Pulling yourself up/Standing

This past weekend you have been pulling yourself up onto everything over and over! You had done it once or twice a day in the past couple of weeks. You pulled yourself up onto the fireplace..even though we tell you know. You also pulled yourself up onto the foot rest and were moving side to side and then also grabbed onto your walker toy. You also were walking behind your walker toy by yourself.

Poor Baby- Cant catch a break:(

You poor thing you, you have had an awful last couple of weeks. You had not been sleeping well since the whole ER visit and we thought maybe you were just scared or getting used to us checking on you. We tried and did the whole cry it out thing and tried to check on you so much.

Sunday evening you started to come down with a low fever so we gave you some Tylenol and put you to bed. You woke up several times with just a little whine/cry but would go back to sleep. Monday morning you had a higher fever 101-102 range so da da stayed home with you and continued the Tylenol. You were a little fussy but still managed to play on your own etc.
Monday evening you didn't drink your bottle and before bed when I was giving you Tylenol you threw up all over me. Not a great first!

Tuesday you woke up and your fever was back to 102 and you were just not your self. You didnt want to eat much or play or do anything. I decided to call and get you an appointment just to be sure. I brought you in and he took a look at both ears and says yep you have a raging ear infection in both ears:( Poor thing! I felt awful thinking I should have brought you in sooner but there have been so many times where I have and its nothing.

Today after one day of antibiotics you seem happier. You still arent eating much. You also threw up 10 mins after having the med when eating breakfast:( I debated giving you more of the med but maybe we will at lunch. I may try mixing it in with food or something so you wont gag so much.

Lets hope Spring brings us sunshine and a happy bday.

I guess you made it 11 months without an ear infection or any kind of antibiotics.

Eleven Months old- March 24th

-You weigh 23 pds and are 29 inches long (I know this from being at the ER/Doc) You can def tell you've gotten taller.
-First trip to ER; severe allergic reaction:(
-Still wearing 18 month clothes; you have def thinned out some and gotten longer.
-Still wear size 4 diaper, they arent as snug around the waist anymore.
-With time change sometimes stay up till 730ish and sleep till 6-7
-Act like youre teething but no more teeth have popped up still just have the bottom two.
-Mastered crawling and getting around so much faster, which means getting into things.
-Figured out how to open up drawers.
-Still love power cords, Bella and her tail, trying to pull down your baby monitor/vase in living room, pulling wine bottles of the wine rack. Also love our phones and the remotes.
-Love Llama llama books, youll close other ones well read to you sometimes.
-Love to clap your hands.
-Love to move your hand across your mouth to make sounds.
-Love to feed yourself, well put food on spoon/fork and you have actually bit off of it vs pulling the food off and putting it in your mouth.
-Still hate wearing shoes you kick them off and pull your socks off.
-Well do so big and you'll just laugh at us.
-Doing all the sippy cup type bottles except for a normal bottle before bed.
-Taking big boy baths- you wont sit still, try and pull yourself up out of the tub or crawl around and grab the faucet.
-Trying so hard to pull yourself up on things, you get up on both knees and usually stand on one foot but not the other. You have pulled yourself up a few times in the past week.
-Starting to actually move your feet when we try and hold your hands and walk with you.
-Like to walk behind your walker with us or up on your knees around the house.
-Hate diaper changes and getting pjs on you'll squirm, take off naked, kick etc.
-Hair is getting longer and you can def see the curls come through.
-Still say mama and dada a lot and ba ba for bella. It sometimes sounds like you say hi.
-Still wont really wave, weve started to blow kisses to you and you just laugh.
-Love to shop/go out to eat and stare at people.
-Very noisy eater and bounce all over.

First and hopefully last trip to the ER- Sat, March 15th

On Saturday night we had to rush you to the ER. I have never been so scared/terrified in my entire life. You have broken out in random hives since back in October around the time of getting all your shots. We didn't really know for sure what was causing them but eventually you just stopped getting them. We tried different things like changing your type of diaper, the temp in your room etc.

A couple weeks ago you randomly had the hives again. They typically would show up after a nap or sleeping and mostly on your face in blotches, occasionally a few random spots on your arms or diaper area. One day you had a fever and you had them all over. They always would just go away after a few hours.

On Saturday after your afternoon nap, you woke up with some red blotches on your face. We gave you some Benadryl just to be safe and within an hour or so they were all gone and you were always happy and playing.
We went out to eat at Mr Pizza and gave you some pieces of our pizza, mostly sauce/meat, some cheese bread. Nothing you haven't had before, also an applesauce pouch. We went home and you played for an hour or so before bed and you were fine. No spots or anything.

We decided to carry in our treadmill that we had purchased and we began putting it together in the basement. Around 845 or so you started to cry. Sometimes you will for like a minute and youll stop so I waited and then you didnt stop so I decided to run up and check on you. Your room is really dark and you ten to sleep on your belly so I just patted your back and you calmed down for a minute or so and then all of a sudden you were screaming. I picked you up and brought you to your rocking chair and rocked you..then you kind of looked up at me and your eyes looked a little weird to me. I thought maybe I was imagining it and then I turned the light on and your face was so swollen you could barely see your eyes along with all red. I screamed for Lee and rushed you downstairs. I was so freaked out. He yelled for me to call 911 so I did but then after thinking about it we thought we could prob get you to the hospital faster. I was shaking so bad, I managed to give you a dose of benadryl and off we went. I sat in the back with you and kept tapping you and talking to you. I was so scared you would stop breathing. You'd occasionally cough so that was reassuring. We rushed you into the ER and they took us right back. They put you up to a monitor to detect your breathing and the doctor rushed right in. They ended up giving you another shot of benadryl along with the epi shot. We then sat there with you for a few hours to see if the swelling would go down. It slowly did. They also later gave you some steriods by mouth mixed with choc syrup. You liked that. You started to look a little better but still puffy esp around the eyes. We were then told we could go home and to follow up with your pediatrician.

For the first time since we brought you home there was no way I was letting you sleep alone in your room. You slept in your pack and play next to our bed. I of course was not able to fall asleep at all and kept checking on you. IN the morning you looked so much better, just a little puffy under your eyes and occasional blotchy skin. Later that night your face got a little red again so we gave you some benadryl before bed just in case.

We kept going in every hour with our phone(flashlight) to check on you and make sure you werent turning red or swelling up. I was able to sleep a little but woke up a few random times to check on you. On Monday, you seemed back to normal.

We brought you to an allergy doc on Monday and they are running a bunch of blood tests for food allergies, pets etc to see if anything comes up. They arent 100% accurate but we still wanted to run them to see. We also were given epi pens for at home and daycare. I hope we never have to use them. I just hope we can get to the bottom of this. We have no idea what is causing this. We are so careful and wash all of your stuff separably with baby detergent. We have not given you any new foods etc.

I am so nervous to give you anything to eat now. I just want to figure this out. I hope these tests give us some answers or at least give us the peace of mind that its not a certain food causing it.

Grandma swears its our cat Bella. I sure hope not. The doctor said most likely not because you would get like this all the time with being around her.

I am still just sick to my stomach and worry about you all the time. I just want to get this figured out so we never have to go through this again. Poor sweet baby!!!

Lately-Random photos

Big Boy Baths

We have been letting you take baths in the tub with nothing lately. YOu were just getting too big for you baby tub. You just loved it but would not sit still.

You love to try and pull yourself up and out of the bathtub. We tell you to sit down because we worry you will fall and hit your head. You get mad when we do this. You like to sit on the drain stopper and pull on the faucet, often times banging your head on it. You love to crawl around and grab your toys. A few times you have dunked your head in the water and drink the water and then cough and laugh. You are soo silly.

Mastering crawling/eating with a fork

The past couple of weeks you have gotten so much better and faster at crawling. You dont army crawl really much anymore. You love to get into the power cords, baby monitor, bellas tail etc.

We def have to watch you so much more now. You also pulled a wine bottle off our wine rack. We may need to put that down in the basement. You def are exploring the other rooms in our house, the kitchen, dining room, entry ways(by laundry room etc). You arent staying in your typical living room toy area anymore!

You have been trying so hard to pull yourself up onto things. You get up on your knees and then step on one foot but havent gotten that you need to put your other foot up too. Im sure it wont be long.

You have been better at walking with us holding your hands. Before youd never really move your feet much.


Last night you finally took bites off your fork by yourself. WE usually let you feed yourself but sometimes well put some food on a plastic fork and youd grab the fork and then pull the food off the fork and then put it in your mouth or drop it alot too. Last night it just clicked and wed hand you the fork with food on it and you grabbed the fork and then put it in your mouth and bit off of it. I said yay good job and then you smiled and started clapping too cute!!