Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Monthly Pictures...

I'm a little late on the pictures this month because of all the sickness the kids have been dealing with.
They are getting so big. Bailey has been starting to army crawl a little, I have tried to get video but she stops everytime I turn the camera on!

Peyton- 3 years 5 months.

Bailey- 10 months.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Big Brother...

Peyton is the sweetest big brother. He is always so excited when Bailey wakes up and so sad when she has to go down for a nap. When she goes for a nap he always wants to say "sweet dreams baby girl". He is so concerned when Bailey is sick or crying, when she gets her shots he tells her "be tough baby, be tough" then when she cries after them, he cries too. I just had to post this picture, when we got home from Florida Peyton asked if he could feed Bailey a bottle all by himself. This was the first time he had been interested in feeding her (other than feeding her the little cereal snacks she eats). It was so cute and they both did so well. I thought it would be unsuccessful because she would just want to play with him the whole time but it went pretty well. She drank the bottle while she played with her toes and his chin. They are so cute together!

I hate Viral!

So... the Dr. called last night with the results of Bailey's blood tests. She said based on the CBC differential it looks like a Viral Infection. Which means, there is nothing we can do about it at this point and we just have to watch it and see what happens. Luckily when Bailey woke up this morning her rash looked tons better and she seems to be feeling more like herself. I should have taken pictures of her rash the last two days but that was the last thing on my mind. I took a few pics this morning but they don't do it justice. These are just a few leftover marks from what was there yesterday.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sick, Sick and more Sick!!

So it all started in Florida, I guess that's what we get when we try to take a vacation to the nice, sunny, warm weather! First it was Bailey with her bright red, goopy eye and low grade fever that took us too the Dr. there in Florida only to find out she had a double ear infection! Finally we made it home and that weekend Peyton woke up in the middle of the night yelling "I can't see, Dad, I can't see!" the next morning we found out he had pink eye! I also talked to the Dr. about Peyton's gunky cough which is present 8 months out of the year, he referred us to an asthma specialist. The next Monday we found out Peyton has what seems to be mild asthma, we are still figuring that all out. Then... yesterday Bailey woke up from her nap with a yucky rash around her inner thighs on both legs. The rash was raised and I was sure it was hives since she was on Amoxicillin for her ear infections. I made an appointment with the Dr. (this was our second visit in 5 days). By the time we got too the Dr. the rash was worse and she had a little showing up on her abdomen, the back of her neck and in both armpits. What was weird was the rash was different looking in each place! The Dr.'s were stumped! Long story short she sent us home and told us too use Hydrocortisone cream and do a few other things and watch it. This morning her inner thigh's looked better but her neck, abdomen and armpits were WAY worse! I watched her through the day and it didn't get any better. This afternoon I called the Dr. and she wanted us too come back in (3rd Dr. visit in less than a week!). They were again unsure about what was going on so she checked her platelet and WBC count which were both high. She was concerned so she sent us over too have some blood work done and we are still waiting for the results. By the time we got home Bailey was hysterical, it was so so sad. The poor thing has been through so much I wish I could do more for her, it's such a helpless feeling. Wish us luck, I'll for sure update when I find out what's going on.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Home

We made it home from Florida OK. The plane ride home was about the same as the ride there only without the bathroom incident. Peyton didn't want too use the bathroom on the plane because he didn't want too hurt his bum. I promised him that he wouldn't and this time I had him sit down, I realized that would have been a good idea last time! Bailey and I were sick so the flight wasn't too fun for either of us. Bailey started having problems last Friday or so and I finally decided to take her to the Dr. on Monday. She had ear infections on both ears and she was also cutting 2 teeth! Poor thing! She did very well on the plane for feeling so miserable. She is getting tubes in her ears March 31st since she has had 5 ear infections since October. Hopefully the tubes will make things a little better for her. It will be a new experience for us, Peyton never has had problems with his ears.

We had a great time in Florida visiting Kim, Nate, Hannah and Penelope. It was great too spend some time with them and the kids had a blast playing together. Here are a few pictures of our last couple days there and some others that I thought were worth posting.


Friday, February 29, 2008

Playing at the park

The other day Dan and I took Peyton, Bailey and Hannah too the park. Here are some pictures of our fun.

Bailey's first time on a slide!



The Beach

Yesterday and today we were able to go to the beach here in Miami. It has been pretty cold here the last few days. Wednesday it was rainy and probably in the mid 60's, yesterday was very sunny and the high was around 68 and today the high was around 78 or so and it was mostly sunny again. Both yesterday and today were really windy days but we thought since Dan is leaving tomorrow and we hadn't been too the beach yet, we'd better go! Going to the beach is a lot of work with 4 kids, one of them being an infant, so we have been choosing the pool over the beach everyday. Anyway, besides the wind both days, we had a great time. Thursday we went while Penny was at the ER so we took Hannah and today all of us except Nate went. Penny and Peyton had a great time running into the big waves then running away from them (Hannah isn't too fond of playing in the ocean water). Bailey was so tired, I felt bad because it was so windy and her poor eyes looked horrible! She was a trooper though!













































Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Florida Pics...

We are having a great time on our vacation. We have been doing a lot of swimming and of course Peyton loves that. On Sunday we went on a glass bottom boat ride over a coral reef, Monday we went to one of the state parks for a fun family bike ride, Tuesday we went to a Heat Game. I thought I would post a slide show of some of our pics so far.