Poor Baby Girl

Last Sunday afternoon, after her nap, Kendall's eyes were pretty much glued shut from eye boogers, poor baby. We thought this would be a quick passing thing and that she would be fine the next day. Well, when she woke up on Monday morning, we had to really work hard to get the crusties off so she could open her eyes. Poor baby girl! We took her to daycare thinking that surely this would pass. Ummm... No! By the time Tony picked her up from school that afternoon you could tell that Kendall just really wasn't feeling well. To add to all of this, she has had a runny nose and congestion for about 4 months now. We've been to the doctor several times where they have told us that it is just because she is in daycare and she just has a cold that needs to run its course. Well, obviously it had not run its course and the humidifier that we run in her room on high every night was not working. On Tuesday morning when we all woke up, Kendall's eyes were crusted over again and really red and puffy. I had looked this up the night before on the internet and found that it was most likely the result of allergies. But, I called the nurse at the hospital, which is where the doctor's office routes its medical questions when they aren't open yet, to ask them if I should take her in. They told me that she is probably fine, but that the doctor would want to check her to make sure it is not pink eye. So, Kendall and I got ready and she ate some breakfast and I took her in to the doctor. I could tell she wasn't feeling well because while we were waiting for the doctor to see us she just sat in my lap with her head laying on me. The doctor listened to her lungs, checked her oxygen intake and looked in her ears. After hearing how long she has had the congestion, the doctor finally gave her an antihistamine/decongestant. She also said that she has pink eye, but it's not like she ran any tests, I really still think it is allergies that caused the eye crusties, but I'm giving her the eye drops just in case. Because Kendall has been coughing for so long, the doctor ordered a chest x-ray even though she reassured me that her lungs sounded clear. She just wanted to check her. So, I bundled K up and took her straight to the imaging center after the doctor's appointment. It only took about 5 minutes to take the x-rays and Kendall cried the whole time. Awww... But, good news, the doctor's office called later and said that she doesn't have RSV (forgot to tell you that they checked her for that AGAIN) and her lungs are clear. So, I'm supposed to give her the eye drops for a week and I'm giving her the sample medicine for her cough, if it works I'm supposed to get the prescription filled. It's been 4 days of using the cough medicine and the only thing that I'm noticing is that it makes her sleepy. If she still has the cough in another week and a half, I'm supposed to take her back to the doctor so they can try something else I guess. I'm glad they are finally giving me something for her, I was getting really fed up with the "Oh, she's in daycare" line. I can totally understand that logic, but it seems like she would have had periods of time when she was well also. Oh well, maybe now we can figure out what is going on. I have a feeling that she has allergies (they are supposedly genetic) and that she will need to be put on some allergy medicine if she wants to have any type of time without congestion and runny nose.

Anyway, I guess that's enough for now. Tonight we are going out to dinner with our friends Ken and Kristen for our first annual Double Holi-date. We decided that instead of buying gifts for each other we would go out to a nice dinner. I'm excited! K is staying with my mom and spending the night with her tonight. I'm hoping I'll be able to sleep past 6:20 tomorrow morning, that's the time that i woke up this morning. Yuck!

I hope everyone has a great weekend, maybe I'll write more tomorrow.

Lots of Love,
Lisa

Kendall playing with her Christmas Presents

We put Kendall's Christmas presents together tonight. This is just one of many pictures we took of baby girl playing with her new toys. Thank you to everyone for all of the awesome gifts!

Christmas Weekend

The day after Christmas we went to Horseshoe Bay to visit Kendall's Mimi and Poppy. We stayed for the whole weekend and had an awesome time! Here's just a few of those pics.

Poppy with Kendall, he's probably teaching her about Longhorn football... just kidding.
This is Mimi with Kendall and me. This one turned out pretty good.
Kendall being silly here putting on a Santa jester hat that she borrowed from her cousin.
Kendall didn't really understand the whole opening up the presents thing, but in this picture it sort looks like she understands.Kendall with her Dada.
Poppy and Kendall. Isn't this picture awesome?
Kendall and her Uncle Terry. They get along great!
Kendall with Aunt Susan, looks like they were having fun. ;-)

Christmas Day 2008

Christmas Day we went to Mama Gail's and Greg's house. It was a lot of fun! We opened a lot of cool presents and then went to Bill's and Barbara's for our traditional Christmas Dinner of Enchiladas. Yummy!!!
Below are just a few pictures that we took.

Bitsy decided to sneak a sip of egg nog out of Greg's glass. Shhh... it's a secret! Ha ha...

Christmas Eve 2008

This Christmas Eve was spent at my dad and Carolyn's house. My Grandmother Elaine came over, different from in years past, and it was fun! We had some yummy chicken and noodles and took some cute pictures.

This is Carolyn opening her calendar and Grandma's Brag Bag from Kendall.

This is Tony with Kendall. I think they are maybe opening a present.

This is my sister Patricia with Kendall. Patricia was helping Kendall open her present. Kendall was so tired she didn't know what to think.

This is my dad holding Kendall. This is only the second time he has seen her since he works out of state. I thought this was a pretty nice picture.

This is my brother, Stephen, with Kendall. I thought this picture turned out pretty good. Stephen looks like he is enjoying holding Kendall.

This is Great-Grandma Elaine with Kendall. It was nice to be able to get this on camera.

And, this is me with my baby girl.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

how lovely are thy branches. We don't have a tree this year, but you can bet that next year we will have one. We've both been busy with work and the house is still a mess from when we brought stuff home from Tony's uncles house in March or April. I know, I know...

Tony and I spent the past two days Christmas shopping. Oh my gosh did we have a lot to do, we hadn't done much up until this point. But, oh my goodness did we ever get a lot done. I am feeling better about the progress we've made this weekend. I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed with all that was left to be done. So, we just have about 4 or 5 more presents to get and I'll be getting those when I have off on Tuesday. Now if I could just decide what I want to get. That's the really hard part.

Friday evening we went to Paesano's for my sister Patricia's birthday, we had a good time. Happy Birthday Patricia! I was sad that I left my camera at home so I don't have a picture to post. I set it right next to my purse too! "How is that possible," you ask. Puh-lease, if you know me, you know that I miss things that are right in front of my face all the time. Anyway, Tony, Kendall and I gave Patricia and purse and a new sweater. I thought they were cute. I hope she liked them, she says she does, so that is good!

My mom was nice enough to watch K for us overnight so we got to sleep in a little on Saturday morning. She was keeping her so that Tony and I could get some shopping done. THANK YOU!!! We really got a lot done yesterday. We went all over the place. Hallmark, Tuesday Morning, GameStop, Costco, The Quarry and North Star Mall... Now, anyone who lives in SA knows it is not fun to go to North Star Mall on a Saturday, let alone the Saturday before Christmas. I think some would say we need to be institutionalized just for considering attempting it. While it was VERY crowded and crazy there, we did make it out alive. Phew!!! We went and picked up the baby at my mom's at about 7:30 and came right home and crashed on the couch while watching a movie. We were so tired from our shopping adventures.

This morning we woke up, got ready and went out again. Though I do admit we didn't make it out until about 1:30 due to Kendall getting grouchy at 9:45 and taking a nap until 12:40. We watched another movie this morning and rested up for the adventure we knew we would be having later in the day. :-) So, we finally made it out of the house and went to the new Target at Stone Oak and 281. It is so big and it was pretty crowded, but it worked out great for us. We got all of the presents for Kendall's classmates and teachers and several of our family and friends. So, thank you Target!!! We were there until about 4:45. We decided that we would act like old people and eat dinner at 4:30. ha ha... We wanted to do that so that we could go eat at the restaurant that is over near Target. It is called BJ's, it is where we went for my birthday. I had roast chicken with a baked potato. I brought over half of it home, they give you a ton of food there. Yeah for me, I have lunch or dinner for tomorrow. Yummy!!! Are you done making fun of us for eating so early yet? The laugh may be on you because we didn't have to wait for a seat for dinner.

Well, I guess I better go for now. I forgot I need to label the presents for K's classmates and teachers. Aaaarrrrgghhh!!! ha ha...

Have a great Christmas if I don't blog again before then!

Kendall takes Christmas Pictures

We took pictures of Kendall in her Christmas dress this afternoon. We were taking these pictures for our Christmas cards. Be on the lookout in a mailbox near you! Her Christmas picture is not one of these; we didn't want to ruin the surprise. :-)