Our Easter Weekend

 My niece Kaleigh has been here visiting this past weekend from Ohio. It was great to see her. I can't believe she is already 18 years old and about to graduate from high school. It seems like only last year I was picking her up from daycare and she was tagging along on mine and Titus' dates.

 Both of our boys love her dearly. This was the first time she and Tyler ever met!

 Thomas on Easter Sunday straggling in the nursery before he went to his Sunday School class

 Tyler gets some attention from Pa

 Two future "back row" baptists in the making :)

 Titus and Thomas

 Nana gets some Tyler love too!

 Grandmom gets the boy some Easter goodies...

 Tyler seems to like sucking on his new rubber duckies beak

 I am pretty sure this was the highlight of Thomas' Easter afternoon

 And Uncle Michael didn't seem to mind it either

 The boys checking out what the Easter Bunny brought to them

Tyler was playing with his Easter Eggs

This is the Bunny Cake we made

Here we are dying Easter Eggs



7 Months Old

Tyler Patrick you were 7 months old yesterday

What are you up to these days??

•You weigh 17lbs and 9oz you have actually lost a few ounces from last month  (because of being so sick)...

•You still wear a size 3 diaper and mostly all 12 months in your clothes.

•You are eating solid food 3 times a day. So far you eat Gerber rice cereal and oatmeal, any baby food fruit or vegetable...even peas and green beans, and yo baby organic baby yogurt. And of course you still have several bottles of formula each day. This month you tried your first table food...a french fry you stole from your brothers plate. I think you just wanted to try out those new teeth, you bit it right in half and got very mad when I took it away from you. You also tried some smashed up fried potatoes this week and loved them! You kept reaching for them while we were eating as if you were just begging for a bite so we finally gave in and let you try them.

•You have been a very very sick boy this month, going on 3 weeks now, you had your first case of RSV then an ear ache and some severe teething on top of that, several ER visits at Children's Hospital, and your first stay in the hospital.  It's been a really rough month. You have been very fussy and have not been sleeping good at all...and very understandably so!  We love you so much and are so very thankful that you seem to FINALLY be getting better.

 

Introducing Dr. Etherton and his patient...

Thomas is pretending to be Tyler's doctor...

Here comes Peter Cotton Tail....

The Easter Bunny visits Tyler at DayCare today.

Our Weekend in the House...

Tyler had another "first"....

Tyler had another "first" this past weekend and week but not exactly the kind of "first" we were excited about. On Friday night (April 8th) he was wheezing and coughing really bad and we had to take him to Children's Hospital to the ER to get him checked out. Turns out he has RSV. They used a machine to suction out his nose and basically told us its viral and has to run its course. Things got significantly worse on Saturday night and into Sunday morning so we ended up taking him back again on Sunday...He started getting dehydrated and fever went up, he had more wheezing and more difficulty breathing...this time they used the machine to suction him several times, in addition to that they did 2 different kinds of breathing treatments, a chest x-ray, to make sure they weren't over looking anything, and gave him and IV to hydrate him and also a steroid through the IV. They couldn't find a vain in his feet, arms, hands, etc...so had to put the IV in his head...this was so pitiful, it broke my heart. By Tuesday he seemed worse again and we took him to his pediatrician who after briefly seeing him said he wanted him admitted to Children's Hospital immediately. We are home now and for the first time he really seems to be feeling a little better. His breathing sounds much better and he is staying hydrated on his own. He is even playing a little bit for short periods now...He surely isn't getting better as fast as his mommy wishes he would but I am so thankful he does FINALLY to seem to be on the mend!

 Who knew they had hospital gowns this little...how cute and sad...all at the same time!



 Bless his little heart...this is the part where I lost it...

 Here he is in his hospital bed, finally starting to feel a little better

 And here he is getting a little daddy lovin'

Please excuse the terrible picture quality but I didn't have my camera, so I had to use my cell phone