Madelyn has RSV!

My baby girl in the hospital with bronchitis and rsv. Doesn't she look pitiful? I have to admit though, she looked so cute in that hospital gown. I hated that i.v. on her arm too, she didn't like it at all. She kept hitting it on everything and sometimes she would just look at it and start crying. It was so sad!

She couldn't stand the wires so of course she was constantly pulling at them, and even succeeded a few times. One of the nurses even told me one time, "You're going to have to watch her better." She had just pulled the wire off her foot again. I thought, lady I have been up here by myself watching her every second for a day now. I wanted to pull the wires off too by that point. You can't seriously expect an 8 month old not to pull on her wires at all! I really was doing my best.


Madelyn has been so congested lately. I have taken her to the doctor for it several times lately. I took her two weeks ago and they said she just had a little cold. Well, her cold never got better so I took her back on Wednesday at 2:30. They said she then had bronchitis and they sent me over to the hospital to test her for rsv. Sure enough, she tested positive and they admitted her right away. What a nightmare!!! It was so scary to watch her like that, and so hard to not be able to do anything to make her feel better. Brian stayed home with Bryson both nights so I was with her in the hospital both nights by myself. That was so hard! We got to come home on Friday and I have been giving her breathing treatments every 4 to 6 hours since then and she takes a steroid every day. She seems like she might be feeling better during the days, but the nights are still terrible. She isn't sleeping more than about an hour at a time without waking up coughing or crying. The albuterol in her breathing treatments hypes her up and so even in her sleep, she is moaning and groaning and moving all around. Please pray for my baby to get better soon!

Halloween

Bryson, my neice Reese, and my nephew Kaden getting candy at my grandmother's house. They love their nanny. Madelyn was crying pretty heavily by this point so she is behind the scene's for this one.

This is the one and only shot I have of Madelyn not crying in her costume. She is a ladybug, but not a happy one this year for some reason. Every time we'd try to take a picture she would pull her hat off or she was constantly pulling at the skirt and putting it up over her head, or else just crying her head off. I wonder why she didn't like being put in and out of the car all night and never even getting any candy anywhere we went? :)Bryson and my sweet nephew Kaden playing games at the mall for Mall-o-ween. Yes, Bryson is wearing a different costume. He had several costumes this year we just let him wear them all! He had a blast this Halloween.

Career Day

Last Friday we had career day in Kindergarten. We talked about Community Helpers and Careers all week. We had a policeman, fireman, and ambulance driver all come to the school and talk to the kids about their jobs. Well, Bryson's class learned about the planets in his Preschool class last year and he has said he wants to be an astronaut ever since. He really likes the planets and he could name them all last year and is really interested in space. So I got him an astronaut costume so he could wear it to school on career day and then he is going to be that again for Halloween. He was so excited to wear it and to tell his class about what he wants to be when he grows up. He loves school and we do such neat things in Kindergarten that he is always excited and looking forward to something. I think he looks handsome in his costume.

My future astronaut!

Why yes, that is Madelyn with me in my classroom at school on Career Day. Why you ask? Well, that morning I left my house at exactly 7:20 and headed to the babysitters house. Got to her turn off at 7:27 and realized it was flooded and had road blocks and there was no way to get my daughter to her babysitters house. I have to be at school and signed in at 7:45 so now I am panicking. I call my principal and explain the situation. I am then told to bring her to school with me until I can have someone come pick her up. So, I brought my 6 month old daughter to my Kindergarten class on Friday and she stayed with me for about an hour until Brian could leave work to come and get her. The kids loved her of course and the teachers kept stealing her from me so Madelyn was in Heaven. It ended up being ok, but let me tell you it was a stressful morning. I have such a helpful husband! I am so thankful for him everyday.

Madelyn loves Kindergarten already!