What a week...and it is not over yet!

Poor Kayla! These past couple days have been horrible. On Monday afternoon I realized that Kayla seemed warm and that she had a fever. I immediately gave her Tylenol, but it did not seem to help. By 6:00 p.m. her fever had reached 103.5! I have to admit I was freaking out! I called Keith at work, texted Elisa (I knew that she was at work - ER nurse), and called the doctor. Keith ended up coming home for a few hours which was awesome. Wendy immediately came over to help out too. Elisa called back and told me to give Kayla Motrin and wait 1 hour to see what happens. The doctor called back, and funny enough, that was the same thing she told me to do too. After about an hour Kayla's fever had dropped to 99.8! I was amazed, but of course it was too good to be true. By 12:00 a.m. it was back up to 102.8. After talking to the doctor again, we keep pumping the medicine into Kayla. Thankfully we did not have to go to the ER because we all know how fun that can be!

After waking up every couple of hours we made to Tuesday morning. I called the Doctor's office first thing to get Kayla an appointment to be seen ASAP. We received good news at the visit. It was just a virus, and it was not H1N1, Swine Flu! Thank goodness for that!

On Tuesday Kayla seemed to be improving, but definitely not herself. Since Monday she had been very clingy and wanted to be held constantly. Tuesday went pretty well except for the night. She didn't fall asleep until 11:00 p.m., and we were already exhausted from the night before. But to make matters worse she woke up at 4 a.m. completely sweaty and could not fall back asleep until 6 a.m. Needless to say, we were all pooped.

Wednesday was better, and we could tell that Kayla was getting back to her old self because she was getting back into trouble. ;) The day went pretty well, but the night was a different story. Kayla fell asleep easily with Keith around 8:30 p.m., but woke up crying around 10 p.m. She was not happy for about 1 1/2 hours. She was crying uncontrollably and we could not calm her down or make her happy. Finally around midnight she fell asleep again, but she was restless all night. We will see what today brings...


The first time asleep last night!

Cuddled up with daddy!

Hanging Out!

We haven't been doing much these days now that school is in session. We have been enjoying family time with all of us and Kona, and just hanging out with friends too. Since I don't have any specific pictures of anything that we did, I wanted to post some cute pictures that I had on my camera from some random days.

New Additions!

This past week has been full of new additions. Some of our best friends welcomed a new baby boy! Colton was born on Wednesday, September 2 and we are so happy for the Wittmer family. I only got a few pictures taken at the hospital, but here is Nicole with Colton.


Ryder and Kayla waited in the waiting room while Nicole and I visited with Tiff and the baby. They are so cute together!

Along with the birth of Colton, we also adopted a DOG!! Her name is Kona (we had to stick with the "K" theme of our family). She is a beagle, walker hound mix. I still can't believe we did it! This past Saturday we went to meet Kona at her foster home in Valley Springs. I never even knew that there was such a place and when we got there we knew why. I was such a small little town in the middle of nowhere. Kona was quite nervous and scared when we brought her home, but she is getting more comfortable everyday. Here she is laying in the bed...her favorite spot!

More pictures to follow of Kayla and Kona. It is just hard to take pictures of 2 subjects that are constantly moving! Kayla loves Kona, she constantly wants to give her hugs and kisses, but we are not quite sure Kona is as excited about Kayla. I'm sure over time, they will be the best of friends:)