Showing posts with label Sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sleep. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cleft Clinic!

Yesterday we had Kaylee's cleft clinic. That's an appointment where we see all of her team of doctors who help with her cleft. We saw Dr. Allen, her surgeon. Dr. Meredith, her dentist. A bunch of other people including her audiologist, speech pathologist, and a psychologist (because they just always send one for support or something). She saw a lot of people. Overall we were there for about 8 hours. We left home at 9 am and didn't get back until 8 pm. Ugh, and it was hot so Kaylee was not happy on the ride home :(

Anyways, how are things going for her? Dr. Allen says she is looking great as far as her lip repair and palate repair goes. He sees no reason to do any extra repairs to her lip or her palate. He might think about starting to do some nose repair for symmetry, but wants to look over her case a bit more first.

Dr. Meredith says that Kaylee's teeth are in great shape. No bleeding gums, no major problems. She still has four molars that need to come in, and she is missing an incisor. It will never grow in, because it isn't there. So, it's not a problem, she'll probably have a fake one implanted later, when she is around 17 or 18, after her braces come off, and the bone grafting. But overall, good healthy teeth.

As far as her ears go: she might be hearing impaired in her right ear. She passed the hearing test in her left ear with flying colors. But her right ear didn't pass, at all. So, they took a look at her ear, sucked a lot of fluid out of it (which she did not enjoy and screamed for a long time because of it), and tried the test again - no go. So, we are being given some drops to clear her ears of any fluids/wax etc for a month and then she will get retested. We will find out at that point if she can hear out of that ear.

As far as her speech is concerned, everything seems normal on that front. The pathologist said he wants us to work on consonant sounds, but for everything else she is doing just fine. She has a great vocabulary, and since I can decipher a lot of what she is saying, there isn't much we need to do except watch our language (oops!)

So, that was the cleft clinic. A long hard day of doctors and specialists, just to tell me what I already know: Kaylee is perfect. :) Talk to you guys later!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Just Because.

It's like she crawled halfway up and said "screw it," then started snoring. Adorbs.



Monday, June 11, 2012

Monster Learns Stuff.

So, it has been a busy, busy week here at the Monster household. Momma Monster (that would be me) has spent the last week filling out forms, and registering, and signing papers, it has been busy. Momma Monster is going to finish getting her Associate's Degree. Just got registered for fall semester, and wrote, edited, deleted, re-wrote, re-edited, re-deleted and wrote another essay for the scholarship I applied for. It is for mother's of children with cranio-facial conditions. I hope I get it. It's $5000 a semester. Wish me luck on that front. :)

Kaylee had a fun week, although I think she may have some heat rash on her leg, I don't know. It looks red and raised, but doesn't feel hot to the touch and it doesn't seem to itch or bother her. *shrug* if it gets any worse we'll be taking a trip to the doctor today.

So, what has Kaylee been up to?

Learned how to climb into a cabinet.
Narnia?!?!
Learned that playing with a box on the head is the funnest game ever!
Well, hello.

So, there is this box on my head.
Learned how to save her pennies.
One penny.

More pennies.
Fell asleep on some pillows in her room.
This seems like a good spot. *falls over*
Yep. That's been our week so far. We're gonna go for a walk now over at the ponds by my house. Since I will have the Kaylee Monster, I probably won't be able to take many pictures. You know, because, ponds. Danger. That kind of thing. Anyway, that is all for us today. <3 you!

Sunday, May 27, 2012

As May Comes to a Close...

I just want to say, that, no, I am not abandoning the blog. Truly, I am not. It's just, life. It gets busy, then it gets slowed down. Whether by illness or tragedy, random injuries, and total mayhem, blogging tends to take a backseat when things get rough. For that, I apologize my dear friends and readers. I am sorry. Hopefully, with the summer and fall seasons coming up (my absolute favorite times of the year) I will have more awesome material rather than boring material to go over with you all.

Suffice it to say that this month is not a month that I want to repeat. Ever.

So, on to the subject at hand: Kaylee Monster. Oh, this thing. This adorable little thing, the joy of my life: is an ever living monster right now, and not in the cute way. *sigh* She's cute most of the day, then one thing will go wrong for her and bam! temper tantrum. A full out, face in the floor, limbs everywhere, screaming at the top of the lungs - temper tantrum. I've yet to catch a picture of her full on tantrum, but it is not a pretty sight.

Developmentally, she is doing quite well, as usual. Considering we were told she was supposed to have all this speech therapy and constant ear tubes, she is doing really well. We've not needed a speech therapist yet, and her first set of tubes fell out, but we have been told she doesn't need them right now, and they will recheck her end of next month so that will be fun. But yeah, she's talking, walking, climbing, eating, pooping, etcetera.

Her vocabulary has increased so much during this past month or two it is amazing. She can say Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet. She says toes, nose, ears, ouchy, puppy, fishy, kitty, up, down, stinky,  honey, milk, eggs, cheese, hotdog, ice, eat, Ronan, mommy, dada, wow, hi, bye, please (although she doesn't quite know when to use it), love you, ducky, socks, diaper. So many words now. Lots of them. She's starting to say her little sentences here and there, things that mean nonsense to anyone else but her. She tries to sing little songs, and plays out the songs with her hands (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pattie Cake, etc), she can sing the Winnie the Pooh part of the chorus of the Winnie the Pooh song. She likes to dance to everything, still. It really is awesome.

She's climbing more and more complex items throughout the house now. For instance, I found her climbing up the large bookshelf we have in the living room, she was on the second shelf off of the floor, trying to get her hands on a bottle of my nail polish. She uses her slide, a box and her bus scooter thing to get up to higher shelving that she couldn't reach otherwise (problem solving is a good thing, except that it gives me a heart attack). A few mornings ago I woke up because I heard her yelling from her room, but not from her crib -
- from here.
-the top of her changing station. You can see her tears from realizing she couldn't get down. She had the lights turned on, in addition to -
This.
-that would be the contents of her diaper wipe package, a bottle of powder, her comb...ugh. But when I looked at her face, her reaction -
*grins*
-one of pure joy. Sleepy, and swollen faced joy, but joy nonetheless.

So, yeah. I mean, that's about it. Really, she's doing well so far. We've had a busy and emotionally draining month, but we are all going to be okay. Everything is going to be alright. We always are. Love, us.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Hey Hey Hey~

Apologies for our absence. We've been busy. With two parents working and a baby in day care, well, things get busy and it gets hard to blog every week.

So, still no camera so no new pictures. However, it has been one year since Kaylee Monster's first surgery. This time last year I was such a wreck with worry. I couldn't sleep because the hospital was not conducive to sleep at all. And every time she would whimper in pain a little I would panic. Ah, now I just worry if I can't remember the last time I changed her diaper was. LOL.

In any case she is a giant and she is so funny and loud and vocal about her needs. It is good because now we know when she is hungry or thirsty and she makes it known when she wants a cookie. Ah, my little Monster is becoming a bigger Monster :) I love it.

So, yep, we doing well. Just lacking on sleep, and time as a family since Daddy Monster and I have practically completely different schedules so we see each other just before I go to bed and on Saturday nights and Sunday. Hard, but necessary. 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Adventures in Sleep - Things Will Fix Themsleves.

Apparently.

Yesterday she sad: Well, I guess I'll sleep through the night. Why not, I mean, everyone else does right? Although it sounded more like: "bleelja;dlhf aaaahahahahhhahhhals. aljkfdldh" *falls over asleep*

So, she's sleeping at night again. I can only hope that this lasts for a while. It snowed again today. I've yet to get a picture. She's not too certain about snow yet. What I do have a picture of however is this...

This is my Tootsie Roll. It is mine and I will call it Tootsie and you will never get it back.



 ...and this...
OH? I'm sorry. I thought the pumpkin jar was mine.

...she wouldn't let go of that Tootsie Roll for the life of her. The rapture could come at any moment and she would still be all: My. Tootsie. Roll. Yep, definitely my kid.

All's well on the home front. Daddy Monster and I are both working, things are good there. The only dark spot on the horizon: Kaylee gets the second part of her flu shot tomorrow. :( Not a happy day for her. But hopefully she'll be okay, it's only one shot this time.

So, yeah. Life is starting to work itself out. I love that. <3 Jess.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Adventures in Sleep - Where did I go wrong?

So. Kaylee Monster has decided that sleeping at night when everyone else does is overrated. For the last two weeks or so she has slowly moved her sleep schedule from normal nighttime to sleeping all day, and playing all night. Now, I know that this is something I should expect as she gets older, but at 1 year old? Something has got to be wrong here.

I've done some reading and sometimes it says that they don't want to miss out on anything including mom and dad getting ready for bed. I've also read that they can have separation anxiety just for sleeping. So, yeah. I have no idea. All I know is that Daddy Monster and I are having a rough go of it because we both have work and we both require some sleep. Here are some of the things that I've done that haven't worked.

1. Nighttime routine: play, eat, bath time, read, diaper change, sleep. This routine has worked swimmingly for the last few months with just a hiccup or two when she was teething and during her recoveries from surgery and stuffs.
2.  I've tried keeping her up for longer stretches. This just leads to more naps, and longer ones.
3. I've tried taking her outside in the daylight when it is nice and bright so she can run around and learn to like it, but she just falls asleep as soon as I pick her up, or put her in her stroller.

I am at a loss. I hope this gets resolved soon, because OMG. I need to sleep.