5 posts tagged “sick”
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I'm living on a strict diet of water and cough drops lately. Not that tastey.
So, yesterday we took the boys to see Santa. J played shy at first, but got over it pretty quick like. Walmart took pictures, and then I took a couple of my own as well. I planned on just taking my memory card back and printing them at the photo lab, but when I got back there and put it in the computer, all that came up was these little boxes of fuzz. I started to freak out thinking something was wrong with my camera or card, but then I realized I'd taken the pictures in RAW and their computer doesn't read RAW. Good job, Nicole. I'll learn to look before I shoot one of these days.
After we got home I buzzed Tyler's head, but he wouldn't let me shave his beard off. My husband officially looks like 'That Creepy Neighbor Guy' with a buzzed head and big bushy beard. Don't ask me why.
Last night was Tyler's work Christmas party. Boring as usual, but the place that caters is AWESOME. Seriously, I eat so much that I'm stuffed, but I still want to go back for more because it is THAT good. Tyler won a little Santa cookie jar during their little gift exchange thing. It's actually kind of cute.
When his work party was over we picked the boys up and went over to a friend's house. Several of the guys Tyler works get together and play poker. Nothing too thrilling there either, but it was kind of nice to be out of the house for a bit.
My mom and sister watched P while I buzzed Tyler's head (J was sleeping) and when I went down to drop J off before the Christmas party, Mom told me she thinks P may be teething. I'd noticed him drooling a lot, and she said he fussed the whole time he was there and the only thing that calmed him was chewing on his or my sister's fingers. PLEASE DO NOT LET HIM BE TEETHING! First of all, he's too young :( and second of all, I don't know if I could handle going straight from colic to teething. I might just snap.
P turned 2 months last Wednesday. I cannot believe how time has flown. It seems like just yesterday I was heading through the hospital door with enough crap in my arms they thought I was permanently moving in. And now he's all smiling and growing and ... *sigh*
Today he had his 2 month shots, and he handled them like a pro. As with J before, I could not hold him during the actual process, Tyler had to. J and I sat across the room, both of us fighting tears when P started screaming after the first shot. J turned to me and said, "Hurts Peyton!" with tears in his eyes. What a big bro!
His next appointment is the 29th at 3 months. I'm curious about his weight gain. The first month he was gaining about half a pound a week, but from week 4 to week 6 he only gained about 4 ounces, so I'm curious to see if he's continued with the slow weight gain or not.
The colic seems to be slowly getting better. For the most part he sleeps decent at night, and has long content periods during the day. Today I even had him cackling before his shots. It's so nice to see him smiling and laughing after nearly two months of pure screaming. He's even starting to let me cuddle him now. I can't even begin to tell you how hard it is to cuddle a screaming, rigid-bodied baby.
I'm kind of sad that we haven't had any professional pictures of P done yet. As much as I love taking pictures, I'd like to have at least one set of professionals to compare with J's. But money is just so tight this time of year (whose idea was it to make property taxes due 5 days before Christmas?!) and so they'll have to wait a bit longer. I feel bad because with J money was tight but I still managed to get pro pictures taken every few months the first year and every six months after that. We haven't had any professional pictures done since April with my Smile Savers plan ran out at Sears.
In other news, J and I made a Christmas countdown chain yesterday. I'm not sure how much he understands about Christmas, so I'm doing what I can to get him all excited about it. We're going to make a tree topper and door hanging, too, as soon as I get some new markers and glue. I thought I had all of this stuff hanging around, but apparently not.
I have so very little Christmas shopping done that it's not even funny. I've got a V-Smile, Hot Wheels set, and Christmas jammies for J, a Bod body spray set for my cousin, and that's it. Tyler's older two nephews are getting wood letters to paint, and other than that I don't even know what to get anyone. Money is super tight, as mentioned, so no one is getting anything too spectacular. I wanted to do homemade gifts, but I didn't get started as early as I wanted to.
Tyler missed work last night with the flu, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no one else gets it. J and I have both been sniffly for days, but that's as far as it has gone.
Tyler has to make up the work he missed on Friday night, which sucks, but necessary. His Christmas party at work is this weekend, and I'm actually excited. Weird, I know, but the place they have cater is amazing. I could care less about the rest of the party as long as they keep having the same place cater. Tyler wants to go out to his buddy's afterwards to play cards, but I will probably end up back home with the boys. I'm still not comfortable leaving P with anyone for too long, and since my sister will probably babysit and she's not too comfortable trying to take care of P during his fussy periods ... it is better that I skip the poker playing.
A P picture and then I'm out. It is a lovely angle, I know, but I had to be fast to catch the smile. He's a quick little bug.
I'b sick. Well, getting there anyway. J's been sniffly for days and now all of a sudden I can't breathe and my throat hurts. This will mark the second time since I had P that I've been sick. What's up with that crap?
Yesterday J and I put up the Christmas tree. It's pretty sad looking at the moment. It's got lights and garland, but that's it. Tyler and I never have bought any ornaments, just some glass balls that I don't want to put up and have J break. I'm gonna have to get a few. I figure I'll get four for J and one for P and from here on out get them each a new one every year. And, of course, J and I need to make a few as well. Growing up about 75% of the ornaments on our tree were made by my sisters and me and I think it made our tree feel more special because of it.
I'm not sure how much about Christmas and Santa J is understanding yet, but right after we got the tree all up and lit he looked at me and asked where the presents were. I think I'll make a paper chain to help him count down the days left. I can't believe it is that close already. Where did the year go?!
One of these days I'll learn to trust my instincts. I picked up the Impact 1GB SD card Walmart had on their Black Friday sales for $13.87. Something told me to be careful and keep the packaging for it just in case it didn't work, especially since I'd never heard of the brand before. Well, I ended up throwing the packing away before I tried it out and sure enough ... it doesn't work in my computer. It works in my camera, but when I put it in my computer and click on the drive, it tells me to put a disk in. I can hook my camera up to my computer and get the pictures, but I had my laptop special ordered with the SD drive so I wouldn't HAVE to do that. Yes, I realize that I'm just a whiner.
On the other hand, my external hard drive seems to work so far *knock on wood* My aunt's mom dropped it off this morning, so I haven't had a chance to do much tinkering around with it yet. But it hooked up just fine and I haven't found any glitches or problems yet.
If possible, I think Peyton adores Jonathan already. Tyler and I have to work to get him to smile, but J just has to be where he can see him and P starts smiling. He will watch every move J makes. I took some cute pictures of the two of them last night, but I forgot to reset my camera setting so they are all blurry/fuzzy.
Peyton is now one month old. How we got here this fast ... I'll never know.
I had him back at the doctor's office on Friday for tummy troubles. I had done everything I could think of; cutting out specific foods from my diet, Mylicon drops, etc., but my baby still had a very upset tummy. Dr. L (who was already back at work, even if he was gimping around) thinks he might have reflux, so P's now on Zantac twice a day. So far, we've had a hard time keeping it down, so it is hard to tell if it is working or not. Dr. L said that if there's no improvement by the time we need to refill the prescription, to bring him back and we'll look into something else. This scares me because there's a good chance that he simply cannot digest breastmilk properly, which would most likely mean we'd have to switch to one type of expensive specialty formula or another. It is rare that a baby has trouble with breastmilk, so I'm hoping that's not the case. But at the same time if that isn't the problem, then it could be something even more serious, which obviously I don't want. I'm just torn over the whole situation and want my baby to feel better.
P was weighed at the clinic. Despite his tummy troubles, kiddo has had NO trouble putting on weight. A rundown:
Birth: 8lbs 10oz
Release: 7lbs 15.9oz
1 Week: 8lbs 9.5oz
2 Week: 9lbs 4oz
4 Week: 10lbs 7oz
Yes, he's up over 10 pounds. I knew he was getting heavier, but dang. At this rate he'll have doubled his birth weight by Thanksgiving ;)
That's right ... I'm sick. Yesterday my throat took on this scratchy feeling and my whole mouth felt cottony. This morning when I woke up that feeling was gone, but replaced with a running nose, cough, and now my throat feels sore and swollen. I am prone to tonsillitis, so I am watching out for those symptoms. The worst part is that I am paranoid I am going to give whatever I have to one of, or both, the boys. Peyton especially. Jonathan I can keep at a slight distance and be okay, but with Peyton I am right on top of him all day. Plus, at 3 J could handle being sick much easier than a week and a half old baby.
To make things even better, the weather decided that today was the perfect day to get no warmer than 45 degrees and to be all rainy and just plain gross outside. I knew this was coming, it is October after all, but come on. Why today when I'm sick?
I really need to get busy on Peyton's birth announcements. I've been meaning to do the pictures for them ever since we got home from the hospital and I just haven't gotten to them. Part of me was waiting for his stump to fall off (it did last night) so that I could do cute shirtless ones, but another part of me has just been flat out lazy. I really need to get busy. He's almost two weeks old already!
