My little girl is growing up so fast!

Well its been a few weeks and man, this little one is growing up so fast. I think she is already teething!!!! At 3 months, she has a raised spot on her gum on the bottom, already!!! I took her back to the dr. today (Sept. 28) and she weight's 13lbs 3.5oz!!! that puts her in the 90th percentile!! Chunk a monk!!!

Well she still has this pesky cough that she can't seem to get rid of and its been 2 1/2 weeks so we went back to the dr. to get it checked again. They did a chest x-ray but the films didn't turn out good b/c she was wiggling so much. Well the way they do it, what do you expect! They set her down into this thing, that looks like she is riding a horse, then I had to pull her arms up over her head and they wrapped this plastic tube around her to hold her in that position, what do you think is going to happen, she is going to wiggle and scream!!! But with what the Dr. could see, she didn't see anything huge so we decided not to do it again. She did check her oxygen levels and they were at 97% which is excellent and that helps to eliminate a lot of things like croup, whooping cough and bronchitis. So that was good, but we still don't know def. whats causing it. She is leaning towards RSV, which is a viral upper respiratory infection. Its a little early for RSV season but its still possible. We have her on a breathing treatment and they said we should stick with that and keep a humidifier in her room and hopefully it will work its self out. IF not we have to go back in another week. So keep your fingers crossed!!!

On a better note, we went to Helen this past weekend for our first family vacation. We went to Paige, Brandt and Alex and got a cabin for the weekend!! Alyssa and Marley had a great time!!! Marley did have to ride in the way back of my car b/c of all the stuff we had to bring, but he did really good. Alyssa slept almost the whole way there Friday night. She didn't sleep great that night though she was up at 1:30- 3:00 then again at 6:30, but sat. night she did much better!!! We tried to make it home cutting it close on feedings and that didn't work, so we had to stop off 985 so I could feed her b/c she wasn't happy, but we made it home safe and with full bellys!!!

Just for an update, she is doing great at daycare, they really love her and say she is a happy baby. She does sleep a lot still but they are enjoying her. Its getting much easier for me too. I still hate leaving her but I'm confident she is well taken care of. I think she mostly loves her Wednesday and Thursdays with Grammy and Grandpa though ( I'm pretty sure they love it too)!

She still isn't sleeping all the way through the night, she still wakes up for 1 feeding before we get up, which is ok. I really think though that if she didn't wake up coughing this past week she really might have, so hopefully when this is done she will!!!

She is/has been the most amazing gift ever! I can't say that enough. I still find my self looking at her and getting tears in my eyes!!! She is laughing a lot now and you can really start to see her personality coming through!!!!

well I think that's about it for now, but we are doing great and loving being parents!!!

Our week of 1st continues. . .

Well, I thought I was done writting about all of our first last week, but it seems that the fun continued on Thursday night. Alyssa had been congested most of last week and she woke her self up thursday night at 12:00 and was struggling to breath through her noise because it was so stuffy. So she was screaming trying to catch her breath, so I called the children's health care of Atlanta nurse line to see what I needed to do. When they called back, which was very quick, the nurse was concerned that Alyssa had a dry cough. She said that wasn't normal and because she was so little we needed to have her chest looked at. So we packed her up and headed to Gwinnett Meidcal. We go to the ER around 1:15am and the Dr. finally came in around 3:30 to see us. Of course Alyssa was fine and had been sitting there kicking and laughing for 2 hours. But when the Dr. checked her out she didn't see or hear anything alarming. She said the cough was the beginning or ending of something but she didn't think it was serious since there wasn't a fever involved. So we go home around 4:00am.

The next morning she woke up all stuffy again so I took her into Kaiser to see our ped. and he said it was just a cold. He did give us an inhaler to use with her to make sure it doesn't turn into something bigger.

Over the past 2 days she has slowly gotten better, she is just snotty!!!

I'm sure we are going to have many nights like that, but hopefully not to many in the ER. I'm glad this one turned out not to be a big deal.

Some pictures from my Phone

A Week of First

Well we have had an exciting past week and thought I would share. First of all Alyssa is 9 1/2 weeks old already! Man, time flies!!! She had her 2 month well baby check on Friday the 4th. I caught some kind of nasty stomach bug or something Thursday night and was sick all day on Friday, and not knowing what it was, I didn't think I should be around JV and Alyssa or in a ped. office, so I didn't go. That was tough b/c I knew she was getting shots and she was going to be in pain and I couldn't be there. Well JV said it was terrible, she screamed so much. She got 3 shots in her leg (2 in one and 1 in the other) and one orally. Everything else at the dr. went good. She weighs 11lb 6.5oz. and is 21.5" long. She was in the 55 percentile for her weight, but the 90th for the weight for her height. So basically she is kind of a chunky butt!!! Well they told JV that she could run a fever with the shots so to pay attention to her. When they got home around 4:00pm she was fine, she went to sleep for a while, then around 7:00 she started screaming and didn't stop. I called the Kaiser after hours nurse at 8:30 and she didn't call back until 10:15! Well around 9:30 she just stopped screaming and went back to her old self, so I guess she started feeling better. When the nurse did finally call back, she was a little concerned b/c the marks on her leg had bruised and she didn't think that they should of done that, so they wanted me to take her in on sat. have it looked at just in case. Well I did, and when I got to the office, it was full of sick, sick people, so we left. The bruises are gone, so i'm not to worried. I bruise really easily so its possible she just got that from me!!

Then later that day, Alyssa got to watch her 1st GA game. She slept through kick off, but woke up in the 2nd quarter. She had a good time watching the game with Aunt Cheryl, Paige, Alex and Dad. Even though they didn't win, it was a fun time!

Then we rolled right into Tuesday, her 1st day at daycare and my 1st day back at work. What a mess that was!!! She woke up at 4:00am for her bottle, so I fed her and then for the 2nd time ever, she decided she didn't want to go back to sleep (she was excited about daycare I guess). So neither did I. JV tried rocking her and everything, she was happy but didn't want to sleep. So We got ready to go and I took her there at 7:20. I stayed till about 7:40 just talking to the teachers and looking around. I really like all 3 of the ladies in there. She slept most of the morning and ate really good. JV was planning on picking her up and I was going to leave work at 5:00 but then at 4:00 dad said "go and get my grand baby!" that was the best feeling ever. I was so excited that I got to pick her up!!! I walked in and she smiled at me! They said she was just the cutest and sweetest baby! they really enjoyed her!!! That made me feel a lot better! They do have a camera in the room so I was able to stalk her most of the day. Its not a great one but better then nothing to me!!!

Today, JV took her and met John around mall of GA, then he was going to go and see some customers while she was at Grammy's. And tomorrow they are going to watch her at our house. I felt much better about leaving her this morning. Its just hard going from seeing her all day everyday to only a few hours. I wasn't ready for her to go to bed yesterday, I wanted more Alyssa time!

I'm sure it will get easier as time goes by, but Its an adjustment!!! The good news is Dad did a really good job with everything while I was gone, so I don't have as much to do as I thought. I have a lot of catching up to do, but he did a great job, i'm very proud of him!!!

Well Alyssa still loves her changing table, thats her happy spot. She has started laughing and smiling a lot lately, its so cute!!! She is sitting up, with help, but she is very very strong. She rolls over from her back to her side and then back, but not all the way over yet!! She really doesn't like tummy time, so she is still a side sleeper.

Well I think thats about all for now, but I will let you know how everything else goes! She doesn't go back to the dr. till Nov. for her 4 month well check (hopefully she doesn't need to go till then). But I'll post pictures as I get them!!!

We Love you all,

JV, Amy and Alyssa