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This is the mask Alexis has to use to do her breathing treatments... last night she started licking it-








in this one you can kinda hear her laugh. We were playing a game called "drop my paci and help me put it back in"





in this one she sits up by herself! look at those tummy muscles go!

Alexis has RSV :(

Alexis has been sick since Thursday/Friday, and it got worse and worse over the weekend. I called our insurance's nurse line yesterday and they said to definitely bring her to the dr. today.

She's had a bad cough, runny nose and wheezing when she breathes... the wheezing is the problem. So Alexis went to the dr. today and tested positive for RSV... which I guess is just a virus, like a cold... but it causes more wheezing, and if it gets bad enough can cause pneumonia or bronchitis and if it gets that far it can result in hospitalization.
So, Alexis had to do a breathing treatment in the office, which she hated and I hated for her. She screamed and screamed. We got a prescription for more meds and a nebulizer for her to do the treatments at home every 4 hours. So far I've done it at home once, it wasn't nearly as bad in the comfort of our own home. She was being poked and prodded at the dr's and to do the RSV test they squirted this stuff in her nose and then swirled a q-tip up in her nose. Poor little baby.

We have to go back to the dr's on Wednesday to see if she's getting better.

I hope she gets better because we are planning on going out of town for thanksgiving on Wednesday. I'm being optimistic and packing our bags today and tomorrow. I'm also baking cookies for the thanksgiving meal tomorrow. I can't do all that in the 1 hour I'll have inbetween her dr's appointment Wed. and when we're suppose to leave, so I'm just going to cross my fingers and keep praying!

So that's what's going on with us today. Alexis isn't having her 4 month checkup tomorrow since they're seeing her on Wednesday. If she's feeling better, they'll give her the vaccine shots Wed., but if she's like she was today she'll have to get them the week after Thanksgiving.

4 month and christmas pics

I just put up a whole bunch of pictures on my facebook... you can look at the pictures without being a member of facebook-

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2033394&l=e099f&id=57700497

enjoy!

Trip to Mississippi

This past weekend we (Andrew, Alexis and I) all went to Mississippi to visit Andrew's family. Most of his aunts and uncles live there, as well as both sets of grandparents. Andrew's mom (Granny) drove us over there and Uncle Sean came too!

This picture is from the trip over there. Obviously we spent a lot of time in the car. She spent more than 1/2 the time sleeping and when she wasn't sleeping, she was either crying for a bottle (very, very little... she did so good!) or staring at the frog that is on her carseat. She loves that thing!

We stayed at great-granny's house Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. This picture was taken before we left Friday afternoon to visit the Gentry side of the family. It's 4 generations :) I know you can't see the writing on Alexis's onesie, but it's vegas style design and says "What Happens at Grandma's, Stays at Grandma's" it's so cute!

That day we went to see Andrew's grandfather Gentry at his nursing home. We were glad he was able to meet his great granddaughter. I didn't get a good picture while we were there, but Grandmother Gentry did take a group shot of everyone, so he should be able to have one to put up in his room. Later that day we went over to the Gentry's house and ate lunch with Grandmother Gentry and a couple Aunts, Uncles and cousins of Andrew's.
This picture is of Rowan and Alexis. Rowan is Andrew's cousin and I thought it was so funny that Alexis looks HUGE when Rowan is holding her! Little kids (maybe not boys, so far all the little kids that Alexis has met have been girls) just love babies. It's really cute, but of course they want to hold the baby. Fortunately Alexis is getting big enough so she's not quite as "breakable" as she used to be. I know Madison (my niece) will be excited about that since last time she saw Alexis she had to hold her while I was still holding her head up to make sure she had enough support.

Over the weekend Alexis started using her teething ring a little bit. She's chewing on her tongue, hands and shirt a lot lately, so I've been trying to get her to hold onto the teething ring so she can chew on that instead of her shirts (she likes to flash everyone so she can eat her shirt, hehe). She was also funny this weekend because she was always trying to watch tv! It's lots of movement, lights and colors so that's why she likes it. But from everything I've read it's really bad for baby's eyes to watch TV until they're like 2 or something. So I kept turning her away from the tv, and she would streeeeeetch to see it. So cute. You can also see her cute shirt better in this picture :)

In this picture she was having tummy time and I thought I could get a cute picture with her. I actually managed to get a really cute one, but I thought this one was funnier, because there she is... watching tv! But on the plus side she's getting great at lifting her head up and holding it steady, she's even propping herself up on her arms. Woohoo, go Alexis!
I've also got a picture of Superbaby... we've started doing this and Alexis loves it! Sometimes we can get a laugh out of her, but most of the time, she just flies around looking at everything. It's cute either way!

She's got her 4 month check up in a week and I'm not at all looking forward to it :( She has to get 4 more shots. I hate that. I am looking forward to seeing how much she's grown though. I'm also going to ask about starting solids, and that's something new and exciting. We'll see what she says. Most of the books and websites say between 4-6 months.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention Alexis's loot... Saturday we went shopping and Alexis got a bunch of loot :) She got a couple really cute bows and an adorable Christmas outfit. Uncle Sean bought her a baby's first christmas ornament and got her name put on it. I'm excited about taking her Christmas pictures soon. We'll definitely take some in the outfit Granny bought for her, it's adorable! She also got some toys that her second cousins (is that what they are?) aren't using any more. And Andrew's aunt bought her some books. I think "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" is going to be read a lot!
Alright... one more picture so that everyone can see what I was talking about. Alexis is putting everything she can reach in her mouth. It's so cute, and she usually ends up looking like this-

Halloween

Alexis went trick or treating at the mall this year. I think she enjoyed herself. Everyone thought she was cute at least! She slept most of the time... so she was Sleeping Beauty.

I love her costume... such a pretty princess! Daddy is her prince for now ;)

On our way out, we saw my friend Melissa and her husband and daughter. So Alexis and Avery took a picture together. Unfortunately, Alexis was getting hungry, so she wasn't very happy.


Before we did Halloween, we actually went and voted. Andrew was working today, so it just made more sense to do it early. Alexis wore a patriotic outfit and got a sticker to say she voted ;)

On Thursday I'm going to the MOPS group at our new church. I'm excited about that, it's the first time I'm going. It's a group for women with young children. I'm excited to meet some other women with babies :)

We've got a busy couple of weekends coming up! Next weekend (not two days from now, the week after that). Andrew and I are going to Mississippi with his mom and youngest brother. His relatives haven't met Alexis yet, so that should be fun!

Then two weeks after that I'm going down to Florida with Alexis for Thanksgiving with my family. I'm a little nervous about the drive by myself, but so far Alexis has been doing really good during car rides, so I'm crossing my fingers.
Alexis is doing great. She's almost holding her head up by herself while sitting. She's really good at it, just not completely steady. I sat her in her Bumbo seat today and she liked it for a little while, but then holding her head up was getting to be too much work for her and she didn't like it any more!
She's rolling over great! I get out the camera after she does it and try to get her to do it again so I can video tape it, but no. She refuses to do it when the camera is rolling. Today I left her on her tummy in the crib, went and changed the laundry and came back and she was on her back. Then I got out the camera and waited another 5-10 minutes watching her and no luck! She's a sneaky little baby!!!

She's smiling and laughing ALL the time now, I LOVE it! Andrew took this picture of us on Sunday after church... she's such a happy baby, I love that I can just look at her and she gets all smiley. Definitely my favorite thing to do right now is to try to get her to laugh.

I think that's all for now!