Teeth

Last week was a busy week for Casey. We expected with it being the week before Christmas that it would be slow, but we were wrong. Casey had school Monday and Tuesday. A dentist appointment on Wednesday. Casey saw the ENT and had therapy on Thursday and therapy on Friday.

Casey loves going to the dentist. She always gets excited when we tell her we are going. She did great (as always). The dentist told us that her bottom 4 teeth were all loose and ready to come out. She said that she expected them to fall out by the new year. I thought she was crazy. Turns out she was right. Casey lost 2 today. The first fell out on it's own. Then the second was really loose. Casey kept sticking her tongue out playing with it. Each time she did it fell further and further forward. It was just dangling there and she was making such a drooly mess. I ended up reaching in and it came right out when I touched it. Both teeth are safely tucked under her pillow waiting for the Tooth Fairy now. She is not supposed to grow up this fast!

I'll post more on the ENT appointment later. I have to go make sure that we are on the list for the Tooth Fairy tonight :)

Merry Christmas

It's official, Casey LOVES Christmas. She was really into it this year. While we were in the kitchen getting dinner ready, she wanted to come in and be in the middle of the conversations. When we ate dinner, she wanted to sit at the table. When it was time for presents she was wide eyed and ready to go. Usually she is happy hanging back in the living room and away from everything. It was really cute to see her want to be involved this year. She was so excited with every present she opened too.

Most of my family was able to come in and enjoy the holidays with us. It would have been nice to have Tim's family around too, but they are pretty far away. It was nice that most of his family was able to be together. We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Here's to a happy, safe and healthy 2012.

We thought you all may enjoy some Christmas photos of our little princess.

Back to School

Casey is finally recovered enough to go back to school. I was hoping she would go yesterday, but we couldn't get her to stay awake. The antibiotic seems to have helped clear out her lungs some (we are still clearing out a little- but she is feeling much better). Now that she is finally able to get comfortable and sleep she had a lot of sleep to catch up on. Yesterday was a lazy lazy day. This morning she got dressed (against her wishes) and we took her to school. Once she was there she remembered that she likes school. Her teacher brought in a little tree for Casey to decorate for the classroom. Casey had a great time. When we got there to pick her up she was so proud to show it off.

I spent the weekend making fudge and getting little gift tins ready for all of her teachers. Most area schools are out on the 16th. I assumed Casey's school was out all next week as well. I was wrong- Casey has school next week. I had another week to get stuff ready. Oh well, at least I am done with teachers now. It leaves me some time to finish up everyone else.

Update

Last week I mentioned that Casey got sick Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday she seemed like things were going better. We did not have any fevers, and she was pretty alert. Wednesday night she refused to go to sleep. Her night nurse said she finally went to sleep around 12:30. The nurse also mentioned her lungs sounding a bit crackly. The morning nurse noticed the lung sounds as well Thursday morning and they seemed to be getting worse. We also started suctioning lots of nasty looking stuff out of Casey. Needless to say, we made a few calls to doctors.

Casey's pulmonary had us come in for chest xrays. Casey has pneumonia in her right lung. We are pretty sure she was so exhausted after the movie that she fell asleep instead of coughing up the food she had refluxed. When she woke up Tuesday with the spiked fever and I suctioned out a lot of food, I think she had already aspirated on some of it. Aspirations are no fun, but at least they are not contagious. Casey started on an antibiotic Thursday afternoon. The secretions are looking much better already. She is still having some breathing issues. We have added extra breathing treatments that seem to help.

On Saturday Casey was planning on going to her holiday party. She had been looking forward to it for weeks. This is a special party for kids in the Blind Services Program (many of the kids are a lot like Casey). They have Santa and all kinds of accessible fun for the kids. She was doing better, but still sick yesterday morning. She got very excited about going to the party when we talked about it. Since she isn't contagious, and had been looking forward to seeing Santa for so long, we decided to go to the last 30 minutes of the party- just enough time to see Santa. She did great. I was torn on taking her, but I am glad that we did. She LOVES Santa. She told him everything she wanted as soon as she saw him.

We are hoping she is up for going to school this week. She hasn't been since Thanksgiving. She had her ear infection and as soon as that cleared up this started. Ugh! It is the last week of school before Christmas break. We will just have to play it by ear.

We hope that everyone is doing well. Have a great week :)

Muppets

Today Casey had a special treat. The movie theater that did her Make-A-Wish a while back has been great about letting us know when they get kid movies. We were all very excited when they told us the Muppet Movie was coming. The theater told us that the best times to come are Monday or Tuesday morning at the first viewing. Tim took off work and we let Casey skip school so we could all go see the movie today. Emily, Casey's nurse, came with us. The movie was great. Casey is not a big fan of previews, but once the singing started with the Muppets she was one happy girl. She stayed awake and alert through the whole thing (all 2 hours). I have to say, I am a big Muppet fan and I think I liked the movie as much as she did.

This afternoon Casey is not feeling well. I hope that getting her out in the cold this morning did not get her sick. She is resting now, and I hope that with some rest this afternoon she will be fine in the morning. She always likes to keep us on our toes.