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Daddy's cheerleader

My sister got this outfit for Addie when she was born and I thought we'd support Daddy's team for their first regular season game. I even splurged on pizza and ice cream...too bad they lost!

Trauma, trauma, trauma (or should we say drama!)

Ok, so there is nothing traumatic, or dramatic, about this picture. It's just a picture of Addie enjoying some of Gramma's delicious poppyseed bread. The drama came yesterday when we made our way to the doctor's office...
Addie was playing well in the waiting room when the door to the exam rooms opened...she froze. Rosie, the nurse came through the doorway and the whimpering began. Rosie called another child's name to go back and the screams started. Addie is no longer frozen, she is climbing her way up my body at record speed. By the time Rosie stopped laughing and closed the door behind her Addie was practically sitting on my head...great start to the visit!
After a few minutes Addie decides to play again, but she isn't moving far from me. She keeps eyeing the dreaded door. Rosie comes again and this time it's our turn. Thankfully Rosie has been working in pediatrician's offices for about 40 years now and has seen lots of "Addies"! She came and sat next to me in the waiting room and since no one else was there we did most of the preliminary paperwork stuff out there. Addie is back in my lap, but just staring Rosie down and whimpering a little bit. Maybe this won't be so bad...
Well, then come the scales, the thermometer and heaven help us, the oxygen level reading machine (I have no idea what it's really called!). After two tries with the thermometer we give up. If she didn't have a fever when we got to the office, the hysterical screaming and flailing about has probably caused one by now... we finanlly got an oxygen level reading off of one of Addie's big toes - the feet were a bit easier to hold onto then the fingers. By this time Rosie has a clear picture of what I've been wiping out of Addie's nose for the last week - it's smeared all over Addie's face and my shirt. Lovely. The joys of Motherhood. If you know me well, you know I can barely stomach snot. It's by God's grace alone that my own child's doesn't bother me like everybody else's does...
Rosie is finished now and leaves us to wait for the doctor. Adie has attached herself to me in true monkey fashion and isn't budging. We sit like this for about 10minutes until the doctor comes in. Dr. Hawley is a very kind person and she tells me at every visit that she had a daughter just like Addie - with very little hair and terrified of doctor's offices! At least she gets it. Addie is once again trying to scale my body (I wonder where she thinks she's going to go?), but luckily Dr. Hawley needs to listen to her back. Good thing. I seriously doubt we could have gotten Addie turned around if she needed to listen to her chest. This went fairly well, all things considered, but then Dr. Hawley dared to touch Addie's head while she looked in her ears. Goodness, the people in the office next door must have thought there was some form of torture going on in here. It was quickly determined that Addie's left ear was infected. So now after two weeks of "waiting it out" I feel terrible. I should have taken her in sooner. Couldn't these kids just come with a flashing mechanism installed that would flash red when a doctor's visit was needed? So once we found the ear infection we stopped looking for anything else. The antibiotics Dr. Hawley is prescribing will take care of a lot of things, just in case anything else is wrong. We covered all the main bases and believe me, Addie was having no more. At this point Dr. Hawley gets a good look at what I've been wiping out of Addie's nose - again because it's all over Addie and me - and is pretty confident there is also a sinus infection going on. Then I heard something that was music to my ears...no Addie hadn't stopped screaming just yet...my doctor told me to buy Dimeatapp and cut the dose down for her. I of course didn't mention that I was already doing this with a different medication, but still, I now had the go ahead from the doctor to do it. It somehow made me feel better about what I was going to do anyway. I'm a firm believer in treating symptoms while diseases run their course!
By now the doctor hasn't touched Addie or come near her in a few minutes and she is starting to calm down. At least she's sitting again, not scaling my body or trying to clinb the walls to get away.
We pay the receptionist and I say goodbye to everyone. Addie is glaring at everybody, but not crying anymore. We walk out the door, prescription in hand, and Addie does what only a child could do. She smiles a huge beaming smile, says "bye-bye" and blows a big snotty kiss to the girls in the office. That's my girl. Drama queen. Wonder where she gets it?

To Gramma's house we go! (or went...)

Addie fell asleep on our trip to mom and dad's house and had some serious "carseat slump" going on. All you parents know what I'm talking about! So I tried to prop her head up with her blanket...

I took the blanket off when it obviously didn't work...
We had a good time with my family and as always were sad to say goodbye! Addie has been sick with a cold for close to three weeks now and late this afternoon she spiked a fever, so tomorrow we're off to visit the doctor. That should go well - last time we were there everyone in the office and waiting room were chuckling when we came out of the exam room because they had heard every shrill scream she made. I think they were all just relieved it wasn't their child... hopefully she'll be on the mend soon!