breathing treatments and potty training

What a day it has been...
Emmalyn developed a cold late Thursday night and into Friday. It seemed like any ordinary cold, despite coughing all through the night on Friday. She woke up Saturday and still just a runny nose and a little coughing. Sunday it progressed into an extremely runny nose and a lot harder cough with a little bit of weezing. By this morning she was running a temp of 100 and was noticeably struggling to breath. We decided to not take our chances on this one and call the doctor!
We are so glad that we did because after examining her the doc decided she was going to need several rounds of breathing treatments! We were all hoping not to end up in the ER!! Before the doctor even came in to see Emmalyn she had worked herself up (plus I am sure the drainage in her stomach didn't help) enough to vomit all over the room! The doctor came in and said she heard it splat from across the hall :( Our poor little girl just can't get over her gagging/puking!
We started with the first round of treatments which turned into the struggle of a lifetime! Nate had to hold her down while I had to somehow keep the mask over her face for 7 minutes! It was so heartbreaking! I think she thought we were trying to kill her! She was not happy in the slightest. After the 7 minutes that seemed like an hour the doc came in to examine her breathing again and decided she indeed needed another treatment. By this time Em was completely out of physical strength from fighting us in the first round that she literally almost passed out during the second! Much easier on mom and dad this time!
After she was finished the doctor said her lungs were clear but her breathing was still visibly strained. She sent us home with our own breathing treatment and steroids to give her. She is still fighting hard to get her breath but is at least napping peacefully right now.

On a better note.. Em started "sort of potty training" on Friday! She was showing interest as I mentioned before and indeed is very much excited about it!
We have her in a diaper (because I am not getting to serious until June) and she lets us know when she has pee pee in there. She calls her potty a "pot pot" and seems to know exactly what it is used for. Sunday morning when she woke, I went in to get her and she was pulling at her diaper saying "pot pot." I asked if she wanted to use the potty and she said "uh huh." So I took off her diaper and sat her down. We sat for about 3 minutes, talking and singing and before I knew she was pee peeing in her potty! Of course I made a huge deal about it and we dumped her pee pee in the toilet as she said "bye bye pee pee!" Possibly luck, I was thinking, because throughout the day we attempted the potty a few more times and... nothing. However, this morning she did the same thing with her diaper and we sat on the potty, waiting and singing, this time for about 2 minutes and she did it again!! This time Nate was home to see it so he knew I wasn't kidding from the day before.
So, needless to say there has been a lot of excitement in the Sharp house this weekend! Keep Em in your prayers that her breathing gets better soon. It is so sad to see her little belly and chest pulling so hard to breath :(