Hospital Trip

A few weeks ago, Kylie had another bout with her allergies. We made an emergency visit to our Doctor's Office and came home with a new prescription for Allegra. We are also still awaiting our paperwork for our referral to the Allergist. The medicine seemed to be working well, until a few nights ago when we noticed that Kylie was sleeping fitfully and waking up to potty quite frequently. This then began to happen during naptime as well. After Dance Class on Monday, February 8, Kylie was extremely tired and took a nap a bit early. When she woke up to potty, she sat and sat and told me "Mommy, my peepee is stuck". This scared her so much that she screamed for me to call Daddy and almost began to hyperventilate. I took her to the Immediate Care down the street where they took a urine sample and concluded that it must be a UTI. After this ordeal we went home, ate some dinner and Kylie took her antibiotic.

After dinner, Kylie got up from the table and could barely walk, she was still having trouble going potty and her pain had seemed to increase. I called the Immediate Care back and they told me it might be a good idea to take Ky into Dell Children's Hospital to make sure there wasn't something else going on as well. So, I called Cody and asked him to come home yet again. Once he got home, he packed us up and off to the Hospital we went. It was so hard to see Kylie is so much pain. Not to mention all of the other children at the Hospital, all there for one reason or another. I have to say the Hospital was quite nice and the Doctor's were even nicer. The Doctor spent some time with Kylie and concluded that she was in fact on the right type of antibiotic but needed additional medication to help speed up the process for recovery, thus resulting in a double injection to her poor little legs. After all was said and done we went home with a diagnosis of urine retension and a UTI. The new allergy medication had caused Kylie's body to not let go of her urine as it should have and caused an infection. Praise God for the speedy actions of the Doctor's and now we know that our kidlet has trouble with certain antihistamines and what to watch out for.

Dance Class

So, the other day while we were watching TV, one of Kylie's favorite songs came on Nick Jr. She immediately got up and began to dance around the living room. When she was finished so told me that she wanted to learn to dance like the kids on TV and the little girl in the movie "Game Plan." After this conversation, I talked it over with Cody and we decided to find Kylie a dance school close to home. Come to find out, there is a school right around the corner called D'Ette. We took Ky to a "Tryout Class" and the Teacher said she fit in perfectly with the other kids, so as of February 1st she has been enrolled for class once a week. We now have our own Dance outfit, ballet and tap shoes.

Fishing

For Family Fun Day, Cody took us fishing at a park in Manor. It was a cute little pond stocked with fish. Kylie and Cody of course had all of the luck as I did not catch a single thing other than moss. Oh well, we had fun. After fishing we ate our picnic lunch and played on the playground. I could not have asked for a better day! Enjoy!

Kylie Fishing All By Herself

What A Catch

Daddy Giving Ky Some Pointers

Baiting The Hook

Reel It In

Playing Dress Up

For Christmas, Grandpa Phil bought Kylie some dress up clothes. So now everytime we watch one of her Tinker Bell movies, Kylie wants to be a Fairy as well. Too Cute!

Christmas 2009 in San Angelo

Kylie Playing With Mema's Manger Scene

BigBud & Kylie Feeding The Birds

Maren Feeding The Bevo

Kylie & Harley

Waleed & Maren Working A Crossword

Kylie Riding "BEVO"

Waiting For Santa

Making Cookies For Santa With MeMe

Kylie & Maren

Ky's New 4-Wheeler

Trying To Fill BigBud's Boots

Here I go again, getting ever so far behind in my blogging. Here is a little bit of what we did for our Christmas in San Angelo.

This year we spent the week with BigBud, MeMe, Jennifer, Waleed & Maren. What a week it was! We spent quite a bit of time with the "Bevos" trying to master the technique of riding them. Well at least Kylie and Maren did. We spent many of our mornings trying to figure out crossword puzzles from the newspaper which in turn took up part of the day and the evenings too. Come to think of it, I don't think we ever finished a single one. We also were able to take the kidlets to see the Christmas lights down at the park. It's amazing how pretty they are each year and how the displays seem to keep growing. What fun it is to look forward to the event each year.

Kylie was also able to make cookies for Santa this year. She loved every minute and took extra care when adding the sprinkles. She must have done a good job since Santa left her a pink 4-wheeler under the tree. Enjoy the pics!!!

Kylie had her first school program on Sunday at Friendship Baptist Church. We are so proud of her for singing each of the songs and for not getting too shy. Time sure does fly by. Now that the program is over she still spends each day singing "Jesus Loves Me this I know for the Bible tells me so". Too cute!

Trunk or Treat!

Game Day! Ky must be bummed to be missing the BEVO game, just look at her face!

Race Car Driving... Watch Out!

Ski Ball...

Cookie Time!

It's my chocolate Daddy!

Every year on Halloween we attend Trunk or Treat put on by our church. They have expanded and now use part of the parking lot next to GattiTown. It is such an awesome idea, instead of traveling from door to door in neighborhoods of people we do not know, we walk around and visit cars parked in a semi-circle with trunks decorated and loaded down with candy! (Inside the semi-circle are games, music, etc...) The best thing is, we know all of these wonderful people so we can focus on good family fun and not "Scary Halloween Things" as Ky refers to the neighborhood decorations now! Here are some pics of us playing and eating dinner at GattiTown afterward.