Doctor here we come October 13, 2008

After all our drama over the weekend with the throwing up and coughing, we decided that Ariyana needed to go to the doctor to make sure she didn’t have anything serious (our niece has a minor case of pneumonia and was around Ariyana).  I was off work today because it was Columbus Day and had an eye doctor appointment in Dahlonega (45 minutes away) at 11am.  So Zach was going to call the doctor when they opened and see what time they could see her.  I told him to try for the afternoon so I would be back in time to take her.

He dropped her off at daycare and on his way to work, he called the doctor’s to see when they could see her.  This was around 8am and they told him they had an opening at 8:15 and he said I will take it.  He turned around and went backc to the daycare, picked up Ariyana, and headed to the doctor’s.  When they got there they went right into the examination room and saw the doctor.  He checked her breathing, ears, nose and throat and decided that she just had a bad cold and lots of congestion.  He said he didn’t see any signs of it being pneumonia and as for the throwing up, he said it was probably a little bit of a stomach virus.  He said it wasn’t contagious and she was okay to go back to daycare.  He said give her Triaminic and Little Nose nasal drops to help with the congestion, and Infant Tylenol for the fever and aching. He also said not to force her to eat but to make sure she had plenty of water, formula, and pedialyte to keep her hydrated.

She went back to daycare and was okay the rest of the day.  When I picked her up, they said she was not herself.  They said she just wanted to be held and that she slept a lot.  The doctor said she might want to sleep a lot and to let her so that was kind of good.  She was the same way when we got home, very clingy and didn’t really want to play.  She did, however, go right to sleep when we put her to bed.

Mule Camp Market and Pictures

So this weekend was Mule Camp Market in Gainesville.  What is Mule Camp Market you ask??  Well it is a festival where lots of vendors get together and sell things.  They also have music, food, and games for the kids.  We took Ariyana there on Saturday and had a really good time.  My mom met us there too and went.  We walked around for a while shopping.  I bought my stepdad his Christmas gift….and he is really going to like it.  I also bought a little backpack to use as a diaper bag.  I have been trying to find one for a while so I was happy to find it.  Ariyana had a very good time at the festival.  We had her in the stroller but she wanted to walk.  We finally took her out of the stroller and let her walk around.  She walked for like 15 minutes.  We were walking down one of the aisles and there was music playing.  All of a sudden, she stopped walking and just started dancing.  One of the ladies at a booth saw her and started to dance too, which made Ariyana dance even more….it was so cute.  Then we got some food and of course Ariyana had to have some of everything we were eating.

Then Saturday night we went to our nephew’s 10th birthday party.  We had a really good time there.  While we were there, we were eating watermelon and I had cut some up for Ariyana.  She was eating them just fine, then my sister-in-law picked her up and i continued to feed her.  All of a sudden she acted like she was choking and then she just started throwing up….all in my hand and then in the kitchen sink.  Luckily we were standing in the kitchen next to the sink.  Other than that, the party was good.

On Sunday we went down to Melissa’s (my sister) to take Ariyana’s one year old pictures after church.  Ariyana still had her cough and it was still getting worse.  The church nursery said that they could tell Ariyana wasn’t feeling well.  They said she is always such a happy baby and today she was just clingy and not happy.  We asked them when she would move up to the next room there because the one she is in is for birth to crawlers and she is now walking.  They said that it was really up to us, but that we could keep her in that room for a little longer until she was good at walking.  They said the next room has some big kids and they are a little rougher so it would be good if Ariyana could hold her own before she moved up.  The lady that watched her during the service said that she didn’t want Ariyana to move to it because she really enjoyed watching her and would be jealous if she was over there.

After church we headed to Melissa’s house.  When we got there Ariyana went right to Melissa, which is usually a good sign that she will be okay for the pictures.  We decided to do the cupcake picture first just in case she wasn’t feeling well enough to do other pictures.  We put her in her white onsie and put the cupcake in front of her.  It was chocolate with pink icing.   She looked at it and put her finger in it.  Then she looked at her hand like what the crap is this on my hand.  She looked over at me and started to whine a little.  Then I took some icing and tried to put it in her mouth but she just turned away…I can’t believe Ariyana didn’t want food.  Anyway, then she stuck her foot in the icing and then her leg…..Needless to say she had it all over her leg but didn’t eat any.  After I washed all the icing off, we put her in the GT cheerleading outfit and took some pics.  She wouldn’t be still for them so we would stand her as far back on the paper as we could and then get out of the way and she would start walking toward Melissa and she would snap the pics.  Then we did some pictures in the Georgia cheerleading outfit and did the same thing. Then we put her birthday outfit on and finished up the session.  Through all this, her cough continued to get worse.

We got home and fed Ariyana dinner.  While I was feeding her she did the same thing as Saturday night, she acted like she was choking and then started throwing up everything.  It startled her so bad that she started crying….it was sad 😦  It was also the nastiest thing….she covered her whole high chair tray with throw up….I thought Zach and me were going to lose it too.  It was hard to swallow.  After we cleaned all that up and her, we decided to give her some puffs and cheerios (because they are a little more solid so if they came back up it wouldn’t be as nasty).  Well some of them came back up too.  It was a rough night to say the least.  Then she was so congested she couldn’t sleep, she was up til 1am crying.  She would stop if we held her but as soon as we put her down, she started to cry again.  I gave her a bottle at 12am because I thought she might be hungry since she didn’t keep her dinner down…It seemed to help her because from 12am to 1am she was awake but not crying….just laying in her crib talking to herself and animals.