Fully Recovered

Thanks for ALL the prayers - I think we're finally on the upswing and have hopefully said good riddance to that stupid ear infection once and for all! She had to go in for the second and third shots on Tuesday and Wednesday. By Tuesday night she was back to sleeping through the night - she just wasn't as interested in taking a bottle. Her appetite and spunk have just started to re-emerge over the last couple of days and we are SO grateful to see our little girl get back to normal! Phoebe and I went with YiaYia on Friday afternoon up to Anderson to visit Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Newell. She had a good time playing with their stuffed animals, watching the birds and squirrels in their backyard and seemed to quickly develop a special attachment to Great Grandpa (I'm sure pictures will get posted on YiaYia's blog soon).

Here are a couple pictures from the week. We attempted to put her coat on her before we put her in her carseat and quickly resorted back to her Bundle Me instead. The coat would have to be put on once we arrived at our destination for obvious reasons!

On Monday, she stayed home from daycare with Daddy. Things like this NEVER happen on my day off...

This picture was taken today after we got home from running errands - Yeah for a happy girl!

Now she's in bed and Ryan has gone out to play pool with the boys. We had someone come clean our house on Friday - it was a Christmas gift from Ryan and Phoebe - one I VERY much appreciated! So since the house is in shape, I'm going to go settle into the couch and catch up on TiVo. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Emergency Room Visit

When we took Phoebe in for her pink eye 11 days ago, Dr. Fisher said she also had an ear infection. We were surprised since she hadn't shown any signs of discomfort or fever. They just put her on an antibiotic and things were pretty normal around the Wallis household. Phoebe took a three hour nap on Friday. I think that should have been the first clue - since at the most she usually sleeps an hour when she naps. By Friday evening she had a low-grade fever but was acting fine. Saturday started out normal until she threw up breakfast. Then her fever returned and she napped more than she was awake. The pediatrician said she was ok as long as she was active when she was awake and not dehydrated. However, when she napped, her breathing got real rapid and her fevers seemed to spike. Of course, I started researching the internet and was determined she had pneumonia since she'd picked up a cough and runny nose as well. When we woke up Sunday morning, her fever had broken so I then I thought whatever it was (maybe it was her teeth?) was over, but after her two hour morning nap, her fever returned. We headed to Mom & Dad's for lunch since Auntie Kate was in town and she was quite active and even ate lunch with us, but by her afternoon (two hour) nap, her fever was over 102 and YiaYia suggested we just to go the ER. After speaking to a nurse who said her breathing was too rapid for her age, we had her admitted around 7:00 last night. To see her in a little hospital gown broke my heart. At least they didn't have to hook her up to an IV - I think that would have done us in! It turns out her ear infection didn't go away with the Omnicef they prescribed and she needed a shot. We go to the pediatrician tomorrow to see if it was effective or if she needs another shot. They said if the shot(s) didn't work that we'd have to get tubes put in - which seems a little extreme, but we're taking it one day at a time. Ryan is home with her today so I pray they get some good cuddle time in. She's been getting up every two hours during the night just crying so we're going on little sleep, wishing there was something we could do to ease her pain. Please pray for Phoebe, that the shot does the trick and she's feeling good as new in no time. It's so hard when they can't tell you what hurts or what they need. We'll keep you posted after her check up tomorrow morning. Thanks for your prayers!

In the Holiday Spirit

So it's Valentine's Day tomorrow and as I write this, I've realized that Phoebe wanted to get in on this day of love, too. So...she's come down with pink eye! How appropriate! I thought about taking her picture and posting it but I thought she may not appreciate my need to document every little detail of her life on film. Then I thought, "what the heck!?" So here's poor little girl with the gimp eye. Her appointment is at 4:30 this afternoon so hopefully we'll get her on antibiotics soon! Can you guess which eye it is?

Tonight she's spending the night with YiaYia and Papou. Ryan and I are going on a date - woohoo! We're off to see Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco. We've seen a few of their shows and are always big fans. One of my coworkers saw it last night and said it was incredible so I'm pretty excited. Not to mention getting a night of purely uninterrupted sleep, that's pretty exciting in itself!

We took some videos of her last week crawling but they were too long to upload so we had to settle on a video of her latest accomplishment - drinking out of a cup. Granted most of the water ends up down her front or on the floor, but we're learning.

Wanted to post this picture from the Super Bowl. We were so excited to see the commercial in 3D - we even tried to get Phoebe in on the action! Hope everyone has a great weekend and stays warm. Happy Valentine's Day!!!