Reflux

Bayli had her asthma/sinus/allergy/reflux checkup yesterday. Her lung function wasn't too bad, but the left side of her nose had a sore spot in it with some blood (sorry for the grapic picture) and the right side was nearly swelled shut. I so feel for what she suffers through with sinus problems. I don't know how at 11 she deals as well with what she goes through. She has been having reflux trouble too and she already takes 40mg of Zegerid at night, which is a pretty good dose of medicine and they are now adding Zantac 150 in the mornings for several weeks to see if this will help. They said sometime some people need a little extra help. How exactly do you get extra help to pay for yet another med? They also told us to start really watching her diet for the reflux more than we already do. We go easy on spicy, fruit juice, fatty, greasy etc. At least she is a water drinker and only occasionally drinks a soda and then never anything that contains caffeiene. Now we have to add more fiber and protein to her diet to which my husband said "what, is she an old lady?" and reduce the starchy foods and watch for hidden sugars (and avoid those). These people already know that she is lactose intolerant so who's going to help me at the grocery store read labels for yet another issue? All that's going to be left to eat are carrots and water and then what am I supposed to do watch her turn orange for entertainment? No really I should be thankful and I am thankful that none of her problems are life threatening. We will just have to suck this up and all learn to eat differently again. Things could be worse. I would just like to be able to once watch her go to a birthday party and actually eat the cake and ice cream they have without worrying if the lactose pills are going to be enough or is she going to get sick, or can she even use the pills because she used them one or twice this week (she can't use them all the time like most people can) or carting our own cake around everywhere. I guess she deals better than me because she doens't know any different. She's been doing this since birth and I know what she is missing because I can eat it.

Tallness

Back to the whole tall/short thing. Bayli has inherited my wonderful sarcasticness. When she calls me short I reply "I am still taller than you" to which she replies "At least I'm not done growing!" What's up with that? No respect, no respect at all!

Birthday!!

That's right folks Brandi is now another year wiser. See doesn't that sound better than another year older. I have turned the big 32 and it feels just like yesterday when I was 31. It also makes me feel good to know that I am 32, but my wii age is 31! Now if I can just keep it that way. Bayli woke up first thing this morning singing "Go shorty, it's your birthday. Go shorty, it's your birthday". She found it hilarious seeing as how she thinks I'm short. I'm not. I'm 5'2" and as long as there are people shorter than me I will always be of medium height. That is my story and I am sticking to it! People also call me skinny, but I just tell them I'm not skinny I'm too tall. So I guess that works the other way too if your overweight just people you're not overweight your just too short for your body size. This is probably the reason my husband can't follow a conversation with me as I go randomly from one topic to another, but it all made sense to me. Maybe he just can't keep up with my keen mind. Anywho back to the whole birthday thing. I have to take Bayli to the Asthma Doc tomorrow, which happens to just be on the same road as Gigi's cupcakes and seeing as how I LOVE cupcakes I think I will treat myself to one tomorrow. I was talking about it a lot this morning with my husband and he said "Do you plan on buying Bayli one too?" I was like yeah, sure I guess I could. It would probably be bad momminess of me to eat it in front of her with other people around. Probably better to do things like that at home where no one else sees it, right? I have a cupcake weakness and I have ate the last one at home in front of her before and I didn't even really feel bad for it. Does that make me a bad mommy?

Bayli wins a bet

Last Monday the 15th Bayli was out of school for President's Day and I had to work so she stayed home with Lealan. They had to bring me to work that day because our roads were horribly iced over. Well when they came to pick me up Bay came in first and told me she was going to go buy a Sprite with the dollar she won from dad. I said how did you win it? She said they were watching Pawn Stars and there was a question on there that they were going to answer after the commercial break and her dad told her whoever got the question wrong owed the winner a dollar. Gotta start em young learning to gamble :) Well she answered correctly and he didn't so he had to cough up a dollar. I told her next time go for more than a dollar. He said on the way down the mountain to get me she said she was going to buy a sprite with her dollar and he said can't you think of something better to spend it on than a sprite? She said that sprite was going to taste so good because she was buying it with his dollar. That's my girl!

Fortune cookie

We went to eat at my favorite restaurant Sunday after church, Ichiban, YUMMMM! What's better than sushi and fried rice! Well you always get a fortune cookie at the end of your meal and I actually kept my fortune this time and I happened to find it this morning. I have never seen a fortune like this before. Usually they are all happy go lucky or have a real deep meaning to them, but mine was about aliens. Huh, what? That's right I said aliens. My fortune was "An alien of some sort will be appearing to you shortly!" A what will be appearing? What happened to "you will run into unexpected wealth" or "see and old friend and receive a blessing". My family thought it was hilarious and joked that I would have to ride home alone as they did not want to be abducted or probed. I said it might not be a green alien and they were like whaaaat? I said it says an alien of some sort so does that mean a UFO alien or an illegal alien. Will I be beamed up or have to swim across the border against my will. Will I be abducted into a UFO or a Hyundai with 22 other "aliens"? And why does it not tell me what is going to happen once it appears, I mean this is not a time for surprises. Well I've made it to Thursday and no alien yet, maybe I'm safe. If you don't hear from me in a few days you might want to send the X Files investigators out to find me!

Wii Fit

Who knew you could have so much fun working out. At the beginning it tells you your wii fit age and bmi and all that yucky stuff. I was real worried that my age would be like 65, but I got lucky and it said my age was 32, which is okay because I will be 32 next week. I went into first place on a lot of them because I was the first to play, but my daughter soon came behind me and took me out. I wasn't happy. I like to be in the number 1 position and I am having a hard time getting that coveted spot back in the ski jump. I don't know how she achieved the number she got in it. I may never beat her in it, but I do hold the #1 position in the hula hooping!!!! WootWoot! You start out real good in that and then you start getting tired and you look like you are having some kind of fit. We laughed so hard at each other we were crying. In the super hula hoop you have to hoop so long moving your hips to the right and then to the left, well Lealan was doing the right ones and it finished and he kind of fell over to the couch and we are yelling get back on you have to do the other side and he is holding his heart telling us he can't because he is sure he is having a heartattack. He managed to scrape himself back up and finish and then at the end it told him how many calories he had burned, which it wasn't many, and he was like I did all that and didn't even burn off the Dr. Pepper I just drank?! I am going to have to try to capture his sweet hula hoop moves on video.

Mommy ESP

About 2 Sundays ago me and Lealan ate lunch when we got home from church and Bayli didn't want to eat then. Me and him were piled up on the couch watching football and Bayli was back in her room watching tv. She walked down the hallway and picked up her purse off the end of the couch and I looked at her and said "You aren't eating any candy until you eat lunch". She made a face and threw her purse back down on the couch and Lealan said "How in the world did you know that's what she was doing?" I said it was my mommy powers! We moms just have a gift.