For those of you who don’t know this is to kind of be information on Lehna. On Friday night Tait and I had just arrived in Peru when absolute terror struck our family. Tait dropped me off at the hair salon and he took Lehna and Maya to Grandma & Grandpa’s house. Well after 30 minutes of me talking with Kelly and us discussing what’s new in each other’s life and hair color and all of that girl stuff I get a call from a neighbor stating that I had an emergency phone call. Thinking that was a little strange I picked up the phone and a girl on the phone asked if this was Stephanie and said that they were taking Lehna to the hospital and that it was an emergency. I was like “what” in my mind I was thinking “oh my gosh Tait was in a car accident and they are taking Lehna for precautionary measures.” Well I starting asking “what happened” and the girl said “I don’t know what happened all I know is they were giving her CPR and they were putting her in the ambulance” My mind totally flipped out. I was like CPR that means she’s not breathing what the hell happened… what is going on. Well the girl didn’t know any other information. She just said to get to the hospital. I looked at Kelly and I said Kelly I can’t go like this you have to get this stuff out of my hair. I repeated the information to Kelly what I just heard and she was like asking me questions and I didn’t know I didn’t know what was happening… and then panic started to take over. In my head I was thinking that there wouldn’t have been enough time for them to have been swimming I mean they would have had to have gotten her dressed and then put in the pool and there just was no time for that they had just gotten there 20 mins ago. So I was begging Kelly to hurry and she kept telling me that she was and she said, “say a prayer” so I did and I just was panicking… I didn’t know anything about my little girl besides she was n the way to the hospital and she wasn’t breathing.
Kelly had to take me to the hospital b/c I didn’t have a car since Tait just dropped me off and she said she would stay with me until someone came. When we got to the hospital I started pounding the glass on the windows giving them my name and asking where was Lehna. And the girl said ‘I don’t know but I’ll find out’ and she started to make calls. She said that the ambulance was on its way. I had beaten the ambulance. Well I kept saying “I need to call someone I need to find out what happened” So I look frantically in my purse for my phone and I couldn’t find it… so I told the lady that I needed to make a phone call and she handed me the phone and it didn’t work so I threw the phone back saying this phone isn’t work it’s just beeping… and the lady tried again and this time it worked and Tanna answered. I asked Tanna what was happening and she said she didn’t know and I was like Tell me what happened.
Tanna Said that Lehna was outside and she was playing and all of a sudden she said she was hot and so they said okay and she was walking in front of Tanna and they walked into the kitchen and she just fell down and Tanna kind of took a double take and noticed that Lehna didn’t try to catch herself she just fell. Well Tanna and Tait were around her and Tait said was just lying there and then she started to shake. Helen said her arms her legs everything was shaking and her eyes were rolling back into her head. So they dialed 911 actually all 4 of them were calling 911. Tait said he noticed that her chest wasn’t raising and falling and so he cleared her tongue and started giving her breaths and chest compressions. Trent in the meantime ran across the street to their neighbor’s house for Kayla. Kayla was recently certified in CPR. Helen also ran down the street to get another neighbor who was a nurse. Kayla came in and took over with CPR and the nurse shortly followed. Tait said by the time the nurse came that Lehna was breathing on her own but it was very shallow breaths and she just asked totally out of it and really tired.
In the meantime Sam, Tanna’s boyfriend, who is a Peru cop, was on his way in. He said he was right behind the ambulance and he said he wanted to run over the ambulance b/c they were going slow but they were looking for the house number. When the EMT’s got there they basically put her on a board and put her in a neck brace and took her out of the house. Sam then got on his phone and started making calls. He called the Peru cops to tell them they were on their way and he had arranged it so they got through town with no problem b/c they had blocked the streets. Tait said that once the got into the ambulance they sat there for awhile trying to get her stabilized. Then they were off.
When the finally arrived I had found out from Tanna that Lehna was crying and breathing on her own so I was really excited to hear her cry when she got to the hospital. The nurse came out and said that she’s here she’s crying but I needed to really control myself b/c I needed to help calm her down and if I was upset then Lehna would be upset. So I told her I would calm down. I went back into the room and I ran over to her and told her I was here. Lehna was in such a state of panic she was reaching for anyone near her the nurse anyone to hold her but she still was stabilized on the board and didn’t let her up. Well finally the doctor came in and did the initial check and was asking me questions that I didn’t have answers to b/c I wasn’t there and then Tait came into the room and he answered all the questions. The concern was her fall if she had hit her head when she fell or anything like that. After it was established that she didn’t just fall down that she had had a seizure.
While we were there they took her immediately back to CAT scan. This was the strangest part. Lehna was so upset and panicky that the nurses said that they were going to need more nurses to help constrain her in the scanner. Well they put the Lead mat down and wrapped Lehna in these warm blankets Lehna literally fell right to sleep. This of course had me nervous b/c I didn’t want the baby to sleep b/c I knew if she as crying she was at least alive. Well the nurse said this is fine she’s breathing she had her hand on her chest so she could feel that her chest was raising and falling and I kept my eyes strapped to her chest to ensure that she was okay. After the scan they moved Lehna back the gurney and she then started to cry again. She was such a brave little girl I mean she really had someone whispering in her ear to calm down b/c that couldn’t have been down by anything by me b/c she was so out of it she was so scary. Well they moved her back into the room and they came in and had to do a catheter to do a pee test and that was bad but it wasn’t as bad when they had to change her IV. Her catheter chinked so they had to restick her and since Lehna has such little round arms they struggled finding a vein, it was so awful to watch her cry and scream when we couldn’t do anything about it.
The doctor finally came back with good news. Her CAT scan came back completely normal she didn’t have brain damage or anything like that. All of her tests came back normal nothing out of the order like blood sugar or infection. The only thing that was a little concerning was her liver enzymes were raised. The doctor explained that it could have been from a Tylenol overdose. Tait and I both looked at each other and said she didn’t have any when she was with us and usually at daycare they call and ask if she has a fever. And they didn’t say anything about her acting out of the norm for her or having to give her Tylenol. One theory was that maybe another child at daycare had pills on them and maybe she picked them up and ate them. Well I had talked to the daycare director to see if anything out of the norm happened on Friday and she said that Lehna had a great day there was no Tylenol given or anything like that. Debbie (daycare director) said she would talk to the girls on Monday just to make sure that everything was normal and did they notice anything.
Well after 4 ½ hours they decided that Lehna did have a seizure they said that it looked like it was a fembrous fever (I think that’s the right word) which means a seizure brought on by a high fever. Which of course was total news to Tait and I b/c we didn’t even know she had a fever? The doctor told us to watch her this weekend. Keep her out of the heat totally; keep her in a diaper and tee shirt, rotated Motrin and Tylenol every 4-6 hours and to keep tabs on her temp. If she starts to have any problems like her fever won’t go down or another seizure to bring her back immediately but we were to see out doctor on Monday for further testing. They said they want to do an EKG on her to see if they can find out exactly what caused the seizure.
All weekend all of us watched her like a hawk she didn’t leave the room more then 10 seconds without one of the adults checking on her. I checked her temp OFTEN (thank goodness Lehna likes to check her temp) and we kept giving her Motrin or Tylenol.
On Friday night at 3 Am. Lehna woke up throwing up. It was awful she was so upset it was in her hair and on the blankets and pillows just everywhere. So we gave her a bath. We checked her temp when she first woke up and it was 100.3. After her bath it was like 30 minutes I checked her again and it was then at 101.3 I was like “oh my gosh here we go” and I called doctor Patel. I feel bad now calling but it was for a good reason. Doctor Patel said to continue to watch her and monitor her and give her Tylenol she said that there is a stomach virus going around that is spiking children’s fevers really high and that maybe what is causing her high fever and what caused the seizure. She said to get her to drink as much as possible and to eat if she’s willing. Well by the time we work up the next morning Lehna’s temp was 98.1 her fever broke, by the end of the day she was at a 97.7 average. I was so thankful. Lehna acted liked herself the rest of thew weekend was fine playing and laughing and enjoying the extra attention. We are still keeping tabs on her temp and giving her medicine to help keep a fever away. I will go to the doctor first thing tomorrow morning to see what the next step is.
That was probably one of scariest things I have ever had to experience. Kelly had called the church and arranged for two priesthood holders to come and give Lehna a blessing. I can’t describe the relief that I felt once Lehna had her blessing. I knew moments after the blessing that Lehna was going to be fine I actually felt the release after the blessing. I can’t say that I have ever felt that kind of relief before. It was so scary and I am so thankful for all the family members and friends that were with us that evening. You really showed your care and support and Tait and I will be forever grateful. We owe a lot of our thanks to Kayla how administered CPR to her and thank her to help save our baby girl. For those of you that couldn’t make it on Friday thank you for your support of calls and prayers we felt everyone’s love and support so thank you.
I will keep all of you as updated as I can. Right now to look at Lehna you would have never have known that she had a seizure not more then 48 hours ago she is acting totally normal. I hope that tomorrow we will have some answers to our questions but the reality of it is we may never know why this happened but I hope in some sense we won’t ever have to experience this event again. It was so horrible and I know that there were enough angels that were watching us that night that helped save our little girl.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
What a weekend!
This is another busy weekend for the Wagner Family! This weekend we traveled to Peru to go th Grand CIRCUS CITY DAYS! Tait and I try to get there every year and so far we have been able to get there. Every once and awhile we don't get there.
This is was also a weekend of Firsts! So without further delay let me get into the meat of my update!
Tait took our children early to Peru on Friday since he had the day off and he has a new football game that he wanted to share with Trent. So I came after work. When I got there Tait was on the golf course with Trent so I got to see my girls and everyone else there at the Wagner homestead. Tait's Aunt and Uncle were also visiting from Williamsport so we got to see them as well. When Tait got back from golfing we took Lehna up to the carnival it was already 8 something so taking Maya would have been more trouble than anything. So we had some volunteers to watch Maya we went up town.
There are some people in this town that this is why they live in Peru is for this carnival every year and you can always kind of tell those people. They are the one's that are usually staked out sitting on the benches for HOURS at a time not budging or moving for anyone regardless of how long they have been there. The carnival this year was a little concerning this year they have added a BUNCH more rides this year and have taken away some of the food booths, which you know how many elephant ear booths do you really need but I was not impressed by the 'junkness' of the rides. It seemed to attract a ton of teenagers. The also set up the rides up a bit differently this year usually all of the rides and games are down behind the courthouse and by the jail this year they spread the rides out quite a bit more. Instead of being able to avoid the rides and all the chaos involved with the rides they put them on the end of Broadway so there was no way to avoid them at all. Which I don't have a problem with the rides overall I mean I think it's fine but I just like the opportunity of avoiding the whole scene although and we definitely couldn't do that this year there simply couldn't avoid it. It just made it harder to get around w/ a child in a stroller b/c of all the power cords and lines to walk through.
Lehna's First Ride on a Merry-Go-Round
The food booth selection just wasn't that there normally is it just was every different this year with the addition of the rides. We did run into a few people that we knew which was kind of fun but overall it was kind of a disappointment.
On Saturday we went down to the parade to check things out there. We went down to my grandma's house but there was no one there. We thought my grandma knew we were coming we arrived about an hour early before the parade. We found out later that they had already gone down to the parade and had actually scooped us out a spot. I decided instead of going down to our normal spot that we would just go to sit with Tait's family since we knew where they were at. We sat in the sun the entire length of the parade. I had put sun block on the girl’s b/c I figured they would need it, but Tait and I decided not to put sun block on, this was a mistake.
When's the Parade is going start?
The parade was pretty good overall it was a bit on the long side but other than that it was good. Maya slept the entire length of the parade. Lehna wasn’t so fond of the clowns; every time a clown came over to us she would get close to an adult and start to cry. All the little kids didn't like them Camryn actually ran behind the stroller and said that the doodle bops were going to get her. So the kids got their slue of candy, hats, and necklaces it was pretty fun overall. It was just a long parade. At the end of it as we walked back to our car we ran into my grandma & Aunt Annette and they informed us they had a nice shady spot for us by the library apparently we missed them. There were a number of tigers, lions, and goats in the parade. Lehna really enjoyed watching the horses going by.
'That's not a clown is it?'
After the parade we went back to Helen & Tim's and got ready to go swimming. I put sun block on the girls again put some on my face (but didn't put any where else, another mistake) and we took Maya & Lehna to Vicki's to swim. Vicki is a friend of Helen, we had our rehearsal dinner at their home and they have a heated pool. The pool was an awesome 84 degrees and Vicki kept apologizing to us for the coolness of the pool. We kept telling her that we are used to a cook 46 degrees at our home pool that we got for the girls this summer so anything was an improvement. It was a lot of fun I think Lehna really had a good time. She played on inter tubes and noodles and that type of thing and seemed to have a good time. We put Maya in the pool after she woke up from her nap. She just stared at the water and didn't cry she did a good job. It was really nice for them both. We got home and I knew it was going to be a problem with the lack of sun block for Tait and I b/c by 5 p.m. we were already starting to show DARK PINK! It was pretty sad. By the time the sun went down we were nice and red. Even the girls with two applications of sun block were pinkish. Lehna and Maya the next morning were nice and tan.
Tait & Lehna at the Pool
Maya is in the Pool!
That was our weekend it was pretty exciting overall. We spend a LOT of time outside playing and eating Freezie Pops! As you can tell from the pictures below!
Big Smile!
I love this Rollercoaster!
A few days later…
I always start a blog update but I simply can’t finish an update in one sitting. Well I got the new Harry Potter book and I have started reading it. It’s pretty good so far it has it’s raises and falls when there is lots of things going on it’s a real page turner then there are just spells of just under nothingness and that’s when I am ready to put the book down for awhile. They are opening lots of questions but answering nothing so far. But I am enjoying it even though it just seems to be taking a LONG time to draw out everything…
This week at work the new client that I was supposed to have new orders from cancelled on Friday of last week, so all my hard work was basically for nothing, which was kind of sad. I wasn’t so sad that the job was cancelled b/c of the work I put into it I was just sad b/c now I couldn’t get 16 people to work. It’s kind of sad, but so far I have been able to place some of my people at other positions and that has really seemed to help.
I also had my review this week. It went well I guess, I don’t know really what I was expecting but it didn’t quite meet my expectations not that it was bad it just wasn’t what I expected. I got a good review overall I have some areas that I need to work on so at least I have some goals to work towards. I did get a raise so that was nice. Tait was excited to hear that. It wasn’t huge but again I don’t know really what to expect this being my first year with this company. So we’ll see what happens in the future.
This is going to be another busy weekend. We have an annual golf tournament that we play in this weekend so we will be off for that. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a little strange this is a BIG drinking tournament and I have always enjoyed it just for the drinking element but this year we have kind of shifted our “realms of things that are important” so we are going to focus on winning this year verse getting hammered. I’m SURE it will be a tough temptation but I really want to shift things in my life to better myself so this is just one of those things.
On Sunday Tait’s family is having a family reunion so we will be attending that. I’m looking forward to it. Last year Tait and I we actually at the hospital since Tait had his appendix removed the weekend it was last year so it will be nice to be able to join the family in some good fun. Tait’s cousin Travis is going to be married in a few short weeks so there will also be a wedding shower at the same time. It should be a nice occasion I’m looking forward to it. We are also planning on seeing Tait’s grandparents I know they really enjoy it when we bring the girls to visit with them. So that’s what’s going on it’s just one busy run after another. You’d think with all the running we do I would be like a size 0 unfortunately it doesn’t work that way… darn it!
Okay well have a great rest of the week and weekend!
Bye Bye!
This is was also a weekend of Firsts! So without further delay let me get into the meat of my update!
Tait took our children early to Peru on Friday since he had the day off and he has a new football game that he wanted to share with Trent. So I came after work. When I got there Tait was on the golf course with Trent so I got to see my girls and everyone else there at the Wagner homestead. Tait's Aunt and Uncle were also visiting from Williamsport so we got to see them as well. When Tait got back from golfing we took Lehna up to the carnival it was already 8 something so taking Maya would have been more trouble than anything. So we had some volunteers to watch Maya we went up town.
There are some people in this town that this is why they live in Peru is for this carnival every year and you can always kind of tell those people. They are the one's that are usually staked out sitting on the benches for HOURS at a time not budging or moving for anyone regardless of how long they have been there. The carnival this year was a little concerning this year they have added a BUNCH more rides this year and have taken away some of the food booths, which you know how many elephant ear booths do you really need but I was not impressed by the 'junkness' of the rides. It seemed to attract a ton of teenagers. The also set up the rides up a bit differently this year usually all of the rides and games are down behind the courthouse and by the jail this year they spread the rides out quite a bit more. Instead of being able to avoid the rides and all the chaos involved with the rides they put them on the end of Broadway so there was no way to avoid them at all. Which I don't have a problem with the rides overall I mean I think it's fine but I just like the opportunity of avoiding the whole scene although and we definitely couldn't do that this year there simply couldn't avoid it. It just made it harder to get around w/ a child in a stroller b/c of all the power cords and lines to walk through.
Lehna's First Ride on a Merry-Go-RoundOn Saturday we went down to the parade to check things out there. We went down to my grandma's house but there was no one there. We thought my grandma knew we were coming we arrived about an hour early before the parade. We found out later that they had already gone down to the parade and had actually scooped us out a spot. I decided instead of going down to our normal spot that we would just go to sit with Tait's family since we knew where they were at. We sat in the sun the entire length of the parade. I had put sun block on the girl’s b/c I figured they would need it, but Tait and I decided not to put sun block on, this was a mistake.
When's the Parade is going start? The parade was pretty good overall it was a bit on the long side but other than that it was good. Maya slept the entire length of the parade. Lehna wasn’t so fond of the clowns; every time a clown came over to us she would get close to an adult and start to cry. All the little kids didn't like them Camryn actually ran behind the stroller and said that the doodle bops were going to get her. So the kids got their slue of candy, hats, and necklaces it was pretty fun overall. It was just a long parade. At the end of it as we walked back to our car we ran into my grandma & Aunt Annette and they informed us they had a nice shady spot for us by the library apparently we missed them. There were a number of tigers, lions, and goats in the parade. Lehna really enjoyed watching the horses going by.
'That's not a clown is it?'After the parade we went back to Helen & Tim's and got ready to go swimming. I put sun block on the girls again put some on my face (but didn't put any where else, another mistake) and we took Maya & Lehna to Vicki's to swim. Vicki is a friend of Helen, we had our rehearsal dinner at their home and they have a heated pool. The pool was an awesome 84 degrees and Vicki kept apologizing to us for the coolness of the pool. We kept telling her that we are used to a cook 46 degrees at our home pool that we got for the girls this summer so anything was an improvement. It was a lot of fun I think Lehna really had a good time. She played on inter tubes and noodles and that type of thing and seemed to have a good time. We put Maya in the pool after she woke up from her nap. She just stared at the water and didn't cry she did a good job. It was really nice for them both. We got home and I knew it was going to be a problem with the lack of sun block for Tait and I b/c by 5 p.m. we were already starting to show DARK PINK! It was pretty sad. By the time the sun went down we were nice and red. Even the girls with two applications of sun block were pinkish. Lehna and Maya the next morning were nice and tan.
Tait & Lehna at the Pool
Maya is in the Pool!
Big Smile!
I Look Like My Daddy in this Picture!
I love this Rollercoaster!I always start a blog update but I simply can’t finish an update in one sitting. Well I got the new Harry Potter book and I have started reading it. It’s pretty good so far it has it’s raises and falls when there is lots of things going on it’s a real page turner then there are just spells of just under nothingness and that’s when I am ready to put the book down for awhile. They are opening lots of questions but answering nothing so far. But I am enjoying it even though it just seems to be taking a LONG time to draw out everything…
This week at work the new client that I was supposed to have new orders from cancelled on Friday of last week, so all my hard work was basically for nothing, which was kind of sad. I wasn’t so sad that the job was cancelled b/c of the work I put into it I was just sad b/c now I couldn’t get 16 people to work. It’s kind of sad, but so far I have been able to place some of my people at other positions and that has really seemed to help.
I also had my review this week. It went well I guess, I don’t know really what I was expecting but it didn’t quite meet my expectations not that it was bad it just wasn’t what I expected. I got a good review overall I have some areas that I need to work on so at least I have some goals to work towards. I did get a raise so that was nice. Tait was excited to hear that. It wasn’t huge but again I don’t know really what to expect this being my first year with this company. So we’ll see what happens in the future.
This is going to be another busy weekend. We have an annual golf tournament that we play in this weekend so we will be off for that. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a little strange this is a BIG drinking tournament and I have always enjoyed it just for the drinking element but this year we have kind of shifted our “realms of things that are important” so we are going to focus on winning this year verse getting hammered. I’m SURE it will be a tough temptation but I really want to shift things in my life to better myself so this is just one of those things.
On Sunday Tait’s family is having a family reunion so we will be attending that. I’m looking forward to it. Last year Tait and I we actually at the hospital since Tait had his appendix removed the weekend it was last year so it will be nice to be able to join the family in some good fun. Tait’s cousin Travis is going to be married in a few short weeks so there will also be a wedding shower at the same time. It should be a nice occasion I’m looking forward to it. We are also planning on seeing Tait’s grandparents I know they really enjoy it when we bring the girls to visit with them. So that’s what’s going on it’s just one busy run after another. You’d think with all the running we do I would be like a size 0 unfortunately it doesn’t work that way… darn it!
Okay well have a great rest of the week and weekend!
Bye Bye!Monday, July 16, 2007
Pictures for everyone to enjoy
Here's just a few pictures for everyone to enjoy! This is from the infamous photoshoot. Lehna was horrible but the babies were GREAT!
Guess who? Can you tell which one is Deklyn and which one is Maya?
That's RIGHT Maya is on the Left and Deklyn is on the Right!
All four cousins working together
Which babies didn't perform?
Nana and her babies
Maya's 3 month pictures
Maya has really changed in the last few months. She has really started to respond to voices. She watches Lehna with great delight and smiles and laughes as Lehna starts to entertain her.
Maya is starting cereal very slowly we are giving it to her in her morning and evening bottles only. She seems to enjoy it she eats it up with a vengence. I can't believe in about a month she will be eating food more regularly.
Maya has recently started to try to set up on her own. She of course can't do it yet but she curles her little belly and you can her grunt as she tried to pick herself up. She is all eyes as things come in and out of the room.
Enjoy your children for they don't stay little for long.
Guess who? Can you tell which one is Deklyn and which one is Maya?That's RIGHT Maya is on the Left and Deklyn is on the Right!
All four cousins working togetherWhich babies didn't perform?
Nana and her babies
Maya's 3 month pictures
Maya has really changed in the last few months. She has really started to respond to voices. She watches Lehna with great delight and smiles and laughes as Lehna starts to entertain her.
Maya is starting cereal very slowly we are giving it to her in her morning and evening bottles only. She seems to enjoy it she eats it up with a vengence. I can't believe in about a month she will be eating food more regularly.
Maya has recently started to try to set up on her own. She of course can't do it yet but she curles her little belly and you can her grunt as she tried to pick herself up. She is all eyes as things come in and out of the room.
Enjoy your children for they don't stay little for long.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
A Sunday afternoon update!
Lehna & Maya Together!
The first little bit of news is sad but still news. Tait and I have decided that it’s time we find a new home for Molly. We have talked to an animal shelter about her and since she has a past of attacking smaller dogs they said that she wouldn’t be able for adoption. So we didn’t want to have her immediately put to sleep we wanted to see if we could find a home for her first. We have listed her on Craig’s list and we put an ad in the Crawfordsville paper about her. We are hoping to find her a new home in a month’s time period. Part of the problem with Molly is she doesn’t do well with smaller dogs. Daisy has been attacked several times and I am fearful of the girls. Usually you can see what the motivation is as far as why they “get into it” and it’s usually food motivated however this last week Molly out of the blue attacked Daisy when she was coming outside. I just don’t want to risk that type of behavior with Lehna or Maya personally I don’t think she would attack them but I just want to make sure. Hopefully we will find a home for her but if we don’t in a month’s time then we will take her to the pound to be put to sleep. It’s a hard decision but I just don’t feel like we have any other choice. Daisy is probably only going to be around for another year or so before she will need to be put to sleep so I don’t want Molly to take her aggression out on the children. So if you know of someone who is looking for a dog that doesn’t have small dogs or children let me know.
Maya in the Jump-A-Roo!
The second bit of news is College football 2008 comes out on Tuesday at 12:01! For those of you that know Tait you know this is VERY IMPORTANT to him. He will now be able to spend hours of his time devoted to adding new players and “sorting” exciting hua!!! I tease Tait b/c he knows I love him so much! Hehehehe that’s for you baby!
Maya Sitting by herself
Life away from work has been pretty busy. Tait and I have become more involved with our church and have accepted new callings. I was recently called to serve as the young woman’s personal progress coordinator. Basically what the means is I make sure that the girls are staying on track with their personal progress goals and get their goals accomplished by the time they graduate high school. I love being called to work with the young woman’s it’s the group I was hoping to get assigned to work with. The ward is very small so there are only a total of 12 girls that are involved with the program and out of those just over half are active members. Tait was recently called to serve as the Sunday school president for our ward. He is responsible for 5 classes and he is to make sure that each class has teachers, subs, and etc. Both callings involve time away from the family but they aren’t too bad they could be much worse. They definitely make time fly by during the week.
This coming weekend it Circus City Days. I would like to attend and take both girls to the parade and go downtown and stuff. I think it will be really fun for Lehna since went to the Strawberry festival Lehna really had a good time riding the ponies and I know that they have small rides for the children so Lehna should have a good time. Hopefully we’ll be able to go to swim while we are there b/c that would be fun too. Lehna has really started to enjoy playing in the water this summer so I know she would really enjoy it.
It’s hard to believe that his month is already half over. I just can’t believe how time is just flying by. Christmas is only 6 months away. (For those of you out there that are an early shopper) I am not an early shopper I can safely say that I’m a last minute shopper.
I would like to see the new Harry Potter Movie eventually it’s not something that I feel like I have to rush out and see like the previous movies. I am planning on getting a copy of the new book this weekend but that’s as far as my “HARRY POTTER MANIA” goes.
Big Smiles for the Week!
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Week Update
Well I wanted to take a moment to update my blog. I had a few minutes to spare and I didn’t what I had to say to get age on it… b/c I hate that.
Okay so last Friday I go out to my car at lunch to put my check in the bank and I try to start the car and the darn thing won’t turn over. So I’m like GREAT! So I called Tait to let him know the good news about the stupid car and to try to figure out how I was going to get home. The last time my car broke my coworker suggested a car place here in Lafayette to take it to she said they do a great job and they have never had any problems with them. So I called the car place to see if they would tow it to them and they did. So I waited for Tait to come pick me up and he brought our girls into the office since he was a little early. When they got here Tait suggested that I take Lehna to the potty b/c she mentioned about having to go in the car. So I took her back to the bathroom and of course she states that she doesn’t need to go. So I didn’t want to push the issue I know that they are VERY sensitive at this point when it comes to going to potty and I don’t want to ‘damage’ any progress we have been making. So I didn’t make her go. Well that was my first mistake. I was getting my purse and Tait goes “well I guess Lehna did have to go to the potty” and I walk around the counter and Lehna has pottied on the floor and she was then standing in a big puddle starting to cry. I told her that it was okay and I told her to just stand there for a second and Lehna states that ‘she has to go potty’ I was like Lehna you just WENT potty. So I got some cleaner (of course it wasn’t quite 5 yet so EVERYONE was still in my office) and I start to clean up after my daughter and then here comes the SECOND mistake. Well we used to have diapers for Lehna in the car but apparently we have used them all up. B/c we went to get one and there were NO diapers… nor did have panties nor did I have a clean pair of shorts for her.
So we do what any crazy parents would do. We laid her down and put Maya’s diaper on her… of course they didn’t fit so we had to TAPE the diaper to her so it would stay shut. After we did that I then put a blanket around her so no one could see how I had to make adjustments… Tait jokingly suggested we go out to eat at Logan’s I just rolled my eyes and told him I thought it wasn’t such a good idea!
Once we got home I was going to take Lehna’s diaper off and put her in panties she wanted to wear them. This was my THIRD MISTAKE. We were standing in the living room and I took her diaper off and the little rotten rat starts to pee right there in the middle of the floor like she was a dog. So I raised my voice to her asking her why she did that. Tait then told me not to yell at her. So I told her I was sorry for yelling at her and I took her to the potty and we cleaned up her mess then put her in a diaper.
I have to tell you potty training I thought was going to be tough but this isn’t what I expected it to be. She is really doing well with the whole potting trying I mean we could have a lot more problems and she really seems to be getting the idea of it we just keep having accidents. She wants to wear the panties out places like church and the store and stuff and I keep putting diapers on her. I just don’t think I can trust her quite yet to make sure she doesn’t pee everywhere especially with the little display she did on Friday! She does really well at home though she wants to sit on the potty and will do it and ask and it’s great but sometimes she just gets too busy to stop to go. At daycare it’s kind of touch and go last week she had lots of accidents at the beginning of the week and then she had nothing until Friday then like yesterday she had problems at daycare but the night she did fine… so I don’t know it’s kind of touch and go. I just don’t know how to be consistent with her. If anyone has some suggestions I am open to hear them. I am truly afraid to take the child out in public since she has had a solid week in underwear yet so I won’t be doing that.
On Sunday Tait and I went to church and Maya has really been trying to talk she cooes and squeals all the time and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She really practices talking all the time we have tried to record it and she normally stops once the camera comes out. But I’m sure we will get it eventually. Well on Sunday Tait was sitting next to her and we were singing the song and all of a sudden Maya starts to ‘talk’ it was like she was trying to sing the song with Tait. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. She is really getting big FAST! I can’t believe just how much she has developed in her short little three months.
One thing I didn’t mention until now is we got all four kid’s pictures taken on Saturday at JCPenny. Tanna brought her children and we wanted to get all four together, the two girls together, then the babies separate. I have to say that getting the four all together was difficult but it wasn’t too bad we did end up with 2 pictures that we are going to use. They aren’t like the BEST PICTURES EVER but you know they are little and young so I was happy with what we got. Then we took both Deklyn and Maya and put them together… they were sooooo cute! They both pretty much cooperated for their pictures. I can’t wait to be able to scan the pictures when we get them back it will be next week so that will be fun!
On Monday night Tait and I got to have a date. We haven’t had a date in A LONG TIME. I haven’t seen a movie since the last star wars came out almost 2 years ago. So I was so excited to be able to go out to a movie. We went to see Evan Almighty and it was really FUNNY! I really enjoyed it. It was a little churchy but not too bad it wasn’t enough to totally put me off. Afterwards we had dinner it was really nice. My boss had given all of us movie cards and gift cards to a restaurant for Christmas so we basically had dinner out on my boss last night. It was really nice. It was nice not to have to fight Lehna for things and make her sit down and not to worry if Maya would break out crying at any point b/c she wanted a bottle. It was really nice. My bosses actually watched these girls. Kaity was feeling pretty bad for us since we hadn’t had a date in a while and we had to cancel the date we had originally had planned b/c Maya got sick so Kaity volunteered to watch the girls. Kaity was watching them at Chuck and Kathy’s house so I was just hoping that they were going to be good. I can’t think of anything worse then to have my two children act like monsters to my boss. But my kids did me proud Lehna was great she barely cried when we left and that was it and Maya was of course great too. They took both girls to the Columbia Zoo and the park. Lehna had such a great time. She talked about it all the way home she kept saying that she wanted to swing. Lehna really liked the petting zoo at Columbia Park she would follow the little mini horses around and would chase the chickens. So I’m glad they had such a great time.
On Wednesday of this week Tait and I took the girls to the park in Crawfordsville. Lehna loved swinging on the swings and going down the slide. This park was right next to an ice cream stand so we had some ice cream as well. Lehna wanted to dress herself so she choose for herself a very pretty long sleeved pink, red, and green sweater with her yellow cotton shorts. It was very nice. I kept explaining to people that she dressed herself when they looked at her. I had brought another shirt b/c I knew she would get REALLY hot in her sweater so as we played I asked her if she wanted to take her sweater off and put on a tee shirt and she said yes so I changed her into a shirt that actually matched her shorts and she was much cooler after that. Her little curls were getting wet b/c her head was sweating so much. After the park we went home and everyone took a short nap which was nice. We did put the girls to bed early. We decided not to get fireworks b/c all day it looked like it was going to storm and the weather said it was going to storm in the evening so we decided to pass on the fireworks. We got to hear all of the neighbor’s fireworks though they were really loud but I was able to sleep through them and so were the girls.
Lehna is in this stage of “I Do It” I mean she’s been in this stage quite a long time and since we have started potty training she has really got it BAD. She doesn’t want us to help her with anything when it’s time to potty which is kind of annoying but I’m working on my patients so that has really helped. She is kind off funny she will want you to walk down the hall with her then once she gets there she tells you to “go way” so usually I just pop into Maya’s room while I wait and then poke my head around on occasion just to make sure she’s not playing. Then I get her after she’s done so she can wash her hands and all of that stuff. It’s quite exciting I assure you. She wants to do everything herself so brushing her hair putting on her clothes EVERYTHING she wants to do herself.
Well that’s the update so far for this week. This is like a living document it always takes me a couple of days to get it finished so I always cover a few days in like a long update. So enjoy. I hope to add pictures this weekend.
Okay so last Friday I go out to my car at lunch to put my check in the bank and I try to start the car and the darn thing won’t turn over. So I’m like GREAT! So I called Tait to let him know the good news about the stupid car and to try to figure out how I was going to get home. The last time my car broke my coworker suggested a car place here in Lafayette to take it to she said they do a great job and they have never had any problems with them. So I called the car place to see if they would tow it to them and they did. So I waited for Tait to come pick me up and he brought our girls into the office since he was a little early. When they got here Tait suggested that I take Lehna to the potty b/c she mentioned about having to go in the car. So I took her back to the bathroom and of course she states that she doesn’t need to go. So I didn’t want to push the issue I know that they are VERY sensitive at this point when it comes to going to potty and I don’t want to ‘damage’ any progress we have been making. So I didn’t make her go. Well that was my first mistake. I was getting my purse and Tait goes “well I guess Lehna did have to go to the potty” and I walk around the counter and Lehna has pottied on the floor and she was then standing in a big puddle starting to cry. I told her that it was okay and I told her to just stand there for a second and Lehna states that ‘she has to go potty’ I was like Lehna you just WENT potty. So I got some cleaner (of course it wasn’t quite 5 yet so EVERYONE was still in my office) and I start to clean up after my daughter and then here comes the SECOND mistake. Well we used to have diapers for Lehna in the car but apparently we have used them all up. B/c we went to get one and there were NO diapers… nor did have panties nor did I have a clean pair of shorts for her.
So we do what any crazy parents would do. We laid her down and put Maya’s diaper on her… of course they didn’t fit so we had to TAPE the diaper to her so it would stay shut. After we did that I then put a blanket around her so no one could see how I had to make adjustments… Tait jokingly suggested we go out to eat at Logan’s I just rolled my eyes and told him I thought it wasn’t such a good idea!
Once we got home I was going to take Lehna’s diaper off and put her in panties she wanted to wear them. This was my THIRD MISTAKE. We were standing in the living room and I took her diaper off and the little rotten rat starts to pee right there in the middle of the floor like she was a dog. So I raised my voice to her asking her why she did that. Tait then told me not to yell at her. So I told her I was sorry for yelling at her and I took her to the potty and we cleaned up her mess then put her in a diaper.
I have to tell you potty training I thought was going to be tough but this isn’t what I expected it to be. She is really doing well with the whole potting trying I mean we could have a lot more problems and she really seems to be getting the idea of it we just keep having accidents. She wants to wear the panties out places like church and the store and stuff and I keep putting diapers on her. I just don’t think I can trust her quite yet to make sure she doesn’t pee everywhere especially with the little display she did on Friday! She does really well at home though she wants to sit on the potty and will do it and ask and it’s great but sometimes she just gets too busy to stop to go. At daycare it’s kind of touch and go last week she had lots of accidents at the beginning of the week and then she had nothing until Friday then like yesterday she had problems at daycare but the night she did fine… so I don’t know it’s kind of touch and go. I just don’t know how to be consistent with her. If anyone has some suggestions I am open to hear them. I am truly afraid to take the child out in public since she has had a solid week in underwear yet so I won’t be doing that.
On Sunday Tait and I went to church and Maya has really been trying to talk she cooes and squeals all the time and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She really practices talking all the time we have tried to record it and she normally stops once the camera comes out. But I’m sure we will get it eventually. Well on Sunday Tait was sitting next to her and we were singing the song and all of a sudden Maya starts to ‘talk’ it was like she was trying to sing the song with Tait. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. She is really getting big FAST! I can’t believe just how much she has developed in her short little three months.
One thing I didn’t mention until now is we got all four kid’s pictures taken on Saturday at JCPenny. Tanna brought her children and we wanted to get all four together, the two girls together, then the babies separate. I have to say that getting the four all together was difficult but it wasn’t too bad we did end up with 2 pictures that we are going to use. They aren’t like the BEST PICTURES EVER but you know they are little and young so I was happy with what we got. Then we took both Deklyn and Maya and put them together… they were sooooo cute! They both pretty much cooperated for their pictures. I can’t wait to be able to scan the pictures when we get them back it will be next week so that will be fun!
On Monday night Tait and I got to have a date. We haven’t had a date in A LONG TIME. I haven’t seen a movie since the last star wars came out almost 2 years ago. So I was so excited to be able to go out to a movie. We went to see Evan Almighty and it was really FUNNY! I really enjoyed it. It was a little churchy but not too bad it wasn’t enough to totally put me off. Afterwards we had dinner it was really nice. My boss had given all of us movie cards and gift cards to a restaurant for Christmas so we basically had dinner out on my boss last night. It was really nice. It was nice not to have to fight Lehna for things and make her sit down and not to worry if Maya would break out crying at any point b/c she wanted a bottle. It was really nice. My bosses actually watched these girls. Kaity was feeling pretty bad for us since we hadn’t had a date in a while and we had to cancel the date we had originally had planned b/c Maya got sick so Kaity volunteered to watch the girls. Kaity was watching them at Chuck and Kathy’s house so I was just hoping that they were going to be good. I can’t think of anything worse then to have my two children act like monsters to my boss. But my kids did me proud Lehna was great she barely cried when we left and that was it and Maya was of course great too. They took both girls to the Columbia Zoo and the park. Lehna had such a great time. She talked about it all the way home she kept saying that she wanted to swing. Lehna really liked the petting zoo at Columbia Park she would follow the little mini horses around and would chase the chickens. So I’m glad they had such a great time.
On Wednesday of this week Tait and I took the girls to the park in Crawfordsville. Lehna loved swinging on the swings and going down the slide. This park was right next to an ice cream stand so we had some ice cream as well. Lehna wanted to dress herself so she choose for herself a very pretty long sleeved pink, red, and green sweater with her yellow cotton shorts. It was very nice. I kept explaining to people that she dressed herself when they looked at her. I had brought another shirt b/c I knew she would get REALLY hot in her sweater so as we played I asked her if she wanted to take her sweater off and put on a tee shirt and she said yes so I changed her into a shirt that actually matched her shorts and she was much cooler after that. Her little curls were getting wet b/c her head was sweating so much. After the park we went home and everyone took a short nap which was nice. We did put the girls to bed early. We decided not to get fireworks b/c all day it looked like it was going to storm and the weather said it was going to storm in the evening so we decided to pass on the fireworks. We got to hear all of the neighbor’s fireworks though they were really loud but I was able to sleep through them and so were the girls.
Lehna is in this stage of “I Do It” I mean she’s been in this stage quite a long time and since we have started potty training she has really got it BAD. She doesn’t want us to help her with anything when it’s time to potty which is kind of annoying but I’m working on my patients so that has really helped. She is kind off funny she will want you to walk down the hall with her then once she gets there she tells you to “go way” so usually I just pop into Maya’s room while I wait and then poke my head around on occasion just to make sure she’s not playing. Then I get her after she’s done so she can wash her hands and all of that stuff. It’s quite exciting I assure you. She wants to do everything herself so brushing her hair putting on her clothes EVERYTHING she wants to do herself.
Well that’s the update so far for this week. This is like a living document it always takes me a couple of days to get it finished so I always cover a few days in like a long update. So enjoy. I hope to add pictures this weekend.