The Curtis Family: August 2008

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Week at the Grandparents in Anaheim

Aliyah and I had a blast in Anaheim with my parents this last week. We went shopping, hung out at the house, played alot and just totally bummed out. It was great! Thank you so much to my parents for letting me come down and hang out and for letting Austin and I go hang out alone longer than just sleeping. :) We got to hang out in the back yard and go swimming, lay out, do cannon balls and kartwheels off of the diving board. Good times! I LOVE hanging out with my husband. I really took it for granted before. Well here are some pics while Austin was in SF and some with our good friends Kristal & Chris and I think I have one somewhere in here of Auntie Lori and Aliyah.

Shalla (20 years old!), Grandma & Aliyah

Look at her go!

I spend alot of time like this.

Uh oh, it's hereditary!

Daddy's home! She was so excited! Every night he would talk to her on the phone and she would turn towards his voice and smile.

Our friends Chris & Kristal

She LOVES Grandpa!
Everytime he could get her to smile, go to sleep with just one touch, it was amazing!

Lori & I

Aliyah's new bouncer-the best thing EVER!
We're getting rid of the other one if anyone needs one!

Happy baby says "HI"

Aliyah in the ER

Yup, that's right! Aliyah got a fever while her and I were in Anaheim staying the week with my parents while Austin was in SF at a Flash conference. We ended up going to the pediatrician the next day. She was worried because Austin & I weren't showing any sick signs. So, she highly recommended we go straight to ER to have tests to make sure that she was ok. I guess when a newborn has a fever without reason, it's a really big deal. So they gave her an iv, took blood, had a chest x-ray, gave her a catheter to get a urine sample and gave her saline into her blood. It was extremely hard to go through and watch.

I was there from 9am-4:45pm, without food or drink and it was effecting me big time because what we didn't know was that I was already sick! I wish my symptoms would have shown before Aliyah's so that she didn't have to go through any of that. It feels so pointless because there was nothing to be shown. Her fever even stopped just from baby Tylenol before the tests ever got started, but that didn't stop them from super pushing us to do "protocol." All for a fever, so crazy how fragile our babies are, yet they can experience more medical "protocol" than the average adult in their lifetime all within 8 weeks of life!

So even though we had a natural birth out of the hospital, I couldn't save my baby from ending up there eventually. It makes us extremely sad.

Aliyah did REALLY good! Everyone kept complimenting on what a good baby she is. But they didn't like me too much because I questioned everything they wanted to do. Like I would them do things just because, I don't blindly trust people, especially not with my baby!
Unleash mama bear on them. Grrrr! ;)

Look at her smile! It's amazing how much our children trust us and will endure anything we allow them to go through. That's why I'm a mama bear! :)

Montana Wedding

We have been all over the place these last couple of weeks. And so much has happened.

We had the pleasure of going to Montana for Mike & Amanda's wedding. Aliyah was so great! Our flights were at 6am out of LAX (fun!), which we missed because of LAX's bad planning. Only 2 lines (massssssive lines) for their busiest time. Everyone missed their flights! But they got us on the next one and in first class which was great! Oh by the way...TSA makes you take your newborn out of the car seat asleep, remove all blankets, hats (everything to keep them warm) and totally disable to whole stroller, car seat system. It was pretty intense, but we made it and we had a spinach omelette waiting for us on the plane with our big, comfy seats! :)

We stayed in this rad retreat center that Austin found and totally be-friended the owner and even went on a drive together.