fuzzi bunz and popsicles

Nice title, eh? It is my life right now. Anna-Kate started having some issues with the big D on Saturday and stopped drinking her fluids like a day or so before that. Literally, she went from drinking 20-25 ounces a day to drinking like 6-8. I was getting really scared about her getting dehydrated because I know that's dangerous period! So, I took her in to see the doctor and she did a stool test to make sure she didn't have any blood in it. I always figured you could see it with your eyes if that was the case but I guess not. The test was negative. Then she checked her mouth and ears to see if there was another reason why she was refusing to drink anything. She found nothing and told me to watch her and if she doesn't have 3-4 wet diapers by the end of the day then take her to the ER to be checked out for dehydration. Soooo, the time passed, she drank nothing and had only one wet diaper which was earlier that morning. I gathered our things and took her to the ER....a little after 6. We FINALLY got to the back around 8. They took a stool sample there and gave her a dissolvable pill for nausea around 9. They said it should take about 5-10 minutes to work and then we'll see if it helps her want to drink anything. TWO hours later, at 11pm, she chugged a whole thing of juice. AFTER the doctor had come in and gave me the option of hooking her to an IV. I chose to opt out of that since they were calling it a "mild" case of dehydration, running on half empty is what he said. He said that he would go ahead and discharge her because the only thing we could do was keep offering her fluids and popsicles. I had tried a popsicle earlier that day and here are the results from that fun:

She totally digged the stick more than the popsicle. It was pretty commical. I'm glad I got pictures of it.

ANYWAYS, we left and came home. I double stuffed her fuzzi bunz (more on that later), offered her some milk in which she drank 5 ounces of!, and put her down at exactly midnight. She was out! By the time we got home she had been up for 8 solid hours-five of which we spent in the ER.

^^^LIFESAVER=mini dvd player!!!!^^^

^^^climbing as always^^^

^^^walking everywhere!^^^

^^^conked out^^^

Now, back up to right before we left to go to the ER. Sean's flight instructor's wife had called to offer advice about AK's "condition". She was giving me lots of interesting info when we turned to talk about her diaper rash that I haven't been able to keep under control. Not only that, but it had tripled in severity since she was having D. I told her how I was researching organic DISPOSABLE diapers since I wasn't all into washing poopy diapers and such. She then proceeded to tell me about fuzzi bunz. She brought some over for me to try out and I'm hooked. Seriously. I thought "cloth" diapers (these are microfleece, ooooooh) were totally out of the question because I wasn't sure if I had the stomach for it but really, it's not that different. There are just a couple of more steps to the process but it's not as bad as my mind was telling me it was going to be. Not only that, but since she's been wearing them, not even 24 hours, her diaper rash has almost disappeared. She doesn't squirm or scream anymore when I go to change her. She just lays there all happy because she knows mommy is about to put a nice warm cloth wipe on her with a nice soft cloth diaper. She totally takes it in and makes my life easier while changing her. Praise Jesus. I'll do cloth diapers for her. They are obviously what she needs!

awww

I love this picture of my little family. It was a "self shot" but I didn't mean it to be like this. We were all smiling and ready for me to snap it really fast when AK decided that she wanted momma to hold her instead of daddy and leaned in to "get" me, then I went to give her some sugars and here we have our picture. LOVE IT. Really, there is nothing like some sweet lovins.

Then, today I took some pictures for my nieces birthday (11.12 is her bday). They turned out pretty good! She's staying with me for the weekend since Sean is OOT. I tried staying alone last weekend and I found myself to be anxious and deliriously tired and afraid. It was crazy. Sooo, yeah, not doing that again.

Happy weekend to all!

my pigtail princess

Today while AK was "brushing" her teeth I was taking a looksy at her hair. The other morning it looked as though she grew a bunch of hair overnight, so I was wondering today if I could get it in comfortable looking pigtails. I could do pigtails before but it looked so uncomfortable because she had only few strands of tightly pulled hair in each "tail". I continue to encourage her that sometimes it takes a little pain to be so cute all the time. Hahaha, JUST KIDDING, I don't EVER say that. Pigtails or no pigtails, my little princess is always cute to me! Anyways, here are the results from my curious eyes:

I even gave her a little "side swoop" piggy. Hehe. How cute!

I think that maybe the hairbows might be a little too much but maybe not. Eventually I'm going to go buy some cute little thin ribbon to tie in her hair. I think that would be cuter than some big clonky (if that's even a word) bows.

In the third picture she's crying because she got a little spanking for doing something I asked her not to do (TWICE-she did it TWICE!). But, it gives great opportunity to get a wonderful picture of her two new teeth (on the bottom). They look a little crooked to me but atleast they're symmetrical, right? Maybe they'll look okay once her other teeth come in.

In the other pics she is chewing on a toothbrush travel thingy. What? You let your kids do that too right??

Don't judge. ;)

proofs

Anna-Kate had "school" pictures done at the end of October which will totally qualify as her 14 month pics. I was sooo excited to get the proofs today. I can't wait to order them! Being a teacher, I get 50% off on any order above $75 and 25% off of any order under $75. I think that's a WONDERFUL deal! Yaaahoooooo! Here are the proofs

Aren't they super cute. The photographers at 'Memories Childrens Photography' did such a great job at getting most of the kids to look happy. It was nice because I don't feel like I've gotten an absolutely great picture of AK in a while and I really like these. Yay!!!

what a...

weekend.

*warning* this post contains many many pictures

Friday night I took AK trick-or-treating with my fam. It was fun and I think my mom enjoyed it more than we did. She takes every opportunity she can to be with "her pretty princess"...which leads me to her "costume". I didn't want to spend money on something she would wear for one night, soooo I pulled out this dress that she's never been able to wear and soon won't fit in and it was close to perfect. I mean, it was a pretty dress...her "pretty princess dress". And of course, no princess is complete without a bow and some cute mary jane socks. I think she looked precious. And one lady totally asked to take a picture of her because she was the "prettiest little thang she's ever seen". Every mom likes to hear that, right?!

She even had a little pink wand that made noises and would light up when it moved. Pretty cute.

AK and I left Saturday morning bound for A. My main intention for going down was to get our bedroom and bathroom painted-it would be one less thing to worry about over the next three weeks. Once there, I soon realized my plans were slowly changing. I started feeling sick and was having major tummy issues. No bueno. All I could do was lay around and hope to feel better soon. Sunday morning came and I still wasn't feeling 100%. My MIL left for church and I stayed home with AK in hopes of putting her down for a nap and getting some rest myself. She totally botched my plans and decided that she wanted to act silly and play instead. I was getting really frustrated when I finally just put her in bed and left her there. She slept for two and a half hours and I dozed on and off on the couch. When the MIL got home I was determined to get working on the room. I had to, it was the whole reason for the trip! I was so glad I did because I'm relieved to say that the room is officially painted! We didn't get to the bathroom but my MIL said she'd take care of it. Whew. Here are the before and afters:

I am so relieved to have this done. Can you imagine going to sleep and waking up in a room that makes you want to claw your eyes out?? Can you say gross! Now you see why I was so desparate to make sure this got done.

On another note, I finally broke down and tried a touch of gel in my little monkey's hair. I think it looked super cute!

whatdoyasay?

While we were "away", AK enjoyed many apples. She loves them.

She also enjoyed chillin out in her "baby" swing. She hasn't sat in this thing in months but as a joke my MIL sat her in it and she liked it. So, we let her swing to her heart's content. It was pretty cute. Does my kid look 14 months old to you??