Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter!
We did a few quick pictures (or as Brett called them--Quictures) earlier this month for Easter and we LOVE them! Brooke (the photographer) had gotten some chicks and bunnies. The chicks ended up being a little too fast and a little too messy for pictures, but the bunny was a saint! I was super nervous that Jolie would be too rough with it but she did okay. She wasn't game for holding it, but she would allow the bunny to sit near her. What a goof!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
4 medicines, 3 allergies, 2 infections and a partridge in a pear tree
Okay, she doesn't really have 3 allergies, but I wanted to make it go with the song. :)
I recently noticed that when we were playing outside or opened the windows, Jolie was showing some signs of seasonal allergies. The last couple of weeks, she'd wake up multiple times through the night with a dry cough and we'd sit up with her until it cleared up. Sometimes we'd get a runny nose in there too.
Then over the weekend, Josh noticed some blood in her ear. He got a Q-tip and a large (well, large to come out of your ear anyway) clot of blood came out. We continued to notice a little blood draining through the weekend, but she was acting fine and she had been messing with her ear so we think she just scratched it.
On Monday she started getting really gross snot and had a much different sounding cough and you could just tell she was not feeling well. So we headed to the doctor and he confirmed that she definitely has some seasonal allergies. While they do have several OTC allergy medicines, they are for children 2 years and up. And while I do believe Jolie is advanced (and clearly, I'm not biased at all!) she is not ready for those. So we are trying a couple prescription allergy medicines to get those under control. She also developed a sinus infection so we are on an antibiotic for that (this explains the different sounding cough and green snot recently). Then with her ear that she scratched, the tube in her ear managed to clog and an infection grew around that! The doctor said 'oh, I haven't seen this before!' Super!
But the good news is, it's all very treatable and Jolie's already doing much better. We have been doing a few drops of peroxide in her ear to break up the blood 'scab' and then doing her antibiotic ear drops to clear up the infection. This is how we get to 4 medicines! Good grief! But Jolie's doing awesome taking all of her medicine and doesn't mind the ear drops too much. Mom and Dad are also hoping for a full nights sleep, which we hope is right around the corner...
Doesn't she look sick? Hehe!
We are doing a LOT of chasing!
However, she's a little more 'sensitive' and crabby since she's sick which results in several meltdown like this
Good times, huh? :)
I recently noticed that when we were playing outside or opened the windows, Jolie was showing some signs of seasonal allergies. The last couple of weeks, she'd wake up multiple times through the night with a dry cough and we'd sit up with her until it cleared up. Sometimes we'd get a runny nose in there too.
Then over the weekend, Josh noticed some blood in her ear. He got a Q-tip and a large (well, large to come out of your ear anyway) clot of blood came out. We continued to notice a little blood draining through the weekend, but she was acting fine and she had been messing with her ear so we think she just scratched it.
On Monday she started getting really gross snot and had a much different sounding cough and you could just tell she was not feeling well. So we headed to the doctor and he confirmed that she definitely has some seasonal allergies. While they do have several OTC allergy medicines, they are for children 2 years and up. And while I do believe Jolie is advanced (and clearly, I'm not biased at all!) she is not ready for those. So we are trying a couple prescription allergy medicines to get those under control. She also developed a sinus infection so we are on an antibiotic for that (this explains the different sounding cough and green snot recently). Then with her ear that she scratched, the tube in her ear managed to clog and an infection grew around that! The doctor said 'oh, I haven't seen this before!' Super!
But the good news is, it's all very treatable and Jolie's already doing much better. We have been doing a few drops of peroxide in her ear to break up the blood 'scab' and then doing her antibiotic ear drops to clear up the infection. This is how we get to 4 medicines! Good grief! But Jolie's doing awesome taking all of her medicine and doesn't mind the ear drops too much. Mom and Dad are also hoping for a full nights sleep, which we hope is right around the corner...
Doesn't she look sick? Hehe!
We are doing a LOT of chasing!
However, she's a little more 'sensitive' and crabby since she's sick which results in several meltdown like this
Good times, huh? :)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Magnet Crazy!
Jolie has been obsessed with magnets lately which means she's always trying to hang by the fridge and playing with our magnets. Unfortunately we didn't have many kid-friendly magnets and most magnets are pretty much perfect size for a little one to stick in their mouth!
So we got a few magnet toys for Jolie for Easter. We got a Fridge Farm toy that play music and makes farm sounds so she thinks that is pretty funny. We also got some magnet letters and numbers and a travel magnet board so maybe we can take it in the car or at least in the living room for now! :)
She's so advanced! (with a little help from dad)
So we got a few magnet toys for Jolie for Easter. We got a Fridge Farm toy that play music and makes farm sounds so she thinks that is pretty funny. We also got some magnet letters and numbers and a travel magnet board so maybe we can take it in the car or at least in the living room for now! :)
She's so advanced! (with a little help from dad)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sippy Cup Search
Did you know there is a difference between leak-proof and spill-proof? And apparently when looking for the perfect sippy cup, we need to find one that is both leak-proof AND spill-proof. We recently got off of formula and are on 100% whole milk now-yay!
We have been trying sippy cups with soft tops and hard tops and handles and no handles and straws and on and on and on. It's also really hard to teach someone to drink out of a straw! We haven't mastered that yet, but we're working on it. And after all these different cups, we are still on a bottle! She does use a cup a little bit during meals and if it's around, but if we want her to have a good drink or before a nap or bedtime, she hits the bottle!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Walking...it's no big deal
You may not believe your eyes so I posted two separate videos to prove it! After only 10 days of walking, Jolie's already walking all over like a pro! She loves carrying things and taking things from one person to another...we will need to figure out how to use this productively, but so far I haven't thought of any items I really NEED that I keep on the floor. Now when she can reach into the fridge, we have a different story. :)
Here's the kiddo carrying and throwing a ball while walking. She's pretty much more coordinated than me already!
Oh yeah, I forgot some stuff from last week. Jolie had croup and it was one of the worst sounds we've ever heard! She went to bed Wednesday night just fine and about an hour later just started with this horrible, barking cough! We were up most of the night with her trying a variety of remedies including breathing treatments. I took her to see her doctor on Thursday morning and he gave her a steroid shot which worked wonders!! After we got home, she slept for 4 hours and continued to get better and better! And I didn't notice any 'roid rage'! Haha! We laid low this weekend to make sure she got plenty of rest and was geared up and ready for another week.
So we are down to just a runny nose but combine that with her recent excessive drooling (I think due to sprouting a new tooth) and she's kind of a messy goober right now! :) She also went all vampire on me this evening and bit my shoulder so we quickly gave her an icy ring to gnaw on! She's leaving her little 'drool stamp' on us whenever she gives us a hug (which is just the cutest, sweetest, bestest feeling EVER!) but it's totally worth it! :)
Here's the kiddo carrying and throwing a ball while walking. She's pretty much more coordinated than me already!
Oh yeah, I forgot some stuff from last week. Jolie had croup and it was one of the worst sounds we've ever heard! She went to bed Wednesday night just fine and about an hour later just started with this horrible, barking cough! We were up most of the night with her trying a variety of remedies including breathing treatments. I took her to see her doctor on Thursday morning and he gave her a steroid shot which worked wonders!! After we got home, she slept for 4 hours and continued to get better and better! And I didn't notice any 'roid rage'! Haha! We laid low this weekend to make sure she got plenty of rest and was geared up and ready for another week.
So we are down to just a runny nose but combine that with her recent excessive drooling (I think due to sprouting a new tooth) and she's kind of a messy goober right now! :) She also went all vampire on me this evening and bit my shoulder so we quickly gave her an icy ring to gnaw on! She's leaving her little 'drool stamp' on us whenever she gives us a hug (which is just the cutest, sweetest, bestest feeling EVER!) but it's totally worth it! :)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Picnic Season
Grandma and Grandpa Dee Dee went to the HLHS auction the other night and decided that Jolie needed this cute picnic table, complete with umbrella shade!
Well as you can see below, she LOVES it!
The little present--hope it gets nice soon because its taking up the whole living room! :)
Checking it out
FUN!
Complete with cheesy smile!
She is so excited! She's been practicing getting on and off of it and putting lots of on the table. Yeah, you can imagine how excited she was to go to bed, change her diaper and get her pajamas on... :)
Well as you can see below, she LOVES it!
The little present--hope it gets nice soon because its taking up the whole living room! :)
Checking it out
FUN!
Complete with cheesy smile!
She is so excited! She's been practicing getting on and off of it and putting lots of on the table. Yeah, you can imagine how excited she was to go to bed, change her diaper and get her pajamas on... :)
Friday, April 1, 2011
No Fooling! We have a walker!
It finally happened! After lots and lots of practicing (and by practicing, I mean using mom, dad or anything else as a walker) Jolie took off walking on April Fools Day! She was so excited! And each time she would fall down, she'd get right back up and go again! She walked inside, outside in the wind, on the grass and even on our bed! No terrain is too rough or scary for this little lady! I'm still working on gathering video evidence (I keep forgetting to grab the camcorder!)
We also just finished up some eye drops for a supposed case of pink eye, although I think we decided it was a cold that settled in her eye. So she had to spend a little time out of school and hung out at Grandma and Grandpa D's and had lots of fun. They even called me and said 'are you sure she's sick, because she's the happiest sick baby I've ever seen!' On Tuesday her eye was all goobery so school called me and I took her to the clinic. I think they treated it as pink eye just to be on the safe side, but either way, Jolie did pretty good with her drops. Or maybe Jolie just wanted some time off from school? Haha!
School is starting to get better too. She's starting to warm up to everyone there and make new friends. It also means that she isn't crying every time I drop her off and making me feel like the worst mom ever! Yay!
She also started shaking her head 'no' and 'yes' kind of randomly or when she's decided she's done eating, but it's pretty funny. Josh and I will just be talking about something like eating spaghetti for supper and she'll just start shaking her head 'no' Oh geez, are we getting close the age where she's going to actually listen to our conversations because I'm not sure I'm ready for that! haha! I better start practicing!
Here's a little video of her in the bath. She LOVES the bath and splashing and being splashed...it's an event that usually leaves me needing to change my shirt and clean my glasses and sometimes blow dry my hair!! I think she's going to love the splash park here in town and going swimming this summer!
We also just finished up some eye drops for a supposed case of pink eye, although I think we decided it was a cold that settled in her eye. So she had to spend a little time out of school and hung out at Grandma and Grandpa D's and had lots of fun. They even called me and said 'are you sure she's sick, because she's the happiest sick baby I've ever seen!' On Tuesday her eye was all goobery so school called me and I took her to the clinic. I think they treated it as pink eye just to be on the safe side, but either way, Jolie did pretty good with her drops. Or maybe Jolie just wanted some time off from school? Haha!
School is starting to get better too. She's starting to warm up to everyone there and make new friends. It also means that she isn't crying every time I drop her off and making me feel like the worst mom ever! Yay!
She also started shaking her head 'no' and 'yes' kind of randomly or when she's decided she's done eating, but it's pretty funny. Josh and I will just be talking about something like eating spaghetti for supper and she'll just start shaking her head 'no' Oh geez, are we getting close the age where she's going to actually listen to our conversations because I'm not sure I'm ready for that! haha! I better start practicing!
Here's a little video of her in the bath. She LOVES the bath and splashing and being splashed...it's an event that usually leaves me needing to change my shirt and clean my glasses and sometimes blow dry my hair!! I think she's going to love the splash park here in town and going swimming this summer!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
A Toddler?
So I keep checking this blog to see if there are any updates, but then I remember I was the one who had to update it! Haha!
Jolie is quickly growing out of the baby stage and into the toddler stage! Gerber foods uses these stages to determine different foods and such:
Birth
Supported Sitter
Sitter
Crawler
Toddler
Preschooler
I continued to just look for 'crawler' foods, but Josh picked up some of the 'toddler' foods and she totally dug it! OMG-we have a TODDLER!!! I think they skipped a few stages there, it seems like just yesterday we had a little tiny baby and now Gerber says she's a TODDLER!!! So after I learned to accept that she is growing up, she's really starting to show her little personality and moods and preferences! We are having so much fun watching her grow and have so many things we want to do! I even caught Josh looking at a Disney World vacation planning site the other day--okay, we may be getting ahead of ourselves, but it's still fun to imagine for someday!
Jolie continues to love Sesame Street and we turn it on while we finish getting things ready in the morning. Here's a little video of her when she hears the Sesame Street theme song.
Jolie is quickly growing out of the baby stage and into the toddler stage! Gerber foods uses these stages to determine different foods and such:
Birth
Supported Sitter
Sitter
Crawler
Toddler
Preschooler
I continued to just look for 'crawler' foods, but Josh picked up some of the 'toddler' foods and she totally dug it! OMG-we have a TODDLER!!! I think they skipped a few stages there, it seems like just yesterday we had a little tiny baby and now Gerber says she's a TODDLER!!! So after I learned to accept that she is growing up, she's really starting to show her little personality and moods and preferences! We are having so much fun watching her grow and have so many things we want to do! I even caught Josh looking at a Disney World vacation planning site the other day--okay, we may be getting ahead of ourselves, but it's still fun to imagine for someday!
Jolie continues to love Sesame Street and we turn it on while we finish getting things ready in the morning. Here's a little video of her when she hears the Sesame Street theme song.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Chillaxing...as much a baby will do anyway
Jolie has this fun little chair that she loves to sit in and watch Sesame Street. She also loves laying on it, moving it around, throwing it, hugging it...
Here's some action shots of her lounging around. Of course, she's has to kick and kick and kick her feet because what busy baby just lays there?
Sunday was an AWESOME day out so Jolie took full advantage! Her great-cousins Sam, Hayden and Hannah let Jolie borrow their wagon and she loved it! So did Petey, although it was a little bit embarrassing pulling them around while she hid in the bottom of the wagon and Petey stood like a lookout on a pirate ship!
And GRILLING SEASON has begun at the Buechler house! We grilled on Saturday and Sunday and it was awesome! Grandma and Grandpa D came Saturday evening and ate with us and Sunday Great-Great Uncle Dennis and Aunt Karen and their cool dog Sadie stopped by and later Great Nana and Grandma D came by to watch Jolie in the wagon. She was not a happy camper when it was time to come in and I think their may be many upcoming evenings spent outside in the wagon! :)
Here's some action shots of her lounging around. Of course, she's has to kick and kick and kick her feet because what busy baby just lays there?
Sunday was an AWESOME day out so Jolie took full advantage! Her great-cousins Sam, Hayden and Hannah let Jolie borrow their wagon and she loved it! So did Petey, although it was a little bit embarrassing pulling them around while she hid in the bottom of the wagon and Petey stood like a lookout on a pirate ship!
And GRILLING SEASON has begun at the Buechler house! We grilled on Saturday and Sunday and it was awesome! Grandma and Grandpa D came Saturday evening and ate with us and Sunday Great-Great Uncle Dennis and Aunt Karen and their cool dog Sadie stopped by and later Great Nana and Grandma D came by to watch Jolie in the wagon. She was not a happy camper when it was time to come in and I think their may be many upcoming evenings spent outside in the wagon! :)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Well we aren't Irish at all, but I did fine this funny shirt before we moved that payed tribute to Jolie's Iowa roots. It says 'Kiss me, I'm Iowish' Haha! And I was so excited for her to wear it. Then I tried to take a picture of her in shirt. 'Hey Jolie, can you stand up so big?' Um, well here's what that got us. :)
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