Could there be anyone cuter?

Helping with the laundry!

Landrum sleeps with a small farm, two pigs and one sheep - all her friends. Before her nap she lays in bed telling them all about her day then cries out for her pacifier and quickly falls asleep!

Yes it is a cow outfit - I could not resist!

Landrum's 5 month tricks

First ER Visit

Well, what an eventful night we had last night. Actually, it was an awful night. The kind you hope never happens to you.

Yesterday Landrum just seemed sort of off - when she was ready to eat she would just cry and cry. It was very difficult to console her, she was clearly upset about something. But after she calmed down and ate she was fine. So last night was the first time I decided to try solids with Landrum. I spent the afternoon steaming and pureeing carrots for her first 'real' food. I mixed up a tasty treat of carrots and rice cereal. She ate like a champ, I was so proud of her!

Well last night my mom and I had an open house to go to and Jared was at a a small group meeting so my sweet dad agreed to watch baby girl. I called on our way home to check on how their time was going and he told me that she had thrown up. She has never thrown up before but she does spit up a lot so I assumed that is what he meant.. but when I got home I discovered that she really had thrown up. She was still upset when I got home so I held her and loved on her a little bit, but she started throwing up repeatedly. Thankfully my parents were there to help me clean her up and try and calm her down. She got so worked up, crying, gagging and throwing up that she choked and stopped breathing. It was the single scariest moment of my life. I couldn't do anything, I was frozen with fear. My dad was there and turned her upside down and beat on her back until she started breathing again. Meanwhile my mom called 911. By the time the paramedics got there she was breathing again but still throwing up and gagging.. They checked her and thought she looked okay. They told me to go ahead and try and nurse her and she should be fine. Well she would not eat, her color was terrible and she was so exhausted she was limp. She slept a little and we tried feeding her again. She was still gagging and throwing up so with the advice of a pediatric nurse friend we took her into the ER. We were there until almost 1 a.m. She checked out fine after both a heel prick and a terrible chest XRay where they put her in a clear plastic tube with her arms stuck above her head.. she did not like that.

She finally ate around 4 this morning - just a little and has since eaten a little every 2 or 3 hours.. we did take her in to see her pediatrician this morning and she told us that there is a violent stomach bug going around which is probably what sweet girl caught. We are just watching her closely today - she seems to be on the mend. We are having a big sleepover in our room, we put our mattress on the floor and she sleeps right next to us in her little bouncy seat. I think she will be closer to 100% tomorrow.

What a scary and horrible ordeal. We did manage to take a picture in the ER on jared's phone (of course always time for a photo) but we can't get it to transfer.. If I can figure it out we will surely attach it.

I know this is not our last experience with the throw up sickness... but please please let it be our last experience with not breathing...and maybe even the ER.

I suppose we will try food again later this week... but I am not really in a rush.

Carrots, yummy yummy

Here are a few shots of Landrum and the carrots (pre stomach bug)! She really did enjoy them.

September

Landrum is 5 months old and it is so hard to believe. She changes so quickly now and is really getting to be a big girl! She loves rolling over, talking, singing and grabbing her toes.. She goes to church three mornings a week while I work at mothers morning out and really loves her teachers! I think there will be a tooth making an appearance sometime soon as she loves to gnaw on anything she can get her hands on.

The weather has been so wonderful this week so I am trying to get her outside more - especially since the rain has finally subsided for a while. She has had to sport a sweater for the first time since it is so chilly in the mornings.

Last night, we decided we would walk over to flowood park so I could do my jogging there on the track, then we would walk to El Sombrero for a little mexican supper, yum yum, and then swing by babies r us and walk home. We felt we were back in turkey walking so much! While on our walk to the park, Jared was pushing the stroller and I was walking alongside him, he was sort of weaving back and forth and so I was getting pushed into the gutter a little bit.. not watching where I was going until I almost stepped right onto a huge snake! In our neighborhood! We live in suburban America and are having some serious snake issues. This snake was atleast 3 feet long and a fatty - it had just eating something we could see it bulging in its belly. At first we weren't sure if it was dead or alive.. we stood a few feet away throwing gravel pebbles at it while cars drove past I am sure thinking we were crazy... turns out it was dead.. Jared also recently had to chop a snake up in the lawnmower in the back yard and a few weeks ago we had one curled up in our garage by the back door.. not dead. good grief! I did not have this many snake encounters when I lived in Africa! I wish I had a picture of the boa constrictor that nearly attacked me last night on our walk but I venture to say it is probably gone by now.. so just take my word. I am sure it was poisonous!

Enjoy the new pics of big girl!