A friend for Mckenna

We were staying at Jana and Chad's when Mckenna decided to wake up from about 12am until 3am. She wouldn't eat, snuggle, or sleep so we finally turned the light on and let her play. She got out her cousin Ashley's large Care Bear stuffed animals with which she talked, played , and snuggled for about an hour. She finally fell asleep when we put a couple in the pack-and-play and let her play with them in there. The next day we took her to Target to pick out a friendly stuffed creature and she was in heaven. In fact, she wanted them all! The second we put one in the cart her eyes were on the rest on the shelf. Check out the video.

P.S. Notice the most awesome shopping carts ever at the new Super Target by our house.

Jeff

Update...

I talked to the doctors office today AND Mckenna officially has a UTI! She will also have to have those other test done :-( Which means at least one more catheter. We hope she doesn't have reflux, but are glad that her doctors are checking (just in case...)

In other news--- We are just enjoying life. Our garden is in full swing. I canned tons of tomatoes the other day (like 10 pints) and have made homemade salsa a couple of times, YUMMY! Next Wednesday we get to go to WICKED and I am SO excited. My cousin is also coming over from Houston next week AND then the next week is our Jones "Family Fiesta" in Denver (YAY!). We love staying busy :-). We have been LOVING our summer! Mckenna is CRAZY about swimming and water in general. We have been swimming at home, at Aunt Jana's, in the lake and of course at Sea World! If anyone ever wants to join us LET US KNOW!!! Also, Mckenna turns one in like 2 1/2 weeks! Crazy, huh???? We are excited to celebrate her first birthday, but I am most excited to see her eat her cake and to play with her new toys with her :-)!! Speaking of birthdays, does anyone have cute first birthday party ideas? I am not going "all out", but would love to have a cute party idea! LET ME KNOW!!! Well, that is it for now!!!

Oh yeah, the picture above is one I took last summer (right before we had Mckenna) when the Jones family (minus Grandma and Grandpa Jones) were here in San Antonio. This was MOST of the cousins (we are missing 3 that were there) and since then we have added THREE more cousins- with another GIRL on the way (Congrats, Donny and Carole!)!! What a big, fun family!!!

Poor Baby

On Sunday Mckenna was running a high fever (like 104-105). This is the third time in like a month that she has spiked a high fever, so we decided it was time to take her in to the doctor. On Monday we took her in and the doctor said "She looks great!". Of course with a dose of Tylenol there was no fever and screaming, but she also didn't have red ears or throat. The doctor decide to check her urine to see if she had a UTI.

How do you get a urine sample from an 11 month of girl???? Good question. First you stick (literally sticky...) a bag around her little girly parts and hope that it catches enough urine when she pees. If you don't get enough from the first try (after we waited like 40 minutes, of course) THEN they put a catheter in- poor, poor baby!!!

So, that was what Mckenna got to put up with for about 1 and 1/2 hours! She got the sticky bag, finally peed, and then it wasn't enough to send out to the lab. However, there was enough for them to tell that she had lots of white blood cells in her urine which usually means a bladder infection. The nurses came in a while later to do the catheter. I felt so terrible for Mckenna! Catheters hurt! The nurses got her all cleaned up and got the tube in. Once the tube was in, though, Mckenna decided to pee on her own---around the tube of course! SO the two nurses, Mckenna and I got covered in Kenna Pee! YUCK! Luckily the nurse caught most of it in the cup :-) She was given a shot of antibiotics, a prescription for one to continue at home and we are still waiting to hear back from the doctor about that labs. They wanted to confirm it was a bladder infection. If it is then Mckenna has to go in for some more testing in a couple of weeks. When kids this young get bladder infections they want to make sure they don't have urinary reflux. In the mean time we have a fussy little baby. Thankfully we have great drugs like Motrin and Tylenol to give her!!!! But she screams whenever we change a diaper now. The catheter traumatized her, ha! No fun!

Oh and p.s........ she is getting two more teeth in at the same time :-(....POOR BABY!

ALL BETTER!

"That's the wrong......

....YOUR" -Jeff

I know, I know I put the wrong "YOU'RE" on our new blog header. It will be fixed SOON! :-)

Thank Hun for keeping my grammar in check, love you!

Baby Ryan

I took some pictures of our friends little boy the other day! This is just a little preview. Isn't he cute?