Pnemonia+ ER=Fun Superbowl Sunday

So on Sunday we had this whole superbowl party lined up. Chase has been talking about it forever and has been eating pretty good and using the Superbowl as his "eat whatever I want day". We invited some friends and had to cancel last minute with them which I feel really bad about. Sorry Mills and Steven :(. It seems like it is going around because their baby just got over pnemonia too.

This whole month Jayda has been randomly throwing up at night and coughing a lot. She had a little runny nose but didn't act sick so it was kinda confusing. Then this last week she got pretty sick and was up all night coughing and such. So we thought well maybe she just needs to up her dosage of relflux meds. So we called into the dr and they said to up it from 3.75ml 2x a day to 10mls 2x a day. (we later found out that the dosage was wrong and it is actually double what you would give an adult :/ ).

Finally she stopped throwing up so obviously that was part of it. Then she decides that she wants to be up all night long coughing and so then we figured ok well now she really is sick. So she was really cranky when she woke up on Sat. and she had slept in til like 8:30am which is super out of character for her. Well she just was NOT feeling good and didn't want to eat/drink a whole lot. That night was horrible but Chase was so sweet and took her most of that night. That day also when I was working out I noticed that I was SUPER out of breath. So I figured I was coming down with the same thing. So I went to walmart and got some airbourne and loaded up on that. Then Chase was so sweet and took her for not only one night but like 3 nights so that I wouldn't get sick either. His immune system is like iron man he NEVER gets sick and I always get sick and then everyone is just miserable. So he was SO sweet and stayed up all night with her. He has a lot more patience than I do too with lack of sleep so he def is the man. I love that man! :D

So that Sat. night we took her to urgent care because i just had a feeling that she had pnemonia or something. One of my friend's kids just got over pnemonia so I knew it was going around. Well they couldn't hear anything when we went and said he lungs sounded fine. She gave me a prescription for singulair and said it was probably a virus mixed in with asthma and to try that (psh whatever we never even filled it).

On Sunday she was MISERABLE. That also was the day that Chase had his superbowl party planned. We went over to his parents house hoping that she would sleep there. That didn't work out so I decided to take her home while Chase stayed for his party. Well she had a horrible fever that just wouldn't go away. She was super lethargic and wouldn't eat or drink anything so I decided it was probably best that we took her to the ER to get fluids in her. I called Chase and he sounded bummed but in the end our kids are the most important things. I felt super bad.

Chase met me and Jayda at the ER. She ended up getting 4 pokes, 1 IV, 1 chest x-ray, 1 breathing treatment, 1 round of antibotics, and 1 blood draw (that they freaking didn't even end up using! GRRR!). All the while she was screaming mommmmmy mama mommmmy! I felt SO bad I had to leave the room. You'd think after all the pain I have seen her in her whole life with the NICU and several hospital stays and IV's I'd be used to it but you just don't get used to it.

Turns out she has pnemonia. They gave us some antibotics and I hope that it doesn't give her c-diff again! Poor little thing though! She has been really cranky and wanting to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Monsters INC, and handy mandy all day long. She feels so crummy but the minute I put on Mickey mouse she was just light up. I feel bad sitting her in front of the tv all day long but right now thats about all she wants to do. Poor little thing.

Also the other day she got a hold of the hospital braclet, grabbed it, went over to the trashcan, popped the top, threw the braclet in, nodded once and then walked away. Guess she's not too fond of hospital and I don't blame her. :D

Also update for me: The provera has done it's job so far and little miss Auntie Flow showed her awesome face! What a FUN weekend.....

Update on my goals...

So this is a little late but I have been super busy taking care of a pretty sick/cranky toddler. But I just wanted to update my bloggy blog with how I did last week with my goals. One of my goals was to work out at least twice a day. I went Mon-Thurs working out twice and day and then Friday and Sat. I worked out once a day because my body was screaming for a break. I was super proud of myself though because it can be tough sometimes when Jayda needs me. She is starting to really like watching me work out though its kinda funny. She will grab a 5lb weight and carry it around. Which is hilarious considering she only weighs 17lbs! What a strong little bugger! Then I took her a couple of times on a run in her jogging stroller. I wish that it was less cold though! I can't wait til it gets warmer so that I can go with her more often because she loves it! For the most part though I just did the Biggest Loser workout videos and yoga. Chase tried Px90 but I didn't like it too much. I am gonna try one other video and give it another shot. I wish I had a membership to a gym or something though so I could drop Jayda off at the daycare. But Chase is pretty good about watching her when he is home.

Then another one of my goals was to venture out and eat something new. Buy veggies I don't normally buy and such. SO I bought some eggplant and some tofu. The first dish was eggplant parm. The second was tofu stirfry. They really weren't bad. In fact, Jayda downed the eggplant parm and had some of the tofu. The tofu's texture was a bit much for me though. It was just really soggy BUT some of my "tofu veteran" friends have given me some good pointers for next time (thanks Juli and Ashley!! :D ).

This week hasn't been the best since Jayda has been sick and I felt like I was coming down with something so I have been loading up on airborne and luckily I haven't gotten sick. But the nights have been crazy and she just has been clingy to me all day long so I haven't really been able to get much done. But we all have our weak weeks...haha Better luck next week eh?

I truly feel at peace...

So for the last six months or so I have had issues with my periods being normal. For the last 4 or so months we have been "trying" to get pregnant although it's kinda impossible for me to be pregnant when I am just not ovulating. One thing I have noticed though is that when you are trying to get pregnant it seems like everyone becomes pregnant. It's kinda of funny actually. I remember when I was trying to get pregnant with Jayda (it only took 3 months) and any time I heard that someone was pregnant I would literally feel sick to my stomach. Now I think boo who. So many other women with fertility issues would love for it to only take 3 months! I just wanted a baby SO bad! But this time I actually am not jealous of other pregnant people. I truely feel at peace with everything. If anything I am just frustrated at not being "regular". I got done taking my provera on Tuesday and I haven't seen anything yet. Who knows what is going on but maybe God is just making me feel calm about the situation. I guess I have finally just put it into his hands. I think it helps that I have Jayda too because she keeps me B-U-S-Y. Plus school helps with that too. I absolutely LOVE my classes this semester.

This week has been SO emotional for me. One of our preemie moms lost her 17 month old out of no where. Her baby was due about a week after Jayda was but was born at 33 weeks. Everytime I get frustrated when Jayda is being needy or clingy Lauren just pops up into my head and then I just feel guilty. One of her facebook status's really hit me. It said "missing the noise and the mess". Everytime I get frustrated at Jayda for 'climbing on this" or "getting into that" I think of her and what she must be going through now, her only child taken so early and abruptly. It really has affected me this week. I guess it has just put everything into perspective for me. I just love my little family and am so grateful for them.

May be TMI...deal wit it

So I just have to get this out. I have blabbered my mouth already to a number of people about how I am trying to get pregnant so I figure I'll answer the question to people that are wondering whether I am or what. Well I am not. I know that talking about this very thing is a thing you are supposed to "keep to yourself". I've never considered myself to follow a lot of social "rules". So screw it. haha I will tell you all about my uterus woes. Warning:TMI ahead.

So at the end of August I had this feeling to take out my nuvaring because I had a feeling that I needed to. Didn't know why but just felt the need to. We were still not trying to get pregnant yet and using protection but I just wanted to regulate my periods.

I got a "period" a few weeks later. Then after that nothing for about 6 weeks. Then it was just spotting off and on every week or every couple weeks. This has continued pretty much until now. After a few months of not getting periods we just decided to forgoe all birth control and just let things happen. I got an ultrasound at the beginning of December to check for cysts or abnormal uterine lining. Everything was normal. He did a blood labs to see if there were any issues. Everything was normal. I went the whole month of December with no spotting or anything followed by a normal heavy flow period on New Years Day. I figured it was FINALLY regulating. Well I was wrong. A couple weeks later that mean old spotting came back followed by it a couple weeks later.

Soooo. I was fed up with it. I scheduled an appt with Dr. Chaulmers today. Luckily he had a cancelation today. He is a busy busy guy and it usually takes weeks to get into him. Yes...he is THAT good. :D

He was AWESOME! So I brought him a calender of everything that has been going on in the last 6 months. He and I came to the hypothesis that I am just not ovulating. No ovulation=no chance of concieving. Fun Fun! SO he gave me 3 options. 1. Go back on birth control to regulate my periods (yeah right I am never going on that crap again) 2. Go on provera which will force my period to come and hopefully trick my body into finally ovulating again. On cycle day 21-24 come to his office and get labs done to confirm that I ovulated. If not we will do another round of it. 3. Go on clomid which will trigger my body to produce eggs and ovulate. I was not fond of this because I don't want to take fertility drugs unless I absolutely have to. Plus taking clomid you have an 8% chance of having twins. Well lets face it....I don't do so well with "rare" percentages. He and I agreed that if I were to get pregnant with multiples it would be a hard most likely short pregnancy AGAIN. So he said we won't worry about that until we have to.

So we decided on option number 2. I feel good about it but at the same time its frustrating that I have to go through this. He thinks the reason my body isn't regulating is because I have lost a big chunk of weight and he's like "lets face it you look skinny" (awww thanks! :D) so he feels that could have contributed to it. We are also going to check my progesterone levels as well. I guess this shouldn't all surprise me though. My uterus is a bitter old woman. I can't wait to get my hands on her and burn her in a bonfire. :D (You think I'm kidding.....) haha!

SO Dr. Chaulmers thinks that I have a temporary fertility issue but will eventually get pregnant. It may just take awhile. I have a weight lifted off my shoulders and know that our family will be extended when Heavenly Father decides to send us one. Until then I am going to do everything in my power to make that possible. I know I don't have any significant fertilty problem but my heart goes out to those that do. How frustrating of a journey that must be! Props to you guys!!!

Better Late Than Never.....

So I'm a bit late on this but I decided on a few New Year's Resolutions. Well I guess I'm not a big fan of NYR's because they fade away quicker than you make them so I guess I don't want to label it as a NYR but more of a few goals. I want to keep it simple at 3 just to make sure I follow through with it.

1) I want to workout 2 times a day. Once in the morning before Chase goes to work and once when Chase comes home from work. We decided together that we will workout together after Jayda goes to sleep. We did it tonight and it was so fun to actually work out with someone else and it helped push me (although he didn't workout with me the whole time since he is starting out). I was super proud of him!

2) I want to explore with food and not have the same old same old. I want to try and experiment with fruits and veggies that I never use or have never even tasted. It will be a bit intimidating but I want to broaden my food pallet.

3) Chase and I are going to quit having soda (including diet) and junk food unless we are out to eat or have it over at someone else's house.

SLC trip recap!

So I've been putting this off and just need to get it done. This week has sucked because both Jayda and I are getting over colds plus she is teething about 6 teeth all at one time. Its about time though! I'd rather get them all done at one time thank you!

So we headed up on Thursday because we wanted to get there to have all day Friday and not have to worry about traveling. The only bad part was that it was snowing and there was black ice on the road so it took forever to get there. At that point though we were happy we didn't bring Jayda because it was scarey! We got there in about 5 hours so not too bad considering we were only going about 55 a majority of the time. We stayed at my sister's house in Orem the whole time. We just crashed on her couches :D.

On Friday we got up and played with my neices and nephew for a bit and then headed off to SLC to just go do our own thing. Man it was FREEZING cold! I am a desert rat so it's really tough on me in the cold. I HATE IT! I staying inside as long as I could though. Chase was crazy and didn't want to really wear a jacket. He's nuts! :D

So then we went to lunch at Olive Garden and had soup and salad hmmm....especially when its cold outside! After that we went shopping although we didn't really buy anything (I bought $10 jeans because....it was $10). After awhile of just doing whatever we met up with Nicole, Phil and their cutie Carter. We first went to the visitors center and saw their new SLC temple replica. It actually shows whats inside the temple. There were people swarming around it trying to get a peak. We sat there and chatted about life and jobs and Nicole was chasing Carter around as he was crawling everywhere and trying to eat leaves. haha Funny kid!

After the VC we decided to go up to the Garden restuarant. It is a restuarant right at the top of the Joseph Smith Building. It was beautiful especially since the lights were still up on the temple. I forgot my camera but Nicole and Phil used theirs. I still need her to email them to me before I post them. After that we went back to Phil and Nicole's house for a bit but then we left to go see a movie. We saw "How do you know" with Reese Witherspoon. It was a strange movie but we both liked it because it was different from other romantic comedies.

On Saturday we went to lunch with my sister, her husband, and the kids. It was this yummy sandwich place called Zuppa's. After that we decided to take my 2 neices Sadie and Jessie to the Nickle Arcade. They had a blast and it was so fun to watch them get so excited!

After that we decided we wanted to head off to SLC again to look for a ice skating rink. We found one but it was this dinky outside one brrrrr. So we decided not to do that and go to another movie. We went and saw Gulliver's Travels with Jack Black. It was actually pretty cute. The wierd thing about SLC movie theatres is that you get assigned seating. So strange.

We just kinda played around for awhile and then we went to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. After that we headed down to the Jazz game. We met up with Phil and Nicole again. It was a lot of fun. Mostly Nicole and I just talked and made fun of how we weren't sports savy. haha The boys really enjoyed the game though. :D By the end of the night I was exhausted! I was so glad that we got away for a few days to spend some quality time but I also missed my little jader bug! She missed us too!

We headed home first thing in the morning and it was a lot better roads coming home. Driving in bad weather and on ice just sucks. I hate it and I don't know how people live in that stuff! BRRR! I would take 100 degree weather any day of the week! I was SO glad to get home to my little girl though. She is getting so big!

Christmas at the Blakes!

So this Christmas was SO much better than last year. Last year we were finally discharged from the peds unit at the hospital on Christmas Eve because Jayda stopped eating and got a bunch of tests and a feeding tube. Needless to say that year sucked. This year was SO much better.

On Christmas Eve we went to the NICU to drop off baskets for all the poor families that have to be there on Christmas worrying about their sick babies. I was so grateful that my mom helped me sew the carseat covers for all of them and that Chase's parents contributed $100 to help with buying everything. It was very stressful getting everything ready but so worth it. In each basket there was a carseat cover sewed by my mom, burp clothes that my mom sewed, a dvd that I made of a whole bunch of success stories of preemies, homemade sugar cookies, candy, hand sanitizer to put on your keychain, hand lotion, crotched hats that Chase's grandma Blake handmade, and different odds and ends. We also baked a bunch of cupcakes for the staff. It was so awesome to see all the nurses that took care of Jayda and they were so glad to see her. We went during shift change so we didn't get to hand deliver it to the families but I'm sure they were very grateful (I know I would have been!). There were some sick babies in there too...a 24 weeker and a 14oz baby!! My goodness that is almost HALF of what Jayda was! My heart broke for that family and I pray that baby makes it. He is in good hands though! They are miracle workers down there!

After that we attempted to look at lights but we learned early on that that doesn't work with a cranky toddler that doesn't like to sit still so we went home opened one present and then put her to bed. Chase set up her little kitchen that night.

Then when I woke up the next morning we had her open presents from us. We got her a few small toys, a leap frog lab top, a kitchen set, and some clothes.

After that we went over to the Blakes and opened presents with everyone. Jayda got some clothes, some little toys, books, and the big present was a little 4-wheeler. She liked to climb on it but I don't think she fully understands it yet. She will love it when she gets older though. His parents also got us a nice video camera which we will definately use! Cason got Chase a dehyrdater which we will DEF use! And Cait got me an Aero sweatshirt and an aero purse. Then we had breakfast over there.

Then after her nap we went over to my parents house and opened presents. She got ALL kinds of toys, clothes, cute head bands/bows. Her favorite was the baby stroller set and this toy my Aunt got her that shoots balls out in the air. She got tons of books which is great because she LOVES me reading books to her.

We also got to meet my brother Travis's girlfriend. We only got to hang out for a bit because we went over to teh Blakes for dinner (although we werent hungry :/ ). We stayed there a short time (by that time I was pretty much done and ready to go home I was so tired). We left Jayda for a sleepover and went back to our place to play games with Travis and his girlfriend. She is way cool and it was nice to get to know her. She seems like she will fit right in. Then we went to bed and watched Storage Wars. It is actually a way cool show. Then night night! :D

Christmas was pretty fun but next year we won't be doing as much back and forth. Next year will be relaxing instead of stressed about sharing time between grandparents. Other than that it was great to see Jayda so excited! She's had a busy couple of days and has been sleeping pretty much all day! She even fell asleep on Chase's lap today and he was THRILLED because she NEVER cuddles! She was just THAT tired!