Today was Western Days in Twin Falls, Idaho, so this morning we went to see the parade. Me, Abby, and Elysia. Then we went to the carnival and Abby went on her first ride, the merry-go-round. They wouldn't let us on the ride unless Abby was wearing shoes. I haven't even put shoes on Abby in months because she would always kick them off. So I took the throw-away-flip flops that they gave me at the nail salon, stuck them onto Abby's pudgy little baby feet, and then they let us on! It was pretty funny! I stood next to the plastic horse and held Abby on it. When it first started to go up and down and around, Abby looked a little scared and whimpered, so I took her off and just held her, then she seemed satisfied. She patted the back of the horse and enjoyed watching everyone as we whirled around.
Later today we went to bring Andy some Rescue Cream at his work because he needed it for a rash on his foot. They actually decided to let us come in and see where he works, which was very exciting for me, because I had always wanted to see the inside of the jail. It was very cute to see how much Abby loves her Daddy! First when she heard his voice on the intercom she started to cry a little like, "I hear Daddy! Where is he?" Then when we went inside the jail waiting room and saw Andy dimly through the window, she really burst into tears! It's like Abby was crying, "Why is Daddy in there?! Is he okay? I want my Daddy!" She was very worried and really sobbing. A deputy came to the door to let us in and while we waited for Andy to push the button from the control room to let us through the next door the Deputy said to Andy on the radio half jokingly, "You'd better hurry up and open this door!" because he could see that Abby was having a major melt down wanting to get to her daddy! As soon as we got into the control room, and Abby saw Andy, she settled down immediately and was just fine. It just shows how much Abby loves her Andy Daddy!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Andy went back to work
So Andy went back to work today, on light duty. Today is his first day back at work since he dislocated and broke his foot. This is a short entry because Abby is in her play pen fussing at me. Stress....
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Abby waves Bye and says "Ba Ba"
Today Abby waved bye bye all on her own! She has waved bye bye twice before but it was not so obvious, and it was after I had already been waving her arm for her. This time, we were leaving Dr. Adamson's office, and I hadn't said "bye" or prompted her at all, and she started waving her whole arm bye bye all by herself! The receptionists saw and were so tickled and impressed that she could already wave bye! She did it for about a full 15 seconds! Wow!
And then later on with Grandma Lori and her daddy, they were trying to get her to wave bye bye and instead of waving she said "ba ba"! She said it a couple times so we knew she was trying to say "bye bye"!
Then later on when I was shopping at Target, I was on the phone with Grandma CC gushing to her about Abby's accomplishments waving bye, and then she waved again!
Also, she is still signing "milk" every day, especially when she is nursing. It is so cute to watch her nursing contentedly while she looks at her little hand slowly opening and closing to sign "milk". How sweet!
Grandma Lori is visiting still, and Abby is just loving having her here! We were concerned before she came that Abby might not remember her. But there was no need to worry because Abby was immediately comfortable and happy with Lollie, which shows she does remember her! What a good memory she has!
So here are Abby's first words so far:
1. Hi! She said this to a little girl (about 3) at the park and it was so cute! I lowered her down to the little girl's level and she said "Hi!" which I had been saying to her a lot, so I knew she knew what she was saying. She said this at about 5 months old.
2. Mama
3. Dada
4. Milk
5. Dog (or actually "og")
6. Bye bye (ba ba)
And then later on with Grandma Lori and her daddy, they were trying to get her to wave bye bye and instead of waving she said "ba ba"! She said it a couple times so we knew she was trying to say "bye bye"!
Then later on when I was shopping at Target, I was on the phone with Grandma CC gushing to her about Abby's accomplishments waving bye, and then she waved again!
Also, she is still signing "milk" every day, especially when she is nursing. It is so cute to watch her nursing contentedly while she looks at her little hand slowly opening and closing to sign "milk". How sweet!
Grandma Lori is visiting still, and Abby is just loving having her here! We were concerned before she came that Abby might not remember her. But there was no need to worry because Abby was immediately comfortable and happy with Lollie, which shows she does remember her! What a good memory she has!
So here are Abby's first words so far:
1. Hi! She said this to a little girl (about 3) at the park and it was so cute! I lowered her down to the little girl's level and she said "Hi!" which I had been saying to her a lot, so I knew she knew what she was saying. She said this at about 5 months old.
2. Mama
3. Dada
4. Milk
5. Dog (or actually "og")
6. Bye bye (ba ba)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Abigial can sit and crawl!
We have been working on teaching Abigail to sit and she can do it all by herself now for almost a full minute! I get all excited and say, "Wow! Good sitting! Look at you sit!" to encourage her. Also Abby is crawling now! She can crawl slowly in a straight line. She is getting better and better at it! I am very excited for her to crawl because it is so essential for her brain development. This is further incentive for me to finish baby proofing our house! Its very hard to have time to do it though since Andy is laid up.
I have noticed when Abigail poohs in her diaper she starts calling for me to change her! Like this morning she was in the great room with Andy in her jumperoo when she went poo pooh. Then she started calling for me very loudly! She was yelling, "AAAAMM!" (like Mom without the first "M") So cute and funny!
I have noticed when Abigail poohs in her diaper she starts calling for me to change her! Like this morning she was in the great room with Andy in her jumperoo when she went poo pooh. Then she started calling for me very loudly! She was yelling, "AAAAMM!" (like Mom without the first "M") So cute and funny!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Diaper Rash
Abby started having diarrhea yesterday, I don't know why. She must have succumbed to a virus or something, because she hasn't been eating anything but breast milk. Even though I've been changing her right away she's still gotten a painful diaper rash from the acidic, watery pooh. She's only had very mild diaper rash in the past, never this bad before. Burt's Bees diaper cream has worked great in the past on preventing and treating mild diaper rash, but it hasn't been working well on the moderate diaper rash, so I'm trying new diaper creams. The one I just put on tonight is the A&D ointment. We'll see how it works. I am ready to buy any and every diaper cream to get one that works to heal this diaper rash! I hate to see Abby in pain, and whenever I have to wipe the pooh off her little bum she cries in pain. Poor sweetie! So then I think maybe the chemicals in the wipes are hurting her, so I rush her to the bath and rinse her off with warm water. She seems to be happy about that part, especially if I let her play in the water.
I have a good idea from my mom on how I should treat the diarrhea. Tomorrow I am going to try opening a capsule of acidophilus into some baby food and feed it to Abigail, since acidophilus is supposed to help diarrhea.
Abigail does the sign for "milk" while she nurses by squeezing me with her hand. It's so cute! I am so excited about her learning to sign, so that she can communicate with us before she learns to talk. Plus, teaching your baby ASL increases their spoken vocabulary and helps them learn to talk faster.
I have a good idea from my mom on how I should treat the diarrhea. Tomorrow I am going to try opening a capsule of acidophilus into some baby food and feed it to Abigail, since acidophilus is supposed to help diarrhea.
Abigail does the sign for "milk" while she nurses by squeezing me with her hand. It's so cute! I am so excited about her learning to sign, so that she can communicate with us before she learns to talk. Plus, teaching your baby ASL increases their spoken vocabulary and helps them learn to talk faster.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Abby at church
Abby was so cute at church today. I co-teach the Sunbeams (3 and 4 year olds) with Tasha Schroeder. Usually Tina takes care of Abby while I teach, but she wasn't at church today, so Wendy and Becky took care of Abby. Wendy brought Abby to me towards the end and when Abby saw me she did the sign for milk! So cute! Plus, Abby seemed to enjoy being held while Wendy led the music.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Andy's broken foot
5-16-2009
Andy was playing church basketball with the men on Friday, May 1st, when I got a call from Jason Roethig from Andy's cell phone. After learning that Andy has badly hurt his foot, and the ambulance was on the way to the church, I hurried to go help him. When coming down from a rebound, Andy had landed on someone's foot, turning his foot to the inside. It was after 9 pm and I had to get Abby out of bed. Of course she was hungry when I woke her up, so I had to nurse her before I left. I wanted to just rush to Andy's aid, but I couldn't have Abby crying with hunger, so I had to feed her first. On the way to the chapel, I repeadtedly explained to Abby that we were going to help Daddy who had an big owie on his foot. I was very concerned about my dear hubby, and over and over I prayed for Heavenly Father to help him, especially with the pain. Abby looked a little worried and was very quite on the car ride. Before we reached the church, Jason called again and told us that Andy was in the ambulance with the paramedics on the way to the hospital, so we flipped a U-turn, and easily beat them to the Emergency room. We were standing outside the ER when the ambulance pulled up, and I could tell by Andy's expression that he was in a lot of pain. The medics had him drugged up on painkillers: 20ccs of Morphine and some Valium, too. I checked him in (they wouldn't let me do it unti after he got there) while they wheeled him back to his own room. We went back there and I showed Abby his badly deformed ankle. "See Daddy's big owie, sweetie?" The sole of his left foot was facing his right ankle, instead of facing the floor like it was supposed to. Later, Andy told me that when he first got injured, all the pain and the shock of seeing his foot facing the wrong way sent him into a panic. Aghast, he started trying to move around using his hands and the other players rushed to immobilize him. Quickly, they gave him a priesthood blessing of healing and comfort, and Andy immediately felt calmed and somewhat relieved from the pain. When the paramedics got there, at first the were going to attempt to reset his dislocated foot right there on the gym floor. When they took off Andy's running shoe and saw the severity of the injury, to Andy's relief they decided leave the resetting of his foot to the doctors. In the ER, after doing an X-ray, Dr. Holiday put Andy under general anesthesia to reset his dislocated foot. A couple minutes after Andy was out, the Dr. tried manipulating Andy's foot to see if Andy was under enough to be pain free. Andy gasped in pain, so the Dr. could tell he had to wait a few more minutes. Then, while I sat in the corner of the room, trying to comfort our fussing 6 month old daughter (who was very worried about her daddy), the Dr. yanked Andy's foot back into place, with Andy completely oblivious to the process. Andy woke up a few minutes later, and felt much better. Before, his pain was a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10, and after they put his foot back in place it was only a 2 or 3. He said he didn't feel or remember the foot being put back in place and that he was dreaming while he was out. I was very curious since he usually doesn't remember his dreams. "What were you dreaming about?" I asked. I had to laugh when he responded with his favorite food, "Pepperoni pizza," he replied with a weary smile. After they reset it, they did another X-ray, and then a cat scan. You couldn't see it with the x-ray, but the cat scan showed that the outside of his talus bone was fractured. A little chip was seperated from the rest of the bone. Dr. Holiday put Andy in a soft splint since the foot was going to swell so much.
Andy is now in his removable cast, and laying here on the couch in the great room, which he has been doing all day every day since the accident. He has to keep his foot elevated above his heart. If he is up on his crutches for more than a couple minutes his foot startes to hurting very badly from the blood flowing down to his foot and increasing the swelling.
So now I am taking care of Andy, the baby, Elysia, and our three dogs, and it is rather stressful. I got a touch of the flu a couple of days ago, but I'm better now.
Andy has a hard time being cooped up and stuck on the couch all day. At least he has a big screen TV to watch (his Christmas present), video games to play, and a laptop computer to surf the internet with. It's still very hard on him though, mentally and emotionally, especially because he is such a hard worker and he wants so badly to be back at his job at the jail, and to be installing a sprinkler system in our front yard.
Andy was playing church basketball with the men on Friday, May 1st, when I got a call from Jason Roethig from Andy's cell phone. After learning that Andy has badly hurt his foot, and the ambulance was on the way to the church, I hurried to go help him. When coming down from a rebound, Andy had landed on someone's foot, turning his foot to the inside. It was after 9 pm and I had to get Abby out of bed. Of course she was hungry when I woke her up, so I had to nurse her before I left. I wanted to just rush to Andy's aid, but I couldn't have Abby crying with hunger, so I had to feed her first. On the way to the chapel, I repeadtedly explained to Abby that we were going to help Daddy who had an big owie on his foot. I was very concerned about my dear hubby, and over and over I prayed for Heavenly Father to help him, especially with the pain. Abby looked a little worried and was very quite on the car ride. Before we reached the church, Jason called again and told us that Andy was in the ambulance with the paramedics on the way to the hospital, so we flipped a U-turn, and easily beat them to the Emergency room. We were standing outside the ER when the ambulance pulled up, and I could tell by Andy's expression that he was in a lot of pain. The medics had him drugged up on painkillers: 20ccs of Morphine and some Valium, too. I checked him in (they wouldn't let me do it unti after he got there) while they wheeled him back to his own room. We went back there and I showed Abby his badly deformed ankle. "See Daddy's big owie, sweetie?" The sole of his left foot was facing his right ankle, instead of facing the floor like it was supposed to. Later, Andy told me that when he first got injured, all the pain and the shock of seeing his foot facing the wrong way sent him into a panic. Aghast, he started trying to move around using his hands and the other players rushed to immobilize him. Quickly, they gave him a priesthood blessing of healing and comfort, and Andy immediately felt calmed and somewhat relieved from the pain. When the paramedics got there, at first the were going to attempt to reset his dislocated foot right there on the gym floor. When they took off Andy's running shoe and saw the severity of the injury, to Andy's relief they decided leave the resetting of his foot to the doctors. In the ER, after doing an X-ray, Dr. Holiday put Andy under general anesthesia to reset his dislocated foot. A couple minutes after Andy was out, the Dr. tried manipulating Andy's foot to see if Andy was under enough to be pain free. Andy gasped in pain, so the Dr. could tell he had to wait a few more minutes. Then, while I sat in the corner of the room, trying to comfort our fussing 6 month old daughter (who was very worried about her daddy), the Dr. yanked Andy's foot back into place, with Andy completely oblivious to the process. Andy woke up a few minutes later, and felt much better. Before, his pain was a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10, and after they put his foot back in place it was only a 2 or 3. He said he didn't feel or remember the foot being put back in place and that he was dreaming while he was out. I was very curious since he usually doesn't remember his dreams. "What were you dreaming about?" I asked. I had to laugh when he responded with his favorite food, "Pepperoni pizza," he replied with a weary smile. After they reset it, they did another X-ray, and then a cat scan. You couldn't see it with the x-ray, but the cat scan showed that the outside of his talus bone was fractured. A little chip was seperated from the rest of the bone. Dr. Holiday put Andy in a soft splint since the foot was going to swell so much.
Andy is now in his removable cast, and laying here on the couch in the great room, which he has been doing all day every day since the accident. He has to keep his foot elevated above his heart. If he is up on his crutches for more than a couple minutes his foot startes to hurting very badly from the blood flowing down to his foot and increasing the swelling.
So now I am taking care of Andy, the baby, Elysia, and our three dogs, and it is rather stressful. I got a touch of the flu a couple of days ago, but I'm better now.
Andy has a hard time being cooped up and stuck on the couch all day. At least he has a big screen TV to watch (his Christmas present), video games to play, and a laptop computer to surf the internet with. It's still very hard on him though, mentally and emotionally, especially because he is such a hard worker and he wants so badly to be back at his job at the jail, and to be installing a sprinkler system in our front yard.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Abby's first ASL sign
5-15-09
Ok, since I have not been doing a very good job at blogging regularly, I decided to make a goal of writing at least two sentences a day.
Something funny about Abby is that she seems to like to go pooh when she's in her jumperoo. This makes it a bit of a problem though, because then since there's pressure from the jumperoo on her bum, there's not as much space for the pooh to go, and then her diaper leaks! I'm not quite sure what to do about this.
Abby has been working on crawling. She hasn't mastered it yet, but she's getting a lot better at it. She can go forward now, but not the regular way. She rocks front and back on her hands and knees, and then she dives forward!
Abby's on my lap right now wearing her pink nightgown that Grammy Lollie gave her, which Andy calls her "baby mumu." So funny! She's very cute in it.
Abby started using her first ASL sign last week! She can now sign "milk" which she uses when she's hungry or if she just wants mommy, or sometimes just for fun! It's especially cute when she signs milk while she's nursing! Some of the other signs we're teaching her are: mom, dad, change (diaper), hurt, sleep, cry, sad, happy, love, eat, etc.
Ok, since I have not been doing a very good job at blogging regularly, I decided to make a goal of writing at least two sentences a day.
Something funny about Abby is that she seems to like to go pooh when she's in her jumperoo. This makes it a bit of a problem though, because then since there's pressure from the jumperoo on her bum, there's not as much space for the pooh to go, and then her diaper leaks! I'm not quite sure what to do about this.
Abby has been working on crawling. She hasn't mastered it yet, but she's getting a lot better at it. She can go forward now, but not the regular way. She rocks front and back on her hands and knees, and then she dives forward!
Abby's on my lap right now wearing her pink nightgown that Grammy Lollie gave her, which Andy calls her "baby mumu." So funny! She's very cute in it.
Abby started using her first ASL sign last week! She can now sign "milk" which she uses when she's hungry or if she just wants mommy, or sometimes just for fun! It's especially cute when she signs milk while she's nursing! Some of the other signs we're teaching her are: mom, dad, change (diaper), hurt, sleep, cry, sad, happy, love, eat, etc.
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