Mommy is Sick

Poor Mommy. I thought I caught Sarah's cold/cough when I started coughing right before taking Sarah to the doctor for her ear infection. Then Tuesday I had a fever to add to the cough by the time I got home from work. By Wednesday, I had a cough, fever of 103, muscle aches, a headache, and dizziness. I went to the doctor and found out my heart rate was also high, and then I proceeded to throw up as soon as I got home, so I had just about every symptom you could imagine. The doctor hinted that I MAY have the flu, but she didn't really say. She just said to come back if I got worse. A few days went by, and I didn't really seem to get worse OR better. We called the doctor back Friday and the office re-prescribed the same cough medicine they had given me on Wednesday--oops. Then by Saturday evening I was feeling really really bad, and my back had a really bad pain everytime I breathed. I couldn't take it anymore. We called the doctor and she said to go to the ER since my heart was still beating fast. So off we went, and I guess a fast heart rate will get you in quick (thankfully only 5 minutes in the waiting room!). As it turned out, I had/have pneumonia. They ended up keeping me in the hospital on IV antibiotics and fluids until Monday afternoon. Now I am home taking oral antibiotics and resting for the rest of the week. Hopefully I will be all better and ready for work next Tuesday (yay for another holiday on Monday!). What an ordeal! I did get some really pretty flowers from my school, so I must share the picture :-)

Sarah is Sick

Poor Sarah. She got a little cold/cough the first weekend in January that resulted in an ear infection in her left ear. We didn't know what was wrong, but we should have figured it was her ear after she stayed up all night screaming that Sunday night and would't tolerate being in her crib! What an exhausting night--I am so glad that I took her to the doctor last Monday and didn't have to go through two sleepless nights in a row! The upside--Sarah is a great medicine-taker--she loves her amoxicillin and opens her mouth like a little baby bird when she sees the medicine dropper coming towards her :-)

Another Christmas!

We went to Greenville to Mimi and Pawpaw's house for New Year's, and Uncle Joseph and Aunt Alecia were there, so we had ANOTHER Christmas! Sarah of course got lots more new toys and a couple of cute t-shirts ("Family Favorite" and "Daddy's Little Tax Deduction").

Merry Christmas!

Sarah's first Christmas was so much fun (and so exhausting, too!) :-) On Christmas Eve, we got up early and went to a big lunch in Sandy Springs with my mom's side of the family. The food was so tasty, and it was great to see all of the Grant family cousins and babies that we there. Our group is getting large! After lunch, we went back to my parents' house for the afternoon. Mimi and Pawpaw (Jeremy's parents) got there just in time to visit with Sarah before we all headed out to church. After church, we all went back to my parents' house for dinner. Sarah was such a good sport for such a busy day. She napped in the car during most of the rides which gave her just enough energy to make it through to the next car ride :-)

Mimi, Pawpaw, Sarah, and I finally got back to our house around 10:00, and we all crashed fast. Jeremy had to sing at the 11:00 p.m. church service and he didn't get home until 1:00 a.m.! We still had to wake up early on Christmas morning to get everything done in time to be back at Nana and Papa's (my parents) for Christmas there. Sarah loved being surrounded by presents. She was not too interested in her stocking (only the rice toast inside!), but she loved all of the ribbons, bows, and tissue paper on the presents. She also loved all of her new toys. Her favorite new "big" toys are her Sing Along Stage and her Discovery Sounds Kitchen :-)

After opening presents at our house and at Nana and Papa's, we all headed over to Aunt Mary's for Christmas dinner. There, Sarah was the star---the only baby so she got to show off all of the new things she can do all afternoon (that is, until Grant and Morgann's adorable new toy poodle, Ella, showed up---it was really funny watching Sarah and Ella interact...).


Sarah did a great job with all of the fun family events and with little napping. The best part is that she spent today catching up on her sleep, so Jeremy and I had plenty of time to put our house back together after all of the commotion. We also gave Sarah her own playroom this morning because the den ran out of room for all of her new things (bye bye dining room!) :-)

Practicing for Christmas

Sarah's babysitter, Ms. Heather, went way overboard with the presents this year, so on Friday we decided to let Sarah have a "practice Christmas morning." She opened all of her fun new toys and clothes from Ms. Heather, Rachael, and Mr. Lance. She was so excited to see so many new toys and she started grabbing for them all as soon as we helped her open them. After the practice session, she had enough new things that we thought about hiding the rest of the presents that were under the tree-couldn't we just save them for her birthday? :-)

Santa Claus!

Sarah saw Santa for the first time on Saturday at Partee's Winter Wonderland. She didn't seem to mind sitting in his lap, but she was too distracted by the balloons across the room to look at the camera and smile :-)

Sarah's babysitter's daughter, Rachael, was SO excited to see Santa at breakfast.

Sick Day

We all had a sick day on Saturday :-( Sarah had some sort of bug that appeared off and on all week, and it finally got to Jeremy and me this weekend. Thankfully, it only lasted one day--yuck! We were all so pathetic at our house on Saturday, but all is well now! Jeremy was really worried because he had a solo at church this morning--he was so sure he was not going to make it, but he managed to pull through and sounded fantastic. Sarah also feels really bad that she got her babysitter's whole family and her nana sick as well--oops. In spite of the bug, we managed to get some cute pictures on Saturday of Sarah learning how to open a present and Sarah playing in her "sleeping bag."