty!

Blake the Mouth Monster

Here are the items I've removed from my sweet little baby's mouth in the last couple of weeks:

1. Fake Dreidel game coins
2. Quarter
3. Penny (at the same time as the quarter actually)
4. Various lids/caps from Abby's toys in her room
5. Cat food
6. The door stopper. (Actually - he was laying on the marble floor sucking the door stopper.  Like a pacifier??!!)
7. A mouth full of black and white cat hair (after he bit our cat, who didn't seem to mind at all)
8. Rocks/leaves from outside
9. Pink domino


Wow.  I think he's making up for the fact that we never had to deal with any of this when his sister was a baby!!!

Tubes for Blake

We were able to get into the ENT last week after my crazy 3x per day calling to check on cancellations. Our Feb 27 appointment went to Feb 18, and then Feb 11 and finally Feb 5!  We saw the doctor on Wednesday and immediately scheduled his surgery to get ear tubes today (Monday).  I sure hope this helps to alleviate all these infections he's had since Christmas.

The facility doesn't allow photos inside the building like they did for Abby, so I took this one once we got home (after his nap of course) and you can see my Superman is already feeling pretty good!

Mi Vida Loca!

We've had a hard couple of months lately.  Seems having one young child can be a challenge, but having two brings on twice as many things to go wrong!

Blake is on antibiotic shots - he's had 4 now in 3 days - for an ear infection he's had since Christmas.  He's already been through 30 days of 3 other types of meds, so we are hoping the shots hold him over long enough to get into the ENT (he will most definitely need tubes)...which is a whole other story!

Abby also got a double ear infection and didn't tell us until it was so bad that one of her ear drums ruptured.  She is doing really well now though and we go back for one more follow up with her ENT at the end of February.  Hoping she will get a clean bill of health and we can stop her meds too.

Then this week Blake tripped over a mat (twice in the same day) and his mouth met the corner of a cabinet.  This led to an emergency trip to the dentist for x-rays.  Poor little guy has a bad boo-boo but the dentist thinks it's just soft tissue damage and it should heal, we just have to watch for discoloration which would mean the tooth was dying. :(

I'm so ready for some calm around our house!!

Blake's birthday party!

Last weekend we drove up to Dallas to celebrate Blake's 1st birthday at Teri's house.  It was a nice lunch of fajitas, cake and presents!  I still can't believe he's already a year old!

(video - make sure you go to the blog to see it!)

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY BLAKE!!

I swear I blinked and Blake turned ONE!   This year has flown by.  Seems like the first year with Abby felt like it lasted 10 years...but not this one.  Blake has been the easiest and mostly happiest baby and I know how lucky we are.  And I'm so thankful he has this personality and I hope it stays with him through life!

He's still trying to ramp up on his walking skills and he's still very vocal with babbling (no real words just yet other than bye-bye).  His favorite person (besides his Mommy of course) is Abby.  He beams when she plays with him and gets sad when she won't.

I can't wait to see how much he will develop over the next few months, he's turning into quite the little boy!!

We love you so much sweet boy!  Happy Birthday!!

Abby's new "do"

This is Abby's new layered "haircut".  Complements of Avery, one of her BFF's at school.

Great.

Walking!

Watch out world, here he comes!!

(video)