Pen vs Food....food won

Saturday morning P1 was asking for breakfast.  Normally I don't (read: ever) make her a warm breakfast on the weekdays, so I don't mind cooking something for her and I on the weekends (M doesn't like breakfast. Weirdo!).  I had all the ingredients, so I decided to make french toast.

Wheat bread, eggs, milk, cinnamon, and a splash of vanilla.  That's it.

Since Pen was up, and she was munching on some breakfast puffs, I decided I would give her a peice and see if she liked it.  No syrup or butter was added to it, just the ingredients above.  Now, I know babies aren't supposed to have milk or eggs until their first birthday, but since we're a week out (GASP!) I didn't think there would be any harm in trying it.

Wrong.  She ate maybe like 5 pcs and decided she didn't like it.  OK, no problem. I gave her some banana and she was OK.  Well, about 10min later she started coughing and then proceded to throw up her banana and puffs.  She was so upset and I figured she just wanted her am bottle.  We went and sat on the couch and she was just crying and crying, even though she was still trying to take down her bottle.  She finally had tired herself out so much that she fell asleep.  TOTALLY UNLIKE her in the morning.  So I'm holding her and while she's sleeping I notice what look like bite marks on her face.  Odd.  Then her cheeks end up getting redder and redder.  Oh, M had gone to the doctor because he has been sick for a week, so it was just me and the girls. 

Finally Pen wakes up after about 20min, and finishes the rest of her bottle.  When I pull her away to look at her, I see she's COVERED in welts, bumps, etc ALL over her body.  I slightly freak out and I'm waiting to see if she starts having trouble breathing.  I had my phone ready to call 911 if she suddenly started having a difficult time.  THANK GOD she was happy at this point, despite looking awful. 

Since we have Zyrtec in the house, I gave her a dose and snapped a few pics. 

These pics were the beginning of what it started to look like.  It got much worse, and the top half of her ended up looking like a bad sunburn, while the bottom of her was all red bumps and welts.  It was awful looking and I felt HORRIBLE for giving her those foods.  Again, thankfully she wasn't acting funny. 

I'm so thankful the medicine started doing its job, and I'd say about 40 minutes later she was about 98% rash free.  It was SOOOOO scary.  Now I know when I do try to introduce those foods again, I will need to do them one at a time (BAD mommy, I KNOW this, yet didn't...BAD MOMMY) and see where the allergy originated from. 

I'm happy to report that the rest of the weekend she was fine and only had some reddening around her diaper area that was cleared up with some cream.  Poor baby.  No more french toast for PenPen.

That was quick

Not a minute after I posted the last entry on here did I get a call from the sleep center.  Apparently I DO NOT have obstructive sleep apnea.  YIPPY.  So that means it's my bed, husband, weight, mattress etc that is to blame for my awful sleeping patterns.  I could have told you that. ;)  Thank goodness I don't have to repeat it again!

Sleep study minus the sleep

I had my sleep study done on Sunday night. Notice today is now Tuesday. Why didn't I blog about this on Monday? Take a wild guess. Yep, TOO sleepy. I now think the phrase "Sleep Study" is an oxy-moron. There was ZERO sleeping during my sleep study.


I arrived at 8:30pm for my appt. I went shopping earlier in the day and did some other errands so I made sure I was pretty worn out by the time I got there. Once checked in, I was shown to my room.

Then I was told to get in my nightclothes and use the facilities. It was then that I noticed all of these lovely things hanging on the back of the door.

Once I was decent, the tech came in and proceded to put aforementioned lovely things all over me. My head (in my hair). My neck. My face. Both legs. My chest. I would post a pic of that too, but I don't want to scare you all (I look AWFUL, I mean, really really bad!!). There were four sensors on my head to measure brain activity. One near my eye to detect REM sleep. One under my nose to detect whether or not I stop breathing. One of my throat to detect the vibration caused by snoring. One of my jawline to detect teeth grinding. The two on my legs to detect if I have restless leg syndrome (I guess), and then two on my chest to detect heartrate.

Afterwards the tech got me situated in bed, I tried to get comfy. That's when the fun part started. Can we say UNCOMFORTABLE?!?! Besides behind hooked up with a million wires stuck to me, I had one of those oxygen detectors on my index finger and it was starting to bother me and it hadn't even been 10 minutes in!!

I tried to watch TV and even though they had cable (which we don't at home. I KNOW, I can't believe it either), I couldn't find anything to watch. I played Bejeweled on my phone for a bit, and the newly discovered game Bookworm. I even updated my FB status. Since I didn't want them to have to tell me to go to sleep, I turned off the TV and (re)read the book I brought (Eclipse!) Once I started getting sleepy, I turned off the light and just laid there. Now, I'm not a back sleeper. I like to sleep on my sides. Everytime I tried to roll over, I would feel this tug from one of the wires, so I would roll back to where I was. I think this happened most of the night.

Roll.


Tug.

Roll.

Tug.



Did I mention there was a man snoring so loudly across the hall?!?!? OMG, I wanted to smother him with a pillow and I would have had I been able to untangle myself from the prison wires!

Wouldn't you know it, after a while nature started calling so I had to alert the tech of my need to pee. I had to turn on the nightlight and sit on the edge of the bed. Sounds easy enough, right?! Well, this nightlight had one of those slide thingamabobs to turn on and off. I couldn't get the damn thing on. Turning it off was OK, but trying to turn it back on was a PITA. So after fiddling with the darn thing for a minute, I finally got it. So as I attempt to hoist myself to the edge of the bed, I'm met with my familiar problem. Roll. Tug. Tug. Pull. etc... Ummm, HELP. I managed to get my legs on the side of the bed and my torso was halfway upright. That's as far as I could move without really unhooking something. I'm sure I was a pretty sight and I hope I gave the gals a nice little chuckle while they're watching me flop around like a fish. Finally she came in and rescued me.

Once back in bed, I think I finally fell asleep after laying there for about 45min. Then I woke up and I think I was in and out of sleep for the next 6hrs. I kept waking up. ALL NIGHT LONG.

So, in a nutshell, they needed at least 3 (or maybe it was 6) hours of sleep to reach a conclusion, and I think I may have provided them an hour. YIPPY. Then, I was left with these marks on Monday. A keepsake of the experience.

I will know the outcome in a week. I'll keep you posted!

Krazy Kar= Whiz Wheel= BEST TOY EVER...Yes, I mean EVER!!

I was young, one of my most favorite childhood toys was my Whiz Wheel.  Orange, plastic, and out of this world LOADS of fun!!!!!!!!  Our backyard in Sacramento had two covered concrete areas for me to ride in since our streets didn't have sidewalks.  I would spend HOURS (or what seemed like hours to a kid!) back there riding this thing.

The toy:  As I said, it was orange and had two arm pedals.  Your feet sat in a little cubby staight on in front of you.  You sat low to the ground.  I believe it had three wheels.  Once you started pedaling with your arms, you could REALLY get that thing moving!!  Once you were out of concrete, you could brake hard and spin out!!  It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!  You could also get it spinning in 360^ circles and what kid doesn't like to get dizzy!?!?  I'm telling you, this toy is thee ride-on toy of ALL toys!!  This toy makes Big Wheels, Power Wheels, or any type of other Wheels you can think of CRY!!!!!!  LOVE IT!!!!

Here is a pic of said toy, now called the Krazy Kar (whatev...I like Whiz Wheel better!).  I'm SOOOOO getting one of these for Pen.  It's been my goal for over 20 years to find one of these things and the time has come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Getting ready Penelope (and probably Piper too...I wonder if I should buy two?!?!)

Also, here is another moms blog post of the awesome, incredible toy as she recalls when she was a kid in the late 70s, early 80s!!

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Yesterday was my anniversary. 8 great years!!!  I came home to M fixing dinner.  It was just an ordinary dinner for our family, until he made the comment that it's the same meal (more or less) that we ate at our reception.  Cue the "awwwwsss".  Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!   That was very sweet and thoughtful of him!

We decided not to exchange gifts this year, instead we're going out on Saturday and will probably do a nice restaurant.  We'll try to get a sitter, but if not, we'll be taking the girl-rillas with us.  It's OK.  Last year we took P1 with us to Trulucks.  In fact, most anniversary dinners have been spent as a family of three, and we're OK with that.  Since I was pg with P1 when we got married (calm down, it wasn't a 'shotgun' wedding!), we've always looked at it like a union of our family more than a union between husband and wife.  Does that make any sense at all?!  LOL  Anywho....so I'll let you know what we decide to do! 

Here are a few pics from the blessed day!  Isn't my hubby TOTALLY HOT?!??!?!  heehee

April 13, 2002

See the purple napkins with the purple butterflies?!

Amongst the Eucalyptus trees in beautiful Santa Barbara Cty, CA

Groban, Your Sister is a Hussy

 So your father and I have to take in one of her kids...

  

The question is, which one do we choose?!?! 

 I've made the executive decision that I need another cat.  My birthday is at the end of next month, and it's been almost a year since Tweakie disappeared, so I've been thinking another kitten would be a nice addition to our family.  These happen to be Groban's neice and nephews, so I like that fact that they are related. I'll keep you posted!  They won't be weaned for a few weeks still, so as I get more photos, I will post them!!  I want to keep them all, but I'm afraid M would keep the cats and get rid of ME!!!  :) 

Beanpole

This pic shows what I mean by the word "beanpole".  I think my little miss is going to be all legs!  Thank goodness she doesn't take after her mama!!!