For Halloween we went to Brady's sister's house and had soo much fun just being with each other.
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Getting ready to go trick-or-treating with her cousins Brecken and Caden    |
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Our pumpkins! Alayna is so happy we are letting her stand on the table. Haha |
Friday, November 9, 2012
Halloween
This year for Halloween was probably my most favorite Halloween of my life. The reason is because now I get to dress up and take my own little cutie trick-or-treating! Last year Alayna was too little to take out trick-or-treating and even if we did it would have been lame because she wouldn't have even cared. This year though I could tell she was excited and was having so much fun! I thought I was done trick-or-treating when I was in Jr. High but now I get to start going again! I am just so excited that I am now a mommy with a cute little girl that gets so happy over things like trick-or-treating! I just can't wait to see her so happy over Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and all the other holidays that makes us happy!
For Halloween we went to Brady's sister's house and had soo much fun just being with each other.
For Halloween we went to Brady's sister's house and had soo much fun just being with each other.
My 1st Airplane Ride
Alayna and I both got to fly in an airplane for our first time ever!! A while ago my mom found a good deal on some plane tickets and asked me if I wanted to fly home for a week in October. Um, yes please!! I was actually really nervous about it for a few reasons. 1- I was going to be going on my first airplane ride with nobody but my baby! 2- How was I going to keep my hyper active baby to sit still on the plane for a whole hour?! (That is really quite amazing that I can get to Idaho in an hour!) 3- What if I get on the wrong plane?! 4- What if our plane crashes?! (We just recently watched an episode of "Greys Anatomy" and their plane crashed on their way to Boise! That's where we were flying to so that made me a little worried! Haha)
Everything actually went really really well! Brady helped me up to security in the Portland airport and then I just asked nice people for help after that. Once we got on the plane there was not very many people there so Alayna and I sat at the very back and had a whole row to ourselves! Hallelujah! Once the plane started to get going I got so excited! I felt like I was in a nascar race when the plane was getting ready to take off and then when it did it was just so awesome because we were going so high! We were flying through all the clouds and then everything was so tiny when I looked down! Even Alayna got excited and kept looking out the window!
Alayna was actually really good on the plane because she still had a fever and even slept a little. (The plane ride back to Oregon wasn't as easy because she wasn't sick and cuddly anymore but at least we lucked out again and had the whole row of seats to ourselves!) Once our plane landed Alayna and I just followed all the other passengers until I saw my mom waiting for us. I just couldn't believe that just an hour ago I was all the way in Portland and now I was in Boise! Now we had to endure a 5 to 6 hour car ride to get all the way to my home in Parker.
Alayna and I stayed in Idaho for a week and loved every minute of it! It was just a really relaxing fun week and I was so glad we were able to come out and spend time with my family. :)
Everything actually went really really well! Brady helped me up to security in the Portland airport and then I just asked nice people for help after that. Once we got on the plane there was not very many people there so Alayna and I sat at the very back and had a whole row to ourselves! Hallelujah! Once the plane started to get going I got so excited! I felt like I was in a nascar race when the plane was getting ready to take off and then when it did it was just so awesome because we were going so high! We were flying through all the clouds and then everything was so tiny when I looked down! Even Alayna got excited and kept looking out the window!
Alayna was actually really good on the plane because she still had a fever and even slept a little. (The plane ride back to Oregon wasn't as easy because she wasn't sick and cuddly anymore but at least we lucked out again and had the whole row of seats to ourselves!) Once our plane landed Alayna and I just followed all the other passengers until I saw my mom waiting for us. I just couldn't believe that just an hour ago I was all the way in Portland and now I was in Boise! Now we had to endure a 5 to 6 hour car ride to get all the way to my home in Parker.
Alayna and I stayed in Idaho for a week and loved every minute of it! It was just a really relaxing fun week and I was so glad we were able to come out and spend time with my family. :)
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Worst Night Of My Life
A little over a month ago Brady and I had the worst night of our lives! Not exaggerating. And of course it has everything to do with our sweet little Alayna.
Alayna had been acting really fussy for several hours and so I decided I was going to put her to bed a little early that night. Before I put her down for bed I felt her head and I thought it felt a little warm but I wasn't sure so I had Brady feel her head and he thought she felt just fine. So I put her to bed. She didn't even cry much like she usually does before falling asleep so I just thought that she must have been exhausted. For the next few hours she kept waking up and would cry really soft. I thought she was just fine because she will often wake up crying and then just go back to sleep. Well finally at like 12:30 a.m. I woke up wide awake to a really soft sounding whimper. I had a feeling that something was wrong and I quickly jumped out of bed to check on our sweet little girl. It was my worst nightmare. I screamed for Brady and just stared at what I thought was our dying baby girl. Alayna was just lying there face down in her vomit. She wasn't really crying or breathing very much. The only noise she could make was just a very quiet whimper. As I stood there just staring at her in shock Brady told me to pick her up. When I picked her up she was completely limp. I laid her back down on the floor and just looked at her as I cried hysterically. Her eyes were rolled back and I thought she was looking into heaven or something and preparing to meet her Heavenly Father. I finally snapped out of it and realized that now Brady was the one staring in shock. I yelled at him to call 911 and he immediately did that while I prayed. The lady on the phone with Brady told him to try putting Alayna on her back since I had kept her on her stomach. She was already barely breathing so when we put her on her back she stopped breathing completely! I only left her on her back a few seconds before I put her back on her stomach and she started breathing slowly again.
It only took a few minutes before the ambulance showed up. I was so happy to see them! I rode in the ambulance with Alayna while Brady drove to the hospital in our car. The whole way there I never stopped praying or crying. I just didn't know what to do with myself! While we were on our way to the hospital Alayna was still completely out of it and her eyes were still just looking up at the ceiling when she started saying "Mama Mama". I grabbed her little hand and kept trying to get her to look at me but she never was able to focus on me. Finally after the 20 - 30 min. drive to the hospital they got some (more like a lot) of medicine down her and she started to focus more and actually looked at me! After that she continually got better and went to sleep on my chest. Brady's parents showed up shortly after we got there and Brady and his dad gave her a blessing. After that she just kept getting better and better. Before we were able to take her back home, they were able to tell us what was wrong with her. The doctor said that she was probably having a seizure when we found her and that her seizure was caused because of her temperature getting too high. They were also able to tell us that she had a fever because she had a urinary tract infection. Her 2nd one in less than 3 months!
After we got her home, I gave her a bath (she still had vomit in her hair) and put her back to bed for a couple hours. For the next few days I had to constantly have medicine in her to keep her temperature down as well as antibiotics twice a day for ten days. Also since this is her 2nd urinary tract infection we have already had to take her in for a few tests. And she is still not done with all the tests she has to now go through. So far all the tests she has had have come out normal. Since then we have quit buying her the cheapest diapers in Wal-Mart and are now buying her the most expensive ones, even if they are more than double the price! We also no longer let her play in the bathtub. We get her in and clean, and then right back out. Also, I have not yet been able to relax since. Even though it has been over a month since her near death experience, I still take her temperature a few times a day, even if I know that she is just fine. And for the past few weeks she has been going through this "I don't need any sleep" phase. She wakes up every single night and doesn't go back to sleep for a few hours!
I really do love our little girl with all my heart but man! She has been kind of a hard baby! She has already been to the ER 5 times! Or is it 6?! It's always because she gets really high fevers and we have no warning! Once she gets a temperature it just shoots up so high so fast that we don't even know anything is wrong until we are on our way to the hospital. And now she is like an insomniac child! Don't one year olds need like 12 hours of sleep a day?! I am also really frustrated because I thought that breast fed babies dont get sick as much? Well Alayna is almost 16 months and still being breast fed all the time! Anyways, I just hope that when we have our next baby someday, that he/she will be a lot easier.
Alayna had been acting really fussy for several hours and so I decided I was going to put her to bed a little early that night. Before I put her down for bed I felt her head and I thought it felt a little warm but I wasn't sure so I had Brady feel her head and he thought she felt just fine. So I put her to bed. She didn't even cry much like she usually does before falling asleep so I just thought that she must have been exhausted. For the next few hours she kept waking up and would cry really soft. I thought she was just fine because she will often wake up crying and then just go back to sleep. Well finally at like 12:30 a.m. I woke up wide awake to a really soft sounding whimper. I had a feeling that something was wrong and I quickly jumped out of bed to check on our sweet little girl. It was my worst nightmare. I screamed for Brady and just stared at what I thought was our dying baby girl. Alayna was just lying there face down in her vomit. She wasn't really crying or breathing very much. The only noise she could make was just a very quiet whimper. As I stood there just staring at her in shock Brady told me to pick her up. When I picked her up she was completely limp. I laid her back down on the floor and just looked at her as I cried hysterically. Her eyes were rolled back and I thought she was looking into heaven or something and preparing to meet her Heavenly Father. I finally snapped out of it and realized that now Brady was the one staring in shock. I yelled at him to call 911 and he immediately did that while I prayed. The lady on the phone with Brady told him to try putting Alayna on her back since I had kept her on her stomach. She was already barely breathing so when we put her on her back she stopped breathing completely! I only left her on her back a few seconds before I put her back on her stomach and she started breathing slowly again.
It only took a few minutes before the ambulance showed up. I was so happy to see them! I rode in the ambulance with Alayna while Brady drove to the hospital in our car. The whole way there I never stopped praying or crying. I just didn't know what to do with myself! While we were on our way to the hospital Alayna was still completely out of it and her eyes were still just looking up at the ceiling when she started saying "Mama Mama". I grabbed her little hand and kept trying to get her to look at me but she never was able to focus on me. Finally after the 20 - 30 min. drive to the hospital they got some (more like a lot) of medicine down her and she started to focus more and actually looked at me! After that she continually got better and went to sleep on my chest. Brady's parents showed up shortly after we got there and Brady and his dad gave her a blessing. After that she just kept getting better and better. Before we were able to take her back home, they were able to tell us what was wrong with her. The doctor said that she was probably having a seizure when we found her and that her seizure was caused because of her temperature getting too high. They were also able to tell us that she had a fever because she had a urinary tract infection. Her 2nd one in less than 3 months!
After we got her home, I gave her a bath (she still had vomit in her hair) and put her back to bed for a couple hours. For the next few days I had to constantly have medicine in her to keep her temperature down as well as antibiotics twice a day for ten days. Also since this is her 2nd urinary tract infection we have already had to take her in for a few tests. And she is still not done with all the tests she has to now go through. So far all the tests she has had have come out normal. Since then we have quit buying her the cheapest diapers in Wal-Mart and are now buying her the most expensive ones, even if they are more than double the price! We also no longer let her play in the bathtub. We get her in and clean, and then right back out. Also, I have not yet been able to relax since. Even though it has been over a month since her near death experience, I still take her temperature a few times a day, even if I know that she is just fine. And for the past few weeks she has been going through this "I don't need any sleep" phase. She wakes up every single night and doesn't go back to sleep for a few hours!
I really do love our little girl with all my heart but man! She has been kind of a hard baby! She has already been to the ER 5 times! Or is it 6?! It's always because she gets really high fevers and we have no warning! Once she gets a temperature it just shoots up so high so fast that we don't even know anything is wrong until we are on our way to the hospital. And now she is like an insomniac child! Don't one year olds need like 12 hours of sleep a day?! I am also really frustrated because I thought that breast fed babies dont get sick as much? Well Alayna is almost 16 months and still being breast fed all the time! Anyways, I just hope that when we have our next baby someday, that he/she will be a lot easier.
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