With our crazy household and not a lot of time to do simple things Lindsay has adopted well by tolerating the shower. Her bath days are long gone. We plop her into the shower with use and make use of that time while we are in there. The first couple of times were great. She would sit on the floor, crawl around and was memorized by the floor drain. She would stick her tongue out and try to catch the water on it. She would play with Nathan. The last few times have not been so smoothly. I have had to hold her the entire time. Once I lean down to put her down she starts to cry. What I really realized to day is that it is the simple thing of having her in my arms that soothes her. She loves for us to hold her and why not when you are 9 months old and exploring the world. It is more familiar and safe with an adult holding her. So I held her in the shower for the entire time. I adapted by washing my hair with one hand and was not able to shave my legs. There will be a time when I will put her down and she will cry, and I am OK with that, but for now why not indulge her and her neediness. It is such a short time that the sense of calm and comfort come over a child or baby when you old her. They grow up and move on and a hug and a hold are nice from mom and dad but it is not the same. The leaning down to put the baby/child down only to begin a frightful cry of "don't leave me" goes away. So for now I am accepting it and embracing that bond that we have with her and embracing and fulfilling her trust and security she has in us.
Nathan had another douser of an asthma episode last night. On Sunday his eyes were red and puffy. On Monday they still were and he complained that his throat itched or tickled. So I got a little nervous and bought him some zyrtex. That seemed to help even though he kept coughing. I went out of town Monday night to Tuesday night and he threw up with our babysitter from coughing too much, had diarrhea, and kept coughing. I finally got home late Tuesday night and checked on him in his bed and he was coughing and really hot. About 2 in the morning he came in our room with his labored breathing. He wanted to sleep with us. I gave him a treatment and we put him back in his bed. it is hard to listen to him breath that hard. He takes a quick inhale and then pushes it out fast but laboriously. The he work up again about 6 and was complaining that he could not sleep. I gave him another treatment and then gave him some liquid steroid. Now is his doing much better. I have to admit that the liquid steroid really helps to shorten the duration of his labored breathing. I hate giving it to him and it is actually left over from early winter but it does work. I may talk to the doctor to see if she can just give me some chewable pills that I can give him when he gets like that again. the nebulizer helps with the wheezing but I think the internal steroids help with his overall constriction.
I don't know what triggered this episode. We did go to the hockey game on Saturday night and he had a cookie with M&M's. I checked it but I was also distracted so I did not look at it well enough. The other thing may have been the leaves. The mold is high right now and that could be it. He usually never has red puffy eyes (except in the spring) and a scratchy throat. So that is why I think it was an allergic reaction instead of a cold/virus.
Well I am glad that I am home today to be with him it was heartbreaking to hear all this information about him from our babysitter.
Well that is for now.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
- a smooth business trip with good on time flights (I am a bad traveler by myself)
-a beautiful sunset that lasted the entire plane ride
-missing my kids and having them wait up for me when I got home
-my fantastic husband that keeps the house going and takes charge of everything while I am away.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Trick-or-treat
We had a great trick or treat experience. Our neigbhor has a great pot luck and we end up hanging out at their house most of the night. The kids have sackfulls of candy and counted and tallied them last night.
Where's the bee going?
Mallory at her school party
Captain America attacks the tree.
Our double rainbow just before we went out for Halloween.
Naked butt picture. I need to take more. I love these pictures but have not taken as much of her since we have been so busy. More naked butt pictures to come.
I love to suck my thumb with anything, leaves, lovey's, mom's shirt, plastic bags, trash, whatever.
Julianne is done with soccer for the season. They had a great season. Their tournament was not as successful. They lost all the games mostly because they were not passing as much as the other team and they were bumped up to the higher division. So these teams were better and I could tell that their passing game was much more sophisticated than ours. Nathan also finished his season. He had a great time and loves it. He definitely gets the game and the concept and it was great to see his progression from being clueless the first game to trying to pass too much the last game. Mallory still has one more game. Their poor team has not won one game yet but they still try hard. They are looking good the last couple of games they just have a hard time scoring. Mallory is progressing she is still a little reserved, she has her spurts of aggressiveness and getting into the game and has other times where she is not as into it. She started tap dance, once a week, and is liking it. She has only taken two classes so far but seems to enjoy it.
Lindsay is standing up and cruising, well she has been doing that for awhile now. She puts everything into our mouth and loves her dad. She loves going over to him and having him hold her. She was crying the other day in her bed and I had to finish something before I got her so she cried hysterically for about 5 minutes. I finally made it up there to find that she had dropped her lovey's on the floor. I think she was crushed that she could not get them. It was too cute. Her top two teeth are coming in slowly. Since she is our fourth I now stick her in the shower with me. So we are over baths and she will probably grow up not really taking baths. We do not have time for baths. :)
I think that is a great wrap up.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-Another nice weathered Halloween
-Seeing the kids enjoy their candy
-Eating their candy
-Finishing painting Julianne's room
Where's the bee going?
Mallory at her school party
Captain America attacks the tree.
Our double rainbow just before we went out for Halloween.
Naked butt picture. I need to take more. I love these pictures but have not taken as much of her since we have been so busy. More naked butt pictures to come.
I love to suck my thumb with anything, leaves, lovey's, mom's shirt, plastic bags, trash, whatever.
Julianne is done with soccer for the season. They had a great season. Their tournament was not as successful. They lost all the games mostly because they were not passing as much as the other team and they were bumped up to the higher division. So these teams were better and I could tell that their passing game was much more sophisticated than ours. Nathan also finished his season. He had a great time and loves it. He definitely gets the game and the concept and it was great to see his progression from being clueless the first game to trying to pass too much the last game. Mallory still has one more game. Their poor team has not won one game yet but they still try hard. They are looking good the last couple of games they just have a hard time scoring. Mallory is progressing she is still a little reserved, she has her spurts of aggressiveness and getting into the game and has other times where she is not as into it. She started tap dance, once a week, and is liking it. She has only taken two classes so far but seems to enjoy it.
Lindsay is standing up and cruising, well she has been doing that for awhile now. She puts everything into our mouth and loves her dad. She loves going over to him and having him hold her. She was crying the other day in her bed and I had to finish something before I got her so she cried hysterically for about 5 minutes. I finally made it up there to find that she had dropped her lovey's on the floor. I think she was crushed that she could not get them. It was too cute. Her top two teeth are coming in slowly. Since she is our fourth I now stick her in the shower with me. So we are over baths and she will probably grow up not really taking baths. We do not have time for baths. :)
I think that is a great wrap up.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-Another nice weathered Halloween
-Seeing the kids enjoy their candy
-Eating their candy
-Finishing painting Julianne's room
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