I'm back!

We got our internet hooked up today... wahoo! Madison is feeling lots better, but her doctor wants her to stay on the breathing treatments until she has been 100% better for 4 or 5 days. Sheesh. She is still coughing and getting congested in the evenings before bed, so I can't start counting yet for the "all better" days. Sorry for the shortness of the update, but I'm so tired and waiting anxiously for some furniture to sit on. I'm tired of sitting on the floor or on terribly uncomfortable kitchen chairs. I want my couch!!!! Curtis and some guys are loading all that stuff up as I type this out and it should be here in a couple of hours. I already shut the kitties up in the bathroom... poor guys. I didn't realize it would take them so long to get loaded. But I really have to finagle a nice little setup to keep them from trying to scratch their way out under the door, so they will stay there. I'm not going to let them out just to have to put them back in an hour. K

Feeling better!

Madison is feeling a ton better already! I'm so glad! She is still wheezing some and coughing quite a bit, but her energy has done a complete 180! She is pretty much her old self, just with a cold. We are getting everything moved into our new house (OUR new house... really ours this time! LOL!), although there still isn't any furniture yet. We have to get our UHaul for that. We are hoping to get that done either tomorrow or Tuesday. It is just a matter of getting it organized and reserved and such. It will be so great to be back in Muncie. Anderson hasn't been terrible, but Muncie definitely feels more like home. Not to mention that we are just down the road from the hospital now instead of 30 minutes away. I wasn't looking forward to the idea of driving for 30 minutes in labor. Okay, well, I am supposed to be packing up the kitchen some more and getting a load in the dishwasher, so I suppose I better go do that before Curtis emerges and finds me here on the computer. We won't have internet in Muncie until Friday afternoon, so if I disappear and don't post all week, that is why! Once my computer isn't in Anderson anymore I will be offline until we are up there. K

please pray for my girl!

Madison hasn't been feeling well for the last couple of days, and today just kept getting worse. She had a stuffy / runny nose, sneezing, coughing, fever, and wheezing. We gave her some cold medicine in the afternoon, but instead of getting better she just kept getting worse. So we took her to Prime Time this evening and they were quite worried about her breathing. They gave her a breathing treatment which made an instant difference. Based on that, the doc said that it was an asthmatic condition (though he didn't say asthma... hmmm) that was aggravated by a respiratory infection. Apparently an "asthmatic condition" doesn't go away and will continue to be aggravated whenever she gets colds and such. So we had to buy a nebulizer for her and until she is doing better, which will probably be days, she has to have these breathing treatments done every 4-6 hours. I even have to wake her up at night if she is wheezing in her sleep. On top of that she has to take oral prednisone and amoxicillin. What is kinda funny, though, is that she likes the nebulizer, but fought us so hard on the amoxicillin! How weird that she would actually like having a mask blowing steamy medicine into her mouth for 10 minutes. She says that she likes it because it makes her cough and helps her breathe. Obviously it is making a difference for her to acknowledge that. Anyway... I know she will get better, but it is miserable for all of us to go through her being so sick, so just keep her in your prayers! K

ramblings

Okay, so Pa Grape is really old right? Shouldn't he be a raisin by now? This has really been bothering me lately for some reason. Huh. While I am on the subject of Veggie Tales... why doesn't Mr. Lunt have eyes? What is a lunt anyway? I have recently become obsessed with weffriddles. If you don't want to get addicted, don't visit the site. If you are really bored and ready to think hard, go for it! It is a series of riddles that are real mindbenders. Once you get started, though, there is no stopping you! I'm currently on level 27 and going crazy! If you do choose to take on this task.... please remember to write down your answers in order! You will need them! Is it wrong that I am sad that Madison's pronunciations are improving? She says bandage (used to be banjo), little (lay-oh), among others that I can't think of right now. I miss the funny little ways she used to say some things. Ah well, I suppose she had to grow up sometime. K

So who loves this weather? Obviously Madison does! She has been having so much fun getting to dig in the snow that is still in our yard even though it is 60+ degrees outside! K

I did it! I really peed!

Madison has been saying this everytime she sits on her potty seat, but never has results. This time she really did do it! She really peed! I was a little discouraged for awhile, because a year ago she was so interested in going to the potty. She was always wanting to read potty books, watch potty movies, and sit on her seat. Then she just lost interest in it. Well, I know now that it was just a new thing to her and it got old, like most things will eventually. Yes, had I really pushed the issue then, I may have been able to completely train her at that point. But... she wasn't ready and her doctor told me not to push it yet, as that can make it harder in the long run when the rebel against the pushing. So I didn't. I decided to wait until she was really wanting to do it herself. Or until she turned 3, whichever came first. That is the age that her doctor said we needed to start pushing her to do it on her own. Well, a few weeks ago she just started wanting to sit on her potty. She would tell me she had to pee, so I let her sit there. Except for a few times where she tinkled just a tiny bit on the big toilet, though, she would sit there, sometimes straining, with no results. Although she kept telling me that she really peed. I always praised her efforts, but made sure she could see that nothing had happened. I wanted her to really know the difference when something did happen. And it did today! She just kept staring in there like... ohhhhh, that is what is supposed to happen! It's just so funny, because she did it a year ago, but it had been quite awhile since she had done anything. Hopefully she only gets better from here. Maybe someday she will even do a #2 in there! LOL! So far she has no interest whatsoever in that! K

Whew!!!

Okay, so I was totally freaked out yesterday when I called to check on my Saturn at the shop and found out that they had repaired something and it was running fine. They wanted to keep it for another day to make sure it was truly all better though, so I was to call back today. In my shock I forgot to ask how much this repair they made without my permission was going to cost me. See, they were supposed to find out what was wrong and call me before they did anything. So... I called back this morning to see how it was doing (I feel like I am talking about something living and breathing... like I am calling the doctor to check up on it, lol) and they said everything was still fine and they couldn't find anything else wrong. Okay. So then I asked the big question. How much was all this going to cost me? Because, honestly, I didn't know if I could afford it if it was a lot... they may have just gained a car! Hehe! Well... the repair they made was just to replace a few wires, and it didn't cost anything! So all we had to pay for was the tow fee (it sat on our driveway for a few weeks and wouldn't go) and the diagnostic fee. So the grand total was $110!! For real! We would have had it fixed weeks ago if we had known it was something so simple. LOL! We are always doing stupid things like this, though, so it shouldn't come as a surprise. We were so afraid of what might be wrong with it that we just left it sitting there hoping the problem would disappear. Hehe... I am so happy that we will have 2 cars again! I can't believe we let ourselves suffer this long with just one. Ugh. We're such morons. K

Heh heh... the mind of a 2 year old

We were singing Veggie Tales tonight, specifically "My God is so BIG so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do..." and were talking about how God made all different things. Like cocoa and stuff. You know. Madison had been playing with her squishy dinosaurs and Daddy said "Did God make dinosaurs too?" Madison responded with "Uh, no. Actually Kelli gave me these dinosaurs." HAHAHAHAHAHA! I just laughed at that! Too cute! K

Big Weekend for the Madster!

She had a milestone day on Saturday! She had oatmeal (with dinosaurs in it) for breakfast AND scrambled eggs for lunch! This may not seem like much to some people, but for anyone who really knows my peanut butter and cheese loving daughter, they know that this is HUGE! Granted she didn't finish either of them, but she tried them, and actually ate some of both! AND, in the middle of last week, I was having a box of raisins, and she just up and asked for one. Now she LOVES them, and I went out and bought a bunch of those little tiny 2 year old sized boxes for her and she just gobbles them down. Always before she had told me that she wasn't big enough to have raisins. She will come up with any excuse she can think of to not have to try something she thinks she won't like. But... she has a book in which elephants LOOOVE raisins (and they HATE cake!), and I think that contributed to her wanting to try them. She had to find out what elephants thought was so great about them! I know that last sentence was atrocious grammar, but right now my pregnant brain can't work its way around the proper way to say that. You get what I meant though, right? K

Maddie-isms

I'm ARE being have! (In response to being told that she needs to behave) He's a PUFFER! (Shammy when he hisses) She calls bandages "banjo" and also is familiar with the song "O Susanna". So... she will go straight from talking about a bandage to singing about a "banjo on my knee". LOL! When I grow up I want to be a giraffe. Or maybe a policeman. If I am a policeman, I will drive with my lights on. Madison: Daddy, I have something very serious to talk to you about. Daddy: Oh yeah? What's that? Madison: Keyboards. What else can I do to the baby? I can read stories to the baby... I can rock the baby... (She then proceeds to list off everything she hopes to be able to do TO the baby. That is what makes it so funny to me. She isn't doing things WITH the baby, but TO him.) Well, that is my list for now... I'm sure there will be more. She is always doing or saying something to make me giggle. K