Look at Gianna

Gianna has been pulling up for a couple of weeks now but I never caught her until now! She is 6 months old and is crawling and pulling up! We have her check up this Friday.

Sea World Pictures

Sea World and More

A couple of weekends ago we took the girls to Sea World. We got to San Antonio late Friday night and the hotel had messed up our reservations so gave us a suite instead. That was really nice! Saturday morning we got up and headed to Breakfast at IHop, Madeleine ate 5 pancakes and says she was hungry a hour later...don't know where she puts it! We got to Sea World and it was pretty cold and windy. We saw Shamu and then went to see Big Bird's Beach Party and then decided it was just too cold to be out there so we left. We took Maddie to Chuck E. Cheese and then back to the hotel to nap. That night we went shopping at a mall. The next day we got up again and headed to Sea World again. This time it was sooooo much better! It was still cool when especially when the wind blew but it was not miserable! We went to a couple of shows, looked at exhibits and then Maddie and I even rode a "roller coaster". She was only tall enough for the log ride but she loved it and did not want to get off! We had a lot of fun!

The More- Gianna started throwing up the Thursday before we left for Sea World, in San Antonio it only got worse and by Tuesday we were extremely worried. Our doctor sent us to Texas Children's because it sounded like she had another hernia. We waited in the waiting room for over 3 hours during this time Gianna started vomiting blood, when I went to tell the nurse he said not to worry because she was
still pink. I might have lost it a little...What do you mean it is ok because she is pink, she threw up blood, what color does she need to be to worry!?! They finally got us back in a room, ran tests and took x-rays. She does have another hernia but they are just going to watch it and hopefully this one will fix itself.They let us feed she and told us if she kept it down they would send us home. They sent us home and as soon as we got home she threw up again! We took her to our doctor who admitted her into Clear Lake so they could take care of her. We were there from Wednesday to Friday afternoon. All of her tests came back fine. What they were telling us is she probably had a little virus which started the vomiting and then her stomach became so inflamed that it could hold anything. They had her on an IV for a full 24 hours and then we could give her 1 oz of pedialyte every 15 mins, she was ticked about that. After she kept that down we were able to give her 1 oz of formula every 15 mins...again she did not like that either. She is doing fine now though she is eating every 2 and a half hours during the day but she is sleeping through the night. We are also going to see a Occupational Therapist because she refuses to eat cereal or baby food and she is underweight. She is pulling up and standing at only 6 months and crawling all over the place so she is doing great developmentally!

It is not letting me post pictures so I will try again later.

Fossil Rim

This past weekend I went to Fossil Rim in Glen Rose, Texas with the Animal Husbandry Association. It was amazing. This is the only place in the world like this, literally. They have over 1000 animals and many endanger species. We went to volunteer there and did different random jobs. Me and 5 other girls worked the front gate, 3 of us at a time told people the road rules and then sent them in to pay for their tickets. One of the girls, Jillian is an amazing artist and she drew a giraffe for their volunteer Information Board. After we finished volunteering they took us on the tour and we got to feed the animals. I hand feed a giraffe and some deer. A little pet peeve...one of the rules was to toss the food away from the car but you could feed the giraffe by hand...there were tons of car feeding the zebras by hand!!! I soooo wanted them to get bit!!! Our group stayed in some cabins and we had a blast! We played some games and tried to scare each other...that was hilarious!!!!
I have come to realize I post way too many pictures so here are just a few from the trip.

Madeleine at Music Class

In February Madeleine learned to play the violin and several new songs. She loves to sing and I will hear her singing different songs throughout the house that she learned at music class. It is really cute! March she is learning to play the Cello.

Vacations

Our vacations aren't lining up like we had hoped. Jahno had to take Vacation either before or after my spring break so he chose before. My Club had to move their project at Fossil Rim from this weekend to next weekend which ends Jahno's Vacation but starts mine. And this weekend is full with some family matters. So I am hoping that Jahno will be able to take off a little bit early Friday the 19th and we can take a weekend trip to Sea World. If this doesn't work out we are going to take a little trip to Moody Gardens. I am stressing over it because things aren't falling in place like I want them to. Oh well...there is my little vent.

Bad Blogger Again

So things have been crazy busy and I have been so tired at nights that I haven't had a chance to blog. Where to start....Last Friday I went to monitor Donley the Dolphin. When I got there I was training the new girl when we got word there was another dolphin stranded. One of us were asked to come help so I went. I was helping get the pool ready but we were having issues, the bladder wouldn't fill up so myself and another girl were standing in 52 degree water trying to hold up the pool. And then it started storming. We had to move that pool and get another pool set up. Then once the working pool was filled I got to assist in getting the new dolphin from the truck to the pool. Once she was in she started swimming on her own which we thought was a good sign. Her results came back that she had neurological problems and was suffering. She is now in Dolphin Heaven.

Trying to hold up the pool.


Got her off the truck


Trying to get her out of the stretcher


She was huge!