Oh, new gallery (March 3 - 20) is now up. Enjoy!
It's been a very rough few days for our little boy. Let me explain.
(10:00 AM, Thursday March 11)
We went in for Kadin's 6 month immunizations that morning. Since each time we go for his needles his a few pounds bigger and much more active, we thought he would be a terror when the nurse gave him a needle. We couldn't have been more wrong!
While he did cry for a second, he was all smiles a moment later. Off home we went!
(3:00 PM)
Tonia calls me at work to let me know Kadin is running a bit of a fever, but she's calm and is giving him some baby Tylenol.
(9:00 PM)
Kadin's temperature hasn't really gone down in the last few hours, so I pick up a fresh supply of baby tylenol on my way home. Shortly after getting home, Kadin starts projectile vomiting whenever we try and give him Tylenol.
We called the nurses line who went over some fever-breaking tips that we already knew, re-assured us that a fever within 1-2 days of the immunization was normal, and also that if we were worried by all means take him to the hospital.
As he needed to sleep in our bed and us take his temp every 2 hours, you can understand it was a long night for all three of us!
(6:00 AM, Friday March 12)
With all three of us up, we tried to give Kadin a little bit of formula. Once again he spit that up, so at this point we decided to take him to the hospital (luckily it's about a 5 minute drive).
(6:30 AM - 10:00 AM)
It's really funny how a nurse, while applying a urine bag to a little boy, can continue to say "What a gorgeous girl you have!"
Other than that, the doctor found nothing to worry about and chalked it up to a virus. He also took a urine culture and recommended we see Kadin's regular doctor in the next few days.
Tonia here. It takes me 3 days to get him to write an entry and then he doesn't finish it. *sigh*
Kadin's doc's appt was yesterday and everything was fine. They want us to do the pee test again but otherwise all is well.
Now I have a question for you all....does Kadin look like a girl? Our doc yesterday kept calling him a girl.... "She is this.." "She is that..." BLAH BLAH!!
Hasan and I made many attempts to make her realize she was wrong by saying "He is..." "He did.." Finally Hasan said loudly "Oh my Kadin what a big boy you are."
Then she got it. But proceeded to tell us that it was hard to tell. Grrrrr Thanks a lot! Anyways I mean we know it can be hard to tell with babies....but listen to us dammit when we are saying "he" over and over and over again!!
Ok done venting. Have I mentioned Kadin has stopped sleeping through the night and gets up around 4 every morning? YEH! :)
Hasan did a wonderful job summarizing our trip but there are some things I would like to mention that he let slip his mind.
We had a lot of celebrating to do when we got home. Almost right away we realized it was Kadin's great grandparents Hanrahan's anniversary (does that read confusing? oh well...whatever:)) so off to the local chinese reataurant we all went to celebrate. That's actually where Kadin met a lot of his gauntie's and guncle's for the first time. They were gushing over him and he loved every second of it.
Soon after that the extended family joined us at Kadin's nanny's house for a little get together. This is where our dear friend Heather came out to visit from St. John's. She braved life and limb to be there. Honestly Heather I had no idea the roads were that bad. We love you for it. :)
Kadin also got to meet his mommy's friend Danielle. She was home in Marystown for a little trip from town. It was Danielle's mom who knit Kadin the beautiful Salt-n-Pepper hat and matching sweater. She too gushed and Hasan and I loved every minute of it. heh
All of us were lucky enough as well to have Kadin's gauntie Wanda and guncle Perry cook us a wonderful turkey supper. Yummy...I could eat it all again right now!! WOOT! Oh and his second cousin Victoria loved changing his poopy diaper...right? OK no I kid! :)
And last but certainly not least Kadin's nanny had her 45th birthday when we were home. We decorated the house, had a great cake and ate an amazing supper...BBQ no less in that wonderful Newfie weather. heh Kadin was allowed to dish into nanny's cake and we have the pics to prove it. His nanny said it was the best bday she has ever had. YEH us!!
And finally to any other parents out there reading this...BUY BABY EINSTEIN!! It has been a saving grace for us over the last few days. Kadin absolutely adores it and can watch it for hours!! We have the Baby Mozart and Baby Beethoven dvd's. Take this advice...its good stuff. :)
OK off I go. Lunch time for the little one.
We've actually been home a few days now. Got back in at around 8:30 PM on Monday, roughly 17 hours after starting our trip. Ungh.
The flight to Newfoundland was actually a billion times better than we had expected it to be. The short flight from Abbotsford to Calgary (1 hour 20 minutes) was Kadin's first, but he actually slept through most of it. Even the next 10 or so hours were awesome. His ears didn't bother him, landing/taking off were a breeze. Woo!
We landed @ 9:40 PM Newfoundland time but still had about a 4 hour drive from St. John's to Tonia's hometown of Marystown. That's when about a month and a half of flying finally caught up with Kadin (as well as some trapped gas), which led us to pull over several times to try and calm him down. After about an hour he was fairly well settled so we continued on through a blizzard and some Caribou crossing the highway.
At 4 AM we pulled into Tonia's parents house to be greeted by her brother Dwayne and his girlfriend Erin. Good times were had by all, then we went to bed and slept for 9 minutes.
By now, the 2 week trip is running all together in my head, so please forgive me if I don't list each individual event. Some highlights though:
1 - Kadin was officially abducted by his Nanny, who is only now just loaning him back to us until she sees him again.
2 - Kadin was made into a Montreal Canadians fan through the efforts of his Poppy & uncle Dwayne.
3 - He was able to meet several great-aunts & great-uncles (or ganties and guncles, as I decided to call them), and also met and spent some time with 3 of his great grandparents (Nan & Pop Hanrahan and Nan Green).
4 - Tonia's uncle Gerard inducted me into the local Marine Workers union. Ok, so he just gave me a hat, but that has to count for something!
I actually can't think of any more right now, but the 6 rolls of film we took might jog my memory at this point.
Both Tonia & I have been completely exhausted since coming back since Kadin is only now just returning to life in this timezone. He was going to sleep at 7 PM and waking up at 1 AM...which really, really sucked.
Time now for Kadin's lunch, but be sure to check out the new pictures!
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Oh...Tonia actually put up a lengthy post this morning, but then accidently deleted it when she put up the second post about the pictures being up. Muahahahaha.