From 60 to 0 in two hours flat

This week while CR's been gone, we've stayed at my parent's house. Stayed meaning that we spent the night, played/swam in the morning (or went to VBS one day) and then at 1pm when it was abby's nap time, I drove home so she would take a nap. Then drive back to mom and dad's for dinner.
On Friday as she got in the car to go home for nap time, she put on her bike helmet and sunglasses and got in the car. We stopped at Shorty's on the way so mommy could get some food since we are seriously short on groceries from being semi-gone. Anyway, @ Shorty's everyone was smiling and talking to abby cause she was so cute - I guess I don't even pay attention anymore to her little quirky dress ups, so I started to get a little paranoid about what everyone was looking at...anyway, the point was that the whole way home and when we got home I took this pict of her cause she's just that cute!

So, I laid her down for her nap and I heard her coughing over the monitor. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but when I went in to check on her because she still wasn't asleep, I realized she had thrown up in her crib. Not a ton, but it worried me. So, I get her and everything in the crib out, put her in the tub, pinkie, blanket, monkey, etc in the wash and call my mom and dad to come over and help me. They showed up a few hours later - mom gave abby another bath and we realized she started acting like her throat was bothering her. Motrin dose later and we headed into town for dinner. Halfway to town the real vomit filled fireworks started so we turned around and headed back home, dad trying not to gag and driving 80 with the windows cracked to lessen the smell. Since my gag reflex is on overdive, it seemed to be true that when it's your kid, it just doesn't make you sick when they get sick.

At this point, things went down hill really fast. Abby didn't want to be put down, and couldn't even hold her head up. When I finally took her temp, it read 105!! I called the Dr's office and the answering service even asked me if I had taken her to the ER...I was like, "no, but I guess I will". So, in the car we all go - it was 10:30 by this time. Poor chris is having to get the play by play from me and dad as we head in to town...the Medical Center ER is an interesting place I am sure at any hour, but at 11-1am on a Sat/Sun it was a new and hope to never be repeated again experience. I thought getting in and out in two hours was pretty good though. The nurse that helped us said that he had a repeat customer who'd already been in 5 times that week - some people love to be sick, but those people don't have an almost 2 yr old. Anyway, no strep, LOTS of fever reducing meds and a fitful sleep, abby hung in all day but really perked up when Chris got home. Yeay!! WE really love and missed him. She held his hand and led him all over the house when he got here. Mom and Dad finally left a few hours after Chris got here and mom said she fell asleep in teh car on the way home - it was her first sleep in almost 24 hours! I am very thankful Abby's fever has broken, Chris is home, and that I have parents who are always there for me when I need them - for whatever I need.

Busy Thursday

Yesterday was by far the busiest day I've had in forever. I took Abby and Anna to our Gymnastics Unlimited playgroup - Abby loved having Anna there. Then we had lunch @ my favorite spot, Country's. THEN - we went to Dr Thorne's office to have the 20 wk ultrasound...but more about that in a minute. We had planned on FINALLY taking Abby to see Kung Fu Panda - but by the time we left the Dr's office it was close to 4pm and WAY past her nap time (she had several melt-downs in the office). So, we headed back home and she and I took a nap. At about 6:30, Chris was done with work stuff and I still really wanted to go to the movies. Stinker that he is, he asked me if I would rather watch this other movie that he had just gotten but I really wanted to see KFP. Well, after getting there @ 7:45 and watching 30 MINUTES - yes, that's right - 30 min of previews where abby kept saying "where PO??? where PO???"....she had had it about 1/2 way through the movie. So, we finally left w/20 minutes left of the movie.

Anyways, people probably don't care all about that. They just want to know how the US went. It went really well. The us tech they normally have is not nice at all - but for some reason they had this new lady who was so sweet - she talked to us the whole time and answered questions and told us what everything was. It was sweet because you could even see the baby swallowing amniotic fluid. They let my mom, dad and abby come in at the end....abby even knew it was a baby on the monitor which surprised me. When Chris went out to get everybody I snuck a peak to see what the baby was and I could tell....it's a GIRL!!! So, when everyone came back in, the tech started referring to the baby as a girl - it sort of ruined it I think for everyone - sorry!! But anyway, that's the deal...here are the picts. The video is almost 8 min long, so I don't guess I'll put that up till I can figure out how to edit it down.

sitting cool by the pool

We tried to meet Kimberly, Kat and Anna today at a local 'fun' pool in town. We got there 30 minutes late and they had put up a 'we're at capacity, no one admitted till 3:30' (it was 2:00 at the time). As I tried to figure out what to do next, tried to console an upset and crying abby who could SEE the pool from where we were and kept trying to run to anna so she could go in and swim, and tried to get in touch with Kimberly who was already in the pool, I had another of my famous pregnancy meltdowns. Whatever - I hate - get that - HATE cols ga parks and rec. That being said, Kimberly told the girls to get their stuff and we'd go to another pool in town. I hated for the girls to have to leave, but she said they just wanted to be with abby so they'd be happy where ever. I cried some more cause I appreciated them leaving for us and just cause I love them....Love you guys!! We had a nice time at Double Churches pool.....until abby pooped in the pool and I chose to look in her diaper while she was still in the pool to see if she really had pooped. There were floaters I had to catch and then we had to make a VERY QUICK exit!! I kept looking to see if anyone was coming to arrest us for having to shut down the pool - but we made a clean (not really) get away. Note for future - IF THERE"S A RISK OF POOP - TAKE THEM OUT TO CHECK!! Ok, lesson learned. Then we went back to the Pittmans for dinner. Abby at this point was dry and clean - but not for long cause she, anna and kat didn't even get in the house before they were back in the water playing on the slip and slide in the front yard. Kimberly fed us a yummy dinner and then abby passed out cold about 5 minutes into the drive home. Abby had the best time today being with her cousins. Even though the girls are a lot older than her I hope they will be close. She really looks up to them and loves them. It reminds me of how close Kimberly and I were growing up. Today brought a lot of that back. Love you KEP!

Between swim and Toddler Arobics at the library, we had a busy day (it was supposed to be a quiet stay at home and relax day - oh well). Tomorrow we are picking up the girls for a day of monkey joes!!

Sat Chris has plans once again to take abby fishing....Nick, Jessie and Davis are coming down so maybe the kids will just want to feed the fish. I think Nick just wants to go on a 6 flags thunder river ride like we did last weekend. As long as we don't get 'the law' (aka Aunt Pam) after us, I think we'll be ok.

Here are some picts from today.
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and this video...

which then lead to this picture...classic!




Apparently there is a limit to how much water a diaper can hold.







On another note, Chris found out today that he is being promoted to Senior IT Manager at Knology. This is his 2nd promotion in the past 4 years. We are really proud of him and all the hard work he puts in. Knology is very lucky to have him and so are we!

This one's for you Aunt Bran Bran...

Since Chris was off call this weekend we spent Sat night @ my parent's. Abby got to shuck corn for the first time and she LOVED IT! She wouldn't stop eating it raw, and by the time we cooked it on the grill and she sat down to eat, she wasn't interested. I guess we missed our golden corn opportunity:-) Other than that, we spent today just hanging out. My cousin Kimberly and her girls were out, so I took Kat for a 4 wheeler riding lesson, then my dad got the Ranger working and we went on a 3 hour tour of the back roads of Pine Mountain. Abby fell asleep on the ride, so at least she got a nap which she NEVER gets at my parents. She slept last night from 10:30-5am this morning so she needed it! Once Abby woke up, dad took us down 7 Branches Rd...so named cause this creek runs over the rd multiple times. The girls were keeping count and were really disappointed when they only counted 5 and a puddle. We ended up doing a 6 Flags Thunder River ride when dad hit the water at 30 mph and a wave of water hit everyone in the front seat, went over the canopy, then came back down to rain water on the front seat again. There were 3 places where the water was about 3-4 ft deep, so it made for really good splashing. Of course, Chris and I were in the back seat and only got somewhat soaked. The kids had a BLAST!!! They kept chanting 'Go Papa Go'....and Dad was eating it up - Abby looked like a drowned rat but she was squealing and laughing. Of course now I feel like we can never leave, cause Sundays at Gammy and Papa's have become a tradition. Here's a pict of the kids when we got back to the house (we were in a bit of trouble and had the whole hill looking for us - we were safe the whole time though, promise!). For some reason Abby and Anna needed to be more wet than they already were.