The Grace of Madison: Bronchitas, Breathing Treatments, and Weddings

Well this past week has been an exciting one at the Akins Household. Madison came down with bronchitas on Wednesday, and we have been in and out of Dr. office's all week!! They have put her on a breathing treatment machine folks (every 6 hours), and let me just tell you, that is absolutely NO fun to give to a 20 mth old. Can you imagine the first few times we tried to do this to her, she fought us like we were injecting her with needles! It was definately a 2 person job. She has now gotten use to the machine, and as long as I give myself some of the treatment and swap it up with her, she is good to go. But an adventure it was at the beginning!!

We went back to the doctor today at lunch, and they are going to continue the treatments until the end of the week, and hopefully by then she will be completely better and back to her normal chipper self.

On a happier note, Saturday came and we were hoping she would be feeling better and walk down the aisle with Ellen for Carrie's wedding. It didn't quite go as planned. She did good getting ready, and was all prettied up, but come game time, she was having no part of it. She did not want to be away from Mimi, and they made the judgement call to cancel that part, and I think that was probably the smartest decision. She did relativly well during the wedding (no major outbursts), but I was getting nervous towards the end, as she was getting restless.

The wedding and reception was great and Carrie was a beautiful bride. I wish them both the best and hope they have a lifetime of happiness together. I am especially thankful to Carrie and Chris for remembering Scarlet on her wedding day. Carrie had a pink candle at the front of the church to remember Scarlet and also included Madison on her special day.

That's about all I got from this weekend. Enjoy the pics, and here's rooting for MSU to take down the Reb's on Wednesday night, and Also for the Vols to put an end to Memphis's pipedream.

JA