Showing posts with label katie jo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label katie jo. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
LOL for the day
Katie Jo doesn't nap and hasn't since she was about 2 1/2. Every once in awhile she will and then it's so deep it's impossible to get her awake and almost more impossible to get her in bed that night. Today she watched a movie and then had about 20 min of room time. She wanted Georgia's new Wiggles CD playing and that's how I left her. I checked on her about 15 later and this is how I found her. I laughed out loud at the sight of her slumped in that chair with the Wiggles songs still going strong! I guess she was a little pooped from her late night with Daddy at the ball field and it finally caught up!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Daddy and Daughter Banquet
A couple of weeks ago Katie Jo got to go on a very special date with her Daddy. The church had a Daddy/Daughter Banquet and they got to get all gussied up to attend. She was so excited to get ready and her Daddy presented her with a bouquet of flowers when he got home. So sweet! He put on his tux and out they went.
I took Georgia to meet some other ladies out to eat and then to a Jack and Jillian sale. It was a fun evening for everyone.
Jay and Katie Jo had a good time and she looked like a little princess. I hope they do more dates together as this will set an example for KJ on how a gentleman should court her. Soon Georgia will be in on the fun too!
I took Georgia to meet some other ladies out to eat and then to a Jack and Jillian sale. It was a fun evening for everyone.
Jay and Katie Jo had a good time and she looked like a little princess. I hope they do more dates together as this will set an example for KJ on how a gentleman should court her. Soon Georgia will be in on the fun too!
Friday, January 16, 2009
One of my greatest days as Mom to a girl
So if you work backwards there is the wedding day, prom day, and the day they start dance class as the three greatest days of a mom to a girl. I'm kind of saying this with tongue in cheek but it really was thrilling to enroll Katie Jo in her very first dance class. All the memories of my days at Teele's School of Dance came flooding back and when I put my nose in the box of her brand new tap shoes (I'm not kidding, nose went directly into the box) pictures raced through my head of leotards, giggling with friends, mats, mirrors, and Sue Teele. She was the matriarch of the dance school and revered with a mix of admiration and fear. It's amazing how a smell can revert you back immediately and produce memories you didn't know your brain still held onto.
So anyway I gradually hyped up our eldest and by the time the first class rolled around she was beside herself with excitement.
The class she is enrolled in is a mix of tap and ballet. When I called to register her I found out it was $55 a month for a once a week, hour long class. I discussed it with Jay and we decided we could live with that price so she could have this opportunity. Well, what I didn't factor in was the couple of leotards we'd have to buy and the tap shoes and ballet shoes. After that I decided as long as she kept with it for awhile then it would not be a great cost over time. The first day of class the owner came in to talk to us about the recital at the end of the year. Apparently there is a cost. Shocking! And then there are the costumes. Also, not for free.
So now we have forgone the idea of having a third child so that Katie Jo's dance career can be worked into our budget.
Her first class went well and thankfully when we got there there were two other girls she knew so that made it easier. I sat outside her room and chatted with a friend. There is a window with a sheer curtain over it. I could peep in and watch but she couldn't see me. She did well, was a good listener, and overall seemed to have fun which was the point in the first place. Here are a few pics of our tiny dancer and a hysterical video of her showing off her tap moves.
So anyway I gradually hyped up our eldest and by the time the first class rolled around she was beside herself with excitement.
The class she is enrolled in is a mix of tap and ballet. When I called to register her I found out it was $55 a month for a once a week, hour long class. I discussed it with Jay and we decided we could live with that price so she could have this opportunity. Well, what I didn't factor in was the couple of leotards we'd have to buy and the tap shoes and ballet shoes. After that I decided as long as she kept with it for awhile then it would not be a great cost over time. The first day of class the owner came in to talk to us about the recital at the end of the year. Apparently there is a cost. Shocking! And then there are the costumes. Also, not for free.
So now we have forgone the idea of having a third child so that Katie Jo's dance career can be worked into our budget.
Her first class went well and thankfully when we got there there were two other girls she knew so that made it easier. I sat outside her room and chatted with a friend. There is a window with a sheer curtain over it. I could peep in and watch but she couldn't see me. She did well, was a good listener, and overall seemed to have fun which was the point in the first place. Here are a few pics of our tiny dancer and a hysterical video of her showing off her tap moves.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Some of the sweetest words a Daddy could hear
January 1, 2009
Katie Jo: Daddy, can I watch football with you?
Jay: Sure honey!
She then crawled up into his lap with her drink and snack and snuggled up to watch the game. Of course not to be outdone, Georgia followed suit. It turned out to be a pretty cute photo opp.
Katie Jo: Daddy, can I watch football with you?
Jay: Sure honey!
She then crawled up into his lap with her drink and snack and snuggled up to watch the game. Of course not to be outdone, Georgia followed suit. It turned out to be a pretty cute photo opp.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Katie Jo update
Just a quick update on Katie Jo. She is doing so well and we couldn't have asked for a more speedy recovery. You would never know what she's been through by the way she acts. She has run and played and sang and danced to her heart's content. Her lesions are all pretty scabbed over and by this time next week you probably won't see any physical remnants of her infection. We go to the doctor tomorrow at MUSC for a follow up and I'll type up another quick report then. Thanks again for all the emails, comments, and phone calls!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
HOME
Well for some of you this will be the first news you've received on Katie Jo's hospitalization so here's a little background.
Friday I took Katie Jo into the doctor for a suspected UTI. While there the doctor and I looked a few spots she had behind her ear, a scratch on her forehead and maybe a spot on her neck. The doctor determined the spots to be eczema with maybe a little infection since the marks were red. Her urine was tested with a negative UTI result. She prescribed an antibacterial cream for the marks and we were on our way. Late Friday KJ didn't seem herself but we'd had a hard time with the doctor's office so that wasn't out of the ordinary. I also noticed she had an additional spot come up on the bridge of her nose. Saturday morning we went out to her soccer game and she didn't participate but played around on the sidelines. I chalked it up to the discomfort she had with the urinary situation and didn't think much more of it. So, as the day played on she started to have more and more spots come up out of no where. The only way to explain it is it looked like when you sunburn, then peel. She had very thin layers of skin peeling off in spots around her neck and face. Unlike the sunburn peel these were very painful with raw skin exposed. We took her to an urgent care doctor's office Saturday afternoon and the nurse immediately got the doctor who immediately came in and said she looked to have a rare staph infection known as scalded skin syndrome. She said we would be sent to MUSC where they would probably admit her. I'm on the other side of all this now so it's not such a big deal but at the time I had a little panic attack. Hospital? Admit? Stay? She's only three! So with that we started making phone calls. Our good friends in the neighborhood came to get Georgia immediately and we were off to the hospital after gathering up a few necessities. Thankfully we arrived at the Peds ER with only two others ahead of us and we taken back within 30 minutes. After checking in with the nurses and getting her vitals we were sent back to a room. There they did the necessary work up and we were seen by nurses, students, residents, and a real live doctor. After all this they confirmed what the urgent care doctor had diagnosed earlier, Scalded Skin Syndrome. It is a type of staph infection where toxins come back through the skin in the form of peeling skin. It only effects children five and under. So we were told we'd need to prepare to stay in the hospital for a few days. And then we were sent to our room. During this time my parents drove down and have been here ever since to care for Georgia.
So that was Saturday night and here we are on Tuesday and we're home after a three day stay at MUSC. It was quite the ordeal and Katie Jo is no worse for the wear. She was a major trooper. She probably ended up with 30 something lesions on her back, stomach, torso, neck and face. Yes it is as bad as it sounds but she handled the pain very well. She was treated with IV antibiotics and we could see the healing within 24 hours as her lesions began to scab. She was quite the site in her room climbing very gingerly from the bed to a chair to the floor to go to the bathroom, all the while insisting that no one help or touch her! :)
To answer some questions:No she is not a danger to Georgia nor is there a chance Georgia could catch this No we do not know how she got it. We all carry staph on our skin and there is no way to know if she picked it up through preschool, the environment, an animal, or sitting in the sand on the playground.No she is not able to pass this to anyone. You'd first have to touch an open lesion on her body and then touch an open sore on your own and even then the chances are slim. Good luck touching anything that hurts on her body since she'd probably have you in a full nelson press.
I want to say that if you've gotta have a sick kid then MUSC is your place. The care was phenomenal. We had amazing doctors, nurses, and staff that met our needs. I will have to say as for the Children's Hospital they are more concerned with accommodating the child than their own schedule or needs and this was apparent through many situations where patience was needed with my child's particular situation. Most of the caregivers we encountered had never seen a case of scalded skin syndrome or only one so we were very comforted by the amount of information they provided considering it's a rare infection.
God is good and he placed several key people in our path that were connected to us, a neighbor, or a friend and that certainly put things on a more personal level.
We prayed for full healing and it seems we're almost there. We would continue to ask for specific prayer in the case of administering KJ's antibiotics now that we're home. She is very adamant that she will not take them and we are adamant that she has to in order to completely recover. I'll spare the details of how it is accomplished but no one really wins in the end. I pray tomorrow will be a clean slate and she will have courage to take the medicine on her own.
Thank you for all the prayers, call, and well wishes. For those of you that are local please know we appreciate the concern so much but would ask for no visitors at this time. Katie Jo needs time to heal privately and as soon as she's there we'll be back to soccer, preschool, church, and all other activities we'll be missing. We can't stress how much the outpouring of support has meant. It gave me great pleasure to read all the encouraging emails or listen to the messages on the machine when I got home. We knew Katie Jo was being lifted up in prayer and that alone gave us great comfort.
Throughout these past three days the verse that kept coming to mind was Romans 5:3-5 "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." What a great way to be reminded that nothing that happens is meaningless and we have God's love no matter what trial we face.
Friday I took Katie Jo into the doctor for a suspected UTI. While there the doctor and I looked a few spots she had behind her ear, a scratch on her forehead and maybe a spot on her neck. The doctor determined the spots to be eczema with maybe a little infection since the marks were red. Her urine was tested with a negative UTI result. She prescribed an antibacterial cream for the marks and we were on our way. Late Friday KJ didn't seem herself but we'd had a hard time with the doctor's office so that wasn't out of the ordinary. I also noticed she had an additional spot come up on the bridge of her nose. Saturday morning we went out to her soccer game and she didn't participate but played around on the sidelines. I chalked it up to the discomfort she had with the urinary situation and didn't think much more of it. So, as the day played on she started to have more and more spots come up out of no where. The only way to explain it is it looked like when you sunburn, then peel. She had very thin layers of skin peeling off in spots around her neck and face. Unlike the sunburn peel these were very painful with raw skin exposed. We took her to an urgent care doctor's office Saturday afternoon and the nurse immediately got the doctor who immediately came in and said she looked to have a rare staph infection known as scalded skin syndrome. She said we would be sent to MUSC where they would probably admit her. I'm on the other side of all this now so it's not such a big deal but at the time I had a little panic attack. Hospital? Admit? Stay? She's only three! So with that we started making phone calls. Our good friends in the neighborhood came to get Georgia immediately and we were off to the hospital after gathering up a few necessities. Thankfully we arrived at the Peds ER with only two others ahead of us and we taken back within 30 minutes. After checking in with the nurses and getting her vitals we were sent back to a room. There they did the necessary work up and we were seen by nurses, students, residents, and a real live doctor. After all this they confirmed what the urgent care doctor had diagnosed earlier, Scalded Skin Syndrome. It is a type of staph infection where toxins come back through the skin in the form of peeling skin. It only effects children five and under. So we were told we'd need to prepare to stay in the hospital for a few days. And then we were sent to our room. During this time my parents drove down and have been here ever since to care for Georgia.
So that was Saturday night and here we are on Tuesday and we're home after a three day stay at MUSC. It was quite the ordeal and Katie Jo is no worse for the wear. She was a major trooper. She probably ended up with 30 something lesions on her back, stomach, torso, neck and face. Yes it is as bad as it sounds but she handled the pain very well. She was treated with IV antibiotics and we could see the healing within 24 hours as her lesions began to scab. She was quite the site in her room climbing very gingerly from the bed to a chair to the floor to go to the bathroom, all the while insisting that no one help or touch her! :)
To answer some questions:No she is not a danger to Georgia nor is there a chance Georgia could catch this No we do not know how she got it. We all carry staph on our skin and there is no way to know if she picked it up through preschool, the environment, an animal, or sitting in the sand on the playground.No she is not able to pass this to anyone. You'd first have to touch an open lesion on her body and then touch an open sore on your own and even then the chances are slim. Good luck touching anything that hurts on her body since she'd probably have you in a full nelson press.
I want to say that if you've gotta have a sick kid then MUSC is your place. The care was phenomenal. We had amazing doctors, nurses, and staff that met our needs. I will have to say as for the Children's Hospital they are more concerned with accommodating the child than their own schedule or needs and this was apparent through many situations where patience was needed with my child's particular situation. Most of the caregivers we encountered had never seen a case of scalded skin syndrome or only one so we were very comforted by the amount of information they provided considering it's a rare infection.
God is good and he placed several key people in our path that were connected to us, a neighbor, or a friend and that certainly put things on a more personal level.
We prayed for full healing and it seems we're almost there. We would continue to ask for specific prayer in the case of administering KJ's antibiotics now that we're home. She is very adamant that she will not take them and we are adamant that she has to in order to completely recover. I'll spare the details of how it is accomplished but no one really wins in the end. I pray tomorrow will be a clean slate and she will have courage to take the medicine on her own.
Thank you for all the prayers, call, and well wishes. For those of you that are local please know we appreciate the concern so much but would ask for no visitors at this time. Katie Jo needs time to heal privately and as soon as she's there we'll be back to soccer, preschool, church, and all other activities we'll be missing. We can't stress how much the outpouring of support has meant. It gave me great pleasure to read all the encouraging emails or listen to the messages on the machine when I got home. We knew Katie Jo was being lifted up in prayer and that alone gave us great comfort.
Throughout these past three days the verse that kept coming to mind was Romans 5:3-5 "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." What a great way to be reminded that nothing that happens is meaningless and we have God's love no matter what trial we face.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Soccer
Last Friday Katie Jo had her first soccer practice! She is participating in the Micro-Soccer league with the local YMCA. Her coach is Mark (a close friend of ours) and her teammates are mostly friends from church. It was a lot of fun and she did a great job, when she participated! She dribbled by her self up and down the field and then went head to head with a friend as they dribbled side by side towards the goal. She got a little tired after awhile and took a break. At the end of practice they played a "game" against each other and it was fun to watch a group of three year olds chasing the ball around trying to get it in one of the goals!
Friend Reilly Kaye
Lined up waiting to dribble down the field
Having fun
Battling friend Tyler to get it in the goal
Action shot
When we bought our house four years ago one of the main selling points was that it backed up to the Y soccer fields. We had dreams of one day walking over on Saturdays to watch our kids play soccer. It's so weird to finally be at that point.
KJ and Coach Mark
Friend Reilly Kaye
Lined up waiting to dribble down the field
Having fun
Battling friend Tyler to get it in the goal
Action shotAfter practice they got their jersey's and I got a quick shot of KJ in hers
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Poopyshake
A while back when we were trying to get KJ to poop on the potty Gran left $2 for a milkshake as encouragement. That bag of money has been on our fridge for awhile now. When she pooped on the potty for the first time a couple of days ago the first thing she said was she could get her milkshake. Georgia was napping so I got her to agree to ice cream in a cone with a trip to Sonic at a later time. Well last night we got a healthy dinner at Sonic and her poopyshake. It was chocolate which I find very ironic!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Joy of Motherhood: A story full of poop
There are those few events in a child's life that warrant shouts of joy: their birth, the first steps, a first word, and pooping on the potty. The latter can really overshadow the former depending on how long you've waited on it to happen. Whether a child becomes potty trained at 18 months or 4 1/2 years old it is still a monumental event and in our house today was that day!
Katie Jo told me on Sunday, June 15th that she was done wearing diapers. Starting on that Monday she did just that and wore underwear. She told me when she needed to pee and we went. At rest time and naps she still wore a diaper but it always came off dry. All night and no wetting! When she decides to do something she does it 100%.
During this time things were not going so well in the pooping dept. For about two of those weeks she continued to poop in her underwear. It was a trying time as I did not want to punish her by not letting her wear undies but at the same time if I found one more dirty in there I thought I was going to scream. I kept explaining to her if she would just tell me when she needed to go I would put a diaper on and that would be ok. Finally, it sunk in and she started telling me when she needed a diaper. She'd poop in it. And we move on. For two months now this has been our routine. If I didn't stay at home I don't know how we would have done it. And let me just say that yes we did continue to ask her if she wanted to poop on the potty and it has been an emphatic "No" every time. I choose my battles and I knew she would eventually come around.
So a couple of days ago I noticed she only had four diapers left. I pointed this out and she and I decided when we used the last one it would be time to poop on the potty. Yesterday was the last diaper and after she had used it I asked her what this meant. She said, "Tomorrow I poop on the potty." And she did. Today I put her in her room for rest time and after about 5 minutes she came to the door and called for me. She told me she needed to poop. We went and she did. Since then she has called me three more times and has successfully pooped every time. I don't hesitate to say we are finished with diapers. She is so proud of herself that it was worth the wait.
Katherine Joanna is three years, three months, and ten days old and she is officially potty trained!!!
Katie Jo told me on Sunday, June 15th that she was done wearing diapers. Starting on that Monday she did just that and wore underwear. She told me when she needed to pee and we went. At rest time and naps she still wore a diaper but it always came off dry. All night and no wetting! When she decides to do something she does it 100%.
During this time things were not going so well in the pooping dept. For about two of those weeks she continued to poop in her underwear. It was a trying time as I did not want to punish her by not letting her wear undies but at the same time if I found one more dirty in there I thought I was going to scream. I kept explaining to her if she would just tell me when she needed to go I would put a diaper on and that would be ok. Finally, it sunk in and she started telling me when she needed a diaper. She'd poop in it. And we move on. For two months now this has been our routine. If I didn't stay at home I don't know how we would have done it. And let me just say that yes we did continue to ask her if she wanted to poop on the potty and it has been an emphatic "No" every time. I choose my battles and I knew she would eventually come around.
So a couple of days ago I noticed she only had four diapers left. I pointed this out and she and I decided when we used the last one it would be time to poop on the potty. Yesterday was the last diaper and after she had used it I asked her what this meant. She said, "Tomorrow I poop on the potty." And she did. Today I put her in her room for rest time and after about 5 minutes she came to the door and called for me. She told me she needed to poop. We went and she did. Since then she has called me three more times and has successfully pooped every time. I don't hesitate to say we are finished with diapers. She is so proud of herself that it was worth the wait.
Katherine Joanna is three years, three months, and ten days old and she is officially potty trained!!!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Another milestone reached
Yesterday, we moved Katie Jo from a semi big girl bed to an official big girl bed. She loves it and I love getting to finally use her comforter. She did very well sleeping in it last night! The dogs loved being able to hide under it. If you look close enough you can see a very little part of Lexi paw sticking out!
Friday, July 18, 2008
Katie Jo's three year stats
We just had Katie Jo's three year check up last Wednesday and here's what we learned. She weighs 29 1/2 lbs and was 35 1/4 inches tall. This puts her in the 25th %tile for both. Thank goodness she didn't get any shots! I had Georgia with me too and that would have been quite a scene I'm sure.
The nurse asked her to do several things which Katie Jo was able to do. She was able to tell her her full name (I just practiced this with her not even a week before so I was glad she remembered what it was), she copied a circle the nurse drew, and told her her age. It was a successful visit.
The nurse asked her to do several things which Katie Jo was able to do. She was able to tell her her full name (I just practiced this with her not even a week before so I was glad she remembered what it was), she copied a circle the nurse drew, and told her her age. It was a successful visit.
Sweet kisses
Every day Katie Jo has "quiet time." She hasn't taken a nap consistently in well over 6-8 months now but she still spends a couple of hours in her room playing quietly. I think she enjoys the solitude and it's a nice break from our day. Any way, I always read her a couple of books before her time starts and I am usually so tired by the end of book two I lay on her bed and snooze while she plays. Yesterday when I finished I was so tired I fell asleep immediately. It isn't a solid sleep since I am still listening for her. I guess she thought she'd tuck me in since I could feel her staring at me trying to decide what to do. She placed a couple of stuffed animals along my side and then kissed my arm several times. Then she kissed my cheek on both sides. It was so very sweet. After that she played on the floor and went about her business, but I laid there and thought about what a precious girl she is!
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