January 2010 ~ pregnancy calendar

This week has been pretty bad, Parker has come down with RSV which is an upper respiratory infection. I have been home with him since Tuesday and we are hoping he gets to feeling better soon. He has had fever, a cough, and a really runny nose which are all symptoms of this infection. The only symptom Parker does not have is wheezing and I hope he doesn't start. The doctor saw him on Tuesday and didn't see anything wrong and just figured he had a cold. He told me about the RSV that was going around and told me the symptoms to look for just in case and we went on ahead and got Parker's 4 month shots. That evening he started running a high fever and has had fever since then ranging from 103 down to 99. When we took Parker back to the doctor on Thursday we told Dr. Glass what was going on and he ran tests for flu, pneumonia, and RSV and checked his blood count, the tests came back positive for RSV. So here we are! Parker has to have breathing treatments 4 times a day and he gets Tylenol every four hours, not to mention I am constantly cleaning his nose which he hates. This infection is going around here in Lufkin and we found out our friends Clint and Tisha's baby Cayne has it and also our friends Brandon and Amy's baby Delaney has that and pneumonia and is in the hospital. Please pray for baby Delaney. Anyway so that has been our week, I hope everyone is doing well and has a good weekend!

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic! We have had Christmas with the Fairman family, a tornado and then Christmas with The Swearingens and the Hendricks. I'll start with the tornado first. I will be giving a short sweet version ha-ha

On Wednesday the 23rd, we were expecting nasty weather and thunderstorms. The news didn't act like there was anything to worry about, just a normal storm but Michael brought our flashlight into the bedroom anyway. We got in bed, got Parker fed and asleep and then Michael and I started watching a movie. About 20 minutes into the movie the power went out and Michael and I started hearing things fall on to the house, we also heard the wind start to pick up, it just blew faster and faster. Michael immediately told me to get Parker and get into the bathtub. After we got into the tub we heard a big crash, which was a tree falling into the kitchen. Michael got us safely out of the house and we walked a couple of blocks to Tommy and Belinda's truck to get out of there. When we got to the truck we met Delana and Gary who were obviously worried and let them know we were all alright. The next day Michael, his dad and a few of our friends went to the house to cut the trees in the front yard and get our cars out of there. Michael went into the back yard and saw another tree was leaned against the house directly over the bathtub where me and Parker were.

This is a picture of the front of the house, you can see the tree that is leaned against the back of the house.

This is the view from the front door

here is our kitchen

Another view of the kitchen

Here is the view from the back yard.

Thank you to all of our family and friends, we appreciate everything you have done for us.

I don't have much to say about Christmas besides that I don't have a lot of pictures of Parker and his gifts ha-ha and the fact that he slept a lot was part of the reason but here are a few pictures I did get, and a few from the hotel.

Parker getting a bath at the hotel, he is almost to tall for his tub now!