Been too long, about our Daughter

Its been way to long since I updated our blog!! Since the last post we have had a little girl who is almost 2 (as of Feb. 2014). In some ways it seems like yesterday we were rushing to the hospital with my in labor. In other ways all of our daughter, Addalynn's, health issues make it seem like 5 years.


Addalynn was born and it was discovered right away that she was having a hard time eating. Re assumed reflux since Landon had it and started treating. Feedings would take 3-4 hours with Addalynn struggling to swallow her milk. She also begin to have issues with her lungs congestion. After taking her to a pulmonologies and starting to thickening anything she eats she improved but continued to have chronic bronchitis. We started breathing treatments, inhalers, and CPT (chest physical therapy). In November when Addalynn was 9 mo old we completed a swallow study and discovered she had a swallow disorder causing her liquids and reflux to go into her lungs. We begin therapy 3 times a week at Baylor. By this time she had began getting chronic sinus infections and it was suspected that she had cystic fibrosis, thankfully the test came back negative.
After her 6th sinus infection before she was 1 year old we took her to an ENT and then removed her adenoids and put in ear tubes. This didn't improve things and she continued to get sinus infections. In April we started antibiotics in a machine that sent them straight into her nasal passage and preformed a CT scan to check. Everything came back clear and we were sent to a immunologist to check for an immue disorder like her grandma. (Donna). The results took over a month but they also came back clear, another HUGE blessing!!
Addalynn stayed well until the cold weather has started sinus infections again but they are more manageable now with out the swallow disorder, reflux, and chronic bronchitis. She has a large amount of daily medicines that help keep the infections at a minimum but we hope she will continue to see less and less infections. As of now Addalynn has been treated for 14 sinus infections but only a few this fall/winter season.

Easter Weekend

Landon enjoyed the egg hunt!

He looks real cute in his bunny bib.

Here is what the Easter bunny brought him.

He had fun with the bubbles in his swing.

Easter weekend was a lot of fun for Landon. We had family and friends join us for a wonderful lunch on Sunday and an egg hunt. Landon had a lot of fun and played hard.

Easter Brunch

Today, Saturday April 16th, we had an Easter brunch with out church class. Landon had many friends over to play and they enjoyed some food, toys, an egg hunt, and some bubble fun!

 These are the youngest of our brunch attendees. Jack and Cody.

 Picking up eggs was fun for Landon but he discovered that they opened and had goldfish in them. The hunt was over! He just wanted to open and close the eggs. After he finished eating all his goldfish he found Samuel's basket of eggs and started on them.

 The kids loved the bubble blower! Landon was willing to practice his standing up so he could get a better view of them.

 Here are Claire, Piper, and Addison loving the bubbles!

Here is Landon going through Samuel's Easter eggs.

Playdate

We had a fun playdate Friday April 15th. We got to see our friend Tristian and Payton. Landon and Tristan were being all boy and Payton joined in the play when she felt brave.

We can both play music!

 We can all play with the house and this time no one got hurt!

We always want to share but notice, they both drink our of the same cup. Not what we had in mind of sharing. Tristan was much better at sharing than Landon. Landon wants what ever someone else has.

The boys loved thier easter baskets, Thanks grandma J!

Easter Bunny- so cute!

We had our picture taken with the Easter bunny and Landon loved it.  After the picture he wanted to stay with the bunny and not come back to mommy. We have not descovered anything he is scared of yet.

Still working- Godzilla

Landon is now almost 13 months. He is not walking, saying any words, or signing  but I am sure he will any day. He seems to be very stubbrun (He must get it from dad :-)We are working on how to play correctly with his toys. He loves to crawl and climb all over everything and everyone, and we like to call him Godzilla! Here is an example of how the toys aren't used correctly and how our godzilla likes to get around since he isn't interested in walking. We LOVE our Godzilla!

St. Pattys Day

St. Patricks Day is the day after Landons birthday and I made him a cute onsie with grandmas help. He loved playing with his train and showing off his shirt!

Landons First Birthday!

 Landon got a slide from Grandma and grandpa! He enjoyed sliding on it with grandpa.

We didn't have time to set up his swing so grandpa gave him a ride before the party!

 Here is Landons cake. He did a good job of eating most of it all by himself. It was made out of a banana bread cake and homemade icing from our friend Heather. She did such a great job!

 
Notice how much cake he ate. I finally stopped him with about 3/4s was finished off. He has a HUGE appetite!

The Ball pit was a big hit with the kids!

He had lots of fun opening gifts, (we practiced before). All he wanted to do was play with the toys as we unwrapped. We got alot of great gifts and Landon has enjoyed playing with all of them!

Getting ready to be 1

We are very excited and a little stressed but we are getting ready for Landons first birthday party next weekend.

sick, sick, sick

Monday of Presidents day Landon started running a fever and we made a trip to the doctor. They tested his oxygen and it was fine but he did have an ear infection and a bad cough. He stayed home with Grandma Jasper from Tuesday- Friday, thank goodness she was available!
We had to have Landon sleep in his car seat so he would be elevated and he did ok with it (surprisingly!).The following Monday he still had a very wet cough and returned to doctor to find out his sickness was also RSV. We were very lucky because we didn't have to spend any time in the hospital like most the babies we know that have gotten RSV. His contagious period was over because the fever stopped the previous week so he was ok to go back to day care after a day of getting breathing treatments.

The breathing treatments were very difficult at first and he would scream and have to be held down through the whole thing. Now he sits pretty good unless he is real tired. We have learned that turning on cartoons also helps. He looks like he is sleeping in the picture but he is just looking down.

He is almost back to normal now and we are glad he is feeling better. We are still having him sleep elevated until his birthday because I don't want any drainage to cause an infection to come back or make his cough worse.

Tomorrow will be our first day we return to church, which is where we are pretty sure he caught RSV. Wish us luck!