Alex is progressing VERY quickly. 2 weeks ago he sat up on his own and since then he has crawled and pulled himself to a standing position. This video catches all 3.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
He crawled!!
Last night we went to Ms. Doris' for Uncle Vincent's birthday dinner. Nan and Uncle Chuck were there too. Alex really wanted either my flip flops or the plant and he turned around and crawled, coordinating his hands and knees. I didn't bring my camera so I don't have it on film...shocker, but I'll get some footage today...I hope.
Our First Trip to the E.R.
Thursday night I thought I noticed a little wheezing from Alex. He didn't have fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and he was acting totally normal. So I put him to bed. Friday morning he was fine. Friday afternoon I picked him up from daycare and I noticed him wheezing. Friday night, I was feeding him dinner and it got worse...louder and closer together. I called the dr. and the on call nurse said "Pick your hospital because you have to bring him in." So, we picked Children's. We got there at 6:40pm Friday night. The nurse checked Alex and said she heard wheezing the first time then didn't the next time, but "hopefully the dr. will hear it." The dr. came and didn't even take out his stethoscope at first, he wanted to observe Alex's chest and belly. He noticed labored breathing. Then he checked him with the stethoscope. He heard wheezing, ordered an xray and breathing treatments.
The xray didn't show pneumonia so the dr. said he just had bronchitis. We asked if he had asthma and he said at this age they don't diagnose that and it's more of a family history diagnosis. No one in our families (that we can recall) has or has had asthma but I have horrible allergies and Patrick has horrible sinus problems, so poor Alex inherited one, if not both issues.
After the Xray, Alex fell asleep. 6pm was his bedtime and now it was after 7 and he was so tired. A lady came down to give him a breathing treatment and he did so good with it. Next, someone came to suction snot out of his nose with a high powered syringe. It was a hose hooked up to air on the wall. Alex and mommy did NOT like that. They were going to test his snot for RSV and other illnesses. The RSV test came back negative.
The dr. came back to check on him and said the breathing treatment helped so he ordered another one. They also gave him a dose of Orapred (steroid) to help with inflamation.
In addition to the bronchitis, Alex also has an ear infection and a throat infection. He's on amoxicillin for those.
We left Children's at 9:45ish and Patrick and I were starving. Neither of us had eaten since lunch....and ya'll KNOW I was starving if that's the case. So we bring his rx's to Walgreens and then go to Taco Bell for dinner. I get a large Sierra Mist and as we pull off I taste the drink and it's 90% carbonation. Yuck! Then we get to Walgreens and the girl said insurance didn't cover the rx's because his birthdate was wrong. So really long story short on that one. The girl was new and didn't notice the "RX" sign on the card. Our rx don't go through our normal company they go through a prescription company. The next day I brought in a statement from Humana with Alex's correct birthday on it and the new set of workers at Walgreens caught the error and I got a refund. Yay! But, add the rx mistake with my gross Sierra Mist and it was not a fun night.
We got home at 10:45 and were in bed by 11.
Then we had to- or I- woke up to check on Alex's breathing at 3am. He was fine, but he woke up at 4am so I had to feed him since he didn't eat a lot yesterday. Then after the crying he needed a treatment. Then he went back to bed.
The xray didn't show pneumonia so the dr. said he just had bronchitis. We asked if he had asthma and he said at this age they don't diagnose that and it's more of a family history diagnosis. No one in our families (that we can recall) has or has had asthma but I have horrible allergies and Patrick has horrible sinus problems, so poor Alex inherited one, if not both issues.
After the Xray, Alex fell asleep. 6pm was his bedtime and now it was after 7 and he was so tired. A lady came down to give him a breathing treatment and he did so good with it. Next, someone came to suction snot out of his nose with a high powered syringe. It was a hose hooked up to air on the wall. Alex and mommy did NOT like that. They were going to test his snot for RSV and other illnesses. The RSV test came back negative.
The dr. came back to check on him and said the breathing treatment helped so he ordered another one. They also gave him a dose of Orapred (steroid) to help with inflamation.
In addition to the bronchitis, Alex also has an ear infection and a throat infection. He's on amoxicillin for those.
We left Children's at 9:45ish and Patrick and I were starving. Neither of us had eaten since lunch....and ya'll KNOW I was starving if that's the case. So we bring his rx's to Walgreens and then go to Taco Bell for dinner. I get a large Sierra Mist and as we pull off I taste the drink and it's 90% carbonation. Yuck! Then we get to Walgreens and the girl said insurance didn't cover the rx's because his birthdate was wrong. So really long story short on that one. The girl was new and didn't notice the "RX" sign on the card. Our rx don't go through our normal company they go through a prescription company. The next day I brought in a statement from Humana with Alex's correct birthday on it and the new set of workers at Walgreens caught the error and I got a refund. Yay! But, add the rx mistake with my gross Sierra Mist and it was not a fun night.
We got home at 10:45 and were in bed by 11.
Then we had to- or I- woke up to check on Alex's breathing at 3am. He was fine, but he woke up at 4am so I had to feed him since he didn't eat a lot yesterday. Then after the crying he needed a treatment. Then he went back to bed.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
New Pictures
Here are pictures from evacuation. Alex turned 8 months and belated giraffe pictures are in there as well.
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/album.sfly?sid=0BaM2zRy2YsWGX&startIndex=0&fid=5d3a2c976b94fc62cf4ab00f16ca9e1e
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=4da066c49deb5862d33ce936de451066
EDITED:: I don't know what's going on with shutterfly. I hope these links work...they're the same pictures but different links. It has added pictures of our first family trip to the Aquarium of the Americas. Alex loved watching the sharks and penguins.
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/album.sfly?sid=0BaM2zRy2YsWGX&startIndex=0&fid=5d3a2c976b94fc62cf4ab00f16ca9e1e
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=4da066c49deb5862d33ce936de451066
EDITED:: I don't know what's going on with shutterfly. I hope these links work...they're the same pictures but different links. It has added pictures of our first family trip to the Aquarium of the Americas. Alex loved watching the sharks and penguins.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
We're home
This trip took the normal time. We didn't have traffic but we were with many cars on the road. Everyone went the speed limit and it was fine. We drove through some showers.
On the return trip it was just me, Patrick and Alex. Ms. Doris (Great Grandma) left with Ms. Debbie (Granny) earlier in the day. Patrick and I didn't decide until later on that we would return home. Knowing we wouldn't be able to wash dishes, take showers or flush the toilet until possibly tomorrow was better than having 2 adults, a baby, 2 cats, and a dog and our luggage in one small hotel room. We have electricity so we can microwave the meals we bought in Alabama. We stocked up on food and water before we came home so we don't have to go out and wait in lines like most everyone else.
The trip was about 6 hours. We left around 12pm and got home around 6pm on Thursday. We had to stop for gas and to feed Alex. Alex slept the first 3 hours of the trip so we made good time then. After he was up he needed to eat twice. The second feeding was done on the side of some neighborhood off I-12.
So, we're home safe and sound. The pets are happy, the baby seems happy and the parents are happy.
DirectTV was not working so Patrick set up the bunny ears. One must NOT miss the first regular season game of football.
On the return trip it was just me, Patrick and Alex. Ms. Doris (Great Grandma) left with Ms. Debbie (Granny) earlier in the day. Patrick and I didn't decide until later on that we would return home. Knowing we wouldn't be able to wash dishes, take showers or flush the toilet until possibly tomorrow was better than having 2 adults, a baby, 2 cats, and a dog and our luggage in one small hotel room. We have electricity so we can microwave the meals we bought in Alabama. We stocked up on food and water before we came home so we don't have to go out and wait in lines like most everyone else.
The trip was about 6 hours. We left around 12pm and got home around 6pm on Thursday. We had to stop for gas and to feed Alex. Alex slept the first 3 hours of the trip so we made good time then. After he was up he needed to eat twice. The second feeding was done on the side of some neighborhood off I-12.
So, we're home safe and sound. The pets are happy, the baby seems happy and the parents are happy.
DirectTV was not working so Patrick set up the bunny ears. One must NOT miss the first regular season game of football.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Hurricane Gustav
Long story short:
We left home at 4:30am on Sunday morning. We arrived at our final destination at 11:30pm Sunday night. To save you from math that's 19 hours.
Long story:
We made plans to leave at 4:30am and after those plans, JP announced that they would start contraflow at 4am. Because we didn't know if Alex would wake up at night we didn't want to push up the leave time. We had no problem on the WBank Expy or the CCC. When we got to I-10 we hit traffic. From there we went 90 miles in 10 hours. We didn't get out of Slidell until 3:30pm. I-10 was blocked off going East so EVERYONE who wanted to go to the coast of MS, AL, FL, or GA had to go up I-59. The traffic was absolutely a nightmare.
Ms. Doris entertained and fed Alex in the backseat. He was an angel. He didn't cry at all.
Patrick found some shortcuts in MS so we didn't have to sit in I-59 traffic more than we already were. We stopped to eat and that took about 30 minutes. Around 7pm Ms. Debbie started getting tired so we tried our hardest to find a closer hotel. Nothing was available. Then I remembered that my cousin Tracy was in Tuscaloosa and I called her to see if her hotel had an opening. They did....one room. So Ms. Debbie and Ms. Doris stayed to sleep while Patrick, Me, and Alex continued on another 2 hours to our hotel.
7 miles from our hotel exit Alex started crying. It got worse. There was nothing I could do so I was going to wait it out. At 3 miles from the exit, he vomited and gagged from crying so much. I pulled over to take care of him and console him. I was scared to death someone was going to hit me because there were no lights on that stretch of highway and cars were going upwards of 70mph. Finally, I had to put him back in his seat and listen to crying for 3 miles. When we got to the hotel I took him out and held him for the rest of the night. We arrived at 11:30pm and finally got to bed around 1am.
This morning Patrick woke up early to get his mom and grandma and about 20 minutes later he called to tell me the Tuscaloosa hotel had a room. So he came back home. We packed up and decided to drive the 2 hours again. At least when we go home it SHOULD be a shorter drive. Personally I'd like to wait for the bulk of the people to return home so we can avoid traffic again but money will be an issue and we'll have to leave when we can come back.
I'm not looking forward to returning!
Patrick and I are finally getting to take showers....48 hours later. I think we'll burn our clothes. We're in our new hotel room now.
I need tires too. As soon as we pulled in to the Tuscaloosa hotel parking lot my tire rolled over something and began losing air. Then Patrick inspected my tires and we decided it would be safe if I got all new tires. So that's a pretty penny too.
If there's any more, I'll add it down here....I think that's all, I'm pretty sleep deprived. I have driven 21 hours in 2 days and had 6 hours of sleep...and anyone who really knows me, knows I need more than 6 hours of sleep.
Just thought of this so I'll add it. I'm so glad and LUCKY that Alex was so good. When I say he didn't cry until 7 miles from the hotel, he really did not cry. I couldn't believe it. I know he reached his limit of spending time in the car seat. Heck, I reached my limit of driving around the 4 hour mark. At least I know if need be, I can drive 19 hours straight....but I'll never do it again unless I absolutely have to. I'm so proud of my little man.
We left home at 4:30am on Sunday morning. We arrived at our final destination at 11:30pm Sunday night. To save you from math that's 19 hours.
Long story:
We made plans to leave at 4:30am and after those plans, JP announced that they would start contraflow at 4am. Because we didn't know if Alex would wake up at night we didn't want to push up the leave time. We had no problem on the WBank Expy or the CCC. When we got to I-10 we hit traffic. From there we went 90 miles in 10 hours. We didn't get out of Slidell until 3:30pm. I-10 was blocked off going East so EVERYONE who wanted to go to the coast of MS, AL, FL, or GA had to go up I-59. The traffic was absolutely a nightmare.
Ms. Doris entertained and fed Alex in the backseat. He was an angel. He didn't cry at all.
Patrick found some shortcuts in MS so we didn't have to sit in I-59 traffic more than we already were. We stopped to eat and that took about 30 minutes. Around 7pm Ms. Debbie started getting tired so we tried our hardest to find a closer hotel. Nothing was available. Then I remembered that my cousin Tracy was in Tuscaloosa and I called her to see if her hotel had an opening. They did....one room. So Ms. Debbie and Ms. Doris stayed to sleep while Patrick, Me, and Alex continued on another 2 hours to our hotel.
7 miles from our hotel exit Alex started crying. It got worse. There was nothing I could do so I was going to wait it out. At 3 miles from the exit, he vomited and gagged from crying so much. I pulled over to take care of him and console him. I was scared to death someone was going to hit me because there were no lights on that stretch of highway and cars were going upwards of 70mph. Finally, I had to put him back in his seat and listen to crying for 3 miles. When we got to the hotel I took him out and held him for the rest of the night. We arrived at 11:30pm and finally got to bed around 1am.
This morning Patrick woke up early to get his mom and grandma and about 20 minutes later he called to tell me the Tuscaloosa hotel had a room. So he came back home. We packed up and decided to drive the 2 hours again. At least when we go home it SHOULD be a shorter drive. Personally I'd like to wait for the bulk of the people to return home so we can avoid traffic again but money will be an issue and we'll have to leave when we can come back.
I'm not looking forward to returning!
Patrick and I are finally getting to take showers....48 hours later. I think we'll burn our clothes. We're in our new hotel room now.
I need tires too. As soon as we pulled in to the Tuscaloosa hotel parking lot my tire rolled over something and began losing air. Then Patrick inspected my tires and we decided it would be safe if I got all new tires. So that's a pretty penny too.
If there's any more, I'll add it down here....I think that's all, I'm pretty sleep deprived. I have driven 21 hours in 2 days and had 6 hours of sleep...and anyone who really knows me, knows I need more than 6 hours of sleep.
Just thought of this so I'll add it. I'm so glad and LUCKY that Alex was so good. When I say he didn't cry until 7 miles from the hotel, he really did not cry. I couldn't believe it. I know he reached his limit of spending time in the car seat. Heck, I reached my limit of driving around the 4 hour mark. At least I know if need be, I can drive 19 hours straight....but I'll never do it again unless I absolutely have to. I'm so proud of my little man.
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