Way Behind!!!

See I told ya I'm not great at keeping up with blogging! haha Well let's see there has been lots of goings on since the last time I blogged. To begin with my great and wonderfully painful staph infection flared up again a little over 2 weeks ago. (damn it hurts!!) I just finished up my second round of antibiotics this past Sunday. Please pray that the infection is gone this time. And of course I keep reading about babies who have died because of the MRSA Staph. So now I am about half scared to give Chris my milk because I don't want to hurt him!! This leads me to my next event...I took Chris to the Dr. on Tuesday 5/20 for his shots and well baby check-up. He is doing great! He weighed 12 pounds and is 24.5 inches long!! This seems really big to me but he is in the 50th percentile for both which means he is average. Dr. Scott said he was not worried about the staph infection and encouraged me to go ahead and keep giving him mama milk, but still I am kinda worried about it! This is such a new super bug that I wonder if enough research has been done on mothers infecting babies via breast milk?? So I have been giving him Lactose free formula the majority of the time. We found out the hard way during the first round of antibiotics that Mr. Manly must have lactose free milk or he will continuously projectile vomit on you!!! haha LOL I also discovered that Target store carries their brand of formulas for almost half the price of Enfamil and Similac. We are talking $25.69 vs. $13.69 for a 25.7 ounce can! I was stoked to find this deal!! They even have a lactose free version!! HOORAY!
On Sat. 5/24 we took Chris to JC Penny to get his first professional pics done! He was such a flirt! He smiled so big for the girl taking his pic! We got so many really cute photos!! I posted a few of them. He is such an easy going kid!

On Sunday we went to Matador to see D.R.'s family for Memorial Day. We had a great time! Got some great pictures with Great Nanny who is 85 with the kiddos. She is such an amazing lady!! Elise rode all over with her Grandad on the tractor. She loves hangin with her Grandad. She told me that they got stuck, she cried, and then Grandad let he get a drink outside! Chris even got to try out the Bumbo chair. He sat right in the middle of the kitchen table after we ate breakfast. haha Very Cute!!


The highlight of my week had to be when Elise asked Great Nanny if she had milked the cows yet (because they raise cattle). Nanny said no we raise those cows for meat not milk. Elise replied "Nah un, they do give us milk cause I saw those bobo's" haha meaning she saw the udders and assumed all udders give us milk!! haha LOL It made me laugh so hard!
Well that's the update on my crazy life! Ally's last day of kindergarten was yesterday. She isn't to sad which surprised me. (I kinda am, my baby's in first grade now) She is ready for summer and swimming! ME TOOOO!!!

YUCK!!!

Allyson had to go to the Doctor on Thursday because she has Strep Throat for the 5th or 6th time since December. As a last ditch effort to clear up the strep before we have to get her tonsils removed this summer, the Dr. put her on a horrible antibiotic called Clindamycin. The liquid version smells like baby poopy diapers. YUCK! I can only imagine how it tastes! Well after 3 times of throwing up the first and only dose of the liquid I called the DR. to get a scrip for the pills you have to swallow. Ally, poor baby, could not swallow them so we tried breaking them apart and putting them in Kool-Aid, yogurt, sugar, and applesauce. Each time ended up in her throwing up! YUCK!! So finally I gave up at midnight Friday morning. Later that day after very little sleep, she stayed home from school with my mom. After a few threats (haha) she found a way to get Ally to take this horrible medicine. She mixed the powder from the capsule in a little bit Kraft Pimento Spread and gave it to her on her finger. (I guess the finger made it a little better?????) Anyway she takes a bite and chases it with water. This is followed by quivers and gags but she eventually gets it all down. She is finally feeling better. I just hope it clears the strep up!!!

This Is How We Do!!

Ok I am going to give this blogging thing a try! I'm not really good about keeping up with these kind of things. A friend of mine who has a little boy at the PDO has an amazing blog that I love to read! I love to watch her little boy grow throughout her blogs! Here is a little bit about me...well us... I just turned 30 in March AND had a new baby boy. His name is Christopher Roy. He joins this crazy family along with his 2 sisters Allyson (Ally) who is 6 and Elise (Leesey or LuLu) who is 3. Chris is such an easy going baby! He only cries when he is ready to eat or needs to take a nap! I am breastfeeding, Ok well I am feeding breastmilk. Due to a very slow let down and a MRSA staph infection in both breasts (boobs) sorry Stacy (probably picked up from the hospital) that was diagnosed April 21st, it has just been easier to pump and put it in a bottle for him. I usually pump 3 or 4 times a day. I find it much more enjoyable to play on the computer while I pump! It makes the grueling 30-45 minutes go much faster so hopefully I can blog some during this time!! Right now Chris takes about 5 ounces every 3-4 hours. He is sleeping from around 10:30pm until 6:00am. Whewww, no more 2:00 and 5:00 feedings!! I need my sleep!! I started back to work in mid-April which has gone really for the most part. We had some inside drama but I think that is kinda normal for a bunch of girls working together! We become a lot like sisters! My mom is keeping Chris for the rest of the school year so he dosen't get any unnecessary germs. Thank heavens for Gee-Gee's! It has been really hard to leave him. I miss him like crazy during the day. I took some black and white pics this afternoon of the girls giving him a bath and the finished product, a clean baby!