Remission from the Ick

So last week after I posted that it seemed we where doing better...I went from been okay to feeling like I was dieing. I don't know what happened but I just got really bad. I was coughing so hard it hurt to breath. I went to the doctor and got two shots to the butt and got prescribed antibiotics. The doctor told me if I didn't feel any better in 48 hours that I need to come back in to begin breathing treatments.

So the next day I went to work thinking oh I am going to feel better today. NOT! I was coughing worse and I felt miserable. Worse in fact. I thought for sure that the doctor was pulling my leg and shot me up with fake medicine. Then to top it off my ass hurt so much from the shots that I could hardly sit comfortably. I went home and crawled into bed. Before I left I told my boss that if I didn't feel dramatically better that I was working from bed/home. He completely agreed, in fact he insisted that I stay home and work from there. Got to love this man! So the next morning I didn't feel much better. I was considering setting an appointment to go to the doctor that afternoon. However, just around lunch things started to turn around. I could breath again with out coughing up a lung. It seems it really did take 48 hours to feel better. I spent the majority of the weekend relaxing. I am about 98% at the moment. I am not working out or doing anything until I feel better. I think I keep jumping the gun thinking I was better when I wasn't. I know I need to slow it down a little and relax. I can handle that.

Sophia is a complete mess lately. In a cute way. She recovered all the way, at least I think. We are still doing nightly breathing treatments per the Dr's orders. She is teething and she has almost a whole tooth now at the bottom. She has episodes, say 24 hours, where she is fussy and just wants to be held the whole time. But she quickly bounces back the next day. However, the drooling she has causes her to breakout with this weird rash. We use a prescribed ointment for a few days and it clears up.It seems to repeat this every time she has a bad teething day. She loves to giggle all the time. Things that make her giggle, Apollo, my toes, being upside down, hair brushing against her face, a few select tickle spots and me making funny faces. She giggles all the time. She also started this new thing with air raspberries. She will do it till she is red in the face. I need to catch that on film. I love to watch her do it and the more I giggle the more she does. Love my sweet Sophia so much!

Pictures of the week:

Trying a blackberry (from our garden)

Trying to eat the diaper cream..she always grabs for stuff she can't have. Sometimes I give in.
Me giving the nightly breathing treatment. I sing to her and cuddle her. She is handling them well.
Chewing on her Sophie. Look at her new latch/leash system to make sure it stays with her. (from Nana)
Trying to figure out how she will be able to toss Sophie across the room.

Throwback Thursday

Us before breakfast.

Meet Mr. Crab


Hotel View

Downtown Corpus Christi
Sandro showing off
View from our room

Getting over the ick...

So it seems the entire family came down with this nasty lingering cold that didn't seem to want to go away. So around 3 weeks ago (April 30) First it started with me. Right before we where going to go on vacation I started feeling so congested. My nose and throat hurt as well as just feeling overall yucky. I tried to fight it because we had our mini vacation coming up and I just was so excited about getting to go out of town for a little while. I was so exhausted and rundown by this point.

Then when we returned Sandro seemed to have gotten my cold. He was brushing off as if it was just a his normal sinus crap. Then we return that Monday the daycare reported that Sophia had a fever. So we both took her to the Dr. that day. She was put on breathing treatments and where taken out of daycare for a few days. So here we are ... both exhausted, sunburned from our trip, and baby Sophia was also sick. It's now 3 weeks later and we still have a small taste of the ick. Both Sandro and I still have a lingering cough. Sophia has just a little congestion. We can tell she is feeling better because all she wants to do is play.

Lately at night she has not been falling asleep after her normal routine. She wants to play even after we have finish all her routine. She is one hyper little girl. When I lay her in the crib she is usually half asleep. Before she would just conk completely out. However, now she starts crying hysterically. Sandro believes in cry it out because we know she is attempting to get our attention. After she cries it out for a little while Sandro will then go in there and sing a Croatian song and pat her on her back to get her to relax. She then falls asleep. I have been hearing her at night either whining for attention or talking in her sleep. She usually stops after a couple of minutes. I am not sure if her teeth that are bothering her or if she is just becoming more aware of her surrounding. She is so smart and knows how to pull on our heart strings.

She is eating better and better each day. One thing she doesn't like at all is any type of cereal. We tried both the Oatmeal and the Rice However, she does like split peas, homemade bread, fresh squeezed juice, avocados, and crackers. She will tolerate banana's as well.

Pictures of the week:

Sophia loves her Nana

Yes I know I am cute!
This is my green friend. I love her bunny ears.
Cracking up!
Beauty Shot

Throwback Thursday

Happy Mother's Day

This is reason I live...her laughs and smiles make me so happy. I love being a Mama! Happy Mother's day to everyone. That means you and you and even you. ;)

Life as we know it...

It's has changed so much you can not even imagine. We are so lucky that sometimes we lose sight on is most important...in one simple word "Family." Days move so quick for me. Especially the weekdays. I have become one of those who can honestly say that I live for the weekends. It's the only time I have some freedom to live a little.

This past week Sandro and I took a day off and celebrated my 30th birthday. We drove down to Corpus Cristi ... next week I will post some pics..(or even this week because I am a week behind) We let Nana take care of Sophia for the a few nights. I can honestly say that I wasn't worried at all. I know my mom could handle it. She did such a great job. She followed the schedule perfectly, basically the nighttime routine. Sophia did really well and really didn't seem bothered by the change. Maybe she was loving being spoiled rotten. I need to steal a few pictures from my mom. One she has of her holding the phone why I was talking to Sophia! So cute.

I think it's very important that daddy and mommy get a little time off to reconnect. I feel closer to Sandro than I think I ever have. I don't feel guilty because I know that Sophia has very loving grandparents that would kill for the opportunity to have some one on one time with their grand baby. I feel Sandro will have to repeat the same thing at least once a year. A love retreat I guess you can call it. It was awesome. Though I think next time I will get a few days to recover.

On to the pictures this week...**I think weekly I am just going to do a throwback picture day to catch up. Maybe I will call it Thursday Throwback

Who could resist this face?

But I want to eat the whole flower. And she did. Luckily roses are eatable.

I wear sunglasses in the house? Don't be jealous!

Yeah, I had a blow out in the first two hours of daycare this day....