Lexi turned one on Thursday. I was so excited to turn her seat around. I have no idea why but I was and it is so weird now to look back and see two kids starting at me. Weird. So we had her party planned for Saturday but then Mom was talking about coming over on her birthday and I was thinking MIL would want to come over so I just thought hey, we’ll just have it Thursday. I made sure D’s mom could embroider Lexi’s outfit in time and made sure the cake lady could make the cake and then we were on! I ended up making a pork loin for dinner and everyone ate there after work. It actually turned out really nice. EXCEPT that Lexi was sick all day. She had a fever and was coughing and had a runny nose. She still enjoyed her cake and the bubble machine very much. But she was tuckered out by 7:45 and went to bed while everyone was still here. She got worse pretty quickly and Scott and I were listening to her breath very hard and very fast. She ended up waking herself up because she couldn’t even breathe. At point I wasn’t sure if she could even get a breath in. Scott left for the ER about 11:30 or so and didn’t return until 3. I stayed home with Emma and slept so I could take care of Emma in the morning. The dr. said she had croup and took x-rays to make sure she didn’t have pneumonia. She did have one spot that looked suspicious so while she was there she had Tylenol, steroids and antibiotic. I took her for a recheck today at the ped and they said she did not have pneumonia. So she slept with us Thursday night propped up. But last night she slept in her crib all night by herself without coughing. That was good. Today was pretty fussy and seemed to have another fever. She perked up after I gave her some Tylenol and the Robitussin type stuff. I think her second front tooth is getting ready to come in. She got her second eye tooth about a month or so ago and got her front tooth I think last week sometime. The other gum feels pretty swollen to me but she hates for me to put my finger in her mouth so it’s hard to tell. She is still not good at saying anything very clearly. She can say da-da and momma (but doesn’t really say it very much). She says duck as duh. But she can growl like a lion with the best of them. I think she might be the kind that lets big sister talk for her. She walks and sometimes even almost gets in a little run but she is clumsy as I don’t know what. She is still a mommy’s girl pretty much. Daddy puts her to sleep well but she wants mommy for most other things. She loves people coming over to the house and shows off, running around and jabbering with a big grin on her face. She loves her Pappy. Thursday at her birthday party she was even reaching for him. And she loves Dwayne. She always shows off for him and was just laying on him tonight when they were over. She is such a sweetie and everyone falls in love with her. Her hair is so long. Check out pictures from her birthday party:
http://www.sabennett.com/gallery/index.php?album=lexisbirthday