Here’s a picture from tonight- chris was going to share his beer with Skylar- isn’t he so nice?? 

I thought he caught a funny face on her too…

And a video too.  She really seems to like being upside down these days.  If she’s in your arms, she’ll lean herself back and today when she was sitting, she just leaned herself over my leg so she’d be upside down.

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I don’t really want to talk about how Skylar’s getting back to “normal” for fear of jinxing us   But she has been doing better these past couple days.  We went back to swaddling her for the last couple of nights (we had stopped swaddling her awhile back (can’t remember when…)) and she seems to have slept better.  Who knows if it was the swaddling or if she’s just recovering from her sickness or what… but all I know is that I’ve gotten a couple nights of good sleep and I feel SO much better

Sunday night was pretty rough- she was just awake for some reason- she wasn’t crying and looking like she was in complete pain like Saturday night.  But she was just awake at about 10:30pm (after having gone to bed at ~8:30)… so Chris tried to see if she’d sleep with him in the recliner… not much luck w/ that.  He slept off and on for a little bit.  I heard her make a noise at 3:30am and got up to see what was going on.  Chris was changing her diaper and she was totally happy and awake making noises and whatnot.  So I said I’d take a turn at trying to get her to sleep so Chris went to bed at 3:30am.  I think Skylar finally fell asleep at 4:55am and our alarm goes off at 5:20am to get up… sweet.  So Monday was quite a rough day at work- the description of zombie was probably pretty acurate.

Anyway, she’s been doing better recently- drinking her bottles, eating more cereal, etc.  So keep your fingers crossed that she’s well down the recovery road.

On another topic- my dad headed down to Florida to stay with his cousin, Al, for a week or so.  He gets pretty antsy during winters in OCNJ and needs to get the heck outa Dodge for awhile.  He drove down this time and left Sunday night- got there on Monday and said it was a balmy 70 degrees.  I talked to him this morning and he said his cousin was “complaining” b/c it was cold- only 73   I WISH it was 73 here.  It’s supposed to be 50 today- but still… I’d take another 23 degrees.  Sounds like south Jersey got about 8-10″ of snow this past weekend- so I guess that was my dad’s cue to get on the road.  My mom didn’t go with him b/c she’s not as fond of warm weather as he is. 

Hope everyone’s having a nice week so far.

Let’s see… where to start.  I’ve been meaning to getting around to updating the blog with the Skylar sickness details… but haven’t yet.  Starting last Wed or Thurs, she had a cold- runny nose and phlemy sounding cough.  Her appetite got really non-existent on Sunday last weekend- so that had me worried since she needs to gain weight- not lose it.  I called the pediatrician on Mon AM and got her an appt for 3pm on Monday.  We picked Skylar up at daycare and headed to the doctor- what they failed to mention to us was that she had puked that morning or afternoon (still not really sure which). 

They said they “didn’t want to worry us” since she seemed OK after puking.  Chris and I were PISSED about that when we found out on Tuesday.  Anyway, I’ll get to that later.  So the dr chcked her out and said she probably had a virus of some sorts but that we were doing all the right stuff- just keep offering her bottles, use the humidifier, nose drops, etc.  So we took her back to daycare Tues.   All day long I just sorta had this weird feeling- I couldn’t really pinpoint what it was and was close to calling daycare to see if Skylar ws OK.  But then I talked myself out of it b/c i didn’t want to be “one of those moms” who call just to check on things.  Anyway, when I called Chris to say I was leaving work he said “give me a call when you pick Skylar up to let me know how she is”- I thought that was kinda weird since he doesn’t usually say that so i asked him “why do you say that?  is something wrong?” and he just replied “I just want to know how she’s doing”.  OK.  So I got to daycare and Ana said “She’s kept her 3:45pm bottle down- she drank 4oz and she’s kept it down so far”  I thought that was a bit odd so I asked her “well, did she not keep the other bottles down?” to which Ana replied something to the effect of “No, I thought Jenny talked to Chris this AM”  And I thought “Aha, so that’s why Chris was asking me to give him a call and let him know how she was”- so I figured Chris knew more of the details and I didn’t ask too much else.  After I got in the car, I called Chris and told him all this and he was like “I never got a call or talked to Jenny about it… what the hell?”  So chris called Primrose and got a couple more details about what had been going on.  Apparently Skylar puked TWICE that day- once pretty early in the morning right after chris dropped her off and then again sometime after noon after her 11:30am cereal.  And they NEVER called us to tell us about it- what the?!!???  We were both pissed!  I can’t remember exactly when the “we didn’t want to worry you” comment came out but we were both like “Hello… WE’RE the parents- WE’LL decide whether or not to be worried about her puking”- afterall, we were taking her to the friggin’ doctor and they didn’t think it was important to even just mention that she had puked that day?!?  Jesus.  So we were pissed.  Anyway, i got home and fed skylar her usual cereal that night b/c i hadn’t really heard back from chris yet about the whole puking stuff.  she ate her cereal just fine but then at 7:30pm right before chris called to say he was picking up pizza for dinner she puked ALL OVER me when i was holding her.  Now that I’ve been puked on, welcome to the mommy-club, right?  Anyway, I changed her and was just rocking her in the recliner when chris got home.  She was looking kinda sleepy but i was wondering whether to give her her usual nighttime bottle or not to try to get some fluids into her- so we called the pediatrician hotline where they have a nurse from the Denver children’s hospital give you a call back.  The nurse listened to all the details and said we should try some pedialyte and NOT give her some formula.  Unfortunately, I had decided to give her a bottle b/c it was about 8:30pm (WAY past her usual bedtime) to try to get some liquids in her b/c we hadn’t gotten a call back from a nurse yet.  So as i was giving her her bottle the nurse called and was talking to chris.  by the time the nurse said NO formula, skylar had already drank 1 oz.  DOH!  Crap.  So i immediately removed the bottle and chris headed out to get some pedialyte.  we gave her some of that and she fell asleep.  But then at midnight she woke up puking- all over herself and the waterproof pad we had put down in the bassinet.  So we got up and changed everything.  I had called my boss at about 8pm that night to say i wasn’t gonna be in the next day- so at midnight i told chris to go back to sleep while i stayed up w/ her.  she fell back asleep again and i put her down and was cleaning up/ rinsing everything out when she puked again @12:45am.  Yuck.  So I changed her and the pad in the bassinet again.  And rocked her back to sleep.  She slept til about 4:20am when she woke up to dry heave (since there was nothing left in her stomach)- it is SO horrible to watch a baby puke.  She let out this horrible cry right before she puked- it was probably the pain of her stomach about to revolt.  Horrible to hear… but at least it kinda gives you some warning of what’s about to come once you recognize the signal   So 4:20am was the last time she puked- she woke up at about 8am-ish and I gave her a little bit of Pedialyte.  the nurse had said to do 1-2 teaspoons every 10-15min to make sure she can keep it down.  If she puked it up, wait an hour before trying again.  When she kept down the pedialyte from 7-8am I gave her about 1oz of it.  then she fell back asleep again.  the nurse had also said you could return to formula after 8hrs of no puking.  so at 8:45am i called our pediatrician just to make sure they concurred.  they did.  so at 12:30pm i gave her some formula but she only drank 2oz before clamping her lips shut and not wanting anymore.  and that’s how the rest of the day went- i could only get about 1.5-2oz in her each feeding vs the usual 4-5oz she was drinking before.  by the evening her energy level perked up a bit more- enough that i put her in the jumperoo thing for a copule minutes.  she didn’t puke at all that night so we took her back to daycare on thurs.  Jenny was, of course, apologizing left and right to chris- but niether of us really wanted to hear it. 

 

So no vomiting Thursday but her appetite was still non-existent.  Chris had to go into work early on Fri and when i tried to give sklyar her bottle she wanted nothing to do with it and i was only barely able to get an ounce or so into her.  that got me worrying- so i decided to hang out at home til 8:30am when the pediatrician’s office opened to see if i could get an appt for Skylar to get her checked- I didn’t want to wait all w/e til Monday to get her checked out.  So they had either a 10am or 3:30pm appt and I chose the 3:30pm so I could get to work and then leave early for the appt.  So I dropped Skylar off (Jenny was apologizing profusely to me when i dropped her off) and got to work @~10am and then was able to get out of work right at 3pm to head up to CR to meet Chris for the appt.  The appt was w/ the dr we usually see (Monday’s appt was w/ 1 of the other drs. in the practice)- so we gave him all the details from the past week, he checked her out and said he could hear alot of noise coming from her bowels- Oh yeah, 1 more detail- I noticed Fri AM that she had TOXIC smelling poop… I mean, that shit was STINKY!!!  And she had alot of FOUL smelling gas.  that worried me.  the Denver children’s nurse said diarrhea after vomiting was normal b/c babies swallow a little of their vomit since they can’t spit and that’ll lead to diarrhea afterwards.  Well, Skylar got the diarrhea but it was SO stinky.  So between the stink, the weight loss, and the no appetite I was a little worried.  Oh yeah, and when we took her to the dr on Monday they weighed her and she was down to 11lb 9oz (down from 11lb 15oz @ her 6mo check up).  When they weighed her on Fri she was only down to 11lb 8oz.  But still… so the dr said he wasn’t super worried about her b/c her disposition was pretty cheery- she was babbling and kicking her legs during the appt- yes, she had some sort of stomach bug and there was likely to be more gas and diarrhea but that it should clear up by the end of the weekend or so.  and if it didn’t, then we’d talk about checking other stuff out.  but he said it would take some time for her stomach to heal and her appetite to come back.  As for the weight gain, he said babies usually gain the weight back pretty quickly once they get better.  So he said to just feed her til she’s full- after she got better.  I think that last part was the part i didn’t hear very well.  chris had to go back down to work for a bit after the dr appt- so i went home and fed her her 5:30pm cereal.  and she was hungry so i gave her about 2 1/2 Tbspns of cereal and ~3oz of formula.  that’s more than she usually eats but i was excited that she was actually eating!  chris went off to his hockey game that night and got home at about 11:15pm or so.  Something woke Skylar up (opening the garage door or HB shaking) and she was crying.  so i tried to just soothe her in the bassinet but she was having none of that… so i picked her up and went into her room to rock her in the recliner back to sleep- well, she puked all over me AGAIN!  all the cereal and formula from her bedtime bottle came back up.   so we changed her and me and then chris stayed up w/ her to get her settled back down and back to sleep.  She slept (fitfully) thru the night and in the AM chris got up w/ her to give her a bottle since it had been 8hrs.  we only gave her about 3oz to start her stomach out easy- but that was pretty good that she actually WANTED 3oz!  so thru out the rest of today we’ve been giving her a little of the pedialyte to try to keep her hydrated, she hasn’t been interested in her bottles hardly at all but she’s been interested in her cereal.  the dr said to give her the cereal for calories as well as that rice cereal is a solidifier to help w/ the diarrhea.  so right now chris is upstairs trying to give her her bedtime bottle and get her to sleep.  May the force be with him    We went to Outback for dinner tonight- it’s been so long since Chris and I went out to dinner- it was nice and Skylar did really well even despite the long wait for a table and the closeness to her bedtime.

Chris just came downstairs and said Skylar drank 3oz- yay!  Let’s hope she keeps it down!

So there’s the saga of Skylar’s illness- hope no one out there is asleep after reading this novel!  and if you are, you can thank me later for your bedtime story “

Hope you’re all having nice weekends- I’ll leave you with 2 pictures.  the 1st one is from Wednesday- she’s waiting in her pink seat for us to get the bath ready:

And the next one was from Friday before chris left for his hockey game:

Well… another weekend has come and gone…. sigh.

The weekend was mostly good.  And I say mostly because weekends are always good but getting Skylar to eat was a real challenge this weekend.  She hasn’t been hardly interested in her bottles recently (only drinking 3-ish ounces compared to 6-7oz before) and she didn’t want to eat her cereal either on Sunday.  And you know that video I posted a couple days ago of her “head bob” or “head banging”?  Well, we’re now starting to think that maybe that’s an earache… she was super cranky yesterday (Sunday) and took several naps and wasn’t very active at all.  She’s had a cough and a runny nose since maybe Thursday but Sunday she definitely seemed quite lethargic.  She perked up a little Sunday evening but not much.  So I called the pediatrician this morning and we have an appointment at 3pm.  Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.

Friday night- Chris had his hockey game- nothing too exciting that night.  I got on the web cam with Chris’ mom Friday night before I put Skylar to bed.  Karen even commented that Skylar looked tired because she was just sitting in my lap leaning her head against my chest.

Saturday- the JCPenney pictures in the morning- the photographer took a bunch of cute pictures and here are a couple of my favorites:

 

 

 

We ran a couple errands after that and then headed home to give Skylar lunch and a nap.  Our friend Katie came over for dinner on Saturday night- here’s a picture of her and Skylar:

Sunday wasn’t very exciting either- except for the whole cranky-baby-who-doesn’t-want-to-eat-or-drink thing… we watched some football and let Skylar watch with us- here she is in her jumperoo watching TV.

And then I laid her on Nittany again just for fun… as you can probably tell from Nittany’s face, he doesn’t think it’s too much “fun” to have the little squirmy girl leaning on him.  He hightailed it outa there as soon as I picked Skylar up

And then here are a bunch of videos we took trying to capture some of Skylar’s funny noises she was making this weekend.

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Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Our Jumperoo thing arrived last night and Chris assembled it this afternoon.  We put Skylar in it and she loved it!  Here’s a photo of her great big smile while she was in it:

And 2 videos of her jumping in it- her feet barely touch the ground right now but she can definitely manage to get herself bouncing pretty well!

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http://s489.photobucket.com/albums/rr258/dlc136/?action=view&current=MVI_5141.flv

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

Here are a couple videos I took last night and thought I’d share… sorry Cindy- the narration isn’t very good on them

“Flying around”:

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In the next 2 videos I was trying to capture this “head dip” or “head banging” thing that Skylar has started doing.  It’s like she kinda turns her head to the side and tries to get it upside down or something- anyway, hope you’ll get the idea from the videos.

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http://s489.photobucket.com/albums/rr258/dlc136/?action=view&current=MVI_5130.flv

Oh, and 1 photo too:

Darnit- another Sunday night… where do the weekends go???

Friday night Chris skipped his hockey game because it didn’t start til 10:30pm and that was too late b/c he had to get up Sat AM and get up to Copper by 7:30-ish.  so we just hung out- nothing out of the ordinary.  Oh yeah, we also went back to the pediatrician on Fri afternoon to get all of Skylar’s shots- 4 of them.  Ugh.  There were 2 nurses to give the shots so they each gave 2 shots in each leg at the same time to minimize the length of pain.  Skylar did really well with the shots- she cried when she got them but then Chris picked her up and she stopped crying pretty quickly and was back to smiling soon after. 

Saturday Chris headed up to the mountains bright and early but I was heading up later.  We went over to our friend Jen’s parents’ condo in Breck on Saturday night for dinner.  they had asked us if we wanted to stay with them but we opted for a hotel room in case Skylar was super fussy or anything (especially after her shots).  So I left Castle Rock at 1:30pm and made it up there by 3:30pm.  Skylar had been pretty fussy and needy (wanting to be held all the time- not that I minded!!!) all day long so I was debating (that one was for you Siegert if you’re reading this!) about whether or not to go up with her.  I decided to go up b/c i was hoping that watching bill and Jen’s 2 boys run around would be a good distraction/entertainment for her.  and it worked- she did pretty well during dinner.  She only cried a couple times and let everyone hold her and Jen fed her her cereal.  Earlier in the day when i had tried to feed her cereal she totally freaked out and started wailing… so much so that I just gave up trying ot feed it to her and just gave her her bottle.  I figured I’d try the cereal again at the 4pm feeding.  It worked- not sure if it was the distraction of Jen feeding her, or the commotion of all the people or what but she ate a good amount of cereal- probably about 1 1/2 tablespoons.  that’s pretty good for her.  there were 9 adults and 3 kids there for dinner that night- and i can’t believe that I forgot to take any photos!!!  Argh.  We left by about 7-ish to head to the hotel, check in and feed Skylar and put her to bed. 

Oh yeah, earlier in the day before I left for the mountains, I decided to take down our outside Christmas lights since it was a nice day (probably close to 60 degrees!)  I brought Skylar outside with me (again, bundled up like it was 12 degrees out!) to help me take the lights down.   Here’s a picture of her “helping” me

she’s such a good helper

On Sunday AM, Chris was up and out early again to get to Copper to teach.  I fed Skylar and then went down stairs to get breakfast.  Then we packed up and headed home after her 9:30am feeding.  I was very proud of myself for how lightly I packed and that I was able to get everything for her and me from the room to the car in 1 trip- I had the stroller loaded to the gills!  As you can see from the photo below- I had the diaper bag strapped on, had the pack and play under the seat, had the bag of food in the front under the seat, had a backpack with our clothes and stuff in it on my back and was carrying her pink seat (not pictured) in my hand.  Very impressive if I do say so myself!

Sunday was another beautiful day- not as nice as Saturday though.  As I was driving up to the mountains on Sat. afternoon and the temperature was 61 degrees- I was thinknig to myself… “why in the world am I going up to the mountains where it’s colder?!?”  Oh well.  anyway, it was about 50 and slightly cloudy on Sunday but still nice enough for Skylar and I to go for a walk at about 2pm b/c she wasn’t falling asleep in the house so I figured I’d put her in the stroller and see if she fell asleep.  she was asleep before we hit the end of our driveway (and we don’t have a long driveway!)  So i took about an hour and 15 min walk and she slept the entire time.  Then when we got back I realized I hadn’t eaten lunch so i was eating some leftover pizza and Skylar was totally eyeing up my pizza!  So i snapped a picture of her staring at it- too funny.  Soon enough, little girl… soon enough and you’ll be eating pizza with us.

I had put her in the Bumbo and moved her close to her playmat toys to make a makeshift exersaucer type thing.  Speaking of exersaucers- I was checking out Craigs List the other day (Friday) and was gonna get a used Baby Einstein one but then i decided I really wanted the Fisher-Price Jumperoo one like they have at daycare that she really seems to enjoy. So I found a good deal on 1 on Amazon.com and ordered it- it’ll be here Thursday- yay!  so there’s another small chunk of floor real estate that’ll be taken up in our house… there’s not much of it left!

When Chris got home from the mountains (after a horrific drive home- it took him over an hour to get from Silverthorne on the interstate to the tunnel- that’s a 9 mile stretch!  apparently there was an accident and then it was snowing and the roads started to freeze and cars weren’t able to get up the hill after stopping in traffice, etc, etc.  Ugh.) he found Skylar and I playing on the floor in the front room.  I had Skylar sitting up in between my legs (in case she tipped over) and she kinda just slowly leaned over and decided to lean on my leg and play with the toy that was to my right.  She had her knees under her and was sorta rocking back and forth.  It was neat to see her getting a little more mobile.

OK, I think that’s all… time to harvest my crops and check on my cafe and then go to bed

This week has been a bit rough for all of us… we increased Skylar’s cereal feedings to 3x/day this past weekend as the pediatrician suggested- and we also tried out some peas on Friday night as I mentioned before (prior to that she had only had apples).  She did not sleep well at all on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (and not very well on Friday either but not as bad as those other nights)- so by Wednesday I was calling the pediatrician’s office and asking to speak to a nurse/doctor to ask about her restless sleeping.  She would basically fall asleep but then wake up crying out- at  1st she wouldn’t be awake but crying out and the pacifier wouldn’t soothe her.  But then she’d end up waking herself up.  Monday and Tuesday nights Chris actually got up and gave her a bottle to get her back to sleep- this is not a habit we want to continue!!!  So the nurse recommended we take a couple steps backwards and go back to plain cereal to see if things calm down.  She originally suggested we go back to only feeding her 1x/day til I told her Dr. Thomas told us to increase it due to her lack of weight gain- so she said to do 2x/day and make it the breakfast and lunch feedings and skip her dinner feeding to maybe help her tummy calm down.  So we didn’t feed her solids at dinner yesterday and she slept better last night.  We had also switched to sweet potatoes b/c we had fed her peas for 3 days.  She’s only had plain cereal today so we’ll see how she sleeps tonight.  Those 5 nights were pretty rough and I was feeling pretty haggard during the days!  So much so that Chris and I agreed to take turns sleeping in the room with her and the other person sleeping in the guest bedroom so at least 1 of us could get a good night’s sleep… so last night was my turn and I felt SO much better this morning.

Anyway, that’s the long, drawn-out reason why I haven’t posted Skylar’s 6-month picture yet.  We’ve pretty much been going to bed almost at the same time as Skylar these past couple nights anticipating having to get up in the middle of the night…

Here’s a picture I took last Sunday.  I took it because it reminded me of a gymnastics stretching move we (Cindy and I) used to do A LONG LONG time ago- Cindy, do you remember it?  It’s when you’d hold onto your heel and stretch your leg out and then do both at the same time to see how good of balance you had… I wish I could still do that

And here’s her 6-month picture in the chair:

and 1 where Nittany wanted to get in on the photo-action:

And 1 of her laying on he ground just looking cute

Hope everyone’s having a good week- it’s Friday tomorrow- yay!

Where in the world did the phrase, “By george…” come from?!?  If anyone knows, please, clue me in!

Anyway, I increased Skylar’s cereal intake to 3x today- the 1st time was pretty much a repeat of all the other feedings but then the 2nd feeding was like a miracle!!!  She actually opened her mouth for the food, there was no crying, she was making “chewing” motions- holy moly- it’s like she was actually enjoying the stuff!!!  I didn’t want to talk about it too soon in case it was a one time fluke- but she repeated it with her 3rd feeding tonight!  I switched from apples to peas so i wasn’t sure how she was going to react to them.  But she did great!  She didn’t even make any faces.  However, she was super tired for some reason (she had an almost 4hr nap this afternoon!)- maybe it was b/c she didn’t get her morning nap?- and almost fell asleep in the highchair.  So then afterwards when I gave her her bottle, she totally fell asleep in the middle of that and didn’t finish it.  Oh well. 

And happy 6-monthversary to Skylar today!  We’ll probably take her picture tomorrow when Chris gets home.

I decided to add a photo I took tonight of Skylar in her highchair- how small does she look in her highchair??? 

We just got home from Skylar’s 6-month well-baby exam and she’s still a tiny little thing… only 11lbs 15 1/2 oz and 23 1/2 inches.  Those numbers are both in the <3% range.  Her head measured in at 16 1/2 inches- which is in the 25-50%.  The doctor told us to increase her cereal feedings to 3x/day (currently we’re only doing 1x/day) to see if that helps with her weight increase.  She dropped some on her weight curve so that’s why we’re upping the cereal.  We’re going to re-check her height and weight in 6 weeks to make sure all is OK.  I couldn’t help but feel a little upset about this as we were driving home from the appointment- I’m not exactly sure why b/c I know there’s probably nothing we could’ve done about it.  I mean, when she didn’t want to eat, we couldn’t force her.  Believe me- I’ve tried.  But she just clamps her lips shut and there’s no getting anything past them!  So anyway, we’ll up her cereal intake (let’s hope she gets the hang of eating cereal sooner rather than later!  I was sweating the other night after feeding her b/c I had to be so animated in order to get her to open her mouth and laugh while I shoved food in!) and hope that helps with her weight gain.

Other than that, not much is new.  It’s Friday- yay!  Chris has his hockey game tonight and then he’s heading up to the mountains tomorrow AM to instruct Saturday and Sunday.  he’ll stay up there Saturday night but i’m staying in Castle Rock.  No big plans for me- maybe meet a friend for dinner tomorrow night.  Not sure yet.  Maybe take a walk outside- the high on sunday is supposed ot be 50!  The temperature yesterday morning as I was driving to work was -12.  Holy coldness.  So 50 degrees will feel tropical compared to that.  i’ll probably take down the Christmas decorations too.  Oh yeah, and play with Skylar when she’s awake… Sounds like a fun weekend for me, huh?

Carrie went into the hospital Wednesday night to try to get things to progress with her labor.  She has been sending out emails updating everyone- turns out she’s going to have a C-section today.  So i’m waiting to hear that everything went well and they have a little boy now.  Hope all goes well Carrie and Shaun!

Have a great weekend.