Bronchiolitis is swelling and mucus buildup in the smallest air passages in the lungs (bronchioles), usually due to a viral infection

Well we called and went to the drs and little miss is a sick little princess. She has Bronchiolitis/rsv. The dr has her on a nebulizer every 4 hours which seems to be helping. my girl sits like a champ for 15 mins and just sits there. i usually do it when im pumping which is on the same 4 hours schedule so we are a site to be seen! tubes and pumps running every which way...lol . shes been breathing really poorly and just really struggling to get air in and out check out her poor little tummy trying to get some air in  :(

she also has a ear infection in her left ear. and a very sore throat, all along with her initial runny nose and coughing. luckily i was able to get the week off at work so ive been able to take good care of her. Its just a shame cause her amoxicillin is giving her bad diarrhea and shes barely getting 8 oz a day in her...thats how i know its bad...she loves milk like a fat kid loves cake...lol...hope my princess starts feeling better soon!

I am surprised to hear you think I am coughing very badly, Ive been practicing all night

Well its little Zoeys first cold. :( Poor baby. We went to the drs on the 17th, which Ill go over in a minute. But there was a sick little girl there, mind you Ive never once seen a patient in our drs office. Its a solo practice and she sticks to her schedule perfectly. We never wait more then like 5 mins. (Not like my obgyn where If i wait 45 mins its a good day. We use to have to take the 9am app just to get out in time. try getting up and out of the house by 815 while having morning sickness...ick) but this time there was a sick kid there. we had arrived a little early and she had some one before us to go. She only waited a few minutes before she went back but the mother was saying the whole family is sick blah blah blah. then wanted to see the baby. yea right lady. anyway we go in and zoey did fabulous. She is 14 lbs and 24.5 inches! Anyway the next day i start not feeling so hot and the next day is full blown. I had 2 earaches, a runny nose and congestion. ick. I hate congestion. Plus TMI ALERT  im ovulating so my nipples hurt, and pumping is less then fun. Anyway come saturday, it snowed and i have no idea why i went to work. I made like $4 and had to get up early and sick to clean the car etc. ick! So I do decide to leave an hour early. Come home and Jim has his best friend and his son over. The kid is 2 and has a runny nose. great. So I take Zoey into bed and nap. The next day I feel super terrible and ask Jim to watch her most of the day, which only partially succeeded. sighs. So Monday comes and Zoey is having trouble breathing and has a runny nose. I feel bad and try to find her some medicine. here they dont have cold medicine for babies. they did away with it in 2007. I guess kids were dying or something from overdoses. so i get her saline nose drops and baby vapor rub and run the humidifier. then it hit. she didnt sleep for 2 nights and just screamed. She had a low fever and this runny nose and not eatting, now last night started the coughing so hard she throws up. Jim was holding her and she just puked everywhere, all over him. the look on his face was priceless. getting cleaned up he said well youve been up for 48 hours taking care of her and ive been puked all over, i guess we're real parents now. :) She did sleep through the night pretty well last night. I barely slept. every time she coughed it made me nervous she would puke and drown. She slept around 10 hours and then ate some formula, (i know im a bad mom, but it takes me 4-6 hours to make one breast milk bottle i dont want her throwing it all up) I called out of work to take care of her today. Shes sleeping right now, right next to me and every time she coughs i have to wipe up her throw up. :( im having my mom come over in a bit to check her out, shes a nurse and has had 5 kids, so i trust her in letting me know if its first cold first time mom nervousness or to call the dr.

I did go to this really super cool store after the drs office, its in marlton and its called dragonflies and lady bugs. Its a really nice upscale consignment shop for childrens clothes, toys and strollers etc.  I cant wait to shop there again. I have a love affair with carters clothes, and they are so expensive. I do get them on sale and with coupons but since she outgrows them in 3 months, it gets pricey. But i got a couple brand new with tags carters outfits for like $3. Their clothes are so gently used you have no idea a kid wore them, and most still have the tags on them. Its really great for grandparents houses for gently used toys and play pens etc.  I cant wait to go shopping there again!!! Maybe even consign some of her clothes there. It can be our go to the drs office and get a new outfit treat. check out my latest score! This child is not hurting for clothes...now just to pick her easter outfit....considering MIL bought her 3 already...lol...

Juicy couture sweat suit for her birthday!

Bathing suits :) I looooove the blue one! hopefully it looks ok with her cloth swim diaper under

Carters white eyelet dress and bloomer

Carters spring dress and bloomer

gymboree dress with bloomer

Prissy Sissy just like mommys!

Childbirth provided the drama I craved, the thrill of peeking over the primal edge of creation, the rush of the unexpected

I've decided i need to do a blog on my pregnancy and child birth experience so that i dont forget and have another baby....haha! yea right. as much as a pain it was, id do it again in a heart beat. though when i was 9 months gigantic (or right after pushing out a watermelon) people would tell me id forget about it all and want to do it again. You know they are right.. Im ready for my son now, but he will have to wait :) but while it is still kinda fresh in my mind i would love to write it all out.

Jim and I had just got married and we were waiting to make sure the insurance went all through before we started trying. We got everything squared away  and started baby dancing in December 2010. Id been tracking my periods and ovulation for over a year while we were planning our wedding. Im not one for surprises. We had a window of opportunity of 3 days and while its not romantic I calculated out our best time for having a girl, and we took our chances with one time, the exact time. (In theory the boy sperm are sprinters not long distance runners like girl sperm) then i waited the longest 2 weeks of my life! After a nerve wracking christmas I missed my period and took a test on december 30th. and i got all set and ready for my +...  3 minutes later... -  ! what?! how could this happen...my calculations were not wrong! I was devastated to say the least!

Feeling disappointed and just exhausted from the holidays I set up shop in bed on new years eve moping and just slept. Jim was mad i was ruining his new years eve and begged me to drink with him. i felt too tired and nauseous to even consider it! I figured the nausea was just me making myself sick from worrying and hating the world. How could people get  pregnant without trying and i had calculated for a year the very best day and time to have a baby girl. ugh!

On January 1st I still hadnt got my period, now a week late, so at 11:30pm, i made jim drive to walmart to get me a pregnancy test. low and behold my positive in seconds. i about died. i danced around the house as  jim thought i went crazy. we announced to our families and then to the world january 11th with a little video :)

We decided to keep the baby's sex a total surprise which is totally not like me! nobody thought we could do it but we did. I can honestly say it was the most incredibly hard thing to do but every day it got easier. We got to dream of princesses with ponies and tea parties and picking out prom gowns, but not going to lie, we had visions of mack trucks frogs and bad teenage mustaches toward the end :) we chose the names for both pretty early and without much trouble. Zoey Jane by staind is my favorite song in the entire world! I love it! Its so pretty. and i hope zoey will like it too, though having it played to her all the time i hope it doesnt lose its meaning. Its about the love a father has for his daughter. i hope she will dance to it with her daddy on her wedding day! but lets not get tooo ahead of ourselves...haha!

we chose the name Micah James for our boy name. I think we will recycle it for a future boy :) Jim really wanted the name to be James like him but there are already 3 James in his family so i couldnt give my kid an identity crisis the day he was born! haha! and I just loved Micah. Its not heard very often and thats what I was really going for.

and if you must know...cause im dying to say...haha...our next girl name will be Petra Mae. Oohhh it gives me chills. I heard the name Petra after my aunt had my cousin a month early and hadnt picked a name so we were looking for one. Zoey hadnt been born yet but I spent a lot of time singing Zoey Jane to her, so i couldnt give HER and identity crisis before she was born...lol.I have never heard or met any one named Petra and its so strong. I am in love with it. The name Mae is pretty old, and is my grandmothers middle name. But they fit so beautifully! I cant wait to use these names! and if we dont have more kids, well then im getting more pets haha!

While my pregnancy was less then fun, it wasnt horrible looking back on it without my hormones raging. haha! Id say the worst was the puking for 7 months, my sciatic nerve pain, the heartburn and the stuffy nose. Then in close 2nd is the not being able to be awake the first trimester and then not being able to sleep the 3rd haha!

I'll skip the rest of the  pregnancy part for maybe another post.


I finished working on August 19th, a week and a half before i had zoey. While I was working only 3 days a week at the end, doing pedicures 38 weeks pregnant is amazing  i was pretty huge :)

 
 That weekend was a hurricane and I waddled off to walmart to get some food and would walk up an aisle and have to stop. I got finished and then just sat in my truck and cried for awhile and drove home and cried some more. then fell asleep!The hurricane was no big deal, but i was glad i didnt go into labor.

At my last obgyn appointment on August 26th  they said i was only 1 cm still and wouldnt be going for awhile, and they were still sticking to my later due date, the 17th. I thought yea right this baby is coming very soon. we went to wawa and i waddled in and two women stopped me and said you know what youre not going to make it till the end of the week. I smiled and thought i just met you and you know better then my drs. that night my bloody show happened in the middle of the night potty run...ick...gross btw. after that my contractions started to get more intense. They had me come in for another ultrasound because there were some concerns that the baby wouldnt be able to fit through the canal and be very big. they measured her at over 8lbs and growing, thinking we had another 3 weeks to go, they suggested i consider having a csection, which was not in the plans. While we were on the low end of the scale there was a possibility. I think it was due to my weight. though i had only gained 18 lbs total, due to my puking for 7 months and only being able to drink nutritional shakes. i think i did pretty good if i do say so myself :)

On September 1st I was a miserable mess. I was just ready to be done! I just sat in the bath tub sobbing for maybe 45 mins. and spent the rest of the day in bed or peeing. That night i just stood on the floor with my head on the bed swaying my giant belly crying for relief from contractions. we started timing and they werent constant yet. i spent the night screaming at jim for who the heck knows what. the poor guy should have divorced me then. he had to have said this is just your hormones you are going to be ok to me at least a hundred times! i finally tired myself out and went into dream land, well as deep as you can go for your insides trying to gain some independence and become your outsides...haha.

That next morning, friday september 2nd Jim got up and got ready for work, he kissed me goodbye and out the door at 8am he went to work. At 9am, i felt like i got the worse stomach cramp ever, and thinking i hadnt peed in 3 hours it was time. I stood up and soaked the floor. (and i didnt clean it up so it soaked into the floor boards and they are raised and squeak a little till this day)I panicked and called jim asking him to come home. He said he just got into work and would turn around. I called my mom between contractions and had her get ready and tell Rachel, my sister in law. and facebook my brother

 I get a shower real quick and jim comes running in. here he took a taxi home <3 Jim called the drs office and told them we think my water broke and im in labor. he hands the phone to me and i explain what happened..well between that and screaming i think i got my point across. and we didnt even have to go to the drs to get checked out and we grab the bags and head off to the hospital. We walk in and i sit down and of course leak all over the chair as shes asking me all sorts of insurance questions. cant she see im in labor and not wanting to answer questions...lol..so we head back and get checked out. and yup my water did break and I was 4 cm. the week prior they had me do another ultrasound because they thought the baby would be way to big and get stuck, shoulder dystocia. they asked me to consider a c-section, and after debating back and forth it was time to choose. so we choose to go vaginal and pray for the best scenario.

By now my parents have arrived and were waiting for my brother jordan and rachel to arrive. so i get wheeled up into labor and delivery. They got me all set up in one of the beautiful rooms and i got my epidural!and funny i wasnt afraid at all about it. i was more afraid of contractions haha! the room had a computer on the tv so i sat on facebook and updated the whole night. it was fun and was nice having everyone cheer you on when your no exactly feeling fabulous :) I was racing the girl next to me but she had her baby hours and hours before me :( nothing like a 19 hour labor!

Labor wasnt horrible, just long and i had a lot of heartburn and sciatic nerve pains.  My brother and dad waited in the waiting room all day and night long the poor guys. when I was about 9 cms the drs turned off the lights and had me go to sleep to rest for the finale. It was around 1am and my brother and dad fell asleep. They woke me up around 230 and it was time to get the show on the road. My brother texted them what was happening,and since they were busy cause i was in labor he left...right before i had her!  lol! so after pushing for only 45 mins our little one was born. Pushing wasnt terrible but wasnt easy either. Jim almost passed out but he sat down and got through it. he said i smelled weird. thanks jim. After the nurse announced jim was right, we looked and saw jim was wrong and we had ourselves a tiny little girl.  Jim cut the cord. and after getting all cleaned up, he gave zoey her first kiss <3 what a sweet daddy <3

I wont eat any cereal that doesnt turn the milk purple

Well we have officially tried Zoey on her first little rice cereal her nana bought her for christmas. Though it was against my better judgement because the pediatrician has not said it was ok for her to start yet...I caved because Jim begged me and Im determined not to be a stay at home martyr. So we mixed up some breast milk and she did pretty good. she gave us a couple stink faces but swallowed it down. Jim tasted it and agreed it deserved a stink face.  Zoey has her next appointment at the drs on the 17th so then we can discuss her eating any food. I am excited for her to start but it makes me kinda sad shes growing up so quickly :(
I cant wait to start making her baby food. I have my kitchen aid attachment all set and ready to go! wooo hooo! Maybe her eating food will help me supply more of her needs in her milk. Jims ordering my next round of motilium today which will bring me to around when shes 6 months, a major goal for us. Id love to go a year, but 6 months will be rewarding in itself. I never thought we would make it this far. Although i do have to still supplement sometimes she still is getting the majority of her calories from breast milk. I did try nursing again and she nursed for a little bit but not much. she went right to it one day when she was upset and was rooting around. i had just pumped so there was not much there but she at least remembered what to do. and she still does stick her hands down my shirt and lick my chest. i think she still wants to try, so i wont give up on her :)

We are getting pretty far in our basement renovation. We have all the walls up and built and the door is built. I painted the laundry/sewing room a pretty sweet hot hot pink. Like pepto pink :) I found it on the clearance rack at walmart. I have a secret love affair with clearance paint. I have never been disappointed with a color. They usually are off beat just a little bit but thats what makes its special, and you know by the top what it dries like so its not a surprise. But it makes me sad when the color gets abandoned. So for $7 we had our gallon of pepto pink.  After we were done Jim said it looked like Sweet and Sassy in there. (my childrens spa job) My brother jordan and his wife rachel came over and helped us finish painting jims area. Its romantic overlook...lol...nice color for a man cave right. its acutally a pretty subtle grey color. makes the area look much much bigger which is nice. then we will be painting the floor with garage paint that is a deep grey with those floor paint sparkles you through in.  We did pull up the carpet on the stairs only to find they have these crappy treads on them that wont come off and they are soooo slippery so we have to buy new ones. we found them at lowes for 2.50 each so it wont be so bad. then last night we got some grey sheets to make curtains out of. we have some storage areas down there that need to be covered and its was cheaper to buy the fabric that way. So really I probably should be sewing them not but not feeling like it.
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Ok so i decided  that i really should get off the computer and try to sew my curtains. needless to say i bought fitted sheets not flat sheets....ughhh....oh well back to walmart i go to switch them out. But i did decide that i need to put a skirt around our dump sink. its maybe 20-30 years old then i am and it looks like its seen better days. jim said i could get a new one, but looking at the plumbing fiasco in the basement we decided against it. We have a septic tank for our house (yea no one would know we live in a very populated area but no one on my block has sewer, but thats ok with me cause no one but out block can boast the 1+ acre yards we have ) so we have our washer dump into the dump sink which runs it to this pit that has a sump pump and that pumps it outside to a grey water pit. But there is a tangle of pipes and waterlines that probably should not be messed with...lol! so i rummaged through our linen closet and found an old hot pink twin sheet. We dont own a twin sized bed anymore...well ok we do my great dane sleeps on it...but we dont need the sheet. so after some fiddling around i make a cute little skirt to cover its old ickyness and the pipe that dumps it all into this bottomless pit. im going to have jim build me a faux table top to put on top of it with a tiny cut out for the washer drain. so it can be covered and look new and cute and be a functioning folding table. awwww! he really has amazed me with all the work he has done in the basement. not that my husband isnt handy, he is. but he never has tackled anything on this scale. Hes such a great husband and a saint for dealing with my rough pregnancy and letting me spend a fortune trying to give zoey breast milk with all my pills and pumps (and hours and hours he has to watch her so i can pump...) he will never know how thankful i really am for him <3


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just wanted to post some new pics, my MIL fed little zoey her very first meal on January 18th! Squash! yummmmyyyyy! The plan is she will feed all the grandbabies their first meals, isnt that a cute little tradition!

Some businessmen are saying this could be the greatest Christmas ever. I always thought that the first one was

 Christmas at the Collison's was so much fun! Zoey had a great first christmas filled with lots and lots of gifts! We had a fabulous time with all our family. Zoey was given sooo many different cute little outfits I cant wait till she wears them all :) she also got tons and tons of doll babies <3 We visited with the collisons and then had the hamples over for a pj party christmas dinner of veggie and meat lasagne! yuuuummmyyyy!