I HAVE HAD IT!

I am buying a big bubble and Miss Harper is going to spend the rest of her days in it.

On Wednesday we had to check Miss Harper into the hospital. It was sad and hard and horrible and miserable and wretched and I never want to do it again... hence, the bubble!

But she had been sick since Sunday, spent 3 hours at the doctors office Monday, got diagnosed with pneumonia, got really worse Tuesday, went back to the doctors on Wednesday morning, was told to go straight to the Plano Presbyterian ER. When we got there we they did all the vitals then went and got her a room. She was running a 104 temp and was not breathing well. She was so dehydrated that they had quite a hard time getting a line in her. First 3 ER nurses tried, then they called down the Pediatric nurses... it took FOREVER and was absolutely MISERABLE! She was poked, prodded, thumped, squeezed, mashed, pricked and pricked and pricked again. After 4 pricks and blown veins they pinned her down and put her IV in her head! I was FREAKED!! She screamed the whole time. It was horrible to witness and I am sure even worse for her.

After she had some fluid and a breathing treatment, they transferred her to a different hospital because if something went wrong they would not have been able to handle it (that is what the respiratory therapist told me). So Harper and I rode in the ambulance to Children's Medical at Legacy. When we got there we were informed that she did not have pneumonia but bronchitis/rsv. They kept her hooked up with an IV the whole time to get her rehydrated and monitored feedings and well the opposites of feeding.

So we had a fun (to use the term loosely) little night watching tv, holding our sicky poo, trying to keep cords untangled and away from Harper's hands, eating hospital food, and getting visits- Stephen came Wednesday night and Mom, Cole, and Riley came that next morning. Thankfully, we only stayed Wednesday night and got to leave the next afternoon.

Harper is doing better. She still has quite a nasty little cough and wheezes a bit but she is definitely perking up.

But it was such a nice hospital and the nurses that we had were SO SO SO wonderful. And I just have to say that it made me so incredibly grateful to have a healthy child. It is hard to have a sick kid. It is the worst thing to have to watch and my kid was not even that sick.

Harper and I at Presbyterian. This is right after they got her IV in... as you can tell by the way she looks it was quite traumatic. And she is now seriously afraid of blue gloves (she would be okay with the nurses, but the minute she saw blue gloves it was all screams). But after having your face smashed down by one for so long, you would too.

This is at Children's. They put a diaper on her head so she would not pull on her cords. It made her insanely sweaty so we ditched it quick.

Watching Caillou with Daddy

Playing with toy stethoscope the gave her. She LOVES it and knows just what to do!

Napping with Kitty

Zoo Days

So on Saturday Kenny, Harper, Riley, Cole, Sam (a friend of Riley's), and I all went to the Dallas Zoo. We had so much fun! I absolutely love the zoo! It is the place I would choose to go over and over again. Family activity... let's go to the zoo. I even want to take our family pictures at the zoo...it woul be cute,right!? But Kenny is still needing to be convinced.

My infatuation with the zoo comes from my love of giraffes. I love love love giraffes! They are my favorite animals. They are just so graceful and regal. I could watch them for hours! Plus, there tongues are stinking hilarious! So long they can completely wrap around their whole face and lick the other side. Just love them! And I will admit this was my thought process as we were at the giraffe's area... Maybe if I drop something (like a kid) down there, they will let me go down and get it (or them) out and then I could play with the giraffes. Seriously, that is what I thought... love right?! But you all will be happy to know that, fortunately (or unfortunately... I am still not sure yet) common sense overcame me and I did not drop a kid down.

But anyways, here are pictures of the zoo!

We rode the train down to the zoo... Harper LOVED looking out the window, watching everything go by.

The Dallas Zoo has totally redone their exhibits since the last time I was there! They were awesome! You could get so much closer to the animals and there exhibits were so much more spacious and roomy for the animals so we got to see them be much more playful!


Cute Uncle Cole!

The kids... none of which got thrown into the giraffe exhibit. :)

Being goofy

GIRAFFES!!!!

It was the perfect day to go to the zoo! It was low 70's all day long! We had a great time!

Worn out!

Super cool Riley with the Super Cool Penguins

We are so glad when daddy is home !

Bloggity, Blog, Blog, Blog

So I have been a bad blogger lately. It has been forever and a day since I last posted. But there is just so much to do. And so much going on. Plus, I usually have like a list of blog ideas and postings in my head of things that I want to blog about.... but lately, nothing. Weird! I blame my lack of ideas on the amazing birthday present Kenny got me. I spend all my free time on it. It makes me happy. He got me a Kindle! I capital L-O-V-E it! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! I was a little hesitant about it at first because I did not want to be a traitor to what I love, books. And there is a lot to miss about books in print- the smell of new books, getting to crack the binding when you open it, browsing for hours in the book store. But then, I realized... I will still do that.... Just because I have a Kindle doesn't mean I can't swing both ways. :) So for now, my Kindle is down and I am focusing on the blog.

But anyways, here is the 411 on us just to catch up so that I feel like I can go on blogging about more fun topics...

Kenny is now half way done with his training. He leaves every Monday afternoon and comes home late Friday nights. Harper and I miss him dearly but we are so proud of him. He is doing such a good job and is loving his new job. So we are happy. We should find out where we will end up in a few weeks, so we are anxiously awaiting that.

As for me, I am finishing up school through BYU-Idaho's online program. I only have a couple more semesters left, so I am just chugging away. I am taking 4 classes this semester so I am staying pretty busy with all the homework and keeping up with Harper.

Miss Harper is doing fabulous. She grew some more teeth so she no longer has fangs. She is crawling EVERYWHERE! She is constantly on the go, never staying still. She loves reading (which makes me so so so happy), playing with Aunt Riley (Rye is Harper's BFF), crawling all over the place, swinging at the playground, watching kids, twirling, playing with all her toys, riding in her new forward facing carseat, coloring, dancing, and just being her cute self! She is such a blast.

Here are a couple pics of Harper. We usually go out to eat on Monday's before we take Kenny to the airport. So here is Harps sitting in her high chair at Sweet Tomatoes (good, but Souper Salad is way better)....

A Year In Review

So 2010 has been a big, monumental year. Like big! It has a great year.

I started off the year humongously pregnant and working at APX. Kenny was working at the testing center. We were both taking classes and anxiously awaiting the arrival of Miss Harper and preparing to move to Washington D.C. for an internship.

Harper was born. We learned that being parents was crazy, hard, and absolutely WONDERFUL! We were all in love at first sight. We also learned how hard it was to function on minimal amounts of sleep.

We no longer felt right about going to D.C. So within about 2 weeks, we found a new apartment in Provo, Kenny got an internship for the City of Provo, we both signed up summer classes at BYU, and continued learning how to be parents.

We celebrated 2 years of marriage!

We had a fun reunion weekend with Kenny's family up in Alberta.

Kenny GRADUATED!!! We are so proud of him! He interviewed, interviewed, and interviewed some more.

Harper grew, grew, and grew some more.

We sold our contract, packed our stuff, said good bye to Utah for the time being and moved to Texas to continue the job hunt.

A week later, Kenny go a job that he had applied for up in Utah. And again, we are so stinking proud of his amazingness!

Went to Houston and spent a fun filled week with Kenny's sister, Heather, and all her kids.

Kenny started the job and the traveling commenced. Harper and I are having a blast playing with Gran and Grandpa Dethloff and all the uncles and aunt.

Harper grew fang teeth (see post below) and is continuing to grow and learn like CRAZY!

Kenny went to his sister, Linda's, wedding. Harper got sick so we stayed behind. :(

We had a fabulous Christmas (Harper's first was so exciting) with my family and enjoyed getting to see my brother, Brian, and his wife, Katie. It had been way too long.

We have learned A LOT this year! It has been quite the transitional, growing period for all of us. We have seen the Lord's hand guiding our lives countless times this year. We have received unconditional love, support, and guidance from our parents and siblings and grandparents and just everyone. We are ever so grateful for our families and all the many blessings we have received this year.

We are looking forward to 2011 and all the changes and growth we know that it will bring.
And to end, a cute picture of Harper....

This is NOT a Guest Post

Hey y'all this is the HLK im just chillin here in texas minding my own buisness when i was bitten by what we all thought was just another toothless man




But it was actually a vampire and now strange things are happening and im turning into a vampire myself


BEWARE FOOLS I'LL BITE YOU ALL

Incoming Guest Post

So, I had an all I want for Christmas blog planned out in my head. I got my AWESOME little brother, Chris, to help me snap some cute pics of Miss Harperty- Darperty to post on there... But it never happened. Instead Harps got sick... Way sick! Sicker than the last time (see the sicky-poo post).
It was most unfortunate! Again, your kid being sick is HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, NO- GOOD, VERY BAD DAY... Or in our case days! Ugh!!!!
Plus, we missed Linda's wedding and all the Kyle Family fun that was going on without us! It made us sad. We were stuck in Texas sick and sad!
But anyways, back to the matter at hand, my little brother Chris had taken all these cute pictures for me for the post and I want to make sure the get used and documented because the are stinking cute and are well, down right funny! So, I decided to let my little bro do a guest post.
It is the first guest post on Crazy Little Thing Called Love and we are vey very excited!
So stay tuned today, for the first ever guest post by Christopher "one of the greatest uncles ever" Dethloff.

Forget Em All!

Forget Hop on Pop. Forget the Pokey Little Puppy. Forget Goodnight Moon. Forget Charlie and Lola. Forget Go Dog Go and all other Dr. Seuss books. Forget (and excuse me for the blaspheme here) Fancy Nancy. Forget Dear Zoo. Forget Baby Blue Cat and the Smiley Worm Doll.

Heck, forget the Shiny, Glowy Christmas Tree and Presents right behind her.

Miss Harper has decided to focus on the more serious, weighter matters at hand. Tonight in the study, this is what I found....

As seen by the face, the oil spill is a issue she is deeply concerned about!

*note- These pictures are not staged! My mom, Riley, and I were talking in the study tonight. When we looked down, this is what we saw. (She had pulled all of the National Geographics off of the shelf and was checking them out...So Stinkin' Cute!!!) At the ripe, young age of 9 months, Harper is ready to take on the world!