Poor Madison had to suffer through a barium swallow yesterday. They weren't able to do the whole test because she got so upset but they did see that when she swallows it is going down the right tube and not entering her airway. The specialist did say that she is refluxing and she can hear it come up and that is probably is going into her airway when it comes back up and that is why she coughs all the time. So we have yet another person say it is reflux and she gave us some helpful tips on things to do. We are going to thicken her bottles even more to see if that helps and her doctor took her off of zantac and on prilosec. She goes for her eye appointment tomorrow so I will let you all know how that goes.
Sorry I haven't been updating my pictures a lot. Things have been crazy here with all the of the doctors appointments and other things going on. I will try to get better about it again.
Wow, what a birthday I had. I must say it was the best one I have had yet! Chris took the day off and took me to dinner. He had told me we were going to be having dinner with friends the day after my birthday and I thought it was true. Well, when we got back from dinner I see shadows and thought we were being robbed but it was all of my friends! They gave me a surprise party! It was such a great surprise and I really was shocked. I have the greatest husband and friends! I will be celebrating with my family on Friday and I am sure that is going to be great!
Thank you to everyone who was apart of the surprise, I really appreciate everything!
Yesterday was Casey's actual birthday, and I took the day off from work as a surprise. We had a great time doing some shopping and spending time as a family. We took Emma to Jungle Gym as we normally would on Tuesdays, and then went out to eat at Bennigan's as a little celebration. Then, we headed home for what Casey thought was the end of her birthday. As she walked in the door holding Madison she turned and saw a camera flash and everyone yelled "surprise!" The surprise party I had planned for her turned out great. Everyone seemed to have a good time and my goal was achieved -- to make sure that Casey had a very special birthday!
Well, Madison had her 4 month check up today, I can't believe it has been 4 months already. We had a great appointment and I think we finally found the right doctor for our kids. He spent an hour with us just listening and watching Maddy. She weighs 11 lbs 2 ozs(1o%) and is 23.5 inches (50%). She is going to have to see an pediatric opthamologist for her eyesight and she has to have a barium swallow for her reflux/gerd. The doctor also spent a lot of time listening to her cough at first he wanted to wait and see how it gets after the barium swallow but after hearing for awhile he decided to start breathing treatments. She did not like her first treatment but as soon as it was done she calmed down. She also got 5 shots today :(
Overall she is doing well all we need to fix is her her reflux/gerd and her eye sight.
I recently read that Chevy is redesigning the 2007 Tahoe. When it comes out in Spring of 2006 there will be an option for a hybrid. The other Tahoe's will also be designed to where they get better gas mileage. That is pretty cool for all of those SUV lovers out there! All of the hybrids used to be tiny tiny cars and now they are moving up to regular sedans and Tahoes, what is next Hummers?
Last night at dinner Emma was a very good eater... she had yogurt, some apple dices, chicken breast and even ate her BROCCOLI! She's never eaten her broccoli before! We were shocked.
Well, time has finally come for my baby to get allergy tested :( Emma goes on Friday to get a test done. I am so sad they will do a skin prick test. I had to go through this sooo many times as a kid and I know how much it hurts. I am so sad she has to go through this. I hope she doesn't have any allergies but we shall see. They wanted to go ahead and get her tested because when she has dairy she has some issues but once we take it away she is fine. We will find out on Friday the results so I will post sometime after. Please pray that it wont be too awful for her
Happy Birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day!
I wrote my last post late last night and was soo tired I forgot to mention, the most exciting thing this week is that I may get to do something with my friend Kristen! She has been busy saving the world by becoming an RN and then I have been busy with the girls so we haven't gotten to spend much time together! I am looking forward to it!
Nothing much is going on here! Emma went to Jungle Gym on Saturday and had a blast. A funny thing happened, we saw a couple there with triplets and realized that we had seen them months before at Steak N Shake. We remember them because Steak N Shake ran out of high chairs because the other family and us, with Doug and Lisa, took all of them! We also remember them because one of the girls names is Emma. What a small world!
Saturday night Cade had his first baseball game of the season and he did awesome. Chad is the head coach this year, he started it off with a bang by knocking a kid over! On Sunday Madison had her first actual cereal feeding, it was really her second but the first time she wouldn't take any in her mouth. She did pretty well, so we will be trying it everyday!
Emma has hit the terrible twos early! She is throwing tantrums every now and then, I will let Chris tell you more about this!
Well, that was our weekend, I don't think anything exciting is coming up this week except Chad's birthday and we are getting remote start in our van! Ohhh and Doug and Lisa come home! I can't wait to see their pictures and I am looking forward to having my shopping pal back!
This weekend was filled with car shopping!!!! We went on Saturday just for fun and ended up finding out we could could get a car since Chris is doing a lot of side work! We got a Chrysler Town and Country minivan!!! It was used with 25k miles on it but is in great condition. It is a higher end model so it has rear air and a dvd player. We love it and can't believe we were able to get it this soon! I put pictures up, they are in the category Random things under new car! WOOHOOO
I'm a mad mom in a minivan!!!!
