Behind on February

Last month was one heck of a month. I am so thankful it is over and we are MOVING ON! The month started off good, I had an interview with a company for a marketing position. I did not get the job, but I got a little interview experience under my belt and I am all for that. Next up was Dad's birthday (Feb 8th) it was good. Addi and I went to go see him for his birthday and took him his beloved cheesecake. He seems to enjoy about the one and only dessert I can actually make. I have made him cheesecake for special occassions for a couple of years now and I can always bank on him being completely content with his edible gift. From the 8th on it was downhill! Addi, bless her heart, got sick. It was our first time as parents dealing with a "sickly" child and I will be the first to admit....I suck at it! This certainly was not my most shining moment as a mother or as a significant other. As you will all know having drama, especially with children, does not bring out the best in people sometimes. Addi got a, what I like to call a "blemish" in her "flower" area and long story short, the blemish turned into an disasterous unsightly swollen area that needed to be drained. She ran almost 103 fever for a couple days and she was put in the hospital for 2 days.



Hospitalization

We arrived at the hospital at about 4o'clock Wed the 11th and was bracing ourselves for the surgery our little girl was about to have in a few hours. My heart has never fallen as hard as when she was sick and didn't feel well. She did not have any strength. The only thing she had been eating for 2 days up to that point was a few bottles of pedialite. We were admitted and the baby had surgery at about 7pm. The most traumatizing moment of my life up to this point are them having to start an IV on Addison. She cried so much that she just wore herself out completely. The surgery ws quick 15 or 20 minutes top and then we were headed back to our room with our sedated baby. That night was a little rough because she was still in pain and the nurses had to come in about every 30minutes to check her vital signs. Thursday brought a bit of a better outlook because she began to eat and her fever began to decrease. However the maintenance on the severed site was not so fun! She was receiving several rounds of antibiotics and by the end of the day I was so exhausted with it ALL! Everytime she peed we were on diaper duty because it would burn her and anytime she did a little poo she had to take a soak. Seriously people can you count how many times a day a baby pees or poos even a little. EXHAUSTING!! The night turned into and even longer night due to the fact that her IV infiltrated and they had to remove it before they had finished giving her all her antibiotic. Friday morning at 1230am they came to get her to start another IV. Daniel took her this time, after 20 minutes she was not back yet and I began pacing the hallways looking for them. One of the nurses showed me the way. Turned out....Addi is not such an easy stick and after the 4th try they decided to call the on call doctor because they couldn't get her started and she was so tired that she passed out from crying so much. We were allowed to return to our room and they were to try again after doctor rounds. Turned out in our favor she was doing well enough they discharged us and we were home by 1230 that afternoon. THANK GOD. I do have to say if God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. My heart goes out to any mother or father that has a sickly baby that has to go through pain. I don't understand but it is what it is and I don't dwell on it, I was just thankful that we got to take her home.



Rest of the month

Since then our little one has bounced back harder and more playful then when the month first started. Addi had just learned to crawl on the 4th of the month and then she got sick and now....oh my!! We can't even keep up. She is pulling up all by herself and crawling around, crawling up steps and into other rooms....she is a girl on a mission and on the move. I cherish her being so healthy. I am so thankful!!



V-Day

Valentines Day was ALMOST spent in the hospital but thankfully we got released the day before. I would like to say Daniel totally rocked this year for v-day and I totally sucked at it. He got me a gorgeous pair of diamond earrings that I haven't taken out since I got them. I L-O-V-E them to pieces. So thank you "Hunnie" for my beautiful earrings. Now if we can just get the diamonds from my ears to my finger....no pressure. LOVE YOU

I would post pictures for all of you, but due to my wonderful computer skills I managed to delete instead of UPLOAD all my most recent photos on my camera. Believe me I have already shed a few tears over it. But it is just one month of pictures. Grant you....one month I will never get back and now have NO documentation of....but nonetheless only one month. So i promise to post pictures and videos coming up soon. Sorry for the lack of intelligence.