Finally...an update!

Hello! Sorry it has been awhile since the last update. A quick update on my sinus infection...well, tomorrow I will take my last antibiotic pill. Yes, it has been forever that I have been battling this! In the middle of this I even had a CT scan to determine the cause of my extreme headaches that I had for 4+ weeks. The results showed a severe sinus infection...nothing I didn't already know, but a relief that nothing else was wrong. I finally started feeling better on Thanksgiving. This week has brought us new illnesses...Wednesday Ashley woke up and started choking while I was changing her diaper. I hadn't feed her, she was choking on mucus. Gross yes, but it was the scariest thing we have dealt with yet. I sat her up and screamed for Matt and we ran into the kitchen with her and held her over the sink because she had started to throw up and then finally she was able to breathe. It felt like it lasted for 5 minutes, in reality it was probably 1 minute. So scary! It took me till I arrived at work, 1 hour later to calm down from it. Well, Matt took her to daycare and we got called at 11am that she was projectile vomiting and we needed to pick her up. So Matt picked her up and I headed home so that Matt could go back to work. We ended up sleeping on the air mattress in her room that night because she was congested and gagging and had thrown up twice after I put her to bed. Yes, that means, I changed her sheets and her clothes twice in one night...as well as my clothes. Then, I was awoke around 4:30am...this time, not by Ashley, but by Matt. He was now throwing up. GOOD GRIEF- what is going on??? So, I stayed home on Thursday and took care of both my sick babies. Then, Thursday night Ashley woke up coughing and again threw up at 2:30 am- I again changed her sheets and her clothes and laid her back down. A half hour later..........it was my turn. Yep, my only guess is that we had a bad case of the stomach flu. Ashley was better by Friday so she went to daycare and Matt and I were both home sick. I actually was on my way to work and turned back for home. Good thing too, I think I was awake a total of 4 hours on Friday...and they were not a good 4 hours. YUCK! Now it's Sunday night and I think we are all feeling pretty good. WHeeeeeeew, that was a long (and gross) explanation for why it's been so long since my last update. :o)

Ok, on to a much better topic...ASHLEY!

Here's a picture of Ashley's first piano lessons. Grandma Sue is a great instructor. This is a new hobby Ashley is taking on in her spare time between diaper changes, eating, sleeping and playing with her toys.













Ha Ha!
A striking resemblance don't you think? (For those of you that are wondering...yes, the picture on the right is one of the Munchkin's from the Wizard of Oz)

















As can be seen from the picture on the left, Ashley has officially outgrown her infant seat. The picture to the right is Ashley in her new car seat. She loves her new seat and all of the room she has. She will stay in this car seat till she is 50 pounds.


While I was cleaning up from supper and washing bottles etc, Matt was hanging out with Ashley. I went back into our bedroom to find them like this. Matt had taken my tins and set them all around Ashley like drums. Note she even has a spoon to play on her drums with. This was a big hit with her and she made her daddy very proud. In fact, some of you may know Matt used to play the drums and we even have them set up in our office. Matt has always told me- the reason we continue to hang on to them is for our children. Well, Ashley does love banging on the tins, so perhaps some day she will be a drummer. This picture was taken on 11/19, which was also another milestone day for Ashley- her second tooth appeared!

Here's a picture of Ashley on Thanksgiving morning. I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but Ashley wasn't feeling good on Thanksgiving. This would be the first day I experience projectile vomiting. Not a good experience. I will remember Thanksgiving 07 as the year I cleaned a lot of floors.

Thanksgiving wasn't a total bust- we did get to take a picture of 4 generations.

This picture was taken on Sunday 11/25. I had gone to church and out for breakfast with a girlfriend, and I came home to this. Matt had gotten Ashley ready for the day and dressed her in this cute little outfit with her black converse shoes. Too cute. He said she was so tired by the time they got home from the grocery store that she wouldn't even let him take her jacket or shoes off or put her in her sleep sack. He put her in her crib, she grabbed her blankey and rolled over- she was out.

This weekend we started decorating for Christmas. As I mentioned earlier, we weren't feeling the best, so we didn't get too far... we have a big mess of plastic totes and a half decorated tree, but I did manage to snap a cute picture of Ashley with daddy.