Kinley and I both got pretty sick the beginning of March. Doctors and more doctors. It ended up being bronchitis and ear infections. Antibiotics and steroids. With Kinley's sickness though she threw up 3 times over the course of a few days and had a fever for 4 days. It was a rough but we made it through! We had a scare with Kinley a couple weeks ago. She has had a couple different rashes going on. One on her arm and one on her feet. After trying to get rid of them myself for over a week I ended up taking her to a doctor at her pediatricians office. That visit was actually scary. He made it out to seem like they could be really serious wanted to get blood work right away and the feeling there was scary. He thought it was maybe a blood disorder or something. He wanted to do blood work, check with her neurologist at primarys, look into her seizure med, and just made it seem like a big deal. I'm alone and scared. The blood work went terribly. It took 5 prodded pokes. They for the life of them could not find a vein so they ended up doing a heel prick and squeezed blood out of her little foot for probably 3 minutes till it filled the vile. My heart ached for her. It was brutal. There's nothing worse having to hold and pin your child down while they look at you with sad eyes like why would you let them hurt me? It was awful. The second we left the hospital I started bawling. Things like that are simply too much. Especially because it triggers all the emotions and flash backs from when she was so sick with her seizures. I took her to artic circle for ice cream and called my mom and ended up bawling there too. People around and I honestly just couldn't hold it in nor did I care. It was a rough day. Long story short, thankfully the blood work came back good but we were referred to a dermatologist. After seeing them, we found that she has a viral rash on her arm and a weird type of excema on her feet. So we went from a blood disorder or leukemia scare to viral rash and excema. Talk about an emotional rollar coaster. Lesson learned, just go to the dermatologist first.
I went on a girls trip with my mom and sisters last weekend and it turned out to be so fun! I was pretty nervous for it but it went great! Zupas, city creek, ruby snaps cookies, ihop haha, swimming, hotel, Farmington station shopping, subway, home. We just went for one night and it was perfect. Kinley did great which made it that much better! That needs to become an annual thing.. Atleast! Haha
The rest of the updates I'll do through pictures. There's not really much more that we've been up too. Just every day life stuff!
"helping" with dinner haha
This hasn't happened in months. Some of my most cherished moments for sure.
Discovered she actually does like peanut butter!
Caleb took kinley to the park for the first time while I was in therapy. She loooved it.
Cousins on grandma's bed
Playing at grandmas
Always "cooking dinner" haha
This girl has some attitude. 2 going on 16.
Caleb is good! He has been busy with work and often gets kinda stressed but the business is doing great! He's such a amazing dad to Kinley and always, always has her laughing. He's so cute, I freaking love that man!
I'm doing pretty good at the moment. I had a personal experience happen to me this month when I was sick and I think it has made the rest of this month go much more smoothly. I am still in therapy, and am seeking even more help in a couple weeks for my out of control anxiety. The weather and flu season leaving has helped me quite a bit. I'm taking one day at a time. I cherish every single good moment even if its as simple as sitting and feeling good. I'm busy with Kinley but overall life is good.
Kinley is great! I swear she looks 5 years old now and almost acts that old too. I feel like every day she says something new, outs more words together, and is just growing like a weed. She's smart, and super funny. It's been fun actually being able to somewhat communicate with her and understand her needs and wants that much more. She has more sass and attitude that I know what to do with. Seriously I don't know where she gets it and I often just laugh because I don't know how to discipline the behavior because it's so often. I think it's just a phase and part of being 2! She loves to be busy and gets restless real quick. She enjoys being out and about and busy, but also loves her pepper pig show and coloring. It's all about balance with her. She still hates sleep and her sleep talking /night terrors/whining and crying in her sleep is out of control. It will happen almost nightly and go on for 3, or 4 hours before I eventually wake her up to start her sleep cycle over. She ends up in our bed pretty much every night. No one sleeps here. On average I'm up with her or because of her anywhere from 2 to 8 times a night still. Despite her sleep and overwhelming sass, she's so much fun. She makes life fun and happy and brings such a great feeling to our home.
