Post Office Field Trip

Today Colby had his first field trip to the post office! Today is not normally one of his school days but the entire class was invited to go. I brought him to school around 9. He got to play in class for a few minutes while we waited on the others to get there. I ended up driving us over there since I had a van several others rode with us. I had planned on taking Colby & Max but Mrs. Lyn his teacher also asked to ride with us along with Mrs. Laurie and her daughter Sydney. I think Colby liked having so many people with us =) When they got to the post office the first thing they did was stand in line to buy stamps for their Valentine letter they made at school, then they got to put it in the box to mail it off. After that they got to go in the back and see where their letter went. We got a tour of the whole process of mail from loading the mail truck, to how they sort the mail, etc. It was very informative...I'm not sure how much of the "facts" Colby picked up but he seemed to enjoy himself. I think he mainly enjoyed the company of his friends. The post office even gave them "treats" when they left it was a package with a coloring book, colors, and candy. I thought it was a sweet little field trip. I can't believe my little boy is already going on field trips though! I was glad I got to go with him and experience his 1st field trip! Lindsay stayed at home with my mom...we are still trying to keep her in this week so she can fully get well plus I want to try when either of them have "special" days to just take them so that my focus can be on that one child rather then their sibling too. I think its important to spend time alone with each child. And thanks to having grandparents in the city which I am so thankful for that is possible!

RSV Update

So I took Lindsay to the doc today for her re-check. The doc listened to her and checked her ears and said everything looked great! She said her lungs sounded great and she would never know by looking at her that she even had RSV...I'm so thankful. Being sick or having sick children is no fun but I am so very grateful at this moment that it was not worse. The doctor said she was a very lucky girl. She is still congested and coughs occassionally but the doc said that could linger for a week or 2. She is due back Monday for her 2 month checkup so I will be glad to bring her in again just to know once more she's fine. They did weigh her today though and she is 10 lbs 4 oz. She's still a petite princess. I laugh b/c Colby was 14 lbs at 2 months! The doc didn't give us any instructions on keeping her in but I think for her safetey and others I will keep her close to the house this week. My parents will be bringing Colby to school so she doesn't have to get out and be around school age kids. We will probably get out this weekend if she's still doing well. If we go to church though i will probably bring her in with me even though we were planning to have her in the nursery by now I will just feel better giving her time to build up an immunity. We may hold off now until 3 months.
Our week is definitely getting better! Colby is also almost back to normal he still coughs mainly at night but his mood is greatly improved. He had school yesterday and seemed to have a really good day. Today he is spending the day with my parents since Lindsay had an early doc appointment. They are spending the day with him outdoors. I am grateful I think he needed the sunshine and freedom to run and play he was cooped up so much last week!

2 Month Comparison

2 Months

So our sweet Lindsay is 2 months old today! I can hardly believe it! Time just flies by with little ones! She's such a sweet baby. We thought she was going to be wayy more high maintenance then Colby but she has really mellowed out this month! She really only cries when she is tired or hungry. She's on a great schedule of eating every 3 hours and just started sleeping through the night a few days before her 2 month birthday! It looks like babywise has proved right again!

Poor baby though has experienced her first illness. She picked up the upper respiratory infection her big bro had. We are hoping to see her well by the end of this week. She will have to go to the doc tomorrow a week early then her scheduled 2 month visit for a recheck. I have no idea how much she weighs or anything but I would guess 9 or 10 lbs? She's still a tiny thing! I can't believe Colby was 14 lbs at this age! She is wearing 0-3 month clothing or 3 months which is still a tad big on her. She is also still in size 1 diapers. She eats about 4-6 oz. She is a very alert baby although with this cold she's been sleeping more. Normally she stays awake a good part of the day though. She takes a good 3 hour nap usually like her brother does/did. She started smiling around 6 weeks. I think she recognizes faces/voices now too. She loves her bath and is pretty easy going through getting dressed, diaper changes, etc. She does well in the car except when she's hungry. She took her first trip to Hattiesburg a couple weeks ago so now she has been in 2 states! All in all she's just a precious little girl. Oh and her big bro really loves her too he's always asking where she is and wants to hold her. I feel bad b/c we had been trying to keep him away from her this week so we were telling him no when he wanted to hold/touch her but I think this coming week we will have to let him love on her! I can't wait to see the bond that will develop between them!

1st ER visit

So yesterday we had our first scary experience of bringing a child to the ER. As I wrote earlier Lindsay has been battling the same cold virus that colby had earlier in the week. His has been a nasty bug as its a week later and he's still not 100%. I feared all week that she would get it and by Thursday I knew she had caught it. Its just progressively gotton worse just as his did. In fact its followed almost the exact path! Started with slight congestion and a cough then a worse cough, fever and just plain ole not looking/sounding/feeling good. Well yesterday morning around 11 I wasn't feeling good at all about the way she was acting. her appetite decreased she was still eating but just not anywhere compared to normal. I called our doc to see if they could squeeze her in but they turned us down. I spoke with the nurse and they basically gave us the same spill...saline drops, humidifier, blah blah. No one acted too concerned. Well by yesterday afternoon after her nap she wasn't eating well and she was just grunting and I wasn't sure if she was grunting b/c she was having trouble breathing. I knew she wasn't in distress though b/c her color was still good but I just didn't like second guessing myself and end up later that evening in trouble. I called my mom to come over and look at her and she agreed that we needed to have her checked out. So she and my dad stayed with Colby while Austin and I brought Lindsay in. We debated on where to take her but finally settled on the big oschner hospital. They actually have a pediatric er plus when we checked the wait times it was at 0. When we got there they already had her on record since he was born at an oschner hospital. We were called back to triage immediately where they weighed her and took her temp. Her temperature was at 99 which is where it had been all day. After that they brought us to a room. several people came in to look at all. They listened to her chest they said they heard a slight wheeze so they gave her a breathing treatment. After that they took us for a chest x-ray they also swabbed her for RSV. Everything came back clear which we were so thankful for. They basically diagnosed her with a bad upper respiratory infection. I am glad we brought her in though just for our peace of mind. It was very chaotic when we got home though it was 9 and Colby was acting out really badly which apparently he did all evening. We immediately put him to bed then bathed her and put her to bed. She hardly ate before bed although she did take a bottle at the hospital. I figured we would be up a lot that night with her but she slept all night which seems to be her new pattern anyway yay. I was worried all night though so I don't think i slept that soundly. I kept going in her room to check on her. I finally woke her up at 6:30 to eat and she finally ate about 3 oz. This morning she's acting better she's mostly sleeping but I figure that is what her body needs to do to heal. She ate 4 oz around 9:30 so it seems she's better. I am praying yesterday was the worst day like it was with Colby I think it was day 3 or 4 that she had it. I know it will take all week though for her to get back to 100% since we are over a week later and Colby still has the after effects of it he still coughs some and still has a slight runny nose...his appetite is also no where near normal and he is very cranky.
All in all it was a good experience I am glad we chose to bring her where we did. The staff was great and the no wait time was also a plus along with the fact that it seemed really clean and well organized.
Update: So the hospital called this afternoon and told us that her RSV test did come back positive. I am now still worried although she seemed better most of the afternoon but had a bad coughing fit after her bath. I can tell she's just got all that yuckly stuff in her throat and she can't cough it up! She only ate about 2-3 oz before bed but I am hoping she will get a good nights sleep and we will continue to see improvement in her! We will still be seeing the doc tomorrow! I am now convinced that Colby had the RSV first...he got it somewhere and passed it to her. He has been a lot sicker then just a normal cold so now its all making sense. He was also probably contagious and gave it to her before we even knew he was really sick and I think she probably "caught it" last weekend and just got bad during the latter part of the week! I am sure praying we see healing this week and all get passed these nasty germs!

Welcome to the Sick Ward...

Ugh so we are still battling this nasty bug at our house! Colby is finally about over his thankgoodness but it seems he has passed it on to Lindsay and I. I mainly just have a sore throat. Lindsay has been stuffy, sneezy, and coughy for the last 2 days. I feel so bad for her. She is still eating though and sleeping like a champ! I can just look at her though and tell she doesn't feel good although she still smiles at me when I walk in her room! I hate she caught it this young but I guess it was ineveitable. I know its different with the second child they are going to pick more up b/c of the older siblings. Colby didn't get his first real sickness until about 6 months old. He did have bronchiolitis though I am praying hers doesn't turn into anything like that. Basically with a baby you can do nothing when they have a cold but try and make them comfortable. She already sleeps with a humidifier and I'm trying to get the nasty junk out her nose when I can. We even bathed her last night and turned on the shower so that the steam might help loosen it up. I know it takes babies longer to get over stuff so I know we are atleast looking at a week before she is over it. So basically we will be dealing with sick kiddos for atleast 2 weeks around here. I'm trying to avoid taking her in...she has to go next Monday anyway for her 2 month checkup but I like to avoid the doc office at all costs b/c I feel like we have more of a chance of picking something else up there!
Oh and to top it off our cats have been sneezing like crazy guess they are sick too! This is our usual Jan/Feb mess though. Colby has been sick I think every Jan or Feb since he was 6 months old!

Mommy/Son Morning

Today Colby and I had another one of our special days. I really love doing this with him! It wasn't originally planned this week, but with him getting sick and having to stay in more I figured he needed it. Plus my parents haven't gotton to spend time with Lindsay lately so I figured they would enjoy keeping her. Since he's still reeling from getting over the croup I didn't want to take him anywhere too far away or where he would get too overworked. I took him to the park first...we haven't been to one in awhile but with all the rain we got yesterday the slides were wet. He took one glance at that and decided it was time to go! My little OCD neat child! He requested we go to the "train store" ake Barnes and Noble. So off we went there. He loves to play with the train table. He played for a little while while I shopped for Valentine's books for he and Lindsay. We ran a couple other errands while we were out since it was so easy with just 1 kid! I only make 1 stop errands when I have them both! I asked him while we were out if he would like to eat lunch somewhere...he chose Mexico over McDonald's lol. It was fun having a little lunch date with him. I never did that with him until after Lindsay was born but its nice just enjoying him over lunch I think it makes him feel grown up!
We came home and I got both ready for naps which haven't been that great today but we will probably just spend the rest of the afternoon in! Lindsay seems to have a little cold and I feel like I have a touch of it also so we will be trying to get over that!