Hills of Hayward

自從妹妹開始會玩以後, 喝奶總是很不乖, 喝喝停停, 只知道要玩．

今天早上妹妹又沒心喝奶了，哥哥在旁邊聽到阿姨在唸妹妹，馬上骑著他心愛的腳踏車，咚咚咚咚地到了他自己每次不乖被關的 “小屋屋” (一間黑黑的儲藏室) ，叫著，”妹妹呀! 這裡有一個小屋屋唷!　這裡有一個小屋屋唷!” 接著又咚咚咚咚地骑到妹妹旁邊，有模有樣地說，”壞蛋妹妹!　壞蛋妹妹!”

不知道妹妹長大後還要被哥哥管多久呢?!　我親愛的兩個妹妹, 文文和珊珊, 一定覺得這情景很熟悉吧!　哈哈! 

Are daughter and Mommy alike?

It was scary. Arden’s temperature went up from 103.5 to 104.5 in just 20 minutes yesterday evening

Our whole family have been sick before Xmas and Arden and Anders picked up new germs from our TX trip and also from Anders’ new school in the past 3 weeks. Anders just had running nose and cough but his fever always went away in a day. Arden, on the other hand, always had two of the three symptoms at the same time – among fever, vomiting and diarrhea. However, she never lost her energy and was never fussy or cranky.

Yesterday afternoon when we realize that her temperature was high at 103.5 F again, it was pretty sudden. I gave her Motrin right away and she started being sleepy.  She was not crying or fussy.  She just did not move and kept falling asleep if she was held horizontally.  The vines on her legs were blue and purpleish. Motrin didn’t seem to work fast enough; her temperature went up to 104.5 in just 20 minutes after she took Motrin. So Tylenol again that time. I was so worried and talked to the nurse and doctor on the phone multiple times since it was after the clinic hours.

Good thing that Arden’s temperature started coming down after Tylenol and it never went up so fast and so high again since then. She started playing again and her skin tone came back to normal about an hour after the medicines.

Just some notes for myself and it may help you some time in the future too.

When the temperature is high, check the following:

• When the body shows blueish, does baby have difficulties of breathing?
• When the baby is sleepy due to the high fever, are you able to wake her up or keep her awake?
• When you tickle the feet or body, does the baby react to the tickle (withdraw or move)?
• Does the baby’s neck move up-down and left-right okay?
• When the temperature comes down, does the baby still withdraw or show no reaction to the surrounding?
• When the temperature comes down, is the baby still sleepy?

If any of these presents, it’s time to go to the emergency room!

Arden is 7 months old and she’s 90% at her height and 80% at her weight. I guess she got Daddy’s genes. Unlike her poor brother who has always been at the bottom 20%, I didn’t have to force her to eat; she just grew.

Arden started baby foods at 6 months old. She ate everything though she didn’t like pea and apple at the beginning. She would stick her tongue out for the next bite; she also reached out her two arms for you when you showed that you were going to hold her up; she often jumped up and down when you held her.

She talked a lot when she was young but I haven’t heard much of her voices for the past two months. To a point I started to worry. Guess what?! She started talking again last week and now she talked a lot! Just like her brother, the “da.. da..” come first.

She loved to play or just be around with Anders despite that Anders would bite her out of the blue sometimes.

And see, she’s now big enough to swing herself.  Look!

Arden started eating baby food at 5 months old but she didn’t quite like it so we waited until she was 6 months old. See how much she enjoyed it now.