Madison has been dealing with a cough since around her birthday .. that is 4 months now!! New Year's Eve we went to a WSU basketball game, Mark was carrying her as we were walking out to the car and she just starts choking - she starts coughing and ends up choking. Until then we have been told there really is nothing we can do, we're doing everything we are supposed to be doing - sit in the steamy bathroom, the vapor steamer, the rub on her chest, allergy medicine, albuteral, lots of fluids - after this episode we're finally doing something. We are scheduled to see a pediatric pulmonologist (respritory doctor) and maybe eventually see a pediatric allergy doctor. Right now, we are scheduled to see the pulmonologist on Feb. 19, but are trying to get that moved up, we're on a list to be called if there is a cancellation.
This cough comes and goes, its not like she's been coughing everyday for 4 months. But every time it comes back, it is worse than before. It came back this last Thursday, but she is finally doing better. Over the weekend the only way we could get her to rest is to sit in the rocking chair with her. She had a 101+ temp for 3 days ... so we were doing all of the above things and added a lukewarm bath to keep her temp down. We were doing 5 medicines, now down to one, thank goodness!
So for now, things are going much better, we're just praying we can get into this pediatric pulmonologist sooner than our appointment and get something figured out!!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Funny Things
Madison calls everything she drinks, "juice". She walks over to the fridge, grabs the handle and say's juice.
Sometimes I'd offer her everything and she said no to all of them. I've finally figured out that "juice" also means she wants food. She either points to her mouth and says juice or points to her booster seat and says juice.
If she doesn't know a word she just says "this". Its very hard to know what she wants, she's just pointing and saying this. I just tell her to learn some words. ;) Just kidding, I try to guess at what she's pointing at and tell her what it is.
She says the same two phases ALL the time - Mark and I have absolutely no idea what she is saying! But she means what she's saying and lets us know about it.
She points to her diaper when she wants to be changed (only with dirty diapers, wet ones don't bother her as much)!
If I tell her that we should change her diaper she walks back to her room and points at the diapers and wipes.
If I tell her that we need to take her medicine she walks right back to my room and points to her medicine.
She love to pray. Everytime we eat, and many times throughout the day, she just puts her hands together and says ... you got it, "this", "this". So we pray and she says ... "done". We can not get her to say amen. ;)
Oh! The other day she spilled some of her water on the kitchen floor walked over and tried to get a napkin (I told her no, I didn't know she spilled the water). So she pointed to the floor to show me and I handed her the napkin .. she walked over to the mess and started to wipe it up!! Good girl, I wish she'd clean up all her messes!!
She could unpack and pack all day long. She puts her blocks in the bag and takes them out, puts them in and takes them out. This usually lasts 15 - 20 minutes. I never knew that was so much fun.
Madison LOVES LOVES LOVES to climb!! She knows when we don't push a chair in, she has some sort of radar. She RUNS to that chair and climbs up to the table. One day I was on the computer at the dining room table and all of a sudden she's IN her highchair - she had used the little footrest and climbed up and sat down and wanted food.
Out of no where, she has started to sign "more" today. I've only done it a few times in the past, but she's signed it twice today. Crazy!
Sometimes I'd offer her everything and she said no to all of them. I've finally figured out that "juice" also means she wants food. She either points to her mouth and says juice or points to her booster seat and says juice.
If she doesn't know a word she just says "this". Its very hard to know what she wants, she's just pointing and saying this. I just tell her to learn some words. ;) Just kidding, I try to guess at what she's pointing at and tell her what it is.
She says the same two phases ALL the time - Mark and I have absolutely no idea what she is saying! But she means what she's saying and lets us know about it.
She points to her diaper when she wants to be changed (only with dirty diapers, wet ones don't bother her as much)!
If I tell her that we should change her diaper she walks back to her room and points at the diapers and wipes.
If I tell her that we need to take her medicine she walks right back to my room and points to her medicine.
She love to pray. Everytime we eat, and many times throughout the day, she just puts her hands together and says ... you got it, "this", "this". So we pray and she says ... "done". We can not get her to say amen. ;)
Oh! The other day she spilled some of her water on the kitchen floor walked over and tried to get a napkin (I told her no, I didn't know she spilled the water). So she pointed to the floor to show me and I handed her the napkin .. she walked over to the mess and started to wipe it up!! Good girl, I wish she'd clean up all her messes!!
She could unpack and pack all day long. She puts her blocks in the bag and takes them out, puts them in and takes them out. This usually lasts 15 - 20 minutes. I never knew that was so much fun.
Madison LOVES LOVES LOVES to climb!! She knows when we don't push a chair in, she has some sort of radar. She RUNS to that chair and climbs up to the table. One day I was on the computer at the dining room table and all of a sudden she's IN her highchair - she had used the little footrest and climbed up and sat down and wanted food.
Out of no where, she has started to sign "more" today. I've only done it a few times in the past, but she's signed it twice today. Crazy!
Random Pictures
Some random cute pictures:
Giving Clark a hug!
Being cute!!
Giving Clark a hug!
"Enough Pictures Mom!!"
Her favorite new spot!
Aww!! My baby is soooo tired! She had just got out of the bath, I was getting her ready for bed, I laid her up there on my pillow to get all her medicines ready (more about that later) and she just fell asleep. It was like 5 seconds!! I wish it was that easy every night!! ;)
Being silly.
I don't know how she learned to eat like this, we have no pets! But whatever, its funny.
Being cute!!
Poor Little Nose
We were leaving a friends house a few weeks ago, I was letting Madison walk, she didn't notice the inch or so drop out the front door and took a nose dive into the welcome mat. :( It was scratched up pretty bad, but once we got her cleaned up, it never bothered her. It just looked much worse than it felt.
Christmas Pictures
Here are some REALLY belated Christmas pictures:
Madison was not to happy to sit on Santa's lap...so that's why Mark is with her. ;)
Her new table and chairs!!
I hope Mark isn't mad at this one! We saw these oneies for adults and couldn't pass them up. We had always joked with his family about what if they made those for adults!! When we got to Pratt Christmas morning Madison was already in her's and Mark changed into his and surprised everyone, it was hilarious!!!
Madison is the best Chirstmas present!
Destroying Grandma Tripletts kitchen.
Stopming on pie plates she put under the mat.
Christmas Eve Day, waiting on everyone to get off of work so she could open presents!!
She wanted the toys, not the clothes! They are really cute clothes though!!
Pigtails and Ponytails
Madison hair is growing so much! I can actually do pigtails and ponytails, for a few minutes anyway. ;) Last week at the library storytime and play group all the little girls had pigtails, it was pretty cute!
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