Hooky

Today Blake and I both had doctor appointments. Yesterday I woke up feeling bad so I took off Wednesday also. (Grandma and Poppa are in Philadelphia for a cousin's wedding, so it worked out pretty well timing wise.) It has been very nice being home even slightly under the weather...
At 18 months, Blake weighs 24 pounds, 8 ounces (55%) and is 34 inches tall (95%). She is meeting all milestones, and received 2 shots today (hepatitis a booster and flu shot). Usually she does well at the doctor's and doesn't cry until the shots, but today she wasn't happy being weighed, measured, having her ears or lungs checked or anything. In all fairness, the appointment was during her normal nap time!

At 18 weeks tomorrow, baby Trevino is doing well, too. My blood pressure was great today at 94/64 (Tim says due to my not being at school, ha!). Baby's heart rate was in the 150s, and we go back in 2 weeks to find out if our little one is a boy or girl!
I had to show how cute Blake looks today... Her hair is still a little wet in this picture from an early bath, but she let me fix it!! She ripped it out once after the picture-taking, but try #2 is still in tact.

A Year and a Half

I am the mom of an 18 month old.... WOW! It's hard to believe sometimes just how fast time flies when you're having fun. In just 5 months or so, Blake will be a big sister. When we talk about the new baby, she says "awwwww" and lays her head over (which is what she does to mean things are sweet or she loves them). I hope she always feels that way!
Blake is so much fun these days. She still loves to help around the house. If I need to empty the dishwasher, she hands me each dish one by one, and can even help put certain dishes in drawers that are low enough for her. She loves to help wipe off tables, or anything for that matter! She is a big helper around the house.
She also LOVES to ride horses. Blake gets to ride Gunsmoke, Poppa's teamroping horse, all the time. She is never ready to stop, I have to just say it's time to go. Then the bottom lip comes out and the pouting starts. I think she would ride for hours at a time! Anytime she sees Poppa with his spurs on, she demands to go to the barn too.
What a sweet girl! We get to go see how big she is at the pediatrician this Thursday, and also get to check on the newest Trevino for my 18 week appt.

Game Day

Get Your Guns Up! (sometimes she does it correctly, we're still working on it!!)
Another college football season has started, and our house is excited! We spent the first Game Day of the season at home, but of course Blake had to be dressed up in Tech colors. She even sported this dress to church since we played on Sunday! She enjoyed clapping and getting excited when we would or when she heard excitement from the fans on tv.
I could not be happier that college football is here and Labor Day is tomorrow, which means Fall can get here! I hate the super-hotness of summer.

Hair

Blake has been experimenting with all kinds of hair-dos these days. The other day she tried out pigtails for the first time at Grandma and Grandpa's house. They were cute, but she ripped the rubber bands out as soon as we got in the car to go home.
This morning, as I was getting ready for school, I stepped out of the bathroom to ask Tim a question. When I turned back to the bathroom I saw Blake with her hands in a little jar of hair product, with blue gooey hair pomade all rubbed in her hair. I guess the lid wasn't screwed on very well! Smarty-pants knew where to put it though!

And this afternoon it began raining before we left Grandma and Grandpa's house, so Blake went outside to look at the rain with Grandma. She wasn't scared about it and went from holding her hands under the run-off from the roof to standing with her head completely under the water getting drenched! She had fun getting her hair, and clothes, soaked!!

Lately

My students started back to school last Monday, and my first week was exhausting! I have been sick every night, and working like a mad-woman all day long. This year my conference is at the very beginning of the day, so the remainder of my day is back-to-back-to-back math classes. It's definitely different! I do like being departmentalized though, and only teaching one subject.

Hopefully my "evening sickness" goes away soon. I was sick until 16 weeks with Blake and am 15 weeks along with this sweet baby. I didn't turn far enough to the side in this picture, but am definitely sporting a bump. On Saturday, we went to Lone Star Music Fest downtown. We all went for the first few bands and then went home for Blake to nap, and Tim and his brother to cook hamburgers.
I was planning on going back for awhile in the evening, but wasn't feeling good. Blake and I had a girls night in, while the boys went back to meet up with friends for the rest of the bands. While we were there, Blake was a very busy bee.
Thankfully it wasn't crowded at all in the afternoon because Blake spent the entire time walking around. She loved going up and down the stairs and looking at the water fountain. She didn't stop the whole time we were there!
This past week Blake has really begun to talk more. She is starting to mimic many more words, and babble lots of new words to us. She also loves calling for her daddy. She started yelling "Daaa, DaDa!" in HEB today when he ran back to the produce to get the squash we forgot.

Family Reunion

We went to visit Tim's parents in Frisco this past weekend for a family reunion. The Rodriguez Family Reunion included Tim's grandma Petra and her brothers and sisters, and all of their kids, grand kids, and great-grand kids... alot of people!
I don't think you can tell from the pictures, but each family wore a different color shirt to show who belonged to who. I think there were 5 or 6 different colors. Petra and Co. wore blue!
I actually remembered to take my camera and I swore I was going to take lots of pictures. But it was soooo stinkin' hot (104, which is hot but normal... but then add lots of humidity and it's MISERABLE!) so I hardly took any. I'm borrowing a few of these from other picture-takers! Blake didn't know what to think of all the people so she wanted me to hold her the whole time.
We were both dripping in sweat shortly after arriving. One cute thing was that Blake noticed everyone in a shirt like hers. She would point to their blue shirt and then to her own almost every time.
It was good to see everyone again!

ER

Caution: Long post meant for my own record!

Blake woke up with a 102 degree fever on Friday morning. She had no other major symptoms, so we just started Tylenol, and took it easy. I called the pediatrician's office later that day just to check and see if I was doing everything I needed to. After her fever climbing to 105 the next morning, and then easing off and climbing again Saturday afternoon, I called back to the doctor. I was reassured as to what other symptoms to look for, and to keep pushing the fluids, taking cool baths, and alternating Motrin and Tylenol. We were doing all that, and were told that unless other symptoms arose, the fever was just Blake's body fighting off an infection. (I know, but still not any less scary!) By 9:00 Saturday night, I checked her temp again and the thermometer just read HI. The manual stated that meant any temp over 107.6! We jumped in the car and went to the ER.

Blake was started on an IV, had chest X-rays, urine and blood samples taken, and received a Tylenol suppository. Poor girl! Her temp was 105.8. The doctor said in a baby this age a high temp means one of 4 things: strep throat, urinary tract infection, pneumonia, or a viral infection. All tests were clear, so that meant it is a viral infection... meaning we have to let the fever run its course and continue what we were doing treatment-wise.
Bonus, with our hospital in construction right now, they turn off the AC on Saturday nights! So already hot pregnant lady, holding a miserable very hot baby, in a hot room... I was sweating like a pig. Luckily we had a great nurse, great doctor, and great support from one of my mom's friends who knows the ER and everything in it from her job... we were taken care of very well, including a fan in our room that was a lifesaver! The IV and suppository brought Blake back to herself, and we both cheered up. Thank God that Tim is such a calm, cool personality because I was emotional!

We got home at 1:00 AM, and Blake's temp has not been back over 99 since then. We're due to go to her regular pediatrician either tomorrow or Tuesday to check on her and see what the culture results say. We're staying in and taking it easy today.

Next Day: Blake's temp climbed back to 103 degrees the next day. I stayed home from work on Monday. By Tuesday, the fever was back to a normal temperature. Thank goodness!