What a Day

Yesterday, poor Gianna was brought through the ringer

Doctor, hospital for blood work and clean catch via catheter. 

No ear infection, but some type of infection, we just dont know what....hmmmm. 

Long day, but once we got home last night, my 3 year old reminded me of how laughable things are sometimes. 

I am giving the kids a bath, and John Gary says

"Mama, do you have a wee wee"

Me: No John Gary only boys have them. 

JG: Oh, so me and daddy have a wee wee. 

Me: Yep!

He got really quiet for a minute in thought and then asked

JG: Mama are you going to cry?

Me: No buddy, why?

JG: Because you and Gianna dont have wee wee's. 

I wanted to laugh, but JG is at the age where if you laugh at his responses, and hes not trying to be "silly" as he calls it, he gets his feelings hurt.  So I smiled inwardly:)

Then at prayer time. 

We are praying for everyone, and we just got a deacon at our church, Deacon Travis, so we have been including him especially in our nightly prayers.  I guess I forgot to say his name last night because John Gary said "Mama, whos that new kid we are praying for, you forgot him." For a second I thought about it, and was confused.  Then...uhhh deacon travis. JG: Yep thats the new kid!  

Oh the mind of a 3 year old. I love him!

Up Allllllll Night

Gianna is sick again, and I want to scream!
Yesterday, she was suppper fussy and clingy.  Taking like 4 naps (very unlike her)
Last night we were in mass when I felt her little hands start to heat up.
I look at my hubby and say, its really hot in here, thinking by rationalizing the fever symptoms that they would go away.  When he looked back and said, no Liz its not, I knew something was brewing. 

9pm -- 102 fever ( Oh and did I mention that this was after the handy conversion features I had to do last night, as our ear thermometer is somehow stuck on Celcius, and I know to convert because there is a red fever line that lights up when we have a fever) lovvvely!
10pm -- crying
10:30 -- Pig noises and other nasal congestion noises
10:32 -- 2 different size suction instruments, saline drops, screaming baby -- nothing comes out.
Repeat last 2 stages untillll
2:00 am -- fever spikes
Rinse and Repeat and Repeat and Repeat

We have been on an Antibiotic for a week already, on for another 2 weeks......

Called to make our weekly monday appt at the pediatricians office'
So glad we get along, as I feel I will be moving into her back lab.
Maybe having needles all around will scare Gianna's immune system into responding.
Oh, and was down to one nurse a day.....now we are attached every 10 minutes or so.....ok maybe not that much but Im sore like a postpartum 1st time nurser.
Ok, enough complaining......My poor baby, she just wants to lay on me, which is fine, I just need to surrender the fact that its ok if things dont get done as quickly as wanted. .St. Gianna pray for us!!

Whatcha Think??

I don't think Gianna is too big for favorite naptime at the office accessory.....do you?

Note: I promise I am sitting down when these photos were taken, they do claim to hold up to 30 lbs.  Gianna is only 22.....

And no I did not pose them.

Whatever works.......right??

Happy Thursday!!

Lenten Reading Reflections

Thanks to my friend and former boss Dawn from when we lived in Oklahoma City, I have begun the following title to my evening reading.  I have had a hard time finding Nonfiction Christian writing that is neither watered down same ole stuff, or so theologically packed it makes my head hurt.  This is called historiical fiction, and I really hope it counts.  

I began it last night, and am on the first woman Tamar.  The book goes in to exactly who she is (Joseph's -- the one who his brothers tried to kill and later became king) brother's daughter in law.  

Well reading the story of Tamar, I am going to really try to NEVER complain to feel sorry for myself again. So, I will update you on this reading adventure as I delve into the lives of the women of scripture.  

Another really good quality Tamar has, is she is prudent in speech, and bites her tounge........learning, learning, learning, need more work!

The tales of the house....

Gianna will be 1 at the end of March.....I cannot believe it, and am a little sad that she will no longer be an infant....but a big girl toddler. Her newest additions to skills include, trying to brush her locks of red hair, or lack there of, paddy cake, clapping at herself or anything else that amuses her, and drinking from sippy cup on her own.  Also, the bathroom seems to be her favvvv place to crawl. Gross, double gross, triple gross, especially when you have a preschooler who likes to stop and start his stream of tee tee and laugh....which leads to lack of aim, and therefore a constantly wiping up mopping bathroom floor mama as the crawler tries to take over. She still loves her infant sling, which she sleeps in while I am at work, she is wayyyyy to big, but she seems to love being squashed.  

John Gary is getting increasingly big, learning new words everyday, and got a Horribble hair cut this weekend.  The lady hacked him up pretty bad complete with short bangs and the bowl cut look, ugh...he has such pretty hair too.  

Gianna's separation anxiety is at a max, and she wants me all the time.  Now yes, I love that she loves me, but its hard to be the one and only.  She does go to her dad or my mom for very short (minutes) while I shower, go potty, or maybe get half way through either activitiy.  I have started to just put her down, she whines for a minute and then gets distracted by the nearest shoe, leaf, old food, or anything else gross or the exact size of her wind pipe to go in her mouth.  

Oh, I love my kiddos!

Abraham Lincoln

Blog Neglect....whats been happenin

I apologize in advance for the length of this post, you may choose to read, skim or just skip.....

So I have been greatly neglecting my blog lately, which to me means things have been crazy. 

Last post was about the Vit D deficiency, which I have been in and out of doctors office, and actually had a dr look at me and say she had no idea. That just doesnt happen in people my age. It was kinda a weird moment having a doctor tell me they had no idea, and they could just send me to a specialist today, or I can take Vit D everyday for 6 weeks and recheck.  I chose the latter, and will know in about a month what the status is.  I am feeling ALOT better, so I am thinking maybe it is working. 

Gianna had her tubes appointment, and thank goodness that he isnt going to put them in yet! He put her on allergy meds everyday to see if it would clear up the runny nose and prevent future ear infections.  Its been 2 weeks, no runny nose, and she started crawling everywhere!! Poor baby just wasnt feeling good, and had fluid clogging her ears constantly.  

I am about to begin a major life change, and I am very excited about it.  The reason I have been taking Praxis II and GRE is because I am going to be going to graduate school this summer, and will begin student teaching in the fall at a local high school, actually the one I graduated from!  There is a local program called CART, and basically, Math and Science teachers are in high demand in Cenla.  They are paying for me to go back to school, plus a salary while I am in school and student teaching for 12 months beginning in may. It will be bittersweet leaving my job as a youth minister, and have been praying for an opportunity to go back to school.   It was not possible for us to lose my income, and it nauseated us both to think about piling on more student loans.  This was the perfect opportunity, and I was one of 12 chosen to get the grant.  So Excited! I passed all my tests and now am waiting for my acceptance letter from LSU.  I will be teaching high school Math.  I will do a one year student teaching round, and then in fall 2013 will have my own classroom.  I will have to give 3 years to the school board, and then I can do whatever I want with my degree. Me and the kids will have to move to Baton Rouge this summer for 6 weeks for me to go to an intercession.  My uncle owns a condo there, so we will be living there.  Everything has worked out perfectly, and I know this is God's doing. Its only two hours from where we live so the hubby will visit on weekends, and long weekends. All 3 of my brothers and their significant others live in BR also, so the kids will be well taken care of.  

Hubby just got back from a silent retreat, and is refreshed and faith filled, which I love! 

Ash Wednesday starts today, as you all know, and this year, like last, I am reading only religious books. Now, I read at night a couple hours after the kids go to bed, and I love love love murder novels.  Well, unless its about a martyr or Jesus, not mysteries for me.  If you have any suggestions of good books for Lent I would Love to hear them. 

Whew, my last 2 weeks in a nutshell.  

Vitamin D.....

I have not been feeling very well lately

 tired, all the time, like want to sleep on the floor

muscle pain

insomnia

 altogether feeling bad

So, I went to my GP, and they ran some tests on my Thyroid and everything came back normal. It was time for my yearly after having Gianna (oh joy)! Now I love my OB, as much as you can love your OB.  I grew up with him being friends with my family.  So, I went in there, and just told him how I was feeling.  He said, ok lets get to the bottom of it.  

Took lots of blood, and then called today and said a low vitamin D score is 25....and yours is 11. 

Now, I am relieved.  Because I was feeling a little bit like I was going to just be tired, that my life was too busy too much and that I was going to just feel this way.  That maybe I was just being whiny, and I needed to tough up.  But, Im 25 and was going to bed at 7 with the kids.....

Well, the nurse is who I talked too, and she is going to call me back this evening to let me know what they treatment will be.  From all my google searches today (which made me scared) mostly the treatment is a pill a couple times a week or shots until my levels come up.  

I will know more later, now that my google searches about the deficiency and them using words cancer, Chrohns Disease, Rickets, Osteoporosis, and immediate death by heart attack have caused me a littttle anxiety (also a symptom of low vitamin d)

Minor problem, easily fixed, but hopefully will make me feel normal, 25, and not like a 100 year old grandma!