Playing catch up

Picking up where we left off:

Parker is such a silly kid! He is currently obsessed with always holding something. here both hands are full and mouth while in a trance watching yo gabba.

While little man was kind of sick, instead of going to the YMCA and potentially exposing him to others and others to him, we tried the gym at the clubhouse. He did okay for the most part but he just kept wanting me to come in and play with him in the playroom (which has a half wall so you can see them and they can see you)

I decided I was done with being pasty. I needed to get a jump start on my summer tan. The clubhouse offers free tanning. So I decided to go for like 6 minutes. no big. I can handle it. The bed seriously did not even warm up. it was cold to the touch. So I was telling the office girl they might need to get it serviced. She suggested maybe trying it again just to see. Well stupid me, I did. The bed hadnt been used yet for the day so it didnt get super hot. It did heat up the second time and boy was I feeling it later!! my poor face was toasted! well my whole body was! especially my bum! but because they were new bulbs and I'm pretty sure not all of them were new, I got quite the funny burn.

Parker just likes to hang out on the floor in the kitchen. not too sure why

had to hit the tub again

while at my parents for a long weekend I came across the left picture in Shais wedding book from Nov '11. I think that is what prompted me to take my "after" picture. Its crazy how much can change in 15 months. thats atleast a 20 pound difference and multiple inches right there. agian, more on that later.

oh I love this kid. He is starting to like to play dress up. or atleast put on items that he doesnt usually wear. these are sunglasses from his birthday party last year just with the lens popped out. what a little hipster.

while at my parents house my mom got Parker to get a rolled up piece of lunch meat. Previously I had to rip it in to pieces for him, now he wont eat it any other way than in tact. This morning he wanted lunch meat for breakfast. Thats all he wanted too.

we still play in the car from time to time. He now has to have the keys in the ignition and change CDs like 50 times.

One morning was particularly cold outside so I asked Parker if he wanted to wear his mittens, boy was that kid excited to wear these! I guess I was too because before that day he never would let me put them on him and I always felt bad for his freezing fingers.

He was so silly with them on. I dont know if he thought he just couldnt move his fingers or what but he just kept his hands straight while wearing them

Parker has a new found love for Dora the Explorer. Can you tell he's a little excited?

A week ago this last sunday P had a fever and stayed home with daddy who also wasnt feelin so. I think he missed me because he made sure to give me lots of cuddles the rest of the day.

So we think the fever was from "boy issues" so he spent a lot of the next day just airing it out.

Parker and Brobee have recently rekindled their friendship

Even the next day Parker still loved him and gave him lots of hugs.

The weather had been so bi-polar lately. Last week we got snow. We actually got to watch it change from rain to snow! something that I've never really seen before. Drew has never really just sat and watched it snow so he seriously sat like this for almost an hour. (the pic was while the rain was changing to snow)

Parker thinks its pretty cool to wear daddy's stuff and makes sure to tell you that its daddys too.

chillin' out max and relaxin' all cool...while watching dora.

working on his handyman skills

Parker had his first ice cream sandwich the other day. thats one awesome mustache huh!

Sunday we had nice weather again so we took out the bike. Clearly P was cruisin for chicks. sadly there were only boys at the playground.

Once we came in from the park we skyped with drews family. Parker is always such a little performer when we skype with someone. He found his sunglasses and started modeling.

Drew and I love this picture. We think he looks like he should be on the cover for some west coast kids clothing company ad or just out on a skateboard. 

this kid is pretty legit

so as you can see, our lives arent super exciting. but little P man, hes hilarious. I hope youve enjoyed watching his little personality

Hard to start again

so its been....awhile since I last blogged. I'm just going to pick up where I left off from my phone picture. Valentines day. I decided I was going to make Drew a giant cookie for vday. I even told him that I didnt care if he wanted it or not because I wanted it! It didnt look amazing, but I think I did an okay job.

Parker wanted that cookie so bad all day. I told him it was daddys cookie so we had to wait for him to get home from school. When Drew walked through the door that evening, Parker looked at him then yelled "COOKIE!" and took off for the table.  We made the poor thing wait until after we had dinner. (below pic totally not staged either)

one morning Drew left me a helpful amount of toilet paper. I mean seriously, what can you even do with that?!

Parker decided that the cool place to play was in his tub, empty and fully clothed. He actually stayed in there for awhile

After our last trip to Ohio, my sister-in-law sent home a lego table and chairs for P. He loves it! He plays with it everyday! I just thought this face was too funny.

As you can imagine, this is not an unfamiliar scene of Drew studying. Sometimes Parker pretends he cares and will "study" with him.

I took my first full body picture by myself in oh, I dont know, maybe a year and a half. I just feel silly taking self shots now. This is kind of my "after" picture I guess. at this point I was down atleast 67 pounds. more on that later.

The sun actually decided to visit us here in Kentucky! So P and I took advantage of it and played at the park for a while. It was super exciting for P because it was his first time out since his sickness and being cooped up inside for almost 3 weeks!

It seriously took him 2 minutes after laying down on my bed to fall asleep after playing at the park.

It was so awesome outside that day that we went back to the park after daddy got home.

And even after we came in from the park, we played on the porch for awhile. It was like Parker was scared if he ever went in, hed never be able to go back outside again.

Then we came in and watched Tarzan and had popcorn.

eh, thats a good stopping place for now.

Oh, Tuesday

This week went a little crazy as some of you know via facebook. I guess technically it probably started Monday but I wasnt on top of my game so it wasnt truly discovered until Tuesday. Anyway, Tuesday morning I was a little concerned about Parker. his breathing seemed a little fast but he had struck a fever the night before. He was having coughing fits Monday night too but the fever is was got me worried. Wasnt even super high, 100.7. So I did some looking online and I was starting to think maybe he had pneumonia. I called the pediatrician to see if he could get in. sure enough, in like an hour. I cancelled my appointment with my VTs because I didnt think wed be back in time. So we head to the doctor. P is warm and breathing a little quick but mostly acting normal. So I wasnt too concerned. After they listened to his breathing, did a pulse oxygen thing and some blood work, the Doctor basically said I'm a bad mother. "This is an emergency! He's in respiratory distress! you should have taken him to the ER!" Well I didnt know. he was breathing harder yes, but this kid as allergies. he gets congested. its hard to breathe with lots of snot! so again, didnt think too much of it. After they gave him a breathing treatment, which he protested but later fell asleep during it, and listened to his breathing again, the Dr said she was worried his oxygen would drop again and wanted us to go straight to the Kosair childrens hospital ER. okay sure. no problem. To give you some stats, P's breaths per minute were at 70, they are supposed to be at 30. His blood oxygen levels were about 91. they are supposed to be like 99-100. His blood cell count was fine. Tested positive for RSV. Oh and he had a fever 100.7 and the Dr said he had an ear infection too. sweet. After the breathing treatment though it brought him down to 60 bpm and his blood ox to 93.

so off to the ER we went. P was acting even more like himself by this point. He ate some applesauce and was just jabbering away in the backseat. We got signed in and pretty much had enough time to run to the bathroom and then they were ready for us.

He looks so sad and pathetic here. you can definitely see hes a little rosy.

when we got back to the room there was like 3-4 different people doing different things to him. Had someone hooking of the blood oxygen monitor on his toe then taking a bum temp, 102.2. Someone getting his gown on. someone checking his ears and listening to his breathing. Someone prepping for a nasal cleaning (dont know the technical name) that was the worse for me though. oh, ER Dr veto'd the ear infection. but back to the nasal congesting. they had to stick a tiny suction tube down his nose. his arms had to be pinned above his head. they suctioned the back of his throat too. that was the worst! it made him gag and that previously spoken of applesauce resurfaced. not going to lie, I teared up doing this this. he just hated it so much. but it did help open him up and able to breath better. They gave him some meds for his fever and just kind of let him chill. They were so good to him though. The second he was on the bed they had cars playing on the tv for him. After they were done with the nasal thing they even brought him in some toys to entertain him.

They decided to go ahead and give him another breathing treatment to see how itd go. It did help. they just kind of let us chill some more to see if he calmed down and things started clearing up. Every time someone came in to listen to his breathing he would cry. he didnt want them touching him. obviously that makes it hard to accurately listen to his normal breathing.

listening to cars through the remote. he kind of enjoyed  that.

it was amazing how much he perked up even after the medicine kicked him. he was smiling at the RT and the nurse. he was totally back to normal, personality wise. after his breathing calmed the Dr ordered a chest xray for a little rumbling in his lungs. He did okay with that until they moved the pillow thing he was on, i think it just scared him plus those ladies' hands were freezing!! shortly after that we were told he did have pneumonia and would get a script for that. the RT came in and taught me how to use the breathing machine and signed some papers then we were good to go. not without playing on the truck agian though of course.

Poor P missed his nap time and just crashed when we started yo gabba.

So we had to do treatments every 4 hours all night! it was hard on me. P did okay even though it ended up waking him up every time. what a champ. This is the treatment, Bubbles the Fish. Hes not wearing it even though it looks like it, I'm just holding it.

The next day we had a follow up with the pediatrician. This is the main dr at the practice, the one previously in a new addition. This lady could tell just by looking at him that he was doing WAY better. stats were 28 bpm, 97 blood ox, and 98.6 temp. completely normal. its like nothing ever happened. she still has us doing breathing treatments a couple times a day and as needed. He has about a week left on his antibiotics for the pneumonia.

waiting to see the dr on follow up day. looks pretty normal huh.

but P knows how to use the machine for breathing treatments. wednesday after we finished up and figured out how to turn on the machine. once he did that he held it up to his mouth and sat there. haha no meds were in it though.

don't report me to cps, he climbed in himself, I wasnt even in the room. but proof this kid is feeling better.

just in case you didnt notice from before, you can tell a health difference just by looking at his belly. left: in the ER, right: dr follow up.

honestly I cant believe any of this happened. I still feel horrible that I probably could have prevented all of this. well, alot of it anyway had I gone with my gut on monday that something was off. but I didnt know what I was looking for. I was in contact with my brother (er resident) and he helped me feel a little better. he said 100% of kids will have RSV by the time  they are 3. no matter what. 100%. But P was a total BOSS through all of this. he bounced back like a champ too. Hes starting to fit the breathing treatments now, I think he finds them unnecessary because he feels so much better.