March 4th was Kayla's 2nd birthday!! Holy Guacamole!! On Friday night- we celebrated her birthday with Mema and Deda and on Saturday we invited more of Jerry's family over to celebrate with us.  There were several kids there and Kayla didn't really play with them, but she played around them or watched them play.  She isn't used to kids, and I really wish I knew how to get her there.  I want her to be excited to play with other kids... I just don't know how.  Anyway- she had a great time.  She started opening her gifts... which she really isn't in to... I had to beg her to stay with me and dive into her gifts... she kept leaving though.  She did get some great gifts from all the wonderful people at her party. However, her favorite gifts were the two bags of Cheetos!! Crazy girl!! She had a great time and I thank all who were able to come to her party!!

Her favorite part of both celebrations was when we sang happy birthday to her.  She LOVES that song apparently.  She watched a video (like 50x) of some kids singing it to one of my friends... and then she started singing it last night.. it was adorable!!

Kayla LOVES to sing and dance.  She is obsessed with music.  We now have to bring down her stereo every day for her to listen to her kid CD (another gift from her bday) ALL DAY LONG!  She loves Wheels on the Bus, ABC song (which she can sing now), and Pop Goes the Weasle.  Her favorite song to sing from a book she has is Rain Rain Go Away...if I beg she will sing the very beginning of Twinkle Twinkle, and of course added to the list of songs to sing, Kayla loves to sing Happy Birthday.. <3  When I go in her room to get her from a nap or in the morning she is always singing and when I walk in she says "take a nap" (her animals take a nap when she gets up- it was the only way I could get her to keep all of her animal friends in the crib instead of taking them all downstairs), and then she says "music"...She so cute!  Sometimes she sings jibber jabber- adorable!- but most of the time she is singing Rain Rain..

She is now to a point where she does not want to go take a nap or go night night- she throws a fit every time.. and says no, no, no, no, no.. you get my drift.  UGH! ha!  She's cute tho... she'll say "snuggle mom" or "snuggle dad"... like that will keep her up a little later.. she's right- we love to snuggle! haha :) then she'll go grab a book and say "mom reread?"... i think she's trying to say Mom will you read...but it sounds like reread.. so cute! She loves Dr. Seuss and Curious George at the moment. :)

We just had her 2 year appt today and she weighed 24lbs.. teeny tiny!  Lily weighed 18lbs.. and she's 7 months! ha This was Kayla's first appt w/o crying when she saw Dr. T.  I was sooo proud of her! Dr. T did a great job at being goofy w/ Kayla so that she started out laughing.  Kayla did cry when the nurse came to do weight and height.. she even got to stand up for both... no clothes off... crazy girl.  Lily was nuts.. completely nuts.. but thats a whole other story! :)

Kayla sounded great, looked great.. just skinny.  Dr. T said the summer was perfect for potty training.. so c'mon summer! :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE OLMSTEADS <3

Last week was a very hard week for my family. Kayla got sick on Tuesday- we thought it was just her reflux, but it turned out to be much worse.  She puked three times on Tuesday, and twice on Wednesday- and that was because we got a little smarter on what to give her for food. We did take her to the docs on Thursday- K was sooooooo not herself.  She was tired, and didn't really get up from her Dora couch.  When we got to docs she sat on Dad's lap in the waiting room- not like her!  She usually is hard to keep contained in one spot!  Then when we got in to see doc, she curled up on my lap in a fetal position and didn't move.  She let the doc do what she had to do. :( - again not usual for Kayla.  Kayla was VERY dehydrated.  She wouldn't drink a thing!  So we had to either bring her to the hospital or try to get her hydrated on our own.  Jerry wanted to try first... so we did.  We gave her a 12cc syringe of pedialyte every 10 min!  She hated every second of it.  It took two of us to hold her down and then half the time she'd outsmart us and spit it out.  She was getting a bit better tho, so we know she got some fluids.  We had to keep her up until 11 p.m. Poor thing knew when the syringe was coming... she'd start crying and kicking.  We offered her her sippy cup first... but she never took it. On Thursday night she did well.  But then on Saturday we got her up in the morning on and saw she had puked in the middle of the night- again!  She didn't cry, fuss or even move!  Still makes me sad that she didn't cry to let me know she had puked... :( 

Soo- I called the doc again and she told us to come to her office again. This time, we had to go to the hospital! :( We should have done that in the first place... and spared K the fight w/ the syringe.  But I mean did we really want her to go to the hospital if we could get her better ourselves?  Anyway, we got there and she got her IV in and some blood drawn.  Thankfully she didn't need to be stuck several times to get a vein.  She needed to be held down for IV and blood drawing but I think she did pretty well overall.  Once the fluids starting pumping in her, you could tell she was coming back! Sunday morning she was more peppy... and she ate a whole pancake, half a banana, and some captin crunch! It was amazing!  However, she still would not take  a sippy cup from us, but it was getting easier to bribe her to take a sip. We were allowed to leave by supper time on Sunday- a short stay but so necessary.  She was diagnosed w/ Gastrointeritis (which I've had, and is NOT fun), dehydration and hypoglycemia.  And a hospital trip just because she didn't want anything to drink! :( 

Now she is very much her self again! :) 

eating a cracker, and watching yo gabba gabba to help her rest.

This was Thursday night.  We had to give the 12cc of fluids every 10 min.  This was about 8 o'clock.  She NEVER sleeps on her dora couch.  At most, she's laid on it for 10 min.  She was on this thing ALL day.  We did let her sleep w/ us that night in case she puked. 

she puked ....Friday night, the night we thought she was getting better.  So we ended up in the hospital. :( They did ask me if I wanted a crib for her, but I thought she'd be happier if I just stayed in bed w/ her, so I said no. 

Daddy and Kayla- we felt just awful for her! :( She wouldn't let either one of us out of her sight.  We even had to ask if we could go 'pee pee'.  

I think she is watching yo gabba gabba on my phone... that's what really sucked about the hospital. She had to stay put, but they don't have Nick Jr. So thankfully I have i-net on my phone and she was able to watch some Mickey Mouse and DJ.

This was the night we got home- the Giants played a horrible game, but we still put her in her Giants PJ's. :) She was feeling a bit better on Sunday night.  I guess she was sick of her Dora couch so she sat in a box... goofy girl!

And here she is on Tuesday... a week from when she got sick.  Messing w/ her sisters toys...She's back! :) She has food all over her face and she was pushing Lily's jumper back and forth- a little too violent- so I got the pic and made her stop! :) 

Kayla did lose weight- all that hard work into making her gain- and she pukes it all up! UGH!! According to our scale at home, she was 23lbs... when she weighed in at the docs office, she was 21 lbs.  So now there is only 6lb difference between her and Lily- Lily is 15lbs... :)