Do you ever wonder why life goes the way it does? I think about this often. I often wonder if I have made the right choices or if I have made wrong choices. Everything happens for a reason so I guess there are no "wrong" choices. I just find it amazing how life can change based on one choice...
We had a great weekend! Chris missed work Thursday and Friday b/c I was having a lot of uterine contractions, he took great care of me! On Saturday we went to brunch with my family at IHOP and had a great time. Eric had prom that night and was very handsome, his tux was a pimp tux. Hopefully we will have pics up soon of him and his girlfriend, she was beautiful. I still don't know why she is with Eric, just kidding bubba!
On Sunday Chris worked to make up time from Thursday and after we went to Las Colinas! Emma loved the water and the horses, she even got to see ducks and birds and was in heaven. It was nice to get out but I did notice I had more pain when I was out. Chris had a great idea in going there, we used to go there a lot when we were dating. It was great for the three of us to get out as a family since Madison might be making an appearance at anytime now!
Last night I started having cramps and what I thought were braxton hicks contractions but after we talked to the doctor I am thinking they are real ones. I have had them throughout the day but nothing regular and not 5 in an hour, at least not yet. I am not sure why this pregnancy has been so different than Emma's. Hopefully Madison will settle down and that this is a preview of what she will be like when she is here. I guess that is all I have for now..
Emma is just loving her tent!
I have decided I need a hobby, what I don't know. My life revolves around taking care of Emma, cleaning, laundry, cooking, and that is about it. Don't get me wrong I love it but I don't feel like I do anything for me. Oh well, I love having Emma and with Madison on the way I doubt I will have time to do all the above and find a new hobby. I am still as happy as can be though, I wouldn't change a thing!I love being a stay at home mommy and couldn't imagine being anything else.
Last night I set up Emma's new fairy princess tent in our gameroom. It turned out to be a lot bigger than we thought it would be when we bought it. Check out the home web cam. :-)
I took Emma to see the Pediatric Cardiologist today and basically found out that everything is okay. The dr wasn't even interested in doing the echocardiogram once she listened to her heart from a billion different places and did some other simple tests. She said that sometimes babies do turn a little blue around the fingers and toes and that it's not anything to be worried about. She also said that it's normal to notice blueness around the lips and bridge of the nose in fair-skinned babies... so, it seems that chapter in Emma's medical history is over!
I just wanted to let everyone know that Emma may have her appointment tomorrow at 1:30. There are somethings that may make us postpone it but we are trying to get her in as soon as possible.
I am a little nervous for her but I am sure everything will be ok. She has had these blue spells for a while but our first pediatrician never seemed to make a big deal about it, I am glad we switched. Her new doctor wants to find out why this is happening and I know she has Emma's best interest because she likes to wait things out before giving medicine if possible. If it is serious or something she feels that can't wait she will take care of it then. I love our doctor, she sees all of us and seems to really care about us. I will let you know how things go tomorrow or if we have to reschedule.
Emma had her follow up for her ear infection. It seems to be gone, her eardrum looks dull but it isn't infected. The doctor isn't too worried about the ear infections right now. The doctor is a little concerned about Emma turning blue in the lips every so often. She wants us to go see a pediatric cardiologist to have an echocardiogram done. I am not sure when that will be but I will keep everyone updated. Everything else looks good, Emma is still growing, slowly, but she is growing. She is really starting to get the hang of walking now and it is slowly becoming her way of moving from place to place.
I hope that everyone is having a great week. I will keep you posted about Miss Emma!!
Emma stayed in the nursery at church today for the first time. It was hard on Casey at first but Emma did very well and seemed like she had a good time with the other kids. It was nice to get to sit with the other adults, but also sad to see the friends that we've made back there behind the glass in the "parents luxury box" with their kids. It's only several weeks before we'll be in there again with Madison! :-) It's nice for a change of pace -- it was the first time we've been in there and we've been members since last summer!
I hope Emma will continue to do well, because if it becomes hard on her then it'll be next to impossible for us, and it'll be nearly a necessity for her to go in there once we have little Madison with us.
Cade has his surgery this morning. I wasn't able to make it because I got stuck in traffic and by the time I would have gotten there it would have been over. He is doing really well. Emma and I went and visited him once he got home and you could barely tell he had surgery. He is feeling great and has little pain at the moment. He did such an awesome job playing with Emma, she loves her cousins. Yesterday Cade and Chris walked with Emma at Kegan's game. It was something that Chris and I have been trying to do but she wouldn't do but then Cade came and he had the magic touch.
While we waited for Cade to get home Emma and I met Emily at the mall. We got to play at the play place and Emma found two boyfriends, one was 18 months and the other 14 months. She walked a lot more than usual and just had a blast!
Also, I have the greatest husband in the world. He bought the new Combi Twin stroller for me last night! I am so excited I will have a lighter and smaller stroller to use. When we put Doug and Lisa's in our car we had more room than we did with the single stroller. He is so wonderful to me and the girls, how did we get so lucky. Also, I have been on the hunt down for a bonnet for Madison's coming home outfit. Finally, today I called a store and they had it!!! We will be picking it up tonight! I can't wait to see her in this outfit, it is the cutest thing. IF they had it in Emma's size she would have the outfit as well.
Well, I guess I will stop rambling...I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
I had a wonderful birthday yesterday. I woke up to "Happy Birthday" signs that Casey made for me, then Casey and Emma surprised me for lunch and gave me very nice birthday cards and a cool "Super Dad" sticker that I wore the rest of the day. For dinner we went to Red Lobster with some friends and had a good time.
Thank you honey for making my birthday so special.
Today Emma and I took Chris to lunch for his birthday. We went with some friends and we are also having dinner with friends at Red Lobster tonight for his birthday! Hopefully he is having a good birthday! Emma drew Chris a picture and gave him a card. Her card even came with a sticker that said super dad so we are making Chris wear it all day!!!
Emma is doing ok. She is still having trouble sleeping because her cough gets so bad it is hard for her to breath. Poor girl is getting so many different medicines right now. When she wakes up I have 3 things I have to give her. If this keeps up I will probably take her to see her actual doctor Friday or Monday. When she went in on Monday her doctor was out sick. She is being really good though, if you didn't see her runny nose or hear her cough you wouldn't even know she was sick. She is such a trooper. I will keep you updated on her.
I just wanted to add that my brother, Eric, has such a wonderful girlfriend. Thank you Becca for coming and checking on our site and for being so wonderful with Emma! Eric you found the perfect girl and she really fits in with our crazy family... I think we will keep her no matter what happens :)
I am so proud of my Little Princess!!! We had to wait and wait yesterday at Children's and not once did Emma fuss or complain. She was such a trooper. Poor girl got blood work done, xrays, and other stuff and only cried during those and even then it wasn't too bad. IT was so hard seeing them take so much blood from her and she now has a bruise. I feel awful my poor little girl had to go through all of this. Hopefully now we can just take care of these nasty ear infections. I will be taking her back to the doctor next week and we will talk with her about the constant ear infections.
Speaking of ear infections..My little Cade man, I guess he isn't so little anymore, is having tubes put back in his ears and his tonsils out on Friday. IF everyone can say a little prayer for him. I hate the thought of him going into surgery, even if it is outpatient and common. His ears are so bad it is affecting his hearing. I will be praying for him and hope you will too!
Well, hopefully today will go better than yesterday!
After 7 hours of: blood work, 4 chest x-rays, blood pressure from all 4 extremities and an EKG we found out that Emma has yet another ear infection and must have had a continuous series of bad colds lasting 2 months so far. Everything came back normal.
They told us that there's nothing they can do for the chest colds she's had and gave us yet another antibiotic for the ear infection. They recommend seeing a pulmonary specialist to make sure anything they didn't already cover is ok. We'll be talking to Dr. Klima (Emma's PCP) about the frequency of her ear infections to see what they want to do and when they'll do it.
It wasn't a wasted evening but it's definitely frustrating that there wasn't anything they could do to help her and it took that long and that many tests to arrive at that conclusion. HAAARRR! :-)
Emma's had what's seemed to be a cold for the last 2 months. Her former pediatrician didn't do much about it except give her a general antibiotic even though we visited twice. We switched pediatricians and they said it was allergies and put her on allergy medication last week. None of us have slept much (Casey especially) the last few nights since Emma will cough and cry in her sleep. We've tried just about everything including various medications to no avail so far.
Casey took her in today and they said to go to the ER at Children's Hospital due to the many symptoms and no obvious diagnosis. The doctor said it doesn't seem like RSV but that if the ER doc thinks it's possible they'll run the test faster than they could at the family practice.
So, here I sit... waiting. I don't think I'd be as concerned if it weren't for my many memories of going to Children's with my brother so he could get his IVs when we were little. He had to have IVs of gammaglobulin every 3 weeks for years due to an immune deficiency.
I'm sure Emma will be ok, fortunately this doesn't seem like a dire emergency. Hopefully we'll be in and out and find out nothing major is wrong.
I can't believe it, my little Princess is starting to walk. She is still getting the hang of it but she is doing it. I am so proud of her. On Sunday we spent time with Sean, Emily, and their baby Kate. Emma got to hold Kate and she just loved it. She is going to be such a wonderful big sister. I can't wait. Speaking of waiting, is April over yet? Well, I guess that is all I have to say right now.
