Sick kids!

You can see in her eyes how scared she was.

The paramedic gave her a bear to help her not be so scared.




As you can see by the end of the night she was tired and miserable!

Anyways at about 9 pm the doctor came in and said they would give her one more breathing treatment which would mean in half a day she would have had 6! And that if her pulse oxygen could stay at 94% we could go home. Finally at about 10 pm all the results were back she didn't have RSV, or pneumonia, or the influenza. The doctor said there was a chance she could have the swine flu but that they didn't have a way to test for it at the hospital and since asthmatic people were having serious complications like death from the swine flu that they would treat her with Tami flu as a preventative measure and give her oral steroids, along with antibiotics, singulair, and pulmicort and albuterol in her nebulizer. So a lot of medicine but it seems to be helping she is slowing wanting to eat and drink more and she is breathing easier. Ultimately they said this was all due to her asthma and bronchitis. They have finally decided to send us to a pediatric pulminologist in Sacramento to see why she keeps getting bronchitis.
Something funny she did say in the beginning is that she heard us talking about her heart rate and looking at the monitors and the lines going up and down showing her heart rate and she looked up at me and asked "Mom is my heart cracking?" It made me so sad and want to laugh because she thought the lines on the monitor were showing her heart cracking and she was worried!
So I have a bunch of new posting to do but I haven't gotten to them yet. But I thought I would write about what just happened to Adalyn. Well I just posted something about her asthma and bronchitis episodes and how she has had it every 6 weeks well here we are 6 weeks later and she is sick again!! It started Saturday night after our wards Halloween party I noticed she had a slight cough. So we gave her usual breathing treatment before bed. Sunday she woke up feeling okay but did still have a cough. We went to church and she was okay and we went on with our day but I started giving her breathing treatments every 4 hours to try and stop her cough from getting worse. Well Sunday night she was up coughing all night and started to get really sick. She had a fever and was just miserable. First thing Monday morning called and got her a doctor's appointment because she was wheezing and really struggling to breath. Also that morning she threw up in the van. So by the time we got to the doctor's office I had already given her 2 breathing treatments. Her pulse oxygen was 92% and she threw up all over the doctor's office. They immediately put us in a room it was 4 pm and I called Adam at work to come get Ellie because I new Adalyn was really sick. The doctor listened to her and she was wheezing, her heart rate was too high and she was working really hard to breath. They immediately gave her a breathing treatment which got her pulse oxygen to 93%. They gave her another breathing treatment. It didn’t help. After being in the doctor's office for an hour they came and told me that she was not getting better and that they would need to ambulance her to the emergency room. I could not believe this was happening again. So she was really scared but I stayed with her they strapped her onto the gurney and we drove 25 minutes to the hospital. Immediately we had 2 nurses and a respiratory therapist and a physician’s assistant working on her. They started asking me a ton of questions while getting her changed into a gown and putting things onto her chest and finger to monitor her heart and pulse oxygen level. They gave her oral steroids, another breathing treatment and oxygen. Nothing was helping her oxygen level kept going to 88% and 90%. They told me we would probably have to stay the night. They gave her chest x-ray, started an IV line and drew blood. They also shoved 2 small things up each nostril to check for influenza and then to test for RSV they had to shoot saline up each nostril and shove a tube 3 in. long up each side and suck out her mucus to be able to test her. She was screaming and fighting with us to get everything done. By the time they finished all the tests it had been a couple of hours and she was exhausted from all the crying. She fell asleep on me in the bed and slept for an hour. I felt horrible for everything she was being put through and was hoping we could go home, that's all she wanted to do was go home.

Sick kids!

You can see in her eyes how scared she was.

The paramedic gave her a bear to help her not be so scared.




As you can see by the end of the night she was tired and miserable!

Anyways at about 9 pm the doctor came in and said they would give her one more breathing treatment which would mean in half a day she would have had 6! And that if her pulse oxygen could stay at 94% we could go home. Finally at about 10 pm all the results were back she didn't have RSV, or pneumonia, or the influenza. The doctor said there was a chance she could have the swine flu but that they didn't have a way to test for it at the hospital and since asthmatic people were having serious complications like death from the swine flu that they would treat her with Tami flu as a preventative measure and give her oral steroids, along with antibiotics, singulair, and pulmicort and albuterol in her nebulizer. So a lot of medicine but it seems to be helping she is slowing wanting to eat and drink more and she is breathing easier. Ultimately they said this was all due to her asthma and bronchitis. They have finally decided to send us to a pediatric pulminologist in Sacramento to see why she keeps getting bronchitis.
Something funny she did say in the beginning is that she heard us talking about her heart rate and looking at the monitors and the lines going up and down showing her heart rate and she looked up at me and asked "Mom is my heart cracking?" It made me so sad and want to laugh because she thought the lines on the monitor were showing her heart cracking and she was worried!
So I have a bunch of new posting to do but I haven't gotten to them yet. But I thought I would write about what just happened to Adalyn. Well I just posted something about her asthma and bronchitis episodes and how she has had it every 6 weeks well here we are 6 weeks later and she is sick again!! It started Saturday night after our wards Halloween party I noticed she had a slight cough. So we gave her usual breathing treatment before bed. Sunday she woke up feeling okay but did still have a cough. We went to church and she was okay and we went on with our day but I started giving her breathing treatments every 4 hours to try and stop her cough from getting worse. Well Sunday night she was up coughing all night and started to get really sick. She had a fever and was just miserable. First thing Monday morning called and got her a doctor's appointment because she was wheezing and really struggling to breath. Also that morning she threw up in the van. So by the time we got to the doctor's office I had already given her 2 breathing treatments. Her pulse oxygen was 92% and she threw up all over the doctor's office. They immediately put us in a room it was 4 pm and I called Adam at work to come get Ellie because I new Adalyn was really sick. The doctor listened to her and she was wheezing, her heart rate was too high and she was working really hard to breath. They immediately gave her a breathing treatment which got her pulse oxygen to 93%. They gave her another breathing treatment. It didn’t help. After being in the doctor's office for an hour they came and told me that she was not getting better and that they would need to ambulance her to the emergency room. I could not believe this was happening again. So she was really scared but I stayed with her they strapped her onto the gurney and we drove 25 minutes to the hospital. Immediately we had 2 nurses and a respiratory therapist and a physician’s assistant working on her. They started asking me a ton of questions while getting her changed into a gown and putting things onto her chest and finger to monitor her heart and pulse oxygen level. They gave her oral steroids, another breathing treatment and oxygen. Nothing was helping her oxygen level kept going to 88% and 90%. They told me we would probably have to stay the night. They gave her chest x-ray, started an IV line and drew blood. They also shoved 2 small things up each nostril to check for influenza and then to test for RSV they had to shoot saline up each nostril and shove a tube 3 in. long up each side and suck out her mucus to be able to test her. She was screaming and fighting with us to get everything done. By the time they finished all the tests it had been a couple of hours and she was exhausted from all the crying. She fell asleep on me in the bed and slept for an hour. I felt horrible for everything she was being put through and was hoping we could go home, that's all she wanted to do was go home.

Pampered Chef!

I just hosted my first pampered chef party and had a great time. My party actually closes on Monday morning(10/26) so you can still buy items online and I get the rewards! If you would like something for yourself or a nice christmas gift go to http://www.pamperedchef.biz/juliehaak and click on shop online. Then type in my name as the host and buy what you would like. Thank you for your support.

Pampered Chef!

I just hosted my first pampered chef party and had a great time. My party actually closes on Monday morning(10/26) so you can still buy items online and I get the rewards! If you would like something for yourself or a nice christmas gift go to http://www.pamperedchef.biz/juliehaak and click on shop online. Then type in my name as the host and buy what you would like. Thank you for your support.

So you think YOU can dance? Not like my girl!

Ellie is a wonderful ball of energy who is constantly doing things that make us all laugh. She loves to dance and sing and just do funny and random things. In this video I caught her dancing to Dragon Tale's the cartoon. The song was saying to wiggle you arms or jump or do different things she was copying. I love that girl. She also while Adam was home for lunch walked over with Adam's boots and hat on. His boots are so big on her. Of course Adalyn wanted to do it to and I thought it was so cute so here are the pics.

So you think YOU can dance? Not like my girl!

Ellie is a wonderful ball of energy who is constantly doing things that make us all laugh. She loves to dance and sing and just do funny and random things. In this video I caught her dancing to Dragon Tale's the cartoon. The song was saying to wiggle you arms or jump or do different things she was copying. I love that girl. She also while Adam was home for lunch walked over with Adam's boots and hat on. His boots are so big on her. Of course Adalyn wanted to do it to and I thought it was so cute so here are the pics.

Another trip to the doctor!

So ever since Adalyn had RSV and pneumonia and was hospitalized for 6 days when she was 2 she has had respiratory problems. She has literally had bronchitis every 4-6 weeks for about the past year. So her doctor finally diagnosed her with asthma and told me to start giving her a breathing treatment of pulmicort everyday to prevent her from getting a flare up. So we have been doing that for about 3 months. But as soon as I forget to give it to her even 1 day she starts coughing. So Sept. 9th I ran out of pulmicort and was supposed to go pick up more medecine. I forgot that thursday and friday and felt horrible because by Sat. she was not stop coughing and had a fever. By sunday she was miserable and I could hear her wheezing really bad and she just had a really bad cough. So on Monday I new she had bronchitis again which she had just had 4 weeks earlier. So we went to the doctors and her temperature was over 102 and her pulse oxygen level was 92% So they made us stay and do some breathing treatments to get her pulse oxygen level up. It did go up to 95% so we got to leave and it took about a week for her to get back to normal but she is doing a lot better. I felt horrible for not getting her medecine and causing her to get sick. I know now she has to have it everyday! Poor girl.

Another trip to the doctor!

So ever since Adalyn had RSV and pneumonia and was hospitalized for 6 days when she was 2 she has had respiratory problems. She has literally had bronchitis every 4-6 weeks for about the past year. So her doctor finally diagnosed her with asthma and told me to start giving her a breathing treatment of pulmicort everyday to prevent her from getting a flare up. So we have been doing that for about 3 months. But as soon as I forget to give it to her even 1 day she starts coughing. So Sept. 9th I ran out of pulmicort and was supposed to go pick up more medecine. I forgot that thursday and friday and felt horrible because by Sat. she was not stop coughing and had a fever. By sunday she was miserable and I could hear her wheezing really bad and she just had a really bad cough. So on Monday I new she had bronchitis again which she had just had 4 weeks earlier. So we went to the doctors and her temperature was over 102 and her pulse oxygen level was 92% So they made us stay and do some breathing treatments to get her pulse oxygen level up. It did go up to 95% so we got to leave and it took about a week for her to get back to normal but she is doing a lot better. I felt horrible for not getting her medecine and causing her to get sick. I know now she has to have it everyday! Poor girl.

If I kiss the frog will it turn into a prince?

Every night we go outside with the girls and water our flowers and the girls color with chalk. They also love to go for walks. Well the other night while we were watering the flowers a baby frog started jumping around. The girls were so excited and wanted Adam to catch it. As you can see Ellie wanted to kiss the frog. She got pretty close but there was no way I would let her acutually do that. We also have 2 baby lizards that have lived in our flowers all summer. I tell you we live in the middle of no where!

If I kiss the frog will it turn into a prince?

Every night we go outside with the girls and water our flowers and the girls color with chalk. They also love to go for walks. Well the other night while we were watering the flowers a baby frog started jumping around. The girls were so excited and wanted Adam to catch it. As you can see Ellie wanted to kiss the frog. She got pretty close but there was no way I would let her acutually do that. We also have 2 baby lizards that have lived in our flowers all summer. I tell you we live in the middle of no where!

Big girl in Pre-school!

Megan and Adalyn.


Adam and Adalyn. Adalyn's 2nd day of school.


Adalyn saying goodbye to Ellie!


The first thing they have to do is wash there hands. I love these little sinks!


It's a big classroom with a lot of seperate areas to play in.


She is the tallest and biggest person in her class! So her cubby is up top!

So I've been a littel lazy in keeping up with my blog so here is what's been going on with us. On August 24th Adalyn now 4 1/2 years old started pre-school. Now I had mixed feeling about this. It is a free pre-school on our base which is really good, it's mon-fri from 12:30 to 3:30. I couldn't imagine everyday Adalyn not being with me. Plus she was still taking a nap everyday.(she loves to sleep) and I am a very protective mom and didn't like the idea of not knowing what was going on, could she get hurt, what if somebody was mean to her, a million thoughts went through my head. Also the fact that she would be going to the bathroom with no help worried me a little bit. But we decided it would be good for her and help her break out of her shell. In her class there is about 20 kids and 3 teachers. Ms. Rosie is her teacher and Ms. Nicole and Ms. Terri are the helpers. It is a really good set up that they have. We know Ms. Nicole from some friends in our ward and have hung out with them before she also has a daughter Adalyn's age. Anyways on the first day only half the class comes at one time for only an hour and the parents stay to help the kids. Of course I got really sick and couldn't even get out of bed so Adam took her.I was really sad to miss her first day. She wouldn't leave Adam's side and cried when he tried to. The next two days were also only and hour and while all the other kids were happy to say bye to there parents Adalyn insisted that I stay with her. Thankfully she already new Nicole and would only go with her in her group. By Thursday it was her first full day with all the kids and I had convinced her that she could stay with Ms. Nicole and I would be back to get her. For the next 2 weeks she was glued to Nicole and would even go with her if she needed to leave the classroom. Now it has been a month and Adalyn begs me to go to pre-school. She loves it and all her new friends. She learned to write her name all by herself, and a ton of other numbers and letters. She comes home with fun new things everyday and has lots of stories to tell us. She is learning so much and I am so happy that she's in school.

Big girl in Pre-school!

Megan and Adalyn.


Adam and Adalyn. Adalyn's 2nd day of school.


Adalyn saying goodbye to Ellie!


The first thing they have to do is wash there hands. I love these little sinks!


It's a big classroom with a lot of seperate areas to play in.


She is the tallest and biggest person in her class! So her cubby is up top!

So I've been a littel lazy in keeping up with my blog so here is what's been going on with us. On August 24th Adalyn now 4 1/2 years old started pre-school. Now I had mixed feeling about this. It is a free pre-school on our base which is really good, it's mon-fri from 12:30 to 3:30. I couldn't imagine everyday Adalyn not being with me. Plus she was still taking a nap everyday.(she loves to sleep) and I am a very protective mom and didn't like the idea of not knowing what was going on, could she get hurt, what if somebody was mean to her, a million thoughts went through my head. Also the fact that she would be going to the bathroom with no help worried me a little bit. But we decided it would be good for her and help her break out of her shell. In her class there is about 20 kids and 3 teachers. Ms. Rosie is her teacher and Ms. Nicole and Ms. Terri are the helpers. It is a really good set up that they have. We know Ms. Nicole from some friends in our ward and have hung out with them before she also has a daughter Adalyn's age. Anyways on the first day only half the class comes at one time for only an hour and the parents stay to help the kids. Of course I got really sick and couldn't even get out of bed so Adam took her.I was really sad to miss her first day. She wouldn't leave Adam's side and cried when he tried to. The next two days were also only and hour and while all the other kids were happy to say bye to there parents Adalyn insisted that I stay with her. Thankfully she already new Nicole and would only go with her in her group. By Thursday it was her first full day with all the kids and I had convinced her that she could stay with Ms. Nicole and I would be back to get her. For the next 2 weeks she was glued to Nicole and would even go with her if she needed to leave the classroom. Now it has been a month and Adalyn begs me to go to pre-school. She loves it and all her new friends. She learned to write her name all by herself, and a ton of other numbers and letters. She comes home with fun new things everyday and has lots of stories to tell us. She is learning so much and I am so happy that she's in school.