Christmas was wonderful. As usual, you can see pictures at the end of the post. Jasmine was finally old enough to get excited about the big day. Her "auntie" Christine brought her and her sister chocolate Advent calendars from Germany, so she got a big kick out of getting that little piece of chocolate every night and waiting for the bigger piece on Christmas Eve. Athena wasn't too sure what was going on, though by the last couple of presents she started to get into it. Shane just enjoyed being the center of attention. We decided to do birthday cake for Jesus instead of Santa, and as you can see Athena was a bit enthused by the decision! And YES, those are pigtails!
Later in the evening Shane started becoming a bit wheezy. If you recall, he had an episode back in October, so we already had a inhaler on hand to start treating him. He didn't get better overnight, so we headed off to the pediatrician, and after a couple of treatments there he earned himself an ambulance ride to the hospital. Long story short we ended up spending the next three days and three nights there getting him better again.
To add to the holiday "fun" we apparently brought home a bit of a stomach bug. Nothing like having multiple children puking at the same time to really define the word "parenthood" for you! Needless to say New Year's resulted in everyone going to bed early - we didn't even stay up to watch the ball drop on TV this year.
Today was Shane's 9 month appointment, and thankfully a bit of good news. For those of you keeping track of his stats he is now 19 pounds, 2 ounces (30th percentile), 29.5" tall (90th percentile), and 18.75" head circumference (>95th percentile). That's up a bit in percentiles for height and weight and pretty consistent for his head circumference. Guess he is going to be another tall, skinny one!
He also earned himself his own nebulizer to use at home. Basically it will be two inhaled treatments twice a day as a preventative for any future episodes. Sure beats another trip to the hospital! They will not officially diagnose kids with asthma until after the age of two, but there is a good chance that if he continues on he will be diagnosed with it.
Anyways, here are the pics you've all been waiting for:
2 comments:
Great pics! I am glad Shane is doing better. Mikey is just finishing a round of bronchitis, so I know how annoying breathing treatments can be, but you are right, it sure beats the hospital.
Thanks. He's getting a little better at it - the hardest is when we have to do two medications at once and he has to sit there twice as long.
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