Presleigh's One Month Update

I can't believe it! How in the world is my little girl already a month old? This month has flown by... except at night time when Presleigh decides she needs to be awake. Presleigh is a pretty good little baby. If you keep her fed, changed, and warm then she is a pretty happy little lady. Night time has been difficult though. She still has her days and nights mixed up. She tends to sleep all day and then want to be up all night. And heaven forbid if she sleeps alone. We have been trying almost every night to get her to sleep in her own bed but she absolutely refuses. She will be dead to the world and as soon as I lay her in her craddle she wakes up and starts screaming. We have tried everything... Tonight we are going to try the pack and play and see if she likes that any better. We don't know what to do. Having her sleep in the bed with us totally goes against everything I believe in when it comes to kids and sleeping, but at this point, I am willing to let her sleep with us because if I was even more exhausted then I already am I might totally lose my mind. So for now, she sleeps with us. We are really hoping she grows out of this and we will continue trying to get her to sleep on her own.

At her last weigh in Presleigh was 7 pounds 8 ounces and 20 inches long. That was almost two weeks ago though so I am sure those stats are a little different now. We have loved having this little girl in our home and we can't wait to watch her grow!

It's Been a Few Days...

My gosh! A lot has happened since the last time I wrote. I don't even really know where to begin actually...

I guess I will start with Easton. He is almost 17 months old and I can't even handle it. He is so much fun right now. He is also a stubborn little stinker that acts just like his dad. He is walking running all over the place. He never stops. EVER. He says a few words like mom, dad, horse, shoe, dog, and no. He talks a lot, we just don't understand a word he says usually. He thinks he can jump really high but his feet don't ever leave the ground. He has a ton of teeth and they just keep on coming. The last few that have broken through have been brutal. He hates going to church because that means being quiet and contained for a few hours. He is a daddy's boy as much as I hate it. And he is a serious dare devil. He climbs all over everything and doesn't seem to have very many fears. Overall, he is getting so big and learning so much that I can hardly keep up with him. I wouldn't trade him for the world.

Next on the menu is our move. We decided to give Afton, Wyoming a try. Eric got a job offer to be a police officer in Afton. I finished off my school year and we packed our things and headed to the mountains. We are currently renting a tiny house. And by tiny I mean TINY! I wish we could say we are loving it here but we aren't. Turns out the chief of the police department was not very honest about Eric's pay and the cost of living is very high here. We are barely making ends meet so we have started the search for another job. It would not surprise me if we ended up back in Gillette. Anywhere would be better than here. However, I have enjoyed getting to know my grandparents and aunts and uncles a little more since we have been here. We will miss them all when we do end up leaving but we have to do what is best for our little family.

Speaking of family... I am pregnant. Currently I am 25 weeks along. We are very excited but also very nervous for this new little adventure. Easton will be about 20 months old when the baby is born. We will have two babies under the age of two! Yikes! This pregnancy has been a lot easier than when I was pregnant with Easton in terms of sickness. BUT... It has been a freaking roller coaster ride. It all started when I was about 17 weeks along. I was with my mom and Easton and we were on our way home from the swimming pool. We had the green light and another driver decided to turn right in front of us. We hit head on and it spun our car around and we hit two other vehicles before we finally came to a stop. I jumped in the back seat to make sure Easton was okay. Besides a little bruising and a bit tongue he was just fine. My mom hit her head and was really light headed and she hurt her hand. I started having cramps where the seatbelt was so the EMTs thought it would be best if I got checked out at the hospital. They loaded me up in the ambulance and sent me to the hospital. Once there they used a heart beat monitor to check the baby's heartbeat. The probed me for about 10 minutes and couldn't find one. I was freaking out and it took them over an hour to get an ultra sound machine in there. Once they did they found the baby and it was wiggling around like crazy. A few days later I started having some pain again so Eric and I went in to make sure the baby was okay. The doctor did the ultra sound and found that I had a complete Placenta Previa. Because of this, we had to make an appointment at a high risk clinic in Salt Lake City. When we got there they said that I didn't have Placenta Previa but that the baby had a heart defect. We then had to make an appointment at Primary Children's Hospital for a fetal echo. We were sick to our stomachs and so worried but the doctor came in after the echo was done and said that the baby was perfectly healthy! We were so so happy. So needless to say, this pregnancy has been a stressful one. We are ready for the next 15 weeks to go by quickly and without stress. We can't wait to meet this new little one!

Other then that, I can't think of any other big events in our lives. Here are a couple of pictures:

Easton's 11 Month Update

How in the world has it already been another month? I cannot believe that this is my baby's last month of being zero. It actually rips my heart out a little bit just thinking about the fact that we will be celebrating his birthday in less than a month.

We thought we were out of the clear as far as hospital visits and doctors visits but the weekend after we had to take Easton into the hospital for the flu, we had to make another trip. This time it was for me instead of him though. I had a freaking kidney stone. It was the worst thing ever. I would have rather gone through labor again before having one of those. It was like a constant contraction with no breaks that kept getting worse. They gave me some drugs and it was pure heaven once they kicked in. 

As far as Easton, he is so active! He never stops. Ever. I love that he is independent and always wanting to do something. I guess he gets that from his mom and dad. Here are some fun facts about my little boy:

-He will walk along the edge of the coaches or coffee table. 

-He has stood up without holding onto something for a couple of seconds but he is kind of a chicken and he will sit back down or reach out to grab onto something. I don't think he will be walking by his first birthday.

-He has developed quite the appetite lately. We went to Evanston over Easter and he amazed everyone with how much he ate at every meal. He even ate an entire taco the other night, salsa and all.

-He finally figured out how to drink out of something. Eric and I were gone so Papa John gave him some juice in his sippy cup and he slurped it down. He can also drink out of a straw now!

-We are down to nursing only twice a day. Once in the morning and once right before bed. It has been hard on both of us. When he gets fussy he wants to nurse and when I don't let him nurse then he gets even more upset. It has been hard on me because I love that bonding time with him. I am going to be so sad when we are done for good!

-We haven't had another check up since his 9 month one but according to our scale, he is a little over 18 pounds. I hope he can gain a little more weight and grow a couple more inches before his next check up. He was so low on the percentile chart during his last check up!

-His fake coughing has gotten even more dramatic. When he coughs now we ask him if he is alright. He loves this so he will keep on coughing. I am afraid we are raising a hypochondriac....

-He is a holy terror at church. It isn't so bad when both Eric and I are there but when it is just me... Seriously he is a pain in the butt!

-He has figured out how to open cupboards and take everything out of them.

-He has NO fear. None. He loves being thrown up as high as he can go. He loves being hung upside down and swung all over the place. It kind of worries me that he isn't afraid of anything...

-Okay, he is afraid of one thing, wigs. If someone puts on a wig he will go as stiff as a board, stop breathing for a second, and then just start screaming and shaking. It is sad!

-He will walk but only if he has a hold of both of your hands. If you let go of one of his hands he will stop walking and fall down.

I love this little boy. More than he will ever know. He is helping me become a better person every day. He shows me what life is all about. Even when I am stressed out or upset, he makes everything right. I am going to enjoy every minute of this last month of him being zero!

Monthly Growth Picture

Easton's 10 Month Update

This monthly update snuck up on me. We have had a rough few weeks. The last weekend of February Eric, Easton, and I went up to Casper to watch State Wrestling. Easton has never slept well in hotel rooms so the first night we were there we didn't think much of it when he continued this trend. The next day his cheeks were a little rosy and his nose was running a little bit but he was teething so we once again chalked up his symptoms to something else. That night he felt pretty warm to me so I took his temperature. He had a fever of 101 degrees. He was also starting to get a little cough. We gave him some Tylenol and then snuggled him for the rest of the night because all he did was scream.

On the way home I just felt like something was not right and that this wasn't just something that was going to come and go easily. Eric and I talked about it and we decided we needed to take him into the walk-in clinic. As soon as we pulled into town we went straight to the clinic. They told us that since he was running a fever he needed to wear a mask. That was not going to happen. I don't know if you have ever tried to make your 9 month old wear a surgical mask, but it doesn't work. So, we sat in the corner away from everyone else that was in there.

After 1 hour of waiting we were taken back. The doctor did some swabs and told us she was pretty sure Easton had RSV. When the test results came back it turned out that he actually had Influenza B and an ear infection. They then took us to the x-ray room and took an x-ray of his chest. His lungs had a little fluid in them so they sent us home with a Nebulizer... and Tamiflu, and Amoxicillin. They also told us to start giving him Tylenol and Motrin every 6 hours.

We went home and started giving him the medicine. It wasn't long before he was throwing everything up. He could not keep anything down. After 5 hours of this we took him into the ER. They got us in the back pretty quickly but then we sat for 4 hours before we were able to see the doctor. He was so dehydrated that they wanted to start an I.V. Unfortunately they could not get a vain in either of his arms so we were forced to pour Pedialyte down his throat. They also gave him some Zofran and finally sent us home.

He was on the mend when he suddenly broke out into an awful rash. I gave him several oatmeal baths but it was not helping. We took him back to the doctor and it turns out that he was having a reaction to his Amoxicillin. They told us to just quit giving it to him. So... The last couple of weeks have been some busy ones. (But we have already met our deductible :) I am glad to report that Easton is finally feeling better and is back to my happy little boy!

So with no further ado:

-Easton has fully figured out how to crawl and he is stinking fast. We have to really keep an eye on him because he will be in one place and then in a completely other place in a matter of seconds.

-He can pull himself up on anything now. He is also starting to try and walk around the objects he pulls himself up on but he is still a little scared of that.

-Now that he is so mobile he is starting to get a lot of bumps and bruises. Poor guy.

-When he does pull himself up onto something he gets kind of scared when it is time to sit back down. He will start crying and whining and then he will bend his little legs and plop down onto his bum. He then realizes that it wasn't as bad as he thought.

-He has been doing this thing we call a cheesy grin. He will squint his little eyes, wrinkle his little nose, make his jaw go crooked, and give you the cheesiest smile you have ever seen. It is so cute!

Pictures

This is the nasty, awful, horrible rash that covered my baby!

And this is his cheesy grin that I love so much!