Well, I finally did it

Went to the dentist that is.... My poor tooth had to go, as it had an abcess and was causing me terrible pain. And lets face it, who needs teeth who needs pain? So now, I'm just waiting on the swelling to go down so I have my face back. But really is the swelling that bad? At least it makes the bags under my eyes disappear. ;)

Asthma, Nebulizer, Co-pays Oh My!

Well, since Miss Melissa has been sick for so long after having antibiotics, she went to the doctor again on Friday. She's had this chest congestion for over a month now, and nothing has helped. So, the doctor believes that it is asthma, and prescribed two nebulizer treatements for her. Albuterol and Pulmicort. We are also pulling her off all milk products as a precaution. So we are going full on soy. Which I was wanting to do anyway.....but you wouldn't believe all the things that have milk in them! Premade cinnamon rolls, her favorite cheese crackers, ranch dressing, chocolate it's all in there lurking! Plus no more cheese for her, which she has been asking for all the time! :( We picked up her expensive meds on Friday, all $320 worth of them.

Turns out that we had a $250 deductible to pay, so since she had to have them and we would have had to pay it now or later, it's now. She did really well for her first few treatments, and didn't fight us until yesterday's treatments. She screamed for most of both of them. Plus she woke up late today and I had to hurry and give her the treatments which she wanted nothing to do with. I believe that we're only doing a week of 2 treatments per day of both meds, then going to one per day of both meds. I only hope that she learns to deal with them. Anyway, here are two cute pictures of her from Saturday before we went to her cousins b-day party.

That is one stinky diaper!!

Happy Easter

We had a pretty good weekend! Melissa had her first real easter, and got to pick up lots of eggs! She really loved that, and didn't care that they were empty. We did a test run at home on Saturday.















Then we went to Neil's Aunt & Uncle's house to hang out with the cousins, and she got to get some eggs with candy in them.
















This is after her bath that night, just hanging out with Mommy & Daddy.





















And here she is on Sunday in her easter dress. Daddy went trespassing on someone's property to get this picture with all the pretty wildflowers.





















And here she is at Nana & Pap Pap's picking up eggs with Auntie Tina and Uncle Greg.



















Auntie Tina gave me purple peeps, and I had to stuff the whole thing in my mouth to get my hands free to pick up eggs!!















After she picked up all the eggs, she decided to dump them all out and pick them up again.
















Here are all of the rest of the pictures, but be warned, there are quite a few!!
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Back at Daycare

Well, after the sitter fiasco from the other week, Melissa is back at Daycare. In case you didn't hear the story, here it is.

We had been coming increasingly distressed with our sitter. With Melissa being aggressive, hitting, learning not nice words, and coming home dirty. We started looking for a new sitter after the beginning of the new year. On March 3, I was home sick, and Melissa went to the sitter as usual. The sitter, being pregnant again, had a doctor's appointment, and took Melissa along with her. After the appointment, they went to the mall which is about a 10 minute ride from our house. The sitter called me at 5:15 and left a message, and at 5:30 I called her back and she said they were finishing up and wanted to know if I wanted to come pick her up, or if she should just drop her off. Of course, being sick I didn't really want to leave the house, so I opted to drop her off. So I waited. And I waited. And I waited. Until 6:30 when they weren't here, so I started trying to call her, and there was no answer. No answer at her house. No answer on the cell. No answer on her sisters cell. By then it was 7:00 and I was really getting worried, so I called Neil who was still working, asking what I should do. He left his parents house then and drove home, a 45 minute drive. During that time, I got a hold of the sitter's mother, who called her sister who was with the sitter. She said they were still at the mall, and they were leaving then. Feeling a little bit minuscule bit better, I sat down and waited. Neil showed up at about 7:40, and the sitter still hadn't made it here. Finally about 10 minutes after that, she showed up. I was so upset, that I couldn't even go out and get the baby, I had to let Neil get her. In addition to that, she didn't even apologize, or say anything that night or any of the other subsequent days. So, we decided for our own sanity, and for Melissa's development that she should return to a regular daycare for 3 days a week. My mom is going to watch her for 2 days to help us to keep the cost down until she turns 2, and then she'll go full time.

So, it's been quite an upheaval. And to top it all off, Melissa has been sick going on 3 weeks now. She had her regular doctor's appointment today, and I thought that she was getting a bit better, but the doctor said that the cold is in her chest, and she's on antibiotics again. He has also advised and started her on the pneumonia vaccines, since she is prone to getting sick and back in daycare. He said that she's under the 50th percentile on everything now. She's 31 1/2" and 21 1/2 pounds, so she's skinny, but still a little taller.

Easter is coming up so we're looking forward to that, and hoping that we're all well by then!


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Here are a few pics of Miss cutie!

18 Month update!

Melissa is 18 months old now, and into everything. She eats just about everything that we eat, she has all of her 1 year molars and is working on her 4 eye teeth which are all just right there ready to come through, so that’s a total of 16 teeth for her now. She hasn’t been back to the doctor to get a height/weight check yet this year. I know she got a little taller, as she’s fitting into her 18 month clothes for length. She’s still pretty skinny too. She’s still hovering around 20 / 21 pounds. She loves to run around outside and play. She’s helping get herself dressed too. Her new favorite word is “NO” and she says it all the time. She’s too cute with her play phones, and our cell phones. She loves to talk to daddy on the phone and says “Hi Daddy!” She really is loving Daddy more now, since she had the chance to really play and bond with him when I was on the 1-9 shift. She is saying a ton of words. Here’s the list: Mama, Dada, Daddy, Nana, Pap Pap, Pop, Dog, Kiera (Kiewa)(our dog), Pepper (Peppa)(Sitter’s dog), ruff ruff (dog noises), Up, get up (geup), juice (joo), eat, more (mow), shoe (she loves her shoes!!), sock (sa), cold (cowl), hi, bye bye, baby, uh-oh, yes, no, spongebob (bunbob), outside (ousie), poo poo, bath (ba), drink, two, eye, nose (now), what’s that (sat), want that (wandat), duck, quack, fish (ish), meow (maow), oooh ooh aaah aaah (monkey sounds), vroom (car sounds), tooth (toot). She has also picked up two things that we don’t say, s-h-i-t and shut up. We’re not very happy about that and if anyone has any ideas of how to get her to stop saying it, I’d be pleased to try it out. We’re just ignoring it now.

Here are the pics.

You can click this link to see all the photos, just click on slideshow. http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=19t2ajd6.bfmuvim&x=0&h=1&y=-zfl3lg

Junk Mail

Well, apparently I got on the Proctor & Gamble mailing list, and am now receiving samples of every product that they manufacture. At least every feminine hygeine product at the moment. And as I sit with the tiniest pantyliner that they make, I am struck by the fact that they are still folding these things into thirds. Why oh why do they do that? I mean I really can't be the only person in the world who has utilized one of these things, and the minute it gets the chance, it folds back up and proceeds to stick to your behind. ::shaking head:: This is one of the main reasons that I use cloth.

New Year, New You?

Well, It's the New Year. Have you made any resolutions? I've resolved to keep on my house cleaning schedule, and to try and get a tan so you people will stop calling me whitey, ghost, pale, etc. Such love!! Anyway going to try and keep to them for more than 2 weeks. I'm also trying to eat better, but that's not a resolution. Doing so, I was reading this little article about keeping produce. http://unclutterer.com/2007/12/26/uncluttering-your-refrigerators-crisper/ Pretty informative. Basically says that Refrigerator crispers are worthless. We always put stuff in there, and forget about it. But I am juicing more these days since Melissa is sick, again, and find that it stays pretty empty when you do that. Speaking of Melissa, I am annoyed that she is sick again. The other little boy that her sitter watches has Pnemonia and Bronchitis, so I will be calling the doctor in the morning to see if he wants to see her. She's teething and sick, so we're dealing with fever and crabbiness. Poor girl.

Merry Christmas! I'm back!

Well, I'm back from New York! I had a great time at the party, and hanging out with the family, and my friend Steve. It was great seeing him. It's been about 10 years, can you believe it? I couldn't believe the insanity that was the Holiday Party. Open Bar, tons of people and some that even wandered in off the street. I really enjoyed meeting the people that I talk to every day and being able to put a face with the voice and e-mail address. Friday was another fun day at work, and then out on the town. We ended up at Florio's again and had some great food and company. Steve said that he is definitely going to be returning for pizza there. Saturday, I checked out of my hotel, aka the Box, and walked to Grand Central Terminal and got some breakfast and caught the train to see Stephanie, Rick, Bruce and the kids. They sure are getting big! Stephanie said that I was a real New Yorker because I did it by myself. Then I had to hurry and get to JFK for my flight out which was delayed for almost 2 hours. But JetBlue was a much nicer flight than AirTran. A full can of soda and a bag of snacks. When I got home I got to spend some time with RJ who came and visited with Neil while I was gone. Then on Sunday we did Christmas Lunch with the extended family, and yesterday with Neil's family, then my family. Melissa is loving her gifts! She got the cutest little kitchen from Stephanie & Rick which she LOVES! She will spend a half an hour playing with it which is great because it gives me time to do other things. She's getting a few teeth in right now, so she's been pretty grumpy about it. But she sure is looking cute! All in all it was a great holiday and I had a ton of fun in NYC. Can't wait to go back.

Just testing this out

I'm testing this linkage.
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