YUCK!

That is exactly how E and I feel right now. Being sick is no fun. E seems to be doing ok. I talked to her doctors office yesterday because we can now hear a "rattle" in her chest. They said that was normal and she would probably get a little worse before getting better. They said we were around the time for it to get worse - we just caught it really early!

I went to the doctor on Wednesday and found out I have bronchitis and an upper respiratory infection. Then yesterday I was feeling my neck and now have a swollen lymph node. I am so ready to be well! I am so glad that hubby is not out of town just so he can help me with E at night. I keep telling myself surely I will start feeling better soon!

I am sure I am going to be wanting a nap later today (so hopefully E will take a nap). She woke me up around 3:45 this morning and I have not gone back to bed. She did go back to sleep for a little while though. I will be going to bed early tonight!!

I have to post a picture of E. I have got to get my good camera out of the bag and leave it on the coffee table like I use to do. I tend to snap all these pictures of E with my phone....

I hope you all have a great day!

Christmas Night At The Hospital.....

I am still going to blog about our Disney trip and Christmas and it will probably be in no particular order! I still have to get all the pictures - I think my sweet hubby has downloaded all the pictures on his computer so I just have to get them from him!

We traveled back home on Christmas Day. We got to my in-laws around 5:00. Hubby's sister and her family were there along with his uncle and aunt. E was so ready to eat. She slept most of the drive but had gone a little over 5 hours without eating - and she likes to eat every 2-3 hours (but around Christmas she was eating about every 2 hours). Well, I took her to the back and fed her as soon as we got there and then got her all dressed up in her little Christmas dress. I took her out for everyone to see. My sister-in-law took her so I could go eat and after a few minutes came to me because E had spit up blood. We called the doctor's office and talked to the oncall nurse and she said to take her the the ER. So off we go to the ER around 7:00. Remember I said I fed her around 5 and she was eating about every 2 hours at that time - so she was starving and crying as loud as she could. They would not let us feed her because they needed to examine her. Finally around 9:00 they told us that she could have Pedialyte. She gulped down about 12 ounces of that and they sent us home. We followed up with out pediatrician when we got back in town and they feel like everything is fine. It has not happened again and they think she 1) either got it from me when she was eating or 2) when she spit-up it was so forceful that it burst a little blood vessel. We finally got back to my in-laws I am guessing sometime after 10. So the above picture is E in her little hospital gown.  Can you tell both of them were REALLY TIRED!!!

Poor Baby.....

Yesterday, I took E to the doctor and found out she has Bronchiolitis. RSV is going around here and RSV is a form of Bronchiolitis. Her doctor did not test her for RSV because the treatment is the same. While we were at the doctors office they gave her a breathing treatment and he said that she sounded better afterwards. So, they gave me the info to go purchase a nebulizer (see the picture above) and the prescription for the medicine so that is what E and I did yesterday. We were at the doctor for about 3 hours and then went to get everything she needed and a quick run through the Sonic for me and about 4 1/2 hours after we left yesterday morning we finally returned home.

E was ready to eat so I fed her and put her in her exersaucer to play. I then was able to start cleaning all the pieces to her nebulizer so we could get ready for her next breathing treatment. Her little face mask looks like a dog.....I will have to take a picture when we give her a treatment today. Yesterday Keith was not home so I could not give her the treatment and take a picture. She did really good. I think it must have helped some because she has been asleep since around 9:30 last night!! Considering we have only been getting a couple of hours sleep the past few nights that is GREAT!!! Of course, while her daddy was out of town is when she was not sleeping and then he comes home and she sleeps all night....I am sure I will hear just how much she wanted her daddy home and that is why she would not sleep:). Actually, night before last I did call him (in the middle of the night) because I was trying to figure out if she needed to go in that night because of her breathing. After we talked to the after hours nurse we decided to wait until morning and go see her pediatrician. She just told me to watch her closely, sleep in the same room with her (what is sleep??) and then if there were any changes take her to the ER. We made it through until morning with a phone call to her daddy and do you know that when I had him on speaker phone she would stop and listen some and quit crying!!!

Everyone have a great Tuesday!! It is amazing how revived you can feel after a good nights sleep!! Now, if I can just get over whatever I have...I think I caught something from E because I have a sore throat, etc now!

Little E just woke up - I will update later how she is doing!!

6 Month Appointment!!!

Wednesday was E's 6 month appointment. She is actually now 6 1/2 months! As you can see from the picture she was 16 pounds 3 ounces! We found out we can finally start rice!! Yeah! I can't wait to see if it will help her start sleeping all night again. We found out she has eczema today to. I am going to pray that it is only temporary and will go away! Right now we just have to use certain lotions on her and see if that helps. She had to get shots again but I found out we are done with shots until she goes for her 1 year appointment so at her 9 month appointment NO SHOTS!!! Yeah!! I wonder who is more excited that we do not have to get shots, me or her? Thankfully, Keith was able to go with us today so he could watch them give her the shots and I could just hold her hand and give her little kisses on the hand:).

Before her shots!!

She seemed to do ok Wednesday afternoon and then about 11:00 Wednesday night she woke up and Keith picked her up. I went in to check on her and she was so hot. I took her temp and it was 102.6! We ended up at Children's ER around midnight. Finally, they called us back to a room around 2:00 and we got home around 5:00. They said she had a sore throat which must have come on sometime Wednesday because she was fine at the doctor office Wednesday morning.

So, we have been taking an antibiotic, Tylenol and Motrin regularly around here. I will think her fever is gone and then it will start creeping back up. Friday she started getting a little cough and it has gotten a little worse so we may end up at the doctors office tomorrow or when I call them they may tell me I am already doing everything there is and we have to let it run its course.

Are y'all watching the game this evening? I know we are!! E loves football and although she will probably be getting ready to go to sleep right after the game comes on she will probably see a few minutes of it. I am hoping the SAINTS pull this one off and win and then they are SUPER BOWL BOUND!!!

Naps, Breakfast and Teeth!

Yesterday I could tell Ella was sleepy after she ate around 10 so I laid her down in her bed in her room. After she started crying and I realized that she was not going to take a nap in her bed I went and picked her up. I put her in her swing so I could do somethings and she fell asleep around 11 and I had to wake her up around 1 because we had to be somewhere around 2. I had planned on us being somewhere around 2 thinking she would take a nap then. Anyway, I was so happy that she took a morning nap!! She has not really be a big nap taker but the past week she has started taking an afternoon nap most days so maybe just maybe we are going to start taking naps!!

Taking a morning nap!!

Today E and I went and met our friend Gretchen for breakfast.  We picked a great place to eat because it was not very crowded and they gave us a circle booth so E's seat fit perfect.  As always she was fine in her seat until right before the food came and she decided she needed out of her seat to see everything.  She did give us time to eat before she decided she was hungry though!

Gretchen & E

After breakfast E and I ran by Wal-Mart and then came home.  I was holding her in my lap and noticed something white in her mouth.  I looked and yes, her bottom two front teeth have broken through!!  E now has teeth.  At 6 1/2 months old she has 2 teeth.

Can you see the 2 little white dots on the bottom!

Who Dat Say Gonna Beat Dem Saints.........

We were so excited to see the Saints win Saturday! They really played ball compared to what they have been doing.

Well, I did not get a chance to download my pictures like I had planned. My sweet hubby wanted to have a football party today so we spent Saturday cleaning house. We did some "spring cleaning". I am so excited though that he helped me because it seems like I have just not had time to do any REAL cleaning!! So my new goal is to try and keep it clean everyday instead of trying to do so much on one day. Some days Sweet Little E just wants to be played with or held most of the day so that is what I do...but then no housework gets done on those days. I know I am probably in a much better mood when my house is clean though.

The football party was very, very fun! Keith invited his co-workers and we had a blast. Remember, we all know each other because they have events for the families and then we have the family trip - so between the two it gives the spouses a chance to get to know each other also. We had tons of great food! I made "Chicken & Andouille Sausage Gumbo" - I can't believe it has been so long since I made gumbo!

I know some of my friends will probably not like hearing this but I was kind of happy the Cowboys lost. It would have been fun to play them next week in the Championship game as long as we win:).....I am a true Saints fan both when they are winning and when they are losing.

Ok, remember I mentioned I did not get a chance to download my pictures. Well, there is a picture of Sweet Little E decked out as a little Saints fan. Hopefully I will get those downloaded in the next couple of days.

Where Am I???

I have not fallen off the face of the earth but we have been so busy!! I have so much to post, our Disney trip, Christmas, Ella's 6 month pictures and I am sure there are other things to!! I have several things I have had to get done this week so hopefully by the weekend I will be blogging again.

The picture above was taken with my phone (so the quality is not great) but I thought it was really cute of Ella with her Minnie Mouse bib on while we were at Disney World.

Check back this weekend....we are starting to get all our Disney pictures so I should have ALOT of pictures to post. And I should send out my Christmas cards today, yes in January, didn't I mention that we have been really busy, so I will post our Christmas Card on here to!

I have also got to change my background since Christmas is over! Well, I have a busy day ahead of me. Ella and I are going to my old office today so I can clean my office out and turn in my keys. Then we are going to have lunch with some of the girls.

I hope you all have a great Wednesday! Remember, to check back this weekend. Maybe I will be able to post sooner but I am giving myself until the weekend because I still have a ton of pictures to download.