Thursday, March 26, 2009
Still Sick...
I took Sydney back to the doctor again today. They wanted to check her out again since she is STILL running a fever! When I took her in at 2pm, her temp. was back at 104. All She wanted to do was wrap her arms around my neck and tuck her head into my chest. At least I am able to comfort her somehow. It's just so sad to see her this way and for so long now. The doctor said she now has a double ear infection. If she continues to run a fever tonight and tomorrow morning when we wake up, we are to take her in for a shot to really get the antibiotics working well. The doctor wanted to do it today but couldn't because we had already given her a dose of her antibiotics this morning. By the time we got home, her fever had not changed so I took her up for another luke warm bath. This time she didn't fight it and after a few minutes in the water, she started to play and her fever went down. So, I guess we see what the night brings us...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sydney's First Serious Illness
Poor Sydney has been really sick for a few days now. She started having allergy symptoms around 8 days ago. Then it seemed that she was getting more of a cold. Then on Sunday, she seemed to get worse and by Monday, she was miserable. After a couple nights of fevers and little sleep, I decided to take her to the Doctor. We found out that her allergies turned into a sinus and an ear infection. This is the sickest she has been and it's heartbreaking for Greg and I. She started meds yesterday morning but as of tonight, they still have not kicked in. She is still running a fever anywhere from 101 - 104. It's so sad when her fever gets so hi because she gets scared and I can tell she is uncomfortable by the sound of her cry. At one point today I thought she was getting better but when she woke up from her nap her temperature was back up to 104. I gave her some more Tylenol and sat with her in a luke warm tub of water. She cried the entire time that we were in the tub but I knew we had to get her temperature down so she could feel some relief. The bath helped but it broke my heart to hear her cry the whole time. After her temperature went down, she was able to eat a little and we cuddled and watched movies. Non of us have had much sleep. Greg and I have been taking turns getting up with her at night to comfort her. Greg is such a trooper considering he had to work 10 hours yesterday and 10 hours today with little sleep. I am blessed to have such an involved husband/Daddy - makes me appreciate my mom even more since she was a single mom.
Anyone that knows me well, knows that I need my sleep to function well. It's been challenging for me only having a few hours of sleep the last few nights but when I start getting frustrated I think of Sydney and how awful it is for her to be so sick and to not be able to completely verbalize what she needs and where she hurts. It breaks my heart that she is in pain and that I cannot make it all better for her. Hopefully tonight she will find some relief and we will all get some sleep and tomorrow will be the start of her road to recovery!
We have been utilizing her stuffed animals to help her become less afraid of her meds and the frequent noes irrigation's. It's helped a lot and its so darn cute to watch her give her "babies" medicine and juice. She does it with such compassion and care - makes me very proud to be her Mommy!
Anyone that knows me well, knows that I need my sleep to function well. It's been challenging for me only having a few hours of sleep the last few nights but when I start getting frustrated I think of Sydney and how awful it is for her to be so sick and to not be able to completely verbalize what she needs and where she hurts. It breaks my heart that she is in pain and that I cannot make it all better for her. Hopefully tonight she will find some relief and we will all get some sleep and tomorrow will be the start of her road to recovery!
We have been utilizing her stuffed animals to help her become less afraid of her meds and the frequent noes irrigation's. It's helped a lot and its so darn cute to watch her give her "babies" medicine and juice. She does it with such compassion and care - makes me very proud to be her Mommy!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Pictures
Another crazy couple of weeks have passed since I have written and so much to share. Sydney seems to be growing developmentally everyday! She LOVES to sing with me and I LOVE to sing with her. She sings in the car, at home, at the store, just about anywhere. Her favorites are "ABC", "Head, Shoulder's Knees & Toes", "Twinkle Twinkle", "Elmo's World", and the "Cillou" theme song (I think I spelled that wrong). She talks up a storm at home but not so much in public - depends where we are at. She does this funny "bug" thing now - my fault since I am so freaked out about bugs! If she sees a bug or if we say "get that bug", she swats her arms up and down really fast and screams, "get that bug"...it's so funny! She continues to say more words and phrases everyday, too many to list here! I think I wrote already about her first use of the "potty" - very exciting! She LOVES to color with crayons and colored penciles and she loves to draw on her magnetic board. Her Nana and Great Aunties and Uncles watched her Sunday night while Mommy & Daddy went out for a nice dinner with the neighbors. We had a great time but I am still waiting for MY one on one date night daddy...hint, hint, hint!!!
My nephew Cory, his girlfriend Alex, and their 7.5 month old Kai were staying with us last week for a visit. It was so nice to spend so much time with them. Cory and Alex are awesome parents and Kai is soooo cute. He looks just like Cory did when he was a baby! Kai got sick when he was here so I didn't get to hold him and cuddle him as much as I would have liked to have but I will see him again this summer - look out Kai! Also, my neice had a little baby boy, James, about two weeks ago. We were all quite surprised about the boy part since she was told she was having a girl!!! I cannot wait to meet him this summer!
Enjoy the pictures...
This is Alex, Kai & Sydney. It was so cute watching Sydney and Kai interact. Sydney was jealous that she wasn't the baby and tried really hard to act like a baby by using her old Jumperoo and putting the baby's nuk in her mouth - although she had no idea what to do with it once it was in her mouth since she never used one!! Kai is such a beautiful little boy!
Here is Cory, Kai, Alex & Sydney. Kai loved to watch Sydney.
Kai wanted to touch Sydney so bad but she really didn't want any part of that!!
Look at that face!!!! Sydney was so funny with her Jumperoo. Everytime Kai wasn't in it, she wanted in it although she is wayyyy to big for it! We just played along with it and let her be a baby again for a couple days...no harm done!
Sydney LOVES to feed herself with her own utensiles. She will oftentimes turn her nose up to food offerred to her if she isn't given her own spoon! She loves yogurt!
Her first cupcake! I usually don't offer her desserts - but I had made some cup cakes and gave her one. She mostly played with it. Look at her eye...scary! She was so focused on squishing the cup cake just right. OMG, it was soooo hard to clean up!
She has allergies right now and they get so much worse when we are outside right now so we have had to come up with creative things to do inside. Here, she is finger painting on paper in the bathtub. She created a beautiful masterpiece...
....herself!!!!!
She pretty much painted her whole body and she was so mad when I turned the bath water on and washed everything, including her, off. She cried and cried until I got her out of the tub and rocked her.
My nephew Cory, his girlfriend Alex, and their 7.5 month old Kai were staying with us last week for a visit. It was so nice to spend so much time with them. Cory and Alex are awesome parents and Kai is soooo cute. He looks just like Cory did when he was a baby! Kai got sick when he was here so I didn't get to hold him and cuddle him as much as I would have liked to have but I will see him again this summer - look out Kai! Also, my neice had a little baby boy, James, about two weeks ago. We were all quite surprised about the boy part since she was told she was having a girl!!! I cannot wait to meet him this summer!
Enjoy the pictures...
This is Alex, Kai & Sydney. It was so cute watching Sydney and Kai interact. Sydney was jealous that she wasn't the baby and tried really hard to act like a baby by using her old Jumperoo and putting the baby's nuk in her mouth - although she had no idea what to do with it once it was in her mouth since she never used one!! Kai is such a beautiful little boy!
Here is Cory, Kai, Alex & Sydney. Kai loved to watch Sydney.
Kai wanted to touch Sydney so bad but she really didn't want any part of that!!
Look at that face!!!! Sydney was so funny with her Jumperoo. Everytime Kai wasn't in it, she wanted in it although she is wayyyy to big for it! We just played along with it and let her be a baby again for a couple days...no harm done!
Sydney LOVES to feed herself with her own utensiles. She will oftentimes turn her nose up to food offerred to her if she isn't given her own spoon! She loves yogurt!
Her first cupcake! I usually don't offer her desserts - but I had made some cup cakes and gave her one. She mostly played with it. Look at her eye...scary! She was so focused on squishing the cup cake just right. OMG, it was soooo hard to clean up!
She has allergies right now and they get so much worse when we are outside right now so we have had to come up with creative things to do inside. Here, she is finger painting on paper in the bathtub. She created a beautiful masterpiece...
....herself!!!!!
She pretty much painted her whole body and she was so mad when I turned the bath water on and washed everything, including her, off. She cried and cried until I got her out of the tub and rocked her.
That's it for now!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Mommy's Babbling
Today at work I realized that I have been getting so caught up in the repetitiveness of everyday life that I have lost touch of time and how quickly it is all going by.
Everyday we have a similar routine: We get up around 6-7am, feed Sweetie, clean up the kitchen from the previous nights dinner, make our morning "medicine" (that would be strong coffee) make a quick breakfast, and watch PBS with Sydney. By 8:30am, Daddy (we seem to always talk in third person around our house now) is in the shower getting ready for work and Sydney and I are heading out the door to go to the gym/daycare. We then come home from the gym, make a quick snack for Sydney, I have a protein shake and then it's time for Sydney's nap. That gives me an hour or less to shower, get ready and possibly clean up the downstairs from our morning routine or eat. When Sydney wakes up, I usually have to rock her for a bit to keep her in a good mood, then we go downstairs to prepare lunch and she eats while I clean up the kitchen and get everything ready so we can leave the house to run errands. We then get home around 3-4pm and we play outside. Not exactly always fun for Mommy because there is no grass anywhere and our driveway is steep so everything rolls down it. I am constantly chasing! We then come in to make Sydney's dinner, clean up and then watch a baby video/read books to settle down. Then 7pm we take a bath and by 7:30 Sydney is in bed with "bear-bear" "Ubby" & "baby". Then, it's downstairs to pick up toys and then begin the process of preparing and cooking dinner for Greg and I to eat when he gets home from work at 8:45pm. We eat around 9pm and by then its too late and too noisy to clean up dishes so I leave them for first thing in the morning for when my medicine is brewing. By bedtime, I am completely whopped from running around with my head cut off all day. I would love to say that I go to bed and get a restful sleep until 6am the next day...but not the case. Sydney is a VERY active sleeper and frequently cries out LOUDLY in her sleep - waking me up several times throughout the night. On top of this, I also have insomnia...I can oftentimes fall asleep but I usually wake up sometime throughout the night and have a very difficult time falling back to sleep.
So, why am I boring everyone with this tedious schedule...because I came to a realization today at work. You see, I come to work once a week so I can use a different part of my brain and so I can focus on something other than "chores". It gives me an opportunity to just pull away and refocus my energy. As a result of doing this, I was able to take a few minutes today and go back and read old journal entries from when Sydney was born and her first few months of life. As I was looking at all of her pictures and reading my entries I got really emotional. I realized how quickly its all going by and that this will be my only child and I only get to do it all one time. I think my heart skipped a beat at that moment. I really haven't had that much time away from Sydney to really take a look back. I don't know if I am even able to verbalize (write) what I am trying to relay to you all. It's not that I think my schedule is any more crazy or hectic than anyone elses, because I don't. We all have busy schedules and crazy days!! Today, however, was one of the first days where I was able to come out of my daze for a moment and really "see" my life.
I would not ever change our decision to put my "career" on hold to stay home and raise our child. I feel it is the best decision for our family. There are SO many benefits for us all and I get to experience so much; however, it also means that I am responsible for everything all day and all night. We really don't have babysitters (can't afford to go out and do anything anyways) so I am with Sydney 24/7 almost everyday. So, as you might imagine, it's very easy to get lost in the day to day routine of it all.
I am so grateful today that I had this moment of clarity. I am able to appreciate even more my time with Sydney because I realize now how quickly its all going to go by. This is only one moment of many more to come in our lives.
Everyday we have a similar routine: We get up around 6-7am, feed Sweetie, clean up the kitchen from the previous nights dinner, make our morning "medicine" (that would be strong coffee) make a quick breakfast, and watch PBS with Sydney. By 8:30am, Daddy (we seem to always talk in third person around our house now) is in the shower getting ready for work and Sydney and I are heading out the door to go to the gym/daycare. We then come home from the gym, make a quick snack for Sydney, I have a protein shake and then it's time for Sydney's nap. That gives me an hour or less to shower, get ready and possibly clean up the downstairs from our morning routine or eat. When Sydney wakes up, I usually have to rock her for a bit to keep her in a good mood, then we go downstairs to prepare lunch and she eats while I clean up the kitchen and get everything ready so we can leave the house to run errands. We then get home around 3-4pm and we play outside. Not exactly always fun for Mommy because there is no grass anywhere and our driveway is steep so everything rolls down it. I am constantly chasing! We then come in to make Sydney's dinner, clean up and then watch a baby video/read books to settle down. Then 7pm we take a bath and by 7:30 Sydney is in bed with "bear-bear" "Ubby" & "baby". Then, it's downstairs to pick up toys and then begin the process of preparing and cooking dinner for Greg and I to eat when he gets home from work at 8:45pm. We eat around 9pm and by then its too late and too noisy to clean up dishes so I leave them for first thing in the morning for when my medicine is brewing. By bedtime, I am completely whopped from running around with my head cut off all day. I would love to say that I go to bed and get a restful sleep until 6am the next day...but not the case. Sydney is a VERY active sleeper and frequently cries out LOUDLY in her sleep - waking me up several times throughout the night. On top of this, I also have insomnia...I can oftentimes fall asleep but I usually wake up sometime throughout the night and have a very difficult time falling back to sleep.
So, why am I boring everyone with this tedious schedule...because I came to a realization today at work. You see, I come to work once a week so I can use a different part of my brain and so I can focus on something other than "chores". It gives me an opportunity to just pull away and refocus my energy. As a result of doing this, I was able to take a few minutes today and go back and read old journal entries from when Sydney was born and her first few months of life. As I was looking at all of her pictures and reading my entries I got really emotional. I realized how quickly its all going by and that this will be my only child and I only get to do it all one time. I think my heart skipped a beat at that moment. I really haven't had that much time away from Sydney to really take a look back. I don't know if I am even able to verbalize (write) what I am trying to relay to you all. It's not that I think my schedule is any more crazy or hectic than anyone elses, because I don't. We all have busy schedules and crazy days!! Today, however, was one of the first days where I was able to come out of my daze for a moment and really "see" my life.
I would not ever change our decision to put my "career" on hold to stay home and raise our child. I feel it is the best decision for our family. There are SO many benefits for us all and I get to experience so much; however, it also means that I am responsible for everything all day and all night. We really don't have babysitters (can't afford to go out and do anything anyways) so I am with Sydney 24/7 almost everyday. So, as you might imagine, it's very easy to get lost in the day to day routine of it all.
I am so grateful today that I had this moment of clarity. I am able to appreciate even more my time with Sydney because I realize now how quickly its all going to go by. This is only one moment of many more to come in our lives.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Summer is Here!!
Our Spring/Summer is here and we have been loving our weather. It's been in the 80's with blue skies! As most of you know, we have a pool in our back yard but its too deep for Sydney and it really doesn't warm up for a few more months. Therefore, I decided on a whim to buy a very small play pool for Sydney so we could enjoy our beautiful weather and so I could actually get some sun! Below are some pictures from yesterday. She was so cute in her little swimsuit!!!
Sydney watering the plant - Grandma would be proud!
Look at her little rolls...I wish it was considered cute to have them at my age, LOL!!!
Oh, she melts my heart! Reminds me of last night, when I was laying in bed, I had this really strong urge to hold her and love her! We are so blessed!
Look at those adorable chubber-whobbers!!!
I couldn't resist...this would be her poo-poo face!!! Do you know what a pain in the butt it is to get a swimmer off with poop in it!!!
I LOVE it when she makes this face!
Enjoy the pictures...
Sydney watering the plant - Grandma would be proud!
Look at her little rolls...I wish it was considered cute to have them at my age, LOL!!!
Oh, she melts my heart! Reminds me of last night, when I was laying in bed, I had this really strong urge to hold her and love her! We are so blessed!
Look at those adorable chubber-whobbers!!!
I couldn't resist...this would be her poo-poo face!!! Do you know what a pain in the butt it is to get a swimmer off with poop in it!!!
I LOVE it when she makes this face!
Below is last years picture of her first time in our big pool...it's all just going too fast!
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