A good surprise

Well lots of good things to report about this weekend. First on Saturday Mackenzie went pee pee and poo poo in the potty at two different times. On her own. She asked to go. I didn't initiate it. I don't think she is really all that ready to potty train. I am going to let her kinda keep it up. If she wants to go and try then fine we will try, but I don't want to try to make her ready before she really is. I mean she is only 21 months old. Okay, so on to surprise number two. On Sunday I was taking a much needed much appreciated nap after church. When the door bell rings. I think gosh it is only 4 and who is here. I get up to see my mother standing looking in the window I think, gosh she knew I was taking a nap....what is up! I open the door and I see this person smiling at me. OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I start screaming it's MISTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited I jumped into her arms....which almost fell off...I forgot I am almost 4 months pregnant and have gained a few pounds. I was so overwhelmed with excitement. What a great surprise. She said that Tyler had a flight voucher that had to be used before the end of the year, and he said here go see your family!!!! :) She surprised us all but Heidi, because she had to have someone pick her up from the airport. I was so glad. So that was my surprise for the year 2007...a great way to end a year! :)

Merry Christmas

Well our Christmas was great. Mackenzie had a wonderful time and so did her mama and daddy. We had more fun just watching her. We got lots of new babies for christmas with their own bottles and things. Santa brought her a table and chair set and a high chair and stroller and baby bed for her babies. She is in heaven. She was missing for about an hour and I found her playing happily in her room playing mommy with her babies. She was just on cloud nine. She didn't even cry or whine and I finally was able to put her down for a nap around 3. She usually takes one at 11:30 or 12. She passed out almost immediatley. Then I only let her sleep for about an hour. I did want her to sleep that night. So at 8 I put her to bed and within 10 minutes, she was out. She had a very busy day with lots of visitors. I am so thankful that this year turned out great. I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday.

Just wanted to let everyone know that Mackenzie is still doing great. The coughing has almost stopped and she is doing so wonderful. So, so far it is looking like a great Christmas this year. I am so glad...She had a miserable one last year! I will post pictures of Christmas next week and I hope that everyone has a wonderful New Years. Just a little note, a girl I grew up with just lost her house in a fire. Along in the blaze she also lost her 5 year old boy. He got scared and hide in the closet under some clothes and the firefighters couldn't find him. It is a really sad situation, especially right here at Christmas. Please tell you children to never hide anywhere if something like this happens. He may have been able to be saved. He didn't burn completely which is some comfort, he died of smoke inhalation. Because the clothes he was under where so wet it saved most of his little body. I went to his viewing last night and it was so heartbreaking to see the tiny casket and the pictures that were taken just last week. Please keep this family in your prayers.

Sick Baby Update

I took Mackenzie back to the doctor yesterday afternoon, and he said we did a great job! She looks so much better and that he didn't need to see her back. I was so relieved. She still has a cough, but other than that she is doing really good. She has even started taking her medicine for me. But only because I pretend to take it with her. Whatever works, right? Well the doctor also told and showed me, she is getting two molars at once on the bottom on both sides. She did cut her other top 2 teeth, so now she has four on top and both of her front teeth insteed of just one front tooth and one eye tooth, she now has all four. I am so releived she actually has some teeth under her gums :) Just wanted to give you an update on my sweet little girl.

sick little one

Well we had a fun night and many more up a head. Kenzie comes home Tuesday night and has a low fever and is coughing. I gave her some Tylenol and it didn't seem to help much. I then notice my little girl is wheezing. Great! So I break out the good old breathing machine and start to immediately do a breathing treatment on her. She seems some better so I put her to bed by 7:30. I wake up at 11:30 to go and check on her and she is so hot. I take her temperature and yep...103.2! Yikes. So I wake her up to give her some medicine and then set my alarm clock for 15 min. to check to see if it has started coming down or not. Well she laid there awake but not crying and in 15 min. I check her again and nothing had changed yet...so I thought okay I'll wait 30 min. then check her. Then 30 min. later it had only come down to 102.7. I decided that maybe me and her should get on the couch since she couldn't go back to sleep yet, she wanted me to hold her! Understandably...all I want when I am sick is my mama! So after a while of just cuddling, I check her temp again....still at 102, by this time it is 1:00, so I give her some Motrin by now and wait around some. I put her back to bed and thought I'll see if I can get a little sleep...but no, just worried about her fever and the wheezing...I got back up and I notice she is still wheezing so I get her medicine ready and do another breathing treatment. It is about 3:00 now and she finally started sweating. I was so glad! Sweating means fever has finally broken. After her treatment she went right to sleep and I called in to work and she got up about 8:30. I took her to the Doctor and she gets a chest x-ray and yep...you guess it a "spot" of Pneumonia!!! Yikes here we go again. But this time she got a shot of Rosephin(spelled wrong) and a prescription for Augmentin and breathing treatments every 4-6 hours. She still had some fever this morning and coughing up a storm...but coughing is good and she finally has movement in her chest!!!! Movement is good, that means that the lungs aren't clogged as bad and the phenomena isn't harding to her lungs. URGGGGGG! This is one thing I hate about Winter! Well our winter anyway. It doesn't help when one day it is 30 and the next it is 80. I am not kidding...I has been 78-82 this week here and now today it has decided to start getting a little colder...down in the 50's...I know that isn't cold, but when yesterday she was wearing shorts and today she has on a onsie and a turtle neck! No wonder every one around here is sick to death! It is almost Christmas and it may be shorts weather on Christmas day...how Christmasy is that! Well anyway, I just hope that she isn't spending another Christmas in the hospital. So please say a prayer for her to stay well and get over this little spot! I hope it can be controlled at home. I'll let you know how it goes on Monday for her followup appointment...Oh, and to make it all better, while she was screaming at the doctor's visit yesterday I got a good look in her mouth and she is finally cutting two teeth on top in front and one molar in the back on the bottom...maybe she want have to have dentures :)

I don't know if I ever put this picture on here. I love it. She has been such a good girl. Of course my car is messed up yet again...but it is paid for and it has 236,000 miles on it, so what do you expect from it! But we are riding in my daddy's little truck and Kenzie get's to ride up front with me and this morning she wanted the radio loud and held out her little hand for mine. We held hands and I sang and danced while she just giggled and danced with me. It was so sweet. Sometimes she can be so sweet and a joy and other times...a real brat and pain in my butt. But I guess everyone is like that from time to time. I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world. She is talking so much now. Her list is, tink(think), seat, sit, mama, daddy, Jake, nanny, nana(banana), dog, cat, coca(mocha-mama's dog), hiey(Aunt Heidi), aiy(Kayly), tee(Tree), tuck(truck), bath, bead(bread), cookie, cucker(sucker), bye bye, hey, night night, baby, bow, drink, no (of course), go, ride, golf cart, ball, sock, shoe, clothes, cheese toast, hot dog, ights(lights), more, nack(snack), book, round and round, quack, duck, spoon, Kenzie, that's daddy's, mawmaw, pawpaw.......okay so you get the picture, my baby that I tried so hard to teach to say one word, all of a sudden says lots of words. She is pretty good at telling me what she wants and is great at telling me what she doesn't want. She is growing up so fast. She will be 20 months old in a couple of days and I can't believe my little baby is a toddler now and soon she will be a little girl and then a teenager..yikes(hope she isn't like me or her daddy as teenagers) But at least we are seasoned in all area's of teenagerism.