'Bout time for an update, right?

Wow. We have been busy around here. I feel like I haven't had a moment to sit down and relax in hmmm...a month...two? If I've had a night off, we've had people over for one thing or another. It's fun, but it's almost nice to be home 'early' (midnight) tonight, with no other obligations so I can lounge on the couch. Although, I've been saying I'm going to update the blog-so that could be considered an obligation.


I think we've finally found the magic combination of asthma meds. After about a month of being on the new combo, she had yet to catch any sort of cold. Well, you'd think that's great right? But we had no other way of really testing the effectiveness of the meds, other than her getting a cold, since it seems her asthma attacks are brought on mostly by a cold. So when Tanner came down with the sniffles a couple weeks ago, I wasn't trying to avoid Haley and him AT ALL. Usually, a kid with a cold means Carolina cannot play with them. It always ends up in an asthma attack within a couple days. So this time, to see if we were really on the right tract, we let Carolina and Tanner play normally. Sure enough 2-3 days later, Carolina's nose is just a runnin'! We cut out milk, since it helps the body's production of 'snot'. Other than that, we stuck to her normal routine, but with the rescue meds close by. To our relief, she weathered through the whole cold with absolutely no HINT of the asthma!!!!!! We were so happy and proud of her! Now I can let her be normal, catch those things that go around, and allow her immune system to bulk up before it gets bombarded in preschool and kindergarten....



by the way...GO PANTHERS!!! Panthers had their Monday night game against the Bucs this week, and was it ever an exciting game-till the end where, in the words of ESPN, we 'schooled the bucs'. Oh yeah! We were a little reserved during the game, as we had friends over, one was a Buc fan. We thought it was nice of us to be considerate of her hurt pride. Carolina had lots of opportunities to show off her touchdown pose and yell 'touch dew', and give everyone high five and knuckles. Now on to the last 3 games, they're not easy ones--but hopefully we'll stick through it and go into the playoffs on top of our division. Nerrrrrrvous!



Don't know if anyone has caught the weather for San Antonio lately, but it's been "cold" here. By cold, I mean it's almost reached freezing. And by that I mean only at night. During the day it's still into the 70's. Today (Wednesday) was a little chilly, due to the fact that a cold front blew through Tuesday night, bringing sleet and SNOW to San Antonio. Of course it didn't stick (it was at least 78 Tuesday, sunny and hot), and of course it's been all the talk around here. I took some pictures, figured since I live here, might as well get all excited about it too. It stuck slightly to the mulch in our yard. Luckily, it was all overnight, so there weren't enough drivers on the road to cause mass hysteria. Last time there was the threat of sleet here (again, not freezing temps, and the roads were no more slick than when it rains) the total at the end of the day was around 250 major wrecks and 500 minor. It's scary on the roads here when it gets below 40 with any type of precipitation-because of the drivers. But, don't worry, we're back to normal soon--Saturday's high is 72, moving on up to Monday's high of 80. Lovely.



Drop your jaws folks. Here's the sleet/snow in San Antonio.

Hmmm...well I guess there isn't any other news left. So time for some pics! These are mostly from my attempt to take Christmas photos of Carolina. She wasn't too into it. But they're cute.

One night Carolina was watching Oswald, waiting for me to get her medicine ready, and while I was out of the room both dogs jumped up into her lap. Now they're not generally allowed on the couch, but it was just too cute to pass up. You see Slinky off to the left, he moved before I could snap the pic.

Pouting because she didn't want to sit and have her pic taken

So I took pics of "puppy" instead. I hoped this would lure her into the frame, but she was too smart for that. She did like that I was taking photos of "puppy" though, and cheered up

Tossing leaves, then getting upset when they landed in her hair. She's very sensitive about the state of her hair. The wind blowing in it is the worst. She can't stand it.

I love this.

Balancing

Oh no. She has grass on her tights. Well, that's just unacceptable...