Baby Ella

Sunday, October 30, 2011

My little Emmanuel Lewis?

My brother always tells me that Ella looks like Emmauel Lewis. Truth be told I'd be lying if I didn't say I can see a few similarities. Maybe she is destined for stardom!

On Saturday I could tell Ella wasn't feeling well. She was a little bit warm, had some diarrhea. All in all not that big of a deal. That night was my nieces super hero birthday party, so off we went. Once we got to my brother's house she was on fire. She was super warm and her cheeks turned bright red. She was so uncomfortable. I gave her some Tylenol and she remained hot and became inconsolable. She just wouldn't calm down and normally she is such a good baby. So I finally decided she better be seen. I thought she probably had an ear infection. It was a Saturday night. I really had no other option than just to go to the ER. To make a long story short once we got there she smiled at all of the nurses her fever was close to gone (because of the Tylenol) so I looked dumb, was told she had a virus and we went home. Sigh.

She did look cute with her red cheeks though!

Witches breakfast & Pumkin carving

My nieces bithday was on Monday when Ella was in the hospital. I also didn't know at the time I would be taking Ella to the ER during her party (story for later) Luckily I took her to witches breakfast at Gardner Villiage. She is a cute kid.

Later we went shopping and carved pumpins. Ella helped be sleeping and not bothering us while our hands were covered in guts!

The finished products

Quins Spiderman, Laura (my sis-in-law's Bat)

Mommy and Ella

Luxie's Monster High

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Cute voice

This child of mine

before

Tonight I find myself asking... Why does my child keep trying to die? Ellas tubes were WAY more eventful than anyone would have liked. Her ENT said she did great getting the tubes, it took 10 minutes, she had an infection on the left (I thought so!)... then she stopped breathing, and had to be intubated. Once they thought she was okay they extubated her and she yet again stopped breathing and had a severe laryngospam (which closes the airway) eventually they got her re-intubated etc. etc. and after almost 2 hours she finally came out of the OR. During this time they discovered that Ella's airway is TINY. Much smaller than it should be, Dr. Meier also questions whether she has some type of lung disease so we will be seeing a pulmonogist for all of that. Overnight we had more fun and had "abnormal cardiac tracings" so we spent the day with cardiology. Everything turned out fine with that. We are now home, Ella is doing just fine. I need a drink.