Happy 1st Birthday Carter!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Happy Birthday Carter!
This week Lisa, one of the moms from our playgroup ordered a cake and cupcakes for her son Carter's first birthday party! She decided on the adorable theme of Winter ONEderland! She showed me a few photos for inspiration (gotta love Pinterest!) We went with red and blue and snowflakes for the major ideas to coordinate. I think everything turned out pretty cute. The snowflake design was MUCH harder than I anticipated for the cake. I tried a few different methods and ended up royal icing stenciling the big snowflake on top and doing the sides freehand. I did add pearl beads to the snowflake on the top. I think it def added to it. I forgot to take an updated photo afterwards. The toppers turned out cute considering my photoshop was not working and i had to improvise. I would of loved to done more detail work on them.
{25 days of Elf-mas} Fun with Elf on a Shelf
As I posted before I decided it would be fun to do the" 25 days of Elf-mas" with Brayden's Elf on a Shelf. I'm taking pictures each day of the fun things that our Elf is doing when he gets back from the North Pole every night. Plus i thought it would be cute for Brayden to look at when he's older and see what he does from year to year. Next year when he is older we will have him pick a name for him! Enjoy!
One the 1st day of Elf-mas....
Our Elf Set up and changed our Advent Calendar for us!!
One the 2nd day of Elf-mas....
our Elf was Making chocolate cupcakes!
One the 3rd day of Elf-mas....
our Elf was getting a piggy back ride from dancing Santa!!
One the 4th day of Elf-mas....
our Elf was hanging from the mistletoe waiting for a kiss!
Lunch with Santa!
Since Brayden was actually feeling a little bit better today we stuck with the plan and attended lunch with Santa at Grandma and Grandpa Keyser's development. It was a really cute event for the kiddies but the place was packed and it was so loud. Everyone got a hot dog and drinks for lunch and then they called up each of the children/families to sit with Santa and receive a present. They had it set up where the grandparents bought each child a present up to $15 and dropped it off in advance.
Ohh Present!
What is this?!!
Thank you Santa!
After Brayden's last encounter with Santa I knew this time wasn't going to be much different. But he did really well considering, when it was his turn we held his hand and walked up to Santa. He was so cautious and was "studying" Santa, it was so cute! I think the only reason he walked near him was because he was offering him his present. LOL. We tried to get him to sit on Santa's lap and he freaked, so Jason sat next to him with him in his lap and even then he was trying to get away. lol Overall we had a great time, hopefully next year he's more receptive and likes Santa.
Yup not happening... lol
Sesame Street Bus!!
Bye Bye Santa!
The never ending fever scare
I'm sure if you're reading you've probably been following what's been going on with Brayden on Facebook. Needless to say the last week has been ROUGH! On Monday Brayden started with a fever. On a side note, I jokingly (although it's not actually funny) call Bray my "fever kid" he runs a fever every time he's sick and even a low grade when teething. Jason and I both were notorious for running high fevers as kids, so i shouldn't be surprised.
Anyway, the fever started Monday and was around 102 degrees. So i started the usual regiment of all the "tricks' to help break it, alternating tylenol/advil, luke warm baths, cool rags, light clothing ,you name it. The odd thing was, was that he wasn't presenting with any other symptoms, so i figured it was probably the beginning of a stomach virus or strep throat again. By just Tuesday the fever was the same. The meds were keeping his temp around 101-102 so it was somewhat manageable. Then things got worse. No matter what I did the fever kept creeping up. He was waking up multiple times at night screaming and crying BURNING so hot. Even with the meds his temp was rising about a degree a day. And still, no other symptoms. I had called the pedes on wed when is fever was lingering around 103.6 only after 2 hours of meds. At this point i was alternating doses of meds as per the dr every 3 hrs. So it seemed really ridiculous that his fever would be so high. The pedes told me to keep doing all the things i was doing and if we hit the 72 hr window on Thurs and it was still raging to bring him in. His eating and drinking were definitely starting to suffer. He was still taking in some food and drinking an "ok" amount that this point but I was REALLY worried b/c it didn't make sense why he was so sick. He was still peeing in their recommended every 6-8 hours but it was definitely a stretch in between.
Thursday was a a nightmare. The fever at it's highest was 104.6 and was consistently staying around 103-104. The poor kid was crying all the time, lethargic, and just wanted to be held. As soon as the drs office opened I called and they got him in for an appointment. We saw Jenna the nurse practitioner, she's really great. She was really concerned that at this point it had been 72 hrs, which is when fevers usually start to break with viral infection, and he was presenting with no other symptoms. His lungs and chest were clear and ears looked okay so they did a strep test and wanted to do a urine collection to rule out a Urinary Tract Infection. Normally UTI's are not a big concern for boys but Jason and I both get them so they wanted to make sure that wasn't the case. Not that I was hoping he had strep but I was hoping it would be something simple enough that a course of antibiotics would fix. But the strep test was negative. Urine collection was interesting. He was not a fan of the "sticky bag" around his penis but we were able to get a sample. Since he wasn't drinking much it took like 4 hours to get him to pee. The test came back negative, which i was SO relieved about. If it had been positive they said they would of had to cathederize him to get a sterile sample to send to the lab, and I did NOT want to have him go through that. His urine did come back positive with the presence of ketones which just reiterated he was dehydrated and not eating enough. :(
Friday the fever was still raging, staying high. At this point I'm really getting scared. The dr sent us for blood work to see if they could figure out what was going on. Doing blood work on a dehydrated 13 month old was a nightmare, he cried, I cried, it was not fun. The techs at the lab were really great and only had to stick him one time but they were digging around in his arm with the needle for well over a minute and had to take 4 vials. I felt AWFUL for him, it felt like the longest blood drawl ever. He did so great considering but it was still hard.
By Saturday morning the results were in and of course they were inconclusive. So they still have NO idea what made him so sick with fever. Fortunately by Saturday the fever was staying around 101and lower with the meds and looked like it could finally be breaking. HUGE sigh of relief. Today he's doing even better. The pedes office has been calling every morning to see how he is making out. If he had a fever this morning they wanted to bring him back in. Not that they would be able to really do anything. But this morning his temp was normal. Earlier this afternoon he was a little warm but a dose of Tylenol put it back down.
Needless to say it's been a rough week. I hate the feeling of not being able to make things better for Brayden when he doesn't feel good. And it was really scary not knowing, and still not knowing what the hell is causing the fever in the first place. Here's hoping we don't have to go through this again any time soon. I just keep praying this fever stays away. I hate the idea of giving him medicine to start with let alone giving him SO much meds with in a 5-6 day span. That can't be good for him. :(
my poor baby
You know he's sick when he SITS and cuddles
Thursday was a a nightmare. The fever at it's highest was 104.6 and was consistently staying around 103-104. The poor kid was crying all the time, lethargic, and just wanted to be held. As soon as the drs office opened I called and they got him in for an appointment. We saw Jenna the nurse practitioner, she's really great. She was really concerned that at this point it had been 72 hrs, which is when fevers usually start to break with viral infection, and he was presenting with no other symptoms. His lungs and chest were clear and ears looked okay so they did a strep test and wanted to do a urine collection to rule out a Urinary Tract Infection. Normally UTI's are not a big concern for boys but Jason and I both get them so they wanted to make sure that wasn't the case. Not that I was hoping he had strep but I was hoping it would be something simple enough that a course of antibiotics would fix. But the strep test was negative. Urine collection was interesting. He was not a fan of the "sticky bag" around his penis but we were able to get a sample. Since he wasn't drinking much it took like 4 hours to get him to pee. The test came back negative, which i was SO relieved about. If it had been positive they said they would of had to cathederize him to get a sterile sample to send to the lab, and I did NOT want to have him go through that. His urine did come back positive with the presence of ketones which just reiterated he was dehydrated and not eating enough. :(
At the pedes
Friday the fever was still raging, staying high. At this point I'm really getting scared. The dr sent us for blood work to see if they could figure out what was going on. Doing blood work on a dehydrated 13 month old was a nightmare, he cried, I cried, it was not fun. The techs at the lab were really great and only had to stick him one time but they were digging around in his arm with the needle for well over a minute and had to take 4 vials. I felt AWFUL for him, it felt like the longest blood drawl ever. He did so great considering but it was still hard.
By Saturday morning the results were in and of course they were inconclusive. So they still have NO idea what made him so sick with fever. Fortunately by Saturday the fever was staying around 101and lower with the meds and looked like it could finally be breaking. HUGE sigh of relief. Today he's doing even better. The pedes office has been calling every morning to see how he is making out. If he had a fever this morning they wanted to bring him back in. Not that they would be able to really do anything. But this morning his temp was normal. Earlier this afternoon he was a little warm but a dose of Tylenol put it back down.
Needless to say it's been a rough week. I hate the feeling of not being able to make things better for Brayden when he doesn't feel good. And it was really scary not knowing, and still not knowing what the hell is causing the fever in the first place. Here's hoping we don't have to go through this again any time soon. I just keep praying this fever stays away. I hate the idea of giving him medicine to start with let alone giving him SO much meds with in a 5-6 day span. That can't be good for him. :(
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