pedal-mania

i was worried, it seemed jude would never learn to pedal. just when i was ready to give up and had told his friend mari that he couldn't pedal he did it. he is a pedaler. its adorable. now if he can just give up his binki (sigh...good mom i know) we can reward him with a real bike. for know his batman motorcycle will have to do. adorable boy.

jude's cycling outfit was his choice. he felt he should match his dad. you should know that jude will do no bike riding what so ever without this garb and its getting a little old. i love him.

helmet...check

gloves....check

sunglasses....check

knee pads .... check 

(trevan wants you all to know that he however does not wear knee pads)

this little darling was so happy to watch her brother show off from her playpen in our carport.

 when trevan came home from work he saw me lighting up the BBQ, the playpen set up, 2 lawn chairs, and jude's big wheel all in our carport and wondered if we could get more white trash..... i said yes we could have a trailer and a tarp. 

loves me a little white city.

and yes jude is "that" cool.

in case you wanted to find us this summer....

we'll be here..... everyday.

see you there??

tulips are lovely...

... and so was our afternoon with nannie. 

hi, i'm kennan and i write this blog.

really, there is no better grandma or best friend than the nannie. i was lucky enough to have some alone time with her because this hussy went to san fransisco to see this loose lady. how rude to have sister time without me. her loss, my gain. too bad i miss her already (we are hilarious people). ANYWAY....

we had a few bursts of happiness from this sicky. the good news is that she looked beyond adorable in a little naartjie.

jude loves his nan SO much. 

(and yes andrea that boden pairing is perfection.)

lovely.

oh, we did this too...

last week my delicious niece gwyn came up with her dad to stay with nannie. we had a whirlwind week that involved many play dates with cousins. we knew we had to get to wheeler farm on monday because the weather was going to be drab the rest of the week and we were glad we did. needless to say, a great time was had by all and i post too many pictures.

a picnic of mcdonald's is bound to start any afternoon right...

no words to describe this one.

  

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these two spent the better part of the afternoon in their strollers but they didn't seem to mind....

get to wheeler farm immediately for some darling baby animals. 

you are bound to enjoy it.

another adventure brought to you by greta.

DISCLAIMER

i am not having a pity party, just documenting. this is the truth and nothing but the truth. i happen to love my life but i can hate some of the circumstances.

apparently someone wasn't listening when i said that i was done......

yesterday had us at primary children's hospital for some more tests for pretsie. on the bill for the day was supposed to just be a EMG/nerve conduction study with sedation. after meeting with the neurologist performing the test i was informed that this test requires general anesthesia and that she would also like to preform a lumbar puncture (LP)/spinal tap. i agreed to both seeing as i would like some sort of answer as to what's going on my daughter. luckily, greta had fasted for the sedation so GA would be no problem. being a seasoned player in the GA game (13th time was not the charm) i felt pretty sure everything would be fine.

after greta's procedures were finished her dr. came to let us know that everything went according to planned and that the EMG looked totally normal and that we would have the results from the LP in 4-6 weeks. she then showed us to the recovery room where

 nannie and i could be with grets. as soon as i walked in i knew something was off. the nurse was holding greta, not normal. what proceeded to happened is long and traumatic but needless to say things did not go according to planned on the GA side of things. apparently greta was in a significant amount of pain during the procedure and bore down so much that she had petechia all over her face. greta also had an allergic reaction the fentanyl (a pain medication given to her through her IV during the procedure for the LP) and her face swell to the point that she could not open her eyes. and to top it all off greta had a very hard time when waking up because she was not breathing, oygenating, to be precise. her saturation levels were in the high 70's/low 80's and should be not go lower than 90. after about 3 hours trying to get her to breath on her own, the swelling in her face to decrease, and explain the petechia she was admitted to the hospital.

poor grets was miserable. i kept saying "this is not my baby". she did not even look like herself, ask nan. after a good dose of benedryl and some suctioning of her lungs she finally started to feel a little better. the doctor's took a sample of mucous from her lungs and ran labs on it because they were "sure" she had RSV. greta was all hooked up to machines and just wanted to be held. a few hours of being monitored greta was slowly taken of oxygen and her sat levels were great. the doctor gave her a strong dose of IV antibiotics and also a steroid to help with her crazy allergic reaction and greta responded well. thankfully, they sent us home after about 12 hours of being at the hospital. trev and i were so glad to take our spotted chipmunk'd face girl home and get her out of that wretched place. nothing is "routine" it seems for us.

greta woke up today a little less swollen, super "rattly", and very congested. we met with dr. cramer today and the test results came back negative for RSV but positive for parainfluenza type 3, a rare upper respiratory virus that is a mix of croup, bronchitis, and pneumonia. GREAT! so we are home with a sick baby that probably has spread this to all of her cousins (or extracted from). she looks better tonight but the petichia are still in full force. i think the antibiotic is working because she perked up tonight a bit. needless to say i cancelled jude's PWS surgery for tomorrow until i can get my gretsie well and be able to emotionally handle my child going under GA again. like i said, i am SO done! i am however thrilled that her EMG came back normal, that is good news.

 p.s. next post will be more beautiful and happy. we are going to the tulip festival tomorrow.

can we talk pre-school?

umm, no one told me how expensive pre-school is. turns out we are not millionaires nor do we have an extra $150-250 laying around to spare each month for jude to go to pre-school. its ridiculous. i live in salt lake county and grew up in utah county and have no idea what pre-schools are good. i also, being a first time mother with jude did not know you needed to get your kids name on a list after they pulled him out of me. i totally value jude's education but unless we come into some serious money my kids are going to go to....gasp.... public school and although it would be nice for jude to count to 5000 and read the dictionary before kindergarten its not necessary. all i am wanting is somewhere for jude to go 2x a week in the afternoon, play with friends, learn a little obedience, and maybe spell his name. i guess that type of pre-school does not exist anymore and if it does it comes with a hefty price tag. jeez. i feel like such a bad mother for not looking into these things sooner. 

please help....

easter day things

why is it that we take a perfectly perfect holiday such as easter and mess the whole meaning of it up with a egg laying bunny?

and this would be why! 

i tried to explain to jude that jesus loved him so much that on his birthday/death day he decided to send a bunny to bring good children gifts and such.... i tried to make it spiritual but i think jude was feeling the spirit of the candy instead. oh well.

that easter bunny was so clever in bringing my kids a wagon. how did he know?

 and its a good thing, we needed that wagon for the hunt.

sir jude was so happy to fill his lightning with his eggs and yes our yard is gorge.

jelly bean filled eggs = happy pretsie

amazing 

(more on trevan's look later)

my easter delights

i said he looked the easter bunny, jude said he had clown shoes, but trevan wore his easter outfit with pride. 

how adorable.

hoppy easter!

out with dell in with mac

turns out i am not dead but our old computer sure is. poor little fella has been on his last leg for nearly a year and bit the dust this week. i nearly died over internet/blogging withdrawals while we were without a computer. i was so happy when trev decided to buy us a iMac, please we are all mac fans and i don't know what i was doing without one for the past few years. so until i can get my old hard drive transferred and post some amazing pictures of gretsie's birthday these will have to suffice.....

finally.....

p.s. just purchased lady gaga and i am in love

she's 1 today.....

its been the best year, its been the worst year. in all reality i cannot believe it has been a year. greta is the light of all of our lives and i will not live life without her.

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and now some pictures to drool over (my sister is so my favorite photographer)...

happy 1st birthday my angel girl.....

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april fools.....

remember this????

well we don't have it anymore. trevan took it back today because they couldn't find financing for us. i swear we are not white trash, but today i totally feel like we are. our credit score is fine, our debt to income ratio is a little high(thank you kitchen/basment remodel), and we have never "owned a car" before and because our economy is so great we can't get any financing for the price of the car. how is it that we can afford the car payment but can't get approved? i am beyond baffled. who has to return a car? i am so embarrassed..... so embarrassed that i am posting this but i am too upset not to. i know things will work out in the long run but today i am pissed. its a damn good thing we didn't sell our jetta.

 

 i do however have reason to celebrate.....
this one's mri results came back normal and so did all of her labs! finally some good news! now tomorrow we can celebrate her birthday in style.... sweet, sweet grets.

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