medicine

child, just take your medicine. it tastes like bubble gum!

i know i am forcing you to take it, but the spitting it out really makes this process a lot longer.

your sister loved taking medicine and still does... can you be like her just this once?

how many more days do we have to fight this battle?!

sitting up

Kendal received this piano for her first Christmas from Vovo and Vova. We have had it in Natalie's room for quite some time now. Usually Kendal plays it while Natalie lays on the floor and watches her big sister play. This morning I sat Natalie at the piano and let her play while Kendal slept. I kept a close eye on her from topping over for awhile, but then I decided I wanted to chance it. She sat up the whole time by herself while I went to get the camera. She played for about 15 minutes at the piano.

mom and me

it may be morbid, but i think about how my girls will remember me. is it the love that i give them, the smiles and the hugs. or is it the ill temper and the yelling (yes, I have succumbed to yelling). how much i was away from home or that we snuggled close on the couch. this picture makes me think of those things. i don't have make up on or look all put together, but i have love in my face and joy in my heart for my little natalie.

roll over... roll over

Finally! she rolled from back to front. I put her down on the floor on her back and she was quiet. She has rolled from front to back for quite some time. The back to front has been a wee bit elusive. She even got her arms out. one small milestone.

RSV

We had two trips to the ER and two hospital stays due to RSV - Respiratory syncytial virus.

Thursday 2/4 Ryan and Kendal took MT Nana to the airport. Itty bitty was kind of fussy all day and by the evening she was breathing really hard. As soon as Ryan walked in the door from the airport I left for the ER.

In the ER, the doctors hooked up Natalie to an oxygen sensor and her numbers were pretty good. Then took an x-ray and an RSV swab test. We ended up about 4 hours in the ER. And about 1 in the morning they admitted Natalie to the hospital. She had a breathing treatment and some supplemental oxygen. I ended up watching her monitors for hours and falling asleep for a few hours.

Friday morning we went home. The doctors told us that it probably would get worse. So we went home and rode the roller coaster of getting better a bit and then getting worse. We tried to suction out the snot from her nose and feed her from a syringe (since she wouldn't nurse).

Saturday we called the doctors and they said to come in. But, we decided she got better enough to stay home.

Sunday we woke up, showered and went to the ER. I think at one point there were over 8 people in the room. There was no pneumonia and one nurse said that we were on the way to pneumonia if we waited any longer. Natalie was dehydrated and needed an IV. She was very lethargic due to the dehydration as well. She was also put on supplemental oxygen again. And then we were admitted to the hospital again. At this point, we just wanted her to be better. It is so hard to see your child sick.

Monday... another day in the hospital.
Tuesday... another day in the hospital. But, taken off of IV in early afternoon. Then that night she was taken off of oxygen.

Wednesday... we went home. We had our smiling baby again.

Hospital Baby

This is the face that they let leave the hospital this morning. It was a much happier face than what entered the ER last night. This face looked a lot healthier and even had a smile.

Yesterday, was a long day...

Best Dream Ever

Sometimes I remember my dreams. Sometimes I remember bits and pieces. In the middle of this dream, I realized I was dreaming. And told myself to just roll with it.

I was in the car with the hubby when Ron and Don announced a contest to win a million dollars. And hubby said to call in... just to do it. I did and we won.

And then I didn't really 'believe' it. I wanted to have the money in hand before I believed it. We got the money and this was when I realized it was a dream. I told my husband that I wanted a third child and that we were going to go to Monaco. Monaco is one of our dream trips. And we paid off all our debt.

A girl can dream...