Busy Busy Busy!

WELL! It was a very busy October, and I can't say that I am sad to see it go.

LO had her first ever sleep-over on Oct 23rd! She stayed the night at her grammy and grampy's house while hubby and I went to a halloween party. She did really well. She went to sleep around 8 and slept until 8, which is her normal schedule. Or was....

The next day I took her to a baby Halloween party! How fun! It was so neat to see all of the babies dressed up. They were so cute. There was an angel, skunk (LOL), little red riding hood, dragon, elmo, and a ton more. They were soooo cute. LO was a little cranky until I fed her a bottle. After that, she was back to climbing on everything and chewing on everything. Haha. As per usual these days! She was a monkey for Halloween, and it was a bit big in the tummy making it kinda heavy.... she fell backwards a few times LOL. The hostess had her parents dress up and come over to see the kids. Most of the kids hated it LOL But we all thought it was pretty cool. LO didn't really love it, but didn't cry like the rest of them. We had a blast. While I was packing up her diaper bag and treats that she got from the party, LO was unpacking.... I lost one of her treat bags! :( I was a bit disappointed when I got home and searched the bag, car, house and couldn't find it... oh well. What can you do! While we were at the party, I overheard one of the mom's say that her kid had been puking the day before. I thought why on earth would you bring him today then?!?!

The next night, hubby and I went to a movie, and LO stayed at grammy and grampy's again. She was quite cranky. Mom said she was not herself at all. Tues morning, Oct 25th, she popped her second tooth through! So we figured that was why she was so cranky. The other tooth popped through on thanksgiving but is really taking its time actually coming in!

Tues night, we put her to bed and around 9:30pm she started crying. I waited for a bit to see if she would go back to sleep, but she kept crying. So I went in, and she was covered in VOMIT!! It was all over her and the crib :( Poor girl. So I got her all cleaned up, and she did it again. That night, she hit the crib, the floor in her bedroom, and the floor, blanket, etc in the living room. The poor little thing was sick 4 times between 9:30 and 11:30. I couldn't believe it! At one point, she was on her hands and knees with no sleeper on, getting sick on the floor. I'm rubbing her back when I realize there is vomit on my hands and her back too. :'( She would cry while she was getting sick, but then after I could make her laugh. That's the kind of baby she is. She still would smile and laugh... A baby that little should never be sick like that, especially because some silly mom wouldn't keep her kid home from a party.

The next day wasn't much better. She didn't throw up much, only a tiny bit in the kitchen around 11am, but she didn't want to do anything. My baby that is full of energy and never wants to be held because then she can't move around turned into a heap that only wanted to stay still and sleep or be cuddled. I loved the time with her, but I knew she was pretty sick to be like that. And then the poops started.... She got quite sick that night in the living room around 7:30pm. After the first time she threw up, we covered everything and everywhere that we would be holding her in blankets and sheets. We did a TON of laundry that week haha.

Thursday, she was getting better. She was playing, but still not eating much, and refused juice, water, and the pedialite we bought. I tried freezing it, spoon feeding it to her, sucking it up in a straw and putting it into her mouth, you name it. NO GO. She is a pretty picky eater...

Friday, Oct. 29th came around and she still had the poops, but at this time, really nothing was coming out. Just little bits, and a bit of liquid. She still was not eating well. Mom and grandma wanted us to take her to ER that night because our family doctor was away. So we decided we would. First trip to the ER. We waited 3 hours. We knew it would be a long wait, it always is. We had to change her diaper 3 or 4 times while we were there. I didn't want to change her at the ER bathrooms, so I would take her down and around to one I thought looked cleaner. I put her on the change table and she freaked. She was so scared! She was even shaking! We don't have a change table, we just change her on the floor, so I think being in a new place, and then being strapped to the table really did it for her...

Back in the waiting room, she was entertaining the other people that were waiting! I was holding her and she would hang her head behind her and look at everyone upside down and smile! Everyone was laughing and saying how strong she was. Then one lady across the room started making lip smacking noises to her, so she did it back to the lady! Back and forth the two went for like a half an hour! The lady was like haha look what I started! I was really proud of her. It was past her bedtime, she wasn't allowed to crawl on the floor, and she still did very well. She started to seem like she was going to fuss a bit, so I went for a walk with her before she could get into it. But she always stopped. When we got in, the dr was examining her and she screamed! He said that was a good sign, and that she had tears when she cried, and that her mouth was still wet, everything looked good, she was not too dehydrated at all. As long as she kept drinking her milk. He said that milk products is the best thing for diarrhea. Follow the BRAY diet. Bananas, Rice, Apples, Yogurt. Which is what I had been doing, minus the yogurt. She has not been introduced to yogurt yet. So that was that. We were doing everything correctly. That's always nice to hear! :)

She was pretty much better by sat, but still had a bit of the poops. We decided that we would not take her out trick or treating on sunday night because we did not want to get our family sick. Hubby and I both got it (not as bad as she did), and we never get sick, so we knew it was a pretty good flu. We told everyone we'd take her next weekend, and they all agreed. I didn't realize how crappy I would feel about it on sunday though :( I know she will never know that its not halloween next weekend when we take her, but I will!!! She missed her first trick or treating!!! I think we may have been overcautious, but I guess that's that's better than getting everyone sick. So we took pictures of her outside in the leaves with her costume, and with pumpkins. We carved pumpkins, and roasted the pumpkin seeds (FAIL. They got thrown out the next day....), and tried to make it as halloweenish as we could for her. But I still feel bad! But she was cranky has HELL that day, so taking her out could have proved to be a bad idea....

All last week she slept until 9 or 9:30ish, because she was sick I guess. Usually she is 8-8ish. She got up in the middle of the night on sat night. I think her teeth were bugging her. It seems to be that she is getting up more and more at night. This morning she got up at 5:15!!!! I tried to let her go for a bit. Once she actually started crying, not just making noises, then I got up and held her in the rocking chair for about a half an hour. I already figured I'd just feed her early. I put her back in her crib at 6am and she jumped right up and started saying mama baba. mama baba. So I thought why not. She has been very cranky lately, and I thought it was just that she has been sick, and her teeth are coming in. But I was thinking yesterday, maybe her appetite is changing and she needs more food. So today I am feeding her a bit differently, and even though our schedule is messed up because she got up so early, she seems to be not as cranky.... she still is a bit though... haha.

I have given up on making her food. It was fine at first when we were introducing apples, pears, plums, carrots, peas, beans, etc., but now that we are into meats and things like that, we are having texture problems.... she won't eat it, and I don't blame her because its usually very dry, or too chunky, etc, so I think its best to give her some baby food, and get her used to the tastes first. She is already a bit of a picky eater, so I don't want to make it any worse... I've been wondering if she is so picky because we didn't introduce enough foods to her, but when I look at the menus/instructions the nurse gave us, we aren't that far behind. We are a bit, but not too bad. Wheat I held off because of family intolerances, but am introducing it now. Well, I started last week, but she barfed it all up that night. LOL She hates the apples, bananas and pears mixture from gerber. She likes all of those fruit by themselves, but you should see the faces when I try to get her to eat this! She is making fishy faces now. And they get really exaggerated when I try to get her to eat that mixture LOL Today I gave her vegetable chicken dinner, and she LOVED it. Its her new favorite!! At first she was like um, no. I put some on a spoon, and put it to her mouth so she could smell it. She opened her mouth, I put some in, and she made a "eww yuck" face. I told her it was good. (smelled great!!) Gave her some more. She had the yuck face.....then hmmm wait...... this isn't so bad....... and then the eyes went wide and the huge smile came over her face LOL Then she opened her mouth and waited for me LOL She has NEVER done that before!!! Love my little girl!

Sat she got her first toothbrush and had her teeth brushed for the first time! We got her a cute little pink piglet toothbrush (although I have a hard time buying my daughter things with a pig on it, but she loves it....). She, just like we anticipated, freaked out when we first tried to brush her 'teethies.' She clamped her jaw down, and kept whipping her head away. When she cried, I put the brush in. It was a bit of a struggle. But today, she is pretty much opening her mouth for me, although she still doesn't love it....

Yesterday we ate cat food for the first time.... I have a box up blocking her from the cat food and cat box. She got in and got a cat kibble before I could catch her. I had to dig it out of her mouth.... I thought ok, she's tasted it, now she'll know its gross and never do it again. OH NO. SHE LIKED IT. I can't get her to eat a banana, pear and apple mix, but she's all over seafood flavored cat food?!?! Now every time I turn around, she's over there, at that box, trying to get more. Looks like I will have to move the cat stuff soon..... but WHERE?!?! Baby's up. gotta go!!