Author Archives: LA

Little Better

Kirra has been a little better lately. Letting her have the pacifier has really helped out a lot. She’s also been pretty clingy so I busted out my Mei Tai carrier if I need/want to get some cleaning done. Poor thing has like 4 teeth coming in.


We have playgroup tomorrow and I really hope she isn’t crabby. She’s getting a lot more used to the pulmicort nebulizer and isn’t as afraid anymore.

I’m a Method advocate where they will send you products to test out for them so they can market, or improve their products. They send you full size products that you get to keep, and then they send you 3 coupons for free products! I think it’s absolutely great!

I have Steel for Real (What i tested out) for stainless steel appliances etc. And with my coupons I got the toilet bowl cleaner which smells really nice, the daily shower spray and the little dishwasher chips.

I love the smell of all of them! If you like Method products or haven’t tried them out you really should, and you should become an advocate!

Crab Apple

Kirra has been so crabby lately! She will just cry and crab over the smallest things. And not just a little crabby, I mean life is tragic type! She will just throw herself back and cry for HOURS! We don’t know if its her new medicine, or if it’s just teething… Welcome to parenthood right?


We just don’t know how to help her. We’ve broken our ‘rules’ and let her have the pacifier outside of the crib, and if all else fails we give her a time out in her crib, because we have no idea why she throws some of these fits.


Today was fun it was my 15 year elementary school reunion with St. Mary of the Lake. It was really nice getting to see everyone again.

My cold is getting better, my voice is coming back slowly but surely, and it makes me quite happy! It’s still “there” but definitely better. Tomorrow I am going cross country skiing with my mom, and Jason will be watching the NFC championship!

Really great news… we had the refrigerator repair man come out and fix our freezer. Oh yeah! For the first time since June/July we have a freezer in our KITCHEN again. I am so very excited about this. I know going down the basement isn’t that big of a deal, but having food in the upstairs freezer is simply awesome!

Now mommy is sick!

Well as of last Sunday (1/4) I started getting very congested and a bad headache. This ebbed and flowed through out the week, and has now moved into my lungs. So now I don’t have a voice, and I am having coughing attacks! Hopefully Kirra didn’t give me what she had/has, or that I will make her more susceptible if she really does have asthma!

 
Jason and I bought Guitar Hero for our Wii, so Jason has been a Guitar Hero playing maniac. I play the drums or sing when I play.
 
I’ve managed to get out and go cross country skiing, and have found an indoor track for running, which is wonderful news for my training, because running in the snow that we got today doesn’t look very fun!
 
24 more days until we see the Pulmonary specialist and hopefully get answers!

Happy October!

I can’t believe its October already! Where did the time go? I thought we were just getting over the winter! Its was pretty chilly today, I had to scrape my car windows because of the frost! With the scraper! ALREADY!!!

Kirra has been great. She is talking up a storm, and acting like a teenager already. She loves to say the word no. But she says it with such a sweet innocent voice. She’s starting to say the word yeah! We’ve tried to do some potty training, but she isn’t ready quite yet, which is ok too. She is good about telling us when she needs a diaper, but she doesn’t like sitting on her potty yet.
Tomorrow i’m in marathon weekend mode. I’ll be staying at the hotel and working at the RiverCentre for the first few days, and then on Sunday I’ll be at the start line and the finish line. I’ll try to take lots of pictures!
I’m going to miss Kirra and Jason though.

Paging Dr. Evans….


Yay! Dr. Evans called today, and we have a new action plan for Kirra. She and I think Kirra most likely did contract Whooping Cough back in October, and is just in a funky state of wheezing (asthma). So we prescribed Pulmicort nebulizer to be taken every morning for the next month. It’s a steroid inhailer to decrease inflamation. Its slow working so it will take a while to work (about 2 weeks) but I feel now like we’re getting somewhere.


She also suggested to continue the Prevacid because she likely still has heartburn too.


When Kirra and I got home today a brand new dishwasher was waiting for me in the kitchen! Yippeee!

Children’s Hospital…

Well I emailed one of our association members at work who is a pediatrician down at Children’s. She called me back in just minutes, and we went over a few things. She didn’t really have any ideas, but told me to keep nebbing her with albuteral every 4-6 hours as needed, and giving her the prevacid.


Hopefully Dr. Evan’s can give me more insight.

Call in for the doctor

Poor Kirra thew up last night because of her coughing attacks. I left a message for our pediatrician and made sure to note that only she could call us back. I’m sick of talking to the nurses when they don’t have any ideas.


She isn’t in tomorrow, but will be in on Thursday! I’m very excited for this phone call.

Ideas

Last night I read in numerous websites about giving a teaspoon of honey for a cough. So last night I gave Kirra some honey, but she went ahead and coughed anyways. A few times it scared me quite a bit, but she was just fine.

Today during her nap she was having a horrible coughing attack, so I told Jason to grab the nebulizer so we woke her up and nebbed her. She immediately stopped coughing, and is now trying to go back to bed with her heart racing! Poor girl.


Maybe we’ll try to neb her every 4-6 hours like our one doctor (Dr. Luhman) suggested. I wish our specialist appointment was sooner!

Nurse Call Back

So Dr. Evan’s nurse called us back again, even though I specifically request that our doctor call us back. We understand that she might be busy and all, and even understand if she can’t call us back that day, but really? She never calls us back herself. Jason and I are getting sick of just talking to the nurse.


The nurse didn’t say much, besides if Kirra is still coughing we can bring her in.

That didn’t help.

Happy New Year

Well the New Year has come! We had some company over last night, and had a pot luck apps. It was really nice and low-key. Spending time with the ones you love is always great!


2008 was great! Even though we had a major death in the family – Grandpa, over all it was great. Jason still works for Stockness Construction pouring concrete, and operates a laser screed that levels very large concrete pads. His company sent him down to Fort Myers Florida to learn how to operate his machine.

I got to travel for work in the begining of the year as well, going to Atlanta Georgia for an expo. That was very fun! Work for me is going absolutely wonderful! I love my job, and everyone i work with. 2009 I am going to try and learn a few new things!

2009 doesn’t come with HUGE plans. I think we’re going to just take everything step by step again. Of course we will have the annual camping trip to Lake Lydick, which is definitely always a good time. We will probably install a new patio door, and perhaps even fence in the backyard! (That would be great for Tyler!)

Watch this funny video of Kirra trying to imitate us sneezing. Its so cute. The link is just below.

Cheers to a great 2009!