Oh we love Wednesday night...

(Yea, trying to hide the patch on the wall, that after 3 years is STILL there. Apparently it's just such a big spot to paint it's way to hard to do.)

Sick sick baby

Tuesday night fishing, Katie seemed off. Threw up a few times, a little extra fussy...but just figured it was something she ate. We thought maybe I feed her to many 'snacks' while fishing.


Wednesday morning all is fine. Take her to Grands, she has a great day and a wonderful evening. Around 9pm we noticed she had a fever. 101.7. Thought maybe it was teething, but it seemed a little high. All night she was fussy. Wouldn't go to sleep, fever got up to 102. We started her on Motrin. She slept most the night in bed with us.


Thursday: Daddy stays home with her. 101 to 102 all day. Didn't eat much. VERY fussy in the evening. Kris stayed up with her till about 2am, then I got up with her about 4am. I had to go to work Thursday and Friday, because we were being Audited. About 3:30am her temp got up to 103.6

Friday: Still running fever. Still won't eat. Still pretty fussy. I had to go into work early, so Kris stayed home again and got a doctor appointment. Now, since I wasn't there, I can not imagine the HELL that Kris went through at that appointment. I won't even try to write about it. I will just say they had to run tests to see what was wrong. Throat swab, ear, and check for a UTI. They gave our 7 month old daughter a catheter. Kris said 2 different nurses had to try. The first attempt didn't work. All results came back clean, so diagnosed with a Virus. Should run it's course in 3-5 days. JOY.

Saturday: Still running fever. Still won't eat. Still VERY FUSSY. The only thing she did all day. ALL DAY. Saturday was nurse. She was nursing for comfort only. When my milk let down, she cried. Didn't want to eat at all. Saturday evening, we started getting more and more worried. She started having diarrhea that morning. We were worried about dehydration. We monitored her wet diapers, she had plenty of those, so that was good. Just worried. Saturday night....oh the fussy turned into full fledged crying. Nothing would calm her. We tried and tried to get her to go to sleep. For 2 hours. Kris again stayed up with her till 2am. She slept in bed with us again.

Sunday: Woke up fever free!!!! Only to find out she now has a rash. Head to knees. It's 2:00 in the afternoon right now. Kris and Korbin went to Kyle's to shoot stuff. She is napping, but very weak. I will update later, going to have to call the doctor again in the morning. It has been a horrible long weekend. Nothing is worse than your child being sick.

Monday: Back to the doctor. Rash looks sooo bad!!  They said it was a bad case of Roseola. On top of teething. Staying home one more day, then hopefully back to normal. She must be getting something while non-stop nursing, cause she gained 2 ounces since Friday.

trying to get a picture of the rash.

 

Gone Fishing

One of the joys of living here is Kyle's house. We spend many days and nights out there, fishing, skeet shooting, cooking and just hanging out. As soon as the weather turns nice, we head out there often after work, and most weekends. Tuesday we had some sunshine and decided to get Katie outside and show her our fishing spot.

Korbin loves to fish. He will stay out there with us for hours, waiting on that bite. Oh, he used to get squeamish when baiting his hook, and taking the fish off...but he is much better now. Kind of.

Click on picture to truly understand. ;)

Katie had a good time for about 10 minutes. Played in her playpen, and watched daddy fish...but then she threw up and it was time for us to go home. At least Brother caught a fish or two. Daddy wasn't so lucky.

Little did we know it was just the begging of a very sick baby....

Time to update! Katie is now almost 7 months old, and moving right along. In fact, moving too fast. Gramps taught her a new trick...pulling up. Just the past 4 days she has been trying to climb up everything she can. One big bump/bruise, two "OMG I think we need to take her to the ER" ( not really, just daddy being paranoid) and a million " OH your fine" ( as we cringe in fear that she is about to start crying) She is too young to be doing this. Her body is no where near coordinated enough. She is pulling up in her crib, jumping while holding onto the side. We have already found a home for our aquarium, so we can move the furniture around to give her more room. No stopping the little diva.
She has 2 teeth coming in, the little tops are poking out. Like razor blades.
While daddy and Korb went to Quanah, I let Katie have her first finger foods. It took a while, but she now loves it! We give her these cereal bites, and yogurt things. I think that is about all for Katie.

Korbin is doing good in school. He is working on an invention project for GT. Having a little difficulty with it, but knowing him he will pull an Ace the last minute and score high. So far, his invention is a Happy Hamster Harness. ( "Cause, you know...every one looses their hamster!") He said he doesn't really like the idea, but is already so far into the work; he's not sure if he can change. He took the Writing TASK today, and thinks he did well.

So the Gholson Crew is doing great!