Miles seems to be doing better today. Our biggest challenge is keeping him hydrated and keeping his food down. After he drinks, he starts coughing and then projectile vomits across the room. Sorry, if that is too much information.
I've learned that if I feed him while he is sitting straight up and give him smaller amounts at a time, he can usually keep most of it down. Right now, he is keeping about every other small bottle of formula down and I am letting him sip on pedialyte in between bottles. He even ate green beans (his very favorite food) last night and kept most of that down.
His cough and chest seem a little better and he is taking the breathing treatments like a champ. He just lays there and lets me put the mask over his face for the 7 or 8 minutes that each treatment takes. I gave him a treatment at 4 am, followed by a bottle (that did not stay down) and then he went back to sleep.
We have a big king sized bed, and have been letting Miles sleep in the middle. There is still plenty of room between each of us, but everytime we wake up, Miles is either snuggled against me or his daddy. He loves to cuddle!
He seems like he feels better today. I can tell his energy is building up. I won't let him "exercise" in his jumpers so he just lays there and kicks his legs a mile a minute.
Hopefully this will all pass soon. I hate seeing my baby sick!
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
RSV!
RSV season starts in November and on November 5, we found out that Miles has RSV!
He has had a cough for a few days, which we thought was either from his reflux or a post nasal drip. Yesterday, when I picked him up from Steven's parents' house, he had been running a fever of about 100. I took him home and noticed he sounded very congested. At about 10:00, he woke up crying and was running a fever of 102.2 and sounded even more congested with a rattley chest and nasty cough. At this point, I am convinced it is the swine flu and called the after hours nurse. She suggested that he sleep in the bed with us and to take him to the pediatrician in the morning. At 3:00, he woke up crying. We gave him tylenol and a bath and he went back to sleep until around 7:00 this morning. I took him to the doctor at 9:30, (earliest appointment available) and the doctor seemed to know right away that it was RSV. He had his nose swabbed for both the flu and RSV. Flu was negative, RSV was positive.
The nurse showed me how to give Miles a breathing treatment and he seemed to do fine... much better than I expected him to do. We left the doctor with directions to do breathing treatments every four hours, rest, and stay hydrated.
Poor little man!
He has had a cough for a few days, which we thought was either from his reflux or a post nasal drip. Yesterday, when I picked him up from Steven's parents' house, he had been running a fever of about 100. I took him home and noticed he sounded very congested. At about 10:00, he woke up crying and was running a fever of 102.2 and sounded even more congested with a rattley chest and nasty cough. At this point, I am convinced it is the swine flu and called the after hours nurse. She suggested that he sleep in the bed with us and to take him to the pediatrician in the morning. At 3:00, he woke up crying. We gave him tylenol and a bath and he went back to sleep until around 7:00 this morning. I took him to the doctor at 9:30, (earliest appointment available) and the doctor seemed to know right away that it was RSV. He had his nose swabbed for both the flu and RSV. Flu was negative, RSV was positive.
The nurse showed me how to give Miles a breathing treatment and he seemed to do fine... much better than I expected him to do. We left the doctor with directions to do breathing treatments every four hours, rest, and stay hydrated.
Poor little man!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Are you Cooler than a Fifth Grader?
Today, as I was allowing one of my fifth grade classes to take a restroom break, I saw a very strange and frightful sight. One of my students was walking in a way that I can only describe as "like a zombie." Both of his arms were crossed in front of him, his hands were crossed, his fingers were crossed. He was trying to walk with his legs crossed, and he was crossing his eyes. While crossing all of his body parts, he was trying to walk from the boys' sink back to my classroom.
"Stop it Blake! You are being gross!" I automatically assumed that this had something to do with Halloween. My kids are still on a sugar high from last Saturday. They are still bouncing off of the walls excitedly telling me all about the houses they rolled. The boys are still telling me about their bloody, gruesome costumes and the girls are still telling me about the boys who showed up as trick or treaters at their houses.
"He has to walk like that, Mrs. Jones! Otherwise he'll get the cheesey touch!" Several of my students tried to explain this to me, but having little time to discuss things other than linking verbs, context clues, and prepositional phrases, I again told Blake he looked gross, and made the kids get to their seats.
At lunch, I suddenly became curious about The Cheesey Touch, Oreo, Silly Bands, and all of the other things that fifth graders must do to survive a day at our school. So, I asked a few of the girls who I was sitting with today. (I am proud to say that sitting by me is very cool, and my girls fight over who gets to sit by me.... the boys.... not so much.)
So, here is what I found out today:
1. The Cheesey Touch - More dreaded and contagious than the Swine Flu, "The Cheesey Touch" can be spread just by touching somebody. The only way to prevent this is to cross one of your body parts. You can cross fingers, hands, arms, legs, feet, toes, or even your eyes. (Apparantly, Blake was very afraid of catching The Cheesey Touch and decided to cross all of his body parts at the same time.) My students explained it to me like this: "Mrs. Jones, people your age know this as the cooties."
2. Oreo - This is the most popular game to play at lunch after you are finished eating your lunch. You get a partner, and play "Paper,Rock, Scissors". Only, you say "Or-Re-O". The loser has to ask somebody to go out with them. They usually ask, "Hey! Will you go out with me?" Which is followed by a quick response of "No." The game then continues. I'm not really sure why this is so fun... Maybe just the thrill of asking out/getting asked out by the opposite gender?
3. Silly Bands- Lord, if I could go back in time and be the inventor of these stupid bracelets. Bracelets that take the shape of animals are all the rave in the fifth grade. They are a little more creative than the jelly bracelets of the eighties. It started out with one little girl having two or three of these tiny colorful bands. Now, the entire grade is obsessed with them. The stores have all sold out, and parents are frantically trying to find them on the internet. The more silly bands you have, the cooler you are. Three days ago, I walked in to find not only the girls, but all of my boys with these bands up to their elbows. I just don't get it. I guess if one person says they are cool, they all have to have them.
So what else is in style? Northface Jackets remain the most popular clothing item. In fact, most of us have replaced the term "jacket" with "Northface" because everybody, and I do mean everybody has a Northface jacket at my school. (Including me.) I guess a parent not paying over a hundred dollars for their child to wear a Northface would be just as tragic as my mom not wanting to pay sixty dollars for Guess jeans back in 1989.
Uggs also remain very popular, as well as converse shoes, eighties inspired jewelry (ha!) and peace signs.
However, as I was discussing the ins and outs of fashion for ten year olds, and the subject of peace signs came up, one of my students came up to me and said, "You know those peace-loving hippies only wear peace signs during times of war. Without war, we would have no peace."
Pretty deep for a ten year old.
I guess some things have changed in the twenty years since I was a fifth grader. Twenty years ago, peace signs were just something to spend your allowance on at Claires.
"Stop it Blake! You are being gross!" I automatically assumed that this had something to do with Halloween. My kids are still on a sugar high from last Saturday. They are still bouncing off of the walls excitedly telling me all about the houses they rolled. The boys are still telling me about their bloody, gruesome costumes and the girls are still telling me about the boys who showed up as trick or treaters at their houses.
"He has to walk like that, Mrs. Jones! Otherwise he'll get the cheesey touch!" Several of my students tried to explain this to me, but having little time to discuss things other than linking verbs, context clues, and prepositional phrases, I again told Blake he looked gross, and made the kids get to their seats.
At lunch, I suddenly became curious about The Cheesey Touch, Oreo, Silly Bands, and all of the other things that fifth graders must do to survive a day at our school. So, I asked a few of the girls who I was sitting with today. (I am proud to say that sitting by me is very cool, and my girls fight over who gets to sit by me.... the boys.... not so much.)
So, here is what I found out today:
1. The Cheesey Touch - More dreaded and contagious than the Swine Flu, "The Cheesey Touch" can be spread just by touching somebody. The only way to prevent this is to cross one of your body parts. You can cross fingers, hands, arms, legs, feet, toes, or even your eyes. (Apparantly, Blake was very afraid of catching The Cheesey Touch and decided to cross all of his body parts at the same time.) My students explained it to me like this: "Mrs. Jones, people your age know this as the cooties."
2. Oreo - This is the most popular game to play at lunch after you are finished eating your lunch. You get a partner, and play "Paper,Rock, Scissors". Only, you say "Or-Re-O". The loser has to ask somebody to go out with them. They usually ask, "Hey! Will you go out with me?" Which is followed by a quick response of "No." The game then continues. I'm not really sure why this is so fun... Maybe just the thrill of asking out/getting asked out by the opposite gender?
3. Silly Bands- Lord, if I could go back in time and be the inventor of these stupid bracelets. Bracelets that take the shape of animals are all the rave in the fifth grade. They are a little more creative than the jelly bracelets of the eighties. It started out with one little girl having two or three of these tiny colorful bands. Now, the entire grade is obsessed with them. The stores have all sold out, and parents are frantically trying to find them on the internet. The more silly bands you have, the cooler you are. Three days ago, I walked in to find not only the girls, but all of my boys with these bands up to their elbows. I just don't get it. I guess if one person says they are cool, they all have to have them.
So what else is in style? Northface Jackets remain the most popular clothing item. In fact, most of us have replaced the term "jacket" with "Northface" because everybody, and I do mean everybody has a Northface jacket at my school. (Including me.) I guess a parent not paying over a hundred dollars for their child to wear a Northface would be just as tragic as my mom not wanting to pay sixty dollars for Guess jeans back in 1989.
Uggs also remain very popular, as well as converse shoes, eighties inspired jewelry (ha!) and peace signs.
However, as I was discussing the ins and outs of fashion for ten year olds, and the subject of peace signs came up, one of my students came up to me and said, "You know those peace-loving hippies only wear peace signs during times of war. Without war, we would have no peace."
Pretty deep for a ten year old.
I guess some things have changed in the twenty years since I was a fifth grader. Twenty years ago, peace signs were just something to spend your allowance on at Claires.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Busy October!
October has been a very busy month for the Jones family! Here are a few of the highlights:
We went to Hattisburg to visit our good friends Randi and Jason and to watch the Alabama / Tennessee game. What a stressful game! Alabama won because they blocked a field goal in the last second of a game! Talk about almost having a heart attack at the thought of losing our chance at a national championship to the hated Tennessee! Here is Miles with Jason and Randi, already in his jams so he could sleep in the car on our way home!
Steven and I both turned the big 3-0 in October. My birthday was on the 26th and Steven's was on the 27th. Steven and I were able to escape for a date night on my birthday while Grammy came over to babysit. Our "hot" date consisted of going to Sams, Krogers, and dinner at Bonefish! Woo-hoo, living on the wild side! I'm kidding. It was a lot of fun to get to spend some alone time with my awesome husband. Bonefish was delicious, thanks to my sister for the gift card!
For Steven's birthday, we went and ate Mexican food with friends. I planned it all before telling Steven and he was immediately nervous that he was going to have to wear the big sombraro and be sung to... I would NEVER do that...
We also had a family celebration for both of our birthdays at the same time on Wednesday at Steven's parents house!
October also meant Halloween! I had so much fun dressing Miles in a different Halloween-themed outfit every day and sending him to school. He even wore his costume on Friday! On Halloween day, I took him to my friend Susan's house for a little Baby Halloween Party with all of his little baby buddies. There was a lobster, a spider, a doctor, a lion, and a pig. They were all so cute! Unfortunatley, Miles and I were extremely late and missed the photo!
That night, Miles got back in his costume to sit on the front porch and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. This was our first Halloween in our new house and I was amazed at the number of kids we had! There were probably close to 100! They would come up in herds on the back of hayrides! So cute! Miles had a ball looking at all of the costumes and smiling at all of the kids.
A few updates on Miles - I think he is cutting another tooth. He may even be cutting two at the same time like he did last time. I can definitley see the upper right tooth coming in, but he keeps licking the upper middle. He has been really fussy and cried himself to sleep last night, even with tylenol, his mommy, and a vibrating teething ring. Poor Baby.
He is doing well sitting up, and I swear he now says "Hey". Nobody believes me even though he has said it several times including on video... I wish I knew how to upload videos to Blogger from my Iphone! (Does anyone know?)
He also is beginning to not want to go to everyone like he has always done in the past. You can definitley see a difference between people he knows and doesn't know. He reaches for me now and will look for Steven if I say, "Where's Daddy?"
He can also drink from a sippy cup and hold his own bottle, although we, of course, help him. He is eating stage 2 foods and loves to eat. I just hope he is gaining enough weight! He is as active as a baby who can't crawl yet can be... log rolling across the floor, bouncing in his jumpers, and climbing all over me when I hold him. He burns a million calories a day!
He is a precious little thing. I can't believe it is November already! November will bring his 7-month birthday, Thanksgiving, and an entire week home with Mommy! I can't wait!
We went to Hattisburg to visit our good friends Randi and Jason and to watch the Alabama / Tennessee game. What a stressful game! Alabama won because they blocked a field goal in the last second of a game! Talk about almost having a heart attack at the thought of losing our chance at a national championship to the hated Tennessee! Here is Miles with Jason and Randi, already in his jams so he could sleep in the car on our way home!
Steven and I both turned the big 3-0 in October. My birthday was on the 26th and Steven's was on the 27th. Steven and I were able to escape for a date night on my birthday while Grammy came over to babysit. Our "hot" date consisted of going to Sams, Krogers, and dinner at Bonefish! Woo-hoo, living on the wild side! I'm kidding. It was a lot of fun to get to spend some alone time with my awesome husband. Bonefish was delicious, thanks to my sister for the gift card!
For Steven's birthday, we went and ate Mexican food with friends. I planned it all before telling Steven and he was immediately nervous that he was going to have to wear the big sombraro and be sung to... I would NEVER do that...
We also had a family celebration for both of our birthdays at the same time on Wednesday at Steven's parents house!
October also meant Halloween! I had so much fun dressing Miles in a different Halloween-themed outfit every day and sending him to school. He even wore his costume on Friday! On Halloween day, I took him to my friend Susan's house for a little Baby Halloween Party with all of his little baby buddies. There was a lobster, a spider, a doctor, a lion, and a pig. They were all so cute! Unfortunatley, Miles and I were extremely late and missed the photo!
That night, Miles got back in his costume to sit on the front porch and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. This was our first Halloween in our new house and I was amazed at the number of kids we had! There were probably close to 100! They would come up in herds on the back of hayrides! So cute! Miles had a ball looking at all of the costumes and smiling at all of the kids.
A few updates on Miles - I think he is cutting another tooth. He may even be cutting two at the same time like he did last time. I can definitley see the upper right tooth coming in, but he keeps licking the upper middle. He has been really fussy and cried himself to sleep last night, even with tylenol, his mommy, and a vibrating teething ring. Poor Baby.
He is doing well sitting up, and I swear he now says "Hey". Nobody believes me even though he has said it several times including on video... I wish I knew how to upload videos to Blogger from my Iphone! (Does anyone know?)
He also is beginning to not want to go to everyone like he has always done in the past. You can definitley see a difference between people he knows and doesn't know. He reaches for me now and will look for Steven if I say, "Where's Daddy?"
He can also drink from a sippy cup and hold his own bottle, although we, of course, help him. He is eating stage 2 foods and loves to eat. I just hope he is gaining enough weight! He is as active as a baby who can't crawl yet can be... log rolling across the floor, bouncing in his jumpers, and climbing all over me when I hold him. He burns a million calories a day!
He is a precious little thing. I can't believe it is November already! November will bring his 7-month birthday, Thanksgiving, and an entire week home with Mommy! I can't wait!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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