It snowed!!

Bentley in the snow.

Izzie is still recovering from her RSV, but we needed to get proof that she was here to witness it snow in Lexington. We took only a couple (not so great) pictures and scooted back in side with her. I did spend a few more minutes outside with Barkley and Bentley playing. Izzie was inside with her daddy, since he is not too fond of being out in the snow. Here's a few pictures from our day. After laying around the house for a while this morning, we went over to my parents to see Izzie's Great Grandma Russell and eat dinner. It was great.

Just a couple pictures taken last week...

Miss Izzie is four months old!

Izzie at four months old.

Izzie at one month old.

Izzie turned fourth months old yesterday! Since the very first month, I have been taking pictures of Izzie in the same chair with the same teddy bear so we can see how much she has grown. I will post pictures, so you all can see the difference. I took her four month picture today. We stayed in jammies, since Izzie is still not feeling up to par. It's hard to tell everyone exactly what has changed in a month, but I will tell you a few things I notice now more. Izzie now smiles a lot more! You can almost get her to smile at any moment. We do raspberries and it makes her grin all the time. I guess she thinks the noise is silly. She also laughed for the first few times this months. The first night she laughed was in the bathtub. I was pretending to eat her feet while making all sorts of silly grumble noises. She started chuckling. It was so sweet! Todd could not believe it. Izzie is pretty hard to impress though. She has only laughed about three times since then. She also grabs everything. Anything she can reach, she grabs and tries to put it in her mouth, definitely teething. We think she is starting to reach out to be held now, too. It's not a full reach, just a partial holding her hands out. It might just be coincidence. Today, she rolled over! It is about time! No one actually saw her do it though. I had her laying in the middle of our bed doing tummy time. I quickly ran to dryer to take out a load of clothes. I came back and voila! presto! Izzie was on her back. Izzie hates tummy time by the way. I attribute her hatrid for tummy time to why she has not rolled over yet.

Izzie's poppy, my dad, also went to Providence Hospital today. He had to have two more stents placed in an artery to his heart. Please pray for him and our family. It would be greatly appreciated. I know every time I think of my dad, I think of how I want Izzie to be able to play with her poppy some day when she is older. I pray she has that time with him. I remember my poppy, my dad's father. He died when I was nine or ten. I wish I had more memories though.

Anyways, enough blogging for now. Enjoy the pictures.

Izzie has been sick! First time.. for everything I guess.

Last Monday, February 1st, I came home from work and knew that we were going to have to take Izzie to the doctor. The day before she had started a little cough and had a low grade fever of about 99.6. Well, we took her to the doctor and the nurse came in and asked us about all of the signs and symptoms. I listed them out sort of as follows: loose bowels, coughing, running nose, sneezing, a little throwing up that could have been mistaken as reflux, and she was just so pathetic acting. Poor baby girl. The nurse weighed her with clothes on and she was 17lbs 10z. Izzie was wearing jeans and a sweater though! After a minute of waiting in the room, the nurse came back and swabbed her nose for RSV which Izzie was not happy about. You would have thought Izzie had been given a shot with all the screaming she did. Another two minutes later Dr. Guyton came in and said the test was positive. I just about started crying in the office. I felt like it was all my fault. I'm her mommy; I should have been able to keep her healthy especially since we have been exclusively breastfeeding for about 4 months! Anyways, on doctor's order, we didn't start any meds or breathing treatments since she had not started wheezing. We went and bought a humidifier, saline for her nose, vicks for babies, and some "boogie wipes." The doctor warned us that she was just going to get worse, since this was only the second day of symptoms. He said that normally RSV peaked around the fourth or fifth day.

Well, the doctor was right! On Thursday, we knew it was time to go back. I heard some wheezing (without my stethoscope- which I leave at work in my locker) and Izzie had started throwing up even more violently. Her fever had also reached 100.4 the night before. We went back right away. She was started on albuterol nebulizer treatments and amoxicillin (the pink nasty stuff we all have taken as children) for the two ear infections the doctor found. She did not like the first nebulizer treatment at all, but after that she was ok with it. She opens her mouth wide open. Todd and I think that she can taste it. The amoxicillin is another story. She absolutely despises it. She spits it out or throws it up. We finally have it down to a science now though. We lay her on the bathroom floor, so if she does spit we can wipe it up easier. We put a little in at a time in the side of her mouth and then blow on her face. For some reason, it makes her swallow. I don't know why, but it does. Izzie goes back tomorrow to the doctor for a check up to make she that things are looking better. Oh! The second time that we went back to the doctor, they weighed her again with her clothes on and she was 17lbs 3oz. I wish I knew her true weight. She must be around 17lbs even.

Izzie is almost back to her normal self. She is still a little stuffy, but she is smiley for most of the day. This makes her mama and daddy happy.