Walking Walking Girl!!!!!

Yesterday Jayda started walking!!!!! I was just on the ground with her and she was holding on to me standing up and just started going like half way across the room (like 6-7 steps). Then she just started walking like all day (got up to about 10-11 steps). Its nuts seeing her walking!!! She is only 14.5 months actual and 11.5 months adjusted so WELL within the normal range even for actual age! What a big girl! I'm not sure if I can load videos on here but I shall try!

Update on Jayda's Clostridum Difficile

SO last Tuesday, Jayda started getting the runs really really bad. I figured maybe she caught a stomach bug or something when we went up to our family cabin, but after about four days of it getting worse not better. She was pooping about 8-10 times a day this really nasty green mucousy poop ( I know TMI right). Well the poor thing got such a bad diaper rash because she was pooping so much it actually started to bleed. So on Friday I took her to the doctor. He said the stomach bug was going around but that since she was getting worse and not better he wanted to tkae some stool samples. Let me tell you how FUN that was....not...all I gotta say is she better freaking know how much I love her because that crap (no pun intended) was GROSS!

So the labs came back on Monday and the Doctor told me that she tested positive for a bacteria in her intestines called CLostridum Difficile. He said it is caused by getting too many antibotics and it kills the healthy bacteria in her intestines and causes issues. It can be life threatening if not treated but it is pretty rare (more prevalent in elderly patients). The ironic thing is that in order to get rid of it they prescribe a very strong antibiotic. The problem is that she HATES it SO bad. Anytime we give it to her she gags and throws it up. It is nasty stuff and tastes like cough syrup. It takes two people to give it to her. One to squirt it in her mouth and the other to distract her so she doesn't gag and throw it up. We have to give her 8mls 3 times a day!! Thats A LOT! Plus we have to give her 4 mls of her reflux meds twice a day! Thats 32 mls of medicine a day! An little over an ounce! But good news is that is it really starting to work! She has only pooped once today (she usually poops 4 times in the first hour that she wakes up) and her diaper rash is already improving. We are also loading her up with probiotics. She is much much happier now though! Poor girl! It seems like its always something!

Meeting Michael from The Biggest Loser!

So Chase is the best! Last week he won on the radio a chance for me to come down to the radio station and not only meet Michael (the last winner of the Biggest Loser) but also be on the radio and ask him a question on air! He is such an awesome guy and is so bubbly! I asked him on air about whether or not he still gets weak moments and what does he do when he sees his favorite foods. And he said that he treats himself to pizza or whatever every now and then but he just works before he plays so to speak. When he eats pizza he bikes to the pizza place or works it off, but that you have to treat yourself every now and then. Here's some pics of us and of me asking him the question on air! It was so awesome!

Also I was talking to one of the DJs and she is a big runner as am I. She was telling me about the half marathon in November and I decided I am going to run it! I am so scared but I still have awhile to train. I am already up to 7 miles which is great. She said that if I run in it too that I will be able to run with some former biggest loser contestants! How awesome would that be! I decided I am also going to run a 5k on September 25th to help train. It also is for something near and dear to me. It will be in honor of the Steps for Hope which is for "pregnancy Hope" which helps women have safe pregnancies and offers support.

Parade

So this is a little late but last Saturday we went to the park for the 24th of July Pioneer celebration. It was a lot of fun. We went to the park for breakfast around 8am and then the parade at around 9am. We met up with Phil and Nicole and their baby Carter (he's 5 months). It was fun but then Jayda started to get cranky and so we took her home for her nap. Later on that day we figured out that she was actually sick. Poor thing! She is so happy in the day time but then at night she is just so sad and congested. Hopefully she starts feeling better in the next fews days.

Here are some pics of the parade.

First time swimming/Sleep training update

So yesterday we took Jayda swimming for the first time. It was so much fun but she was not a happy camper at first. When we put her in the water at first she just cryed and cryed. Then we went to the swings they had at the washington community center and warmed her up that way. Then she started to warm up to it by going in the actual pool. She was watching the other kids and got used to the idea. But she was hanging onto me and my mom SO tight. Then later that day we went with Chase and our friends and their daughter. It was a lot of fun but I wish it wasn't so dang hot all the time!

Also sleep training update! Jayda is doing SO well at sleeping now! Shes not much of a nap taker but as long as she sleeps through the night I'm fine. She usually goes to sleep anywhere from 5:30-6:30....yeah I know early as heck! But she usually sleeps til 6:30am or 7:30am so I'm not complaining! Sometimes she wakes up to eat or just stirs for a bit but she goes right back to sleep and we don't have to go in there. She doesn't wake up as much to eat because we started to transition her to whole milk and so I think it fills her up longer or something. She then wakes up and takes another nap around 8 or 9 for about an hour or so and then another nap around 12. Then she is up usually until she goes to bed (she refuses to take that last nap).

So now she is taking so much table food and is taking 75% vanilla elecare and 25% whole milk in her bottle. She LOVES the vanilla and will eat her bottle so much more. We are weaning down her reflux meds to only one time a day. She is crawling, cruising, starting to stand for a few seconds on her own. She has started to think that she can stand and will just let go of the couch and fall smack on her face. That woman is FEARLESS. haha I love her SO freaking much and she is so much more fun now but clingy as heck!...

anywho here is some pics of her first day swimming....

Sleep Training Day 1

Yesterday we decided it was time. Jayda was waking up every hour during the night and wouldn't nap unless I held her...not gonna happen sorry girly! So I decided to doa revised version on CIO. I think its the feber method but I'm not sure I just kinda made it up in my mind. I don't believe in letting your baby just cry for hours and hours (even 1 hour) so I kinda just revised it to work for us. I will only let her cry for 20 minutes at the most. The basic prinicple is that we lay her down in her crib awake when she is tired. I put a blanket around her and then we have a stuffed toy called Violet and she plays a 2 min lullaby for her. Then we leave her in her crib...that is when she crying fest begins. We let her cry for about 5-7min and then we come in and pat her/shush her and then leave again (this time for 10 min). Then you just repeat until she falls asleep. It's REALLY hard and she has been crying a lot these 24 hours but I know its going to work and it will be well worth it for us and for her. This is what yesterday looked like for us.

11:30 am-laid her down and let her cry for 5 minutes, 7-8 minutes, 10 minutes, after about a half hour she was asleep..YEAH!

12:30pm woke up...very unhappy
1:30pm- put back in crib repeated cycle
after about 2 hours of going in and out she just wasn't going down so I let her come out and play. Needless to say she didn't go down until about 7pm.....mommy fail for sure. It was just so hard to do!

5pm-start bedtime routine, bath, story, bottle
6:30- put down to bed.....
7:30ish- went to sleep
9:30pm- woke up again for about 30 minutes
11:30pm-heard her playing in her crib for about an hour but didn't cry
2:30am- woke up but went back to sleep after 10 minutes
4:30am- woke up fed her 4oz and then she went to sleep within about 10-15min
6:30am- woke up for about 30-45minutes but was so tired that she could hardly pick up anything...she really just laid there (poor stubborn little girl :P)
7amish- fed her 3 or 4 oz. put down to sleep and now its 8 and is just now starting to give up...kinda...she cries every so often.

Today should be fun!! UGH but its going to be worth it. I hate this with a passion though.

Finally

So I have been procrastinating posting this because I've been super busy lately but I have to post this because it was a huge event in our lives! On June 6th Jayda turned 1!! She is such a big girl now! Here is a little about Jayda at a year...

-She can crawl around and has recently gotten up on her hands and knees to crawl

-Has started to pull up to stand on just about everything

-Has started to cruise along the couch (UH-OH)

-She loves to walk in her little walker...I think she is jealous that everyone else around her can walk :P

-Recently started to clap and its the cutest thing

-Is tiny tiny and at her year appt. only weighed 14lbs 10oz.

-Is eating table foods now (pretty much anything we eat) and loves to feed herself

-She loves going to her grandma's house and play with her little cousins.

-Talks up a storm

-Is so curious about everything

-According to the ped a bit hyperactive (you are telling me!)

-Her PT said that she is doing so great. Gross motor she is in the 10/11 month range (which is great since she's really supposed to be 9 months old) and in fine motor she is right on track) YEAH!

My little girl is getting so big and everyone keeps telling me that she will be walking in no time! I can't believe that she is almost a toddler!

We got tubes in her ears yesterday and she has been so much happier! I love it! Those bad boys are awesome!!