Reminising...

This is a copy of a blog I posted on Myspace - Nov. 11, 2007...I almost forgot why I am so petrified of cold/flu season until I read this and remembered. Not fun!

The discovery of feet, A TOOTH!! AND the Croup Current mood: cheerful

Well, what a week it has been. Last Sunday started it all - with a trip to the ER for little Mia. She was "barking" - had a horrible cough and it seemed like she was having trouble breathing. We took her in and they tested her out and had a chest x-ray done. That's an interesting process for an infant...but she survived and managed to make cute baby noises and smile exactly when they were trying to listen to her lungs. Turns out, she had a case of croup. I thought we were going to see the worst of it in her since it usually hits infants the hardest, but the next day Keira's temp went up to 103 and she started barking and wheezing. Monday was the scariest day for me. I kept Keira in our bed Monday night. There was one point in time where Keira was crying and I had to put Mia down and she started screaming and gagging and Keira's breathing sounded so bad that I almost called 911. That's the night Travis has school so I was alone in my panic. Two year olds can't really communicate what's wrong - they just know they don't feel good and they know when they're scared. I don't think either Keira or I slept much that night - half the time she was laying on me semi-propped up. Mia slept better that night probably due to her lack of sleep on Sunday night. Tuesday morning we took both girls to the doctor where Mia proceeded to coo and smile exactly when they needed her to be quiet. She was good at winning hearts of the hospital/pediatrician staff but not so good at being able to hear her lungs. She was actually doing SO much better but Keira had to have a shot of Cortizone to open her airways. It took so long for the shot to kick in, I thought I was going to have to take her to the ER Tues night. The doctor warned me that I may still need to because her airways were so tight. I ended up missing all three days of work and finally Keira is doing a better. She still isn't back to her normal self - I look in her eyes and they just look drained and tired. Poor little kiddo. She is still funny, though. When I put her down for her nap today she said, "My finger has a heartbeat!" I think she got that from Elf - he says that on there and she is ALREADY quoting movies. We've watched about every Christmas movie you can think of this week - some over and over again - Elf being one of them.

Mia sprouted her first tooth this week!!! I KNEW she was teething. The doctor saw it on Tuesday and I felt it and sure enough, there were little prongs poking back on my finger. That was Nov. 6th and she just turned 4 months on Oct. 26th. Travis thinks I was actually prego longer than we though - like 11 months or something!! What the heck?

Mia also discovered her feet this week. It was the cutest thing - I had her in just a diaper laying in the Boppy on our bed. I went to get something and when I came back she had her legs pulled up to her like she was going to do crunches and was just staring at her feet. I called Travis in and we watched from the door while she just looked at them and then stretched them out. We went in and he said, "Those belong to you, ya know." She was so intense and it was neat to be there in one of those moments of discovery. She seems to take a lot in. She will watch TV, look at books when I read to Keira and smile at people who aren't looking at her just to get them to smile back. It is so much fun to watch her personality blossom. The coolest part is to see the mutual love between her and Keira. She beams any time Keira is near her and Keira is usually always kind to her - even when she's having a "two" moment. That makes me happy. Even after a week like the one I just had, I feel really blessed at the life God has allowed us to partake in.
Keira always runs around our living room in a (small) circle and says, "It's fun being home!!!" That's how I feel right now - it's fun being home.