Showing posts with label faelyn. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Live Journal
In case I forget, which I will... I did, in fact, transfer ALL posts from LJ to Blogger. From Madd's page, Faye's page, my page, and our community page. That's all. Thanks.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
ANOTHER Ear Infection
I've been forgetting to update you, Blog.
Faye has another ear infection. Left ear.
She was up from 12:30-2:30AM on Tuesday morning (aka Monday night). After laying in bed crying, holding my hand to her ear, trying Chamomilla, then walking around, Then went upstairs, then Tylenol she got back to bed. Woke up again around 4:30AM to repeat all the same stuff, except this time I was more than half asleep and did all those things a little bit different. It started out with me wondering why the fish she had requested earlier is not working. Why doesn't she want this fish anymore? I made it especially for her! Yes, that was me sleeping. Apparently dreaming (after being up til 12:30AM making Sushi) that what REALLY helped Faye was some fish that she specially requested. So then we got back up, it was still too early for more Tylenol and too early for Ibuprofen. We paced around for a while (that was fine during infancy, not as easy with an almost 3 year old!) and then went upstairs. We didn't last up there too long, just long enough to be able to take some Ibuprofen and then we tried bed again. We got to sleep from 6:30-7:30AM and were up again.
We got to the Minute Clinic when they opened in the morning and were able to get her seen and get her a prescription. She was really upset on the way home and when we got home I noticed that her ear drum ruptured. We're not really sure if she was freaking out so much because of the pain from the rupture, or if her ear drum ruptured from all the pressure in her head caused by her freaking out... Either way, it happened really quick. From her first sign of ear infection until the rupture was only about 9 hours.
So she is on strong dose of Amoxicillin for 10 days. I made a follow up appointment at her regular doctor (that I need to change because the time is not going to work out) and she is also taking Zyrtec for a month. The Zyrtec is just a trial to see if it clears up any possible allergies that may be helping to cause her ear infections. Each time she has gotten an infection it has been due to a cold and congestion, but it's only been these past three months with the (very slow) emergence of Spring. She did exhibit some allergies earlier last month, so we'll see what happens.
Faye has another ear infection. Left ear.
She was up from 12:30-2:30AM on Tuesday morning (aka Monday night). After laying in bed crying, holding my hand to her ear, trying Chamomilla, then walking around, Then went upstairs, then Tylenol she got back to bed. Woke up again around 4:30AM to repeat all the same stuff, except this time I was more than half asleep and did all those things a little bit different. It started out with me wondering why the fish she had requested earlier is not working. Why doesn't she want this fish anymore? I made it especially for her! Yes, that was me sleeping. Apparently dreaming (after being up til 12:30AM making Sushi) that what REALLY helped Faye was some fish that she specially requested. So then we got back up, it was still too early for more Tylenol and too early for Ibuprofen. We paced around for a while (that was fine during infancy, not as easy with an almost 3 year old!) and then went upstairs. We didn't last up there too long, just long enough to be able to take some Ibuprofen and then we tried bed again. We got to sleep from 6:30-7:30AM and were up again.
We got to the Minute Clinic when they opened in the morning and were able to get her seen and get her a prescription. She was really upset on the way home and when we got home I noticed that her ear drum ruptured. We're not really sure if she was freaking out so much because of the pain from the rupture, or if her ear drum ruptured from all the pressure in her head caused by her freaking out... Either way, it happened really quick. From her first sign of ear infection until the rupture was only about 9 hours.
So she is on strong dose of Amoxicillin for 10 days. I made a follow up appointment at her regular doctor (that I need to change because the time is not going to work out) and she is also taking Zyrtec for a month. The Zyrtec is just a trial to see if it clears up any possible allergies that may be helping to cause her ear infections. Each time she has gotten an infection it has been due to a cold and congestion, but it's only been these past three months with the (very slow) emergence of Spring. She did exhibit some allergies earlier last month, so we'll see what happens.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Talking Back
Just want to document this. Faelyn has been doing this for months, but I didn't realize that I hadn't told a single person (including my husband) about it and that nobody has ever seen her do it.
Now when you think of a child Maddox or Faye's age (2-6 years old) talking back, you think of sassy, maybe? You think of them getting smart with you, shooting back clever remarks when you're talking to them about something they've done wrong... Here's an example of what my 2.5 year old daughter does.
Faye: Climbing onto the top of the kitchen table.
Mom: Standing behind the kitchen counter getting lunch ready.
Mom: Faelyn, please get off of the table.
Faye: please get off of the table.
Mom: Faelyn, get down off of the table.
Faye: get down off of the table.
Mom: 1
Faye: 1
Mom: 2
Faye: 2 (almost in complete unison with me)
Of course then we move to me just going over and getting her and putting her into a time out.
Time outs are supposed to be breaks for kids to regroup themselves and to think about what happened. For Faye, I just do not know what to do with the kid. I do not know what an appropriate discipline for a lot of her actions would be.
Time outs work OK for her. They do give her a break and they act as a distractment from what is going on. I can put her in a time out (after a few warnings) and go back to her after she's been there for a couple minutes. Before letting her out, we talk about what the problem is, why she's in time out, and what can be done to correct and prevent the situation from happening again. That does work for her.
I wouldn't say she is in TO a lot. I would say she is in TO a lot compared to Maddox. Faelyn has been in TO at age 2.5 years 2-3 times more than Maddox has been in his entire 6 years. Time outs are not every single day. Sometimes they're not even every single week. Maybe for now it is a good enough form of discipline. For Faelyn.
Now when you think of a child Maddox or Faye's age (2-6 years old) talking back, you think of sassy, maybe? You think of them getting smart with you, shooting back clever remarks when you're talking to them about something they've done wrong... Here's an example of what my 2.5 year old daughter does.
Faye: Climbing onto the top of the kitchen table.
Mom: Standing behind the kitchen counter getting lunch ready.
Mom: Faelyn, please get off of the table.
Faye: please get off of the table.
Mom: Faelyn, get down off of the table.
Faye: get down off of the table.
Mom: 1
Faye: 1
Mom: 2
Faye: 2 (almost in complete unison with me)
Of course then we move to me just going over and getting her and putting her into a time out.
Time outs are supposed to be breaks for kids to regroup themselves and to think about what happened. For Faye, I just do not know what to do with the kid. I do not know what an appropriate discipline for a lot of her actions would be.
Time outs work OK for her. They do give her a break and they act as a distractment from what is going on. I can put her in a time out (after a few warnings) and go back to her after she's been there for a couple minutes. Before letting her out, we talk about what the problem is, why she's in time out, and what can be done to correct and prevent the situation from happening again. That does work for her.
I wouldn't say she is in TO a lot. I would say she is in TO a lot compared to Maddox. Faelyn has been in TO at age 2.5 years 2-3 times more than Maddox has been in his entire 6 years. Time outs are not every single day. Sometimes they're not even every single week. Maybe for now it is a good enough form of discipline. For Faelyn.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Overwhelmingly Stressed
I wanted to write about this, but finally my mind has settled down and I think I am just going to take advantage of that.
I needed wine before we left for ECFE (no, I didn't drink any) and by the time I came home from ECFE, it wasn't even an option any more. Why waste a good bottle of wine when you know it's not going to help a single thing.
My mind was just reeling when we got back. By the time I ate, got Faye down for bed and went into the bathroom to take a shower, I just broke down and had tears streaming down my face.
It's not that I cannot handle all of her insanity, it's that I cannot handle the responsibility of having almost completely control over how her little self turns out. She may be her own individual person, but everything that I do, say, and how I handle what she does still has a HUGE impact on how she will turn out.
I'm not denying that her behavior isn't incredibly difficult to handle. It is.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Stomach Bug
Today was Faelyn's first time ever experiencing throwing up. Last night she woke up crying several times. I brought her into my bed and she stayed asleep for awhile. I figured it was teething. She is cutting her very last 2 year molar and just the very points are out so far. She woke up often through out the entire night, crying, and upset. She woke up this morning dry heaving. She never really eats too much at dinner time, so she didn't have anything to throw up. As soon as I heard her, I jumped up, picked her up and carried her off the bed. We sat on the floor and I told her to lean forward. I guess when it's 6:30 AM, I'm going to decide that it's better for her to puke on my bedroom floor than to puke on my sheets?! She was laying in my lap, in my arms and she says to both Daddy and I, through her dry heaving "I keep having the hiccups and I do not feel good." It was really sweet. She is such a sweet girl.
We were up for the day at that point. I handed her to Daddy in bed and went into the bathroom. That woke Maddox up and he was up too. They both wanted to watch TV in the living room, so they did for awhile. It took Faye about an hour and she started again. She got some mucus and stomach acid. I brought her lemonade and saltines.
She acted fine all day. She was running around, bouncing off things, and being her normal self. I figured the two times was it and she was done, but later on I went to lay her down to change her diaper and she was looking like she was going to puke. I asked her if she was going to puke and if she needed a bucket and she told me "No. I ate the puke." She was swallowing and smacking her lips... She ate her puke. Later on in the day, she climbed up onto my back and I could hear the burping, her belly growling, and her swallowing it back down. YUCK! But I guess I'm glad she was eating it because otherwise it would have been all over me (in my hair!).
We skipped open swim tonight, she didn't finish her ice cream, and she's barely had anything to eat today. Hopefully she will be feeling better tomorrow.
We were up for the day at that point. I handed her to Daddy in bed and went into the bathroom. That woke Maddox up and he was up too. They both wanted to watch TV in the living room, so they did for awhile. It took Faye about an hour and she started again. She got some mucus and stomach acid. I brought her lemonade and saltines.
She acted fine all day. She was running around, bouncing off things, and being her normal self. I figured the two times was it and she was done, but later on I went to lay her down to change her diaper and she was looking like she was going to puke. I asked her if she was going to puke and if she needed a bucket and she told me "No. I ate the puke." She was swallowing and smacking her lips... She ate her puke. Later on in the day, she climbed up onto my back and I could hear the burping, her belly growling, and her swallowing it back down. YUCK! But I guess I'm glad she was eating it because otherwise it would have been all over me (in my hair!).
We skipped open swim tonight, she didn't finish her ice cream, and she's barely had anything to eat today. Hopefully she will be feeling better tomorrow.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Sunday, December 13, 2009
18 Months!
I was thinking it had been an insanely long time since I posted... I thought it was January 30th. I realize that July is still an incredibly long time, but nowhere near January! Faye's first tooth cut in July. Followed by three more, one a month. In October she cut her first top molar and the second one came not too long after that. They are still only half way through. She cut another molar about a week ago and has five other teeth that seem like they are going to come through any day now.
Faye is such an amazing child. She is pure trouble, but not the kind you get frustrated with or mad at... she really makes me laugh. She is such a bright little girl with so much determination (and some pretty big muscles for a baby!).
The night before last, Maddox, Faye and I were saying numbers in the bathroom while they took a bath together. One of us would start with one, the next would say two, and the next would say three. All of us went around until the numbers got too high for Faye, then it was just Maddox and myself. I was amazed at all the numbers she knew. She definitely knew 2 and 3, but the rest I thought she was just copying us, until yesterday afternoon. I started her with one and she finished up for me. Two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten. She missed number seven, but holy cows! My 18 Month old just counted to 10 only missing two numbers!
I got a letter in the mail about a week ago reminding me to bring Faye in for her 18 Month check up. It said that a child her age should say 15-20 words and that "they may throw tantrums"... well she certainly threw tantrums! I figured she could say at least 30 words, but I thought it would be fun to count what she could say, so for a couple hours I listened to her talk and asked her what different things where to see if she knew and if she could say them and I ended up counting over 90 words not including names (Mom/Mommy/Mama, Dad/Daddy/Dada, Maddox/Maddie, Clayton, Keri, Buddy, Blue-Blue, Faye-Faye, Grandma, Bepaw, Aunty, Amy, Susan, Uncle, Lewis, Eric, etc etc etc...)
Faye also walks around singing the first couple words to her favorite song "Open, Shut Them", it is really cute. She says "A B C" over and over again haha and she LOVES to dance, shimmy, shake, and wiggle! She loves to make people laugh, she loves puppies and horses, she loves to torture her big brother and she loves to give him kisses too.
I really am the luckiest Mom in the world!
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
Faye is such an amazing child. She is pure trouble, but not the kind you get frustrated with or mad at... she really makes me laugh. She is such a bright little girl with so much determination (and some pretty big muscles for a baby!).
The night before last, Maddox, Faye and I were saying numbers in the bathroom while they took a bath together. One of us would start with one, the next would say two, and the next would say three. All of us went around until the numbers got too high for Faye, then it was just Maddox and myself. I was amazed at all the numbers she knew. She definitely knew 2 and 3, but the rest I thought she was just copying us, until yesterday afternoon. I started her with one and she finished up for me. Two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten. She missed number seven, but holy cows! My 18 Month old just counted to 10 only missing two numbers!
I got a letter in the mail about a week ago reminding me to bring Faye in for her 18 Month check up. It said that a child her age should say 15-20 words and that "they may throw tantrums"... well she certainly threw tantrums! I figured she could say at least 30 words, but I thought it would be fun to count what she could say, so for a couple hours I listened to her talk and asked her what different things where to see if she knew and if she could say them and I ended up counting over 90 words not including names (Mom/Mommy/Mama, Dad/Daddy/Dada, Maddox/Maddie, Clayton, Keri, Buddy, Blue-Blue, Faye-Faye, Grandma, Bepaw, Aunty, Amy, Susan, Uncle, Lewis, Eric, etc etc etc...)
Faye also walks around singing the first couple words to her favorite song "Open, Shut Them", it is really cute. She says "A B C" over and over again haha and she LOVES to dance, shimmy, shake, and wiggle! She loves to make people laugh, she loves puppies and horses, she loves to torture her big brother and she loves to give him kisses too.
I really am the luckiest Mom in the world!
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Peek-A-Boo
Faye can play Peek-A-Boo! She's been pulling stuff over her head for several months and waited for us to say Peek-A-Boo, but about a week ago she started doing everything all on her own. It started in the bathroom when she stood on the other side of the doorway and peeked her head out and I said "Boo!", then she peeked her head out and said "Boo" on her own. She loves it when you scream when she "scares" you. Now she is covering her eyes with her hands and then opening them and saying "Boo". It is the cutest thing ever! I am trying to get a video of it, but she's not very cooperative with the camera!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Happy Birthday Faelyn!!!
Yesterday was Miss Faye's birthday and she really took "It's my birthday and I can cry if I want to" to heart. She was SO crabby! She got a birthday present in the morning from her cousin Logan. A pretty hooded dress from Gap. She got 6 animals from the Little People Noah's Ark set from her Grandma and BePaw Miller. And in the evening, Maddox, Daddy, and I took her to the Build-A-Bear Workshop where she made a Bunny named Penelope!
The best I could get yesterday morning LOL
Giving her Bunny's heart a kiss and giving the heart to the animal stuffer lady.
Maddox stepping on the animal stuffer pedal and Faye giving the lady stink eye after we took the Bunny from Faye. Don't know where Maddox's head went!
Registering her Bunny and naming her.
And it's Love!
This Saturday, June 13th, is her birthday Party. It is a Hawaiian Luau. Let's all pray that it is sunny and warm!
The best I could get yesterday morning LOL
Giving her Bunny's heart a kiss and giving the heart to the animal stuffer lady.
Maddox stepping on the animal stuffer pedal and Faye giving the lady stink eye after we took the Bunny from Faye. Don't know where Maddox's head went!
Registering her Bunny and naming her.
And it's Love!
This Saturday, June 13th, is her birthday Party. It is a Hawaiian Luau. Let's all pray that it is sunny and warm!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
She's Walking!
It's official! She has been walking around for the past two days! About a month or so ago, we were up to two steps. As of 2 weeks ago we were up to three steps. Last week she went six steps! After that we just stopped counting! She would walk to me (Mommy) and walk to Daddy. Then she started walking to other people and now she is walking just to walk. And turning! Today she even turned a few times!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Teething?
Faye Faye's not feeling well today. Maybe teething, maybe a cold, maybe both. She wasn't feeling so hot yesterday either, more towards midday and evening. This morning I barely got a half an inch off the top of her yogurt in her for breakfast. She's open her mouth for it and than push it out with her tongue. Teething tablets are not helping much, so I think it's both teeth and a cold. She got a stuffy nose last night and now it's running too, that could be teething though as well. Poop Pumpkin!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Dada
Well, I think she understands "Dada". She likes to call Daddy "Dada", but she also liked to call Mommy "Dada" and Maddox "Dada". She saw the picture of Daddy on my computer screen just now and started bouncing up and down repeating "Dada, Dada, Dada". She really loves her Dada.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Randomness
I love the little wrinkles on her back because it always reminds me of when she was being born. When the bottom half of her little body was out and her arms were up and she was still in from her armpits up, she had all these wrinkles around her shoulder blades like when you lift your arms up and pull your shoulders back. Her whole back looked so soft and wrinkly. It's still as cute, just much bigger!
Crawling?
I don't know what all the technicalities are for announcing that she is crawling, but she can move forwards! She kind of drags her behind, but she has finally learned how to put one hand in front of the other and repeat. She has been rolling, sitting up, laying down, crawling backwards, and scooting backwards on her butt for quite some time now. This morning, she officially went forwards!
My trial version of Photoshop Elements ran out, so I'll have to remedy that before I can put any photos up. No crawling related ones, but pictures in general are always nice!
My trial version of Photoshop Elements ran out, so I'll have to remedy that before I can put any photos up. No crawling related ones, but pictures in general are always nice!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Faelyn is....
+ Going from sitting to laying (on belly).
+ From laying (on belly) to sitting.
+ Occasionally pulling herself up.
+ Jabbering even more than before.
+ Jabbering to complain instead of crying.
+ Repeating "Da Da" to Clayton when he asks her to say it.
+ Getting up on all fours, rocking, and scooting backwards.
+ Scooting backwards while sitting (in the splits).
+ Rolling all over the place.
+ Unsuccessfully trying to stand up from a sitting position. She gets about 2-3 inches off of the floor while in the splits.
+ Unsuccessfully trying to walk without assistance. I have her hold my fingers and she pulls her arms down, lets go and tries to push my hands away... LOL
She'll be 7 Months on the 10th. I'm in some serious trouble!
Here she is trying to crawl!
Here she had pulled herself up using her Toy Box (a completely different time from what I had mentioned in a previous post).
Here she was rolling and scooting backwards while on her belly and got herself stuck underneath the ottoman... LOL
If she hadn't sounded so desperate to get out, I would have taken a video of her jabbering. Maddox said "She told me to help her, so I came and told you!" (I had run downstairs to grab my camera.. Haha! Sorry Faye!)
Here she did not pull herself up, but she refused to sit and I was left with the options of lay her down or set up Maddox's old activity table. I figured we'd both be happier if she was able to stand a play. The first one I caught her off guard, the second she is laughing at Maddox, and the third she is posing, one handed, for the camera.
Yes, her socks ARE pulled up over her pants... Sorry Faye!
+ From laying (on belly) to sitting.
+ Occasionally pulling herself up.
+ Jabbering even more than before.
+ Jabbering to complain instead of crying.
+ Repeating "Da Da" to Clayton when he asks her to say it.
+ Getting up on all fours, rocking, and scooting backwards.
+ Scooting backwards while sitting (in the splits).
+ Rolling all over the place.
+ Unsuccessfully trying to stand up from a sitting position. She gets about 2-3 inches off of the floor while in the splits.
+ Unsuccessfully trying to walk without assistance. I have her hold my fingers and she pulls her arms down, lets go and tries to push my hands away... LOL
She'll be 7 Months on the 10th. I'm in some serious trouble!
Here she is trying to crawl!
Here she had pulled herself up using her Toy Box (a completely different time from what I had mentioned in a previous post).
Here she was rolling and scooting backwards while on her belly and got herself stuck underneath the ottoman... LOL
If she hadn't sounded so desperate to get out, I would have taken a video of her jabbering. Maddox said "She told me to help her, so I came and told you!" (I had run downstairs to grab my camera.. Haha! Sorry Faye!)
Here she did not pull herself up, but she refused to sit and I was left with the options of lay her down or set up Maddox's old activity table. I figured we'd both be happier if she was able to stand a play. The first one I caught her off guard, the second she is laughing at Maddox, and the third she is posing, one handed, for the camera.
Yes, her socks ARE pulled up over her pants... Sorry Faye!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
On the Move!
Faelyn's up on all fours! She doesn't have the forward crawl motion yet. She gets her legs going and forgets to move her arms and falls on her face, but she goes side to side and backwards. She also can get around on her butt. I'm not sure how, but she was sitting and she would lean forward and sideways, etc to grab things and she would be further and further away from her original location. I watched her. The whole time. I did not actually see her move! I'm sure it will only be a matter of days or weeks before she is completely crawling and I bet before she turns 8 months.
On the 24th, Faye pulled her self up on her toy box. First she was pulling on the toy box, but it kept tipping over towards her and then Daddy held down the other side of the toy box and Faelyn pulled herself right up into a standing position. When standing, her toy box comes up to about her waist. This girl is going to be quite a handful!
We've started solids. I cannot remember the exact date, but she had 3 days of peas, 4 days of Avocado, 4 days of pears, 2 samplings of broccoli, and 2 days of cauliflower. Yesterday she had sweet potatoes. She went a couple days without having anything. Christmas Eve and the 26th for sure and I cannot remember when else. That might have been the only day actually. So maybe it was the 12th that we started solids...... That sounds right.
I believe that's all for now, so I'll get to the pictures now.
I have SO many pictures of Faye eating Avocado. Clayton got some pretty cute shots. I'm only going to post a couple of my favorite though.
On the 24th, Faye pulled her self up on her toy box. First she was pulling on the toy box, but it kept tipping over towards her and then Daddy held down the other side of the toy box and Faelyn pulled herself right up into a standing position. When standing, her toy box comes up to about her waist. This girl is going to be quite a handful!
We've started solids. I cannot remember the exact date, but she had 3 days of peas, 4 days of Avocado, 4 days of pears, 2 samplings of broccoli, and 2 days of cauliflower. Yesterday she had sweet potatoes. She went a couple days without having anything. Christmas Eve and the 26th for sure and I cannot remember when else. That might have been the only day actually. So maybe it was the 12th that we started solids...... That sounds right.
I believe that's all for now, so I'll get to the pictures now.
I have SO many pictures of Faye eating Avocado. Clayton got some pretty cute shots. I'm only going to post a couple of my favorite though.
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