Christmas at the Fennell's

Christmas is so much more fun when you have a kid. I bet it will be even more fun when she understands Santa. Unfortunately, I had to work on Christmas Day but I did have Christmas Eve off. We had my side of the family (my parents, Tootie, Chad, Missy) over for a mexican feast of chicken tortilla soup, tamales, queso, salad, and tons of sweets. It was tasty and we opened prezzies afterwards. When Guen went down for her nap around 3pm, everyone left to go to church and other festivities but Ryan and I got ready to go to party number two. We went over Ryan's sister's house and had Christmas with them. We ate again an appetizer themed meal and all the cousins played together and we opened prezzies. Guen made it til about 8pm (an hour past her bedtime) and we went home and straight to bed. I worked the next day but Ryan and Guen spent Christmas day with my family again over at my parents house eating a big meal of turkey and then going to see a movie. I have been working ever since Christmas, so I am finally sitting down to write a little blog about our day. It was wonderful. I hope you had a great Christmas, here are so pics to see my family enjoying the day.

Busy Weekend

This weekend was quite busy. Let's start with my first day off Friday. My first day off, I ran errands and made an appetizer for our Bible Sunday School Classes Christmas Party. My parents came to babysit that evening and we had a nice time visiting in the beautiful house of the Sunday school teachers friend. We had to leave early because Ryan had to work on Saturday and we were both tired. Saturday, Guen and I ran errands again and that afternoon at 2pm we went to my coworkers babyshower. My coworker has been on strict bed rest since about 24 weeks pregnant. So far she is 32 weeks. She is living out our worst nightmare of having a premature baby. Luckily she is past 30 weeks and in our minds she is "ok" to have that baby now. But the longer in, the better and so far so good. She has a terbutaline drip that is going into her leg to keep her from contracting. Anyways, it was nice to see her and my other coworkers outside of work and visit. But we did not stay long because it was around Guen's naptime and she was getting cranksters, so we left. That evening Guen was up 4 times that night which is very unusual but I thought she was just teething, gave her some Motrin and luckily after the forth time of waking up at 3am she was down til when she woke up at 730am. We did our usual church in the morning and that afternoon we went to Amy Enger's kids, Ally and James, pirate themed birthday party, in the Woodlands. I got to see Amy and Barbie and Sarah (and all their kids), so that was fun. It was super cold but Guen was a champ and partied hard and played hard at the park. Unfortunately again that night, around midnight, she woke up again but this time I actually felt heat radiating from her and she had 102 temp. I gave her some drugs and she got up about 2 more times. I called in for Monday at work because after Saturday night getting up with her 4 times and then Sunday night getting up with her 2 times and a temp, I did not want to go in. On Monday I called the pediatrician and told them that Guen had been running a temp from last night of 102-100 but did not know if she was teething or what. The nurse at the office said to just watch her since she did not have any other symptoms. I should have gone with my gut instinct which would have been to bring her in. Because even though I was medicating her with Tylenol and Motrin every 4-6 hours, her temp never went below 100.5. In the past with her teething, she is usually 99-100.2 at the most. So that night, poor thing, she was up all night with temps now as high as 103. Luckily I was off today and took her to the doctor first thing this morning. The doc says that she thinks it is just viral but her urine did come back with a little something so she went ahead and gave her an antibiotic til the urine culture proves negative. This is the first time Guen has EVER been sick and it has been a learning experience. My parents have her right now so I can take a nap before having to go to work tomorrow. But I am so dedicated to this blog, look what I am doing!!! I better go catch some zzzz's. Hope you had a great weekend. Even though I had an eventful weekend, I took no pics, although I took my camera to each event. So just boring words for this report.