Quick Update

Just a quick update.

We went to the doctor yesterday with Sophie to have her ears checked. My mommy radar had a feeling that the ear infection was there but was hoping I was wrong. The doctor looked at her ear and the one that she had the ear infection in before was clear but the other one was now infected. Her pediatrician decided to do a test called a tympanogram. It was a simple test where they stick a probe one at a time in each ear. She did this to determine if fluid was present in the middle ear. When they tested Sophie she had a flat line on both ears which they said indicated that there was fluid in the middle ear. They have put her on stronger antibiotic to treat the current ear infection and they have referred her to an audiologist and ENT. They want to make sure that it hasn't affected her hearing and also what is the best course of treatment for Sophie.

She has appointments with both the morning of the 14th of April and will find out more then. I think Brock and I are both just ready for her to feel better and the ear infections to stop. But we are confident we are on the right road.

Ear Infections...OUCH!

It has been a rough couple of weeks for us on the health front. The Thursday after her party, Sophie woke up in the middle of the night screaming. I went in after about 1 hour, I was able to get her back to sleep. When we woke up the next morning she seemed fine, so I chalked it up to either a nightmare or possibly cutting more teeth. When I went to go and pick up Sophie after school she seemed warm and I thought maybe was running a fever. While it seemed like it was just low grade, Sophie was wiped and we decided it was best to bring Sophie into the pediatrician before the weekend. Sure enough, she had an ear infection and was put on an antibiotic.

About one week after she finished up her antibiotic, I noticed that she was tugging on her ear again. I didn't want to take any chances so I took her in just to get her ear checked. Good thing I did! Another ear infection! They put her on a different antibiotic to see if her body was responding to the antibiotic she was on the last time. We have to take her back on the 29th for another ear check. If the ear infection is still there then we will determine the best course of action for her. For now, we are just keeping our fingers crossed!

Updates...Updates...and more updates

I have been so incredibly bad when it comes to blogging. So there is many updates.

Sophie is growing into quite a little girl. Before we know it her 2nd birthday will be here! It's amazing to us that in just over a month, our little angel will be 2.

We've started really settling into our house. I still haven't decided where I want to hang pictures. My goal when we moved was to get to a livable state, get through the holidays, and Sophie's birthday and then I can work on going through the remainder of boxes and getting pictures hung on the wall. I don't think Brock or I are in any hurry to start tackling the chore. But we both know that we have to tackle it at some point.

The holidays were great. It's amazing to us how much more fun the holidays are with Sophie in our lives. We took her over to see Santa at State Farm again this year. It is so great that State Farm organizes this for us. Sophie was so cute when we got there. She kept asking "Santa, where are you?" She did great sitting with him and didn't even cry. After she saw Santa was another story. She started acting out. I think that part of it was that she was so tired.

Christmas was a bit rough for her when it came to health. Right before Christmas, she got a mild case of pink eye. It was not fun having to put drops into her eye. I don't think that either one of us (me or Sophie) enjoyed it one bit. Shortly after the holidays, she got an ear infection. At first we thought it might have been because of teething but when she spiked a fever when knew it was more then just teeth. Off to the pediatrician we went and sure enough it was an ear infection. The infection seemed to linger forever. It lasted for over a week even on antibiotics. She seems to be doing much better now! Thank goodness. I hate it when she doesn't feel well. Just breaks my heart!

From a celebration perspective, Christmas was great! Sophie was so into Santa. He brought her a new kitchen. Which she absolutely LOVES! She is always telling us that "Sophie cooking" She also got a few baby dolls for Christmas which was a big hit. She is very motherly and loves walking the baby in the stroller that she also got.

New Years was pretty uneventful but also fun! With Sophie being sick, we decided it was best for us to just stay in out of the sub zero weather. Brock and I ordered in dinner. We played with Sophie till she went to bed and then watched a movie and the ball drop in NYC.

Sophie has really picked up on the repeating. Thank goodness Brock and I have been very careful about the words that we use around her. Although there is a funny story. As I'm sure it is in some other towns, we have some drivers that really just shouldn't be on the road. I have a habit that when someone does something rather ignorant while we're driving (i.e. cutting us off, going through a stop sign, etc), I'll say "dude, seriously". Well the other day we were getting ready to go out. I went out to the car, got Sophie into her car seat, got in the car, buckled in, etc. Just as I started started the car I hear from the back seat, "Dude, seriously". Needless to say, I was laughing hysterically. Of course, she didn't say it as clear but it was easy enough to know what she said. Thank goodness we've been careful or what she said could have been definitely worse.

To close this post, here are some pictures from our adventures over the past couple of months (in no particular order because the darn blog wasn't let me move then nicely so I gave up LOL):

Snow on our back deck during the first snowfall of 2010

Sophie and Grandpa having tea!

Sophie and Grandpa

Opening the table/chair


Taking her baby for a walk Christmas Day

Playing with the wrapping Christmas Day.

YEAH To Santa!

Santa Visit at State Farm 12/5/2009

Brock hanging up the Christmas lights

Playing in the pantry Christmas Eve

Opening Presents

Daddy and Sophie

Picking out the perfect Christmas Tree.

CHEESE!

Our Christmas Wreath

Many Many Updates

I know it has definitely been a long time since I have blogged. Believe me it isn't due to not having anything going on.

Sophie is growing leaps and bounds and definitely keeping Brock and I on our toes. There are plenty of nights full of giggles and laughter from our precious little girl and she enjoys being tickled by Mommy. She truly is a joy to come home to every night!

On September 16th, we took her in for her 18 month check up. She did very well and didn't have any shots (What a relief for Sophie!). She still doesn't like the doctor's office and starts crying as soon as any of the staff walks in the room. I'm hoping some day that she will get over that but I'm not so confident it will happen. Here are the stats from that visit: She weighed in at 25 lbs 10 oz or the 64th percentile. She was 34 inches in length or the 93rd percentile. For now, it looks like she is going to be tall.

She is now up to 10 teeth that have popped all the way through. She has both of her 1 year molars on the bottom and tonight we noticed that she has popped one of her first molars on the top. For the month it seems like every time we turn around lately she has another tooth coming in.

She still is a bit of a fussy eater and refuses to eat veggies. We have tried and continue to offer them to her but she really wants not much to to do with this. We talked to our pediatrician about it and she said that it is not uncommon for kids at this age to not want to eat veggies but to keep doing what we are doing in offering them. We also asked her about offering her the V8 Fusion to supplement till we get her to eat veggies the traditional way. She was fine with this as long as we diluted it down. So we have started offering her this and she loves it! I guess there is more then one way to skin a cat!

Over the past couple of weeks, Sophie has had a bit of a runny nose. Nothing too alarming so I chalked it up to teething since she has had a runny nose every time she is popping another tooth. However, last Monday she just didn't seem right so I decided it was probably best to go ahead and get her into the pediatrician. Turns out that she had a respiratory infection and an ear infection. Nothing too major and nothing a little bit of an antibiotic couldn't get rid of. Tonight is her final dose of the antibiotic so hopefully that is the last of that!

We still are working on the closing date of the house. Right now, it is between the 30th of October or the 13th of November. Problem is that the guy that bought our house wants the 13th of November and the guy that we bought the house from wants the 30th of October. Unfortunately, this can't happen so our poor agent has been stuck in the middle making phone calls trying to get this rectified. Hopefully this will all be taken care of pretty quickly so we can move on and move in :)

For now, Brock and I have both been packing the house and going through alot of stuff. I did not want to move items that we no longer needed and have been pitching things left and right. We both cannot wait till this is all done and we are settled and can get back to some normality!

SICK.....AGAIN :(

Well today started out as normal. We got up, got dressed, dropped Sophie at the sitter's, went to work. Sophie really wasn't acting like herself but she didn't seem to be running a fever or anything like that. Well about 9 a.m., I got a phone call from our sitter. Sophie's cheeks were starting to turn red and looking like they were breaking out in a rash. At first, I thought let's watch her and see if anything changes but the more that I thought about it, the more I thought I should get her in. We went to the pediatrician. She was running a low grade temp (100.2) but her ears looked fine, lungs sounded clear, and over all was checking out okay. They looked in her throat and that was a little red so they did a strep test which came back negative. So we chalked it up to a virus that just needed to run it's course. Back to the sitter's we went. In the five minutes that it took to get to our sitter's home, her temp had raised a whole degree.

So I called back, they said that they still didn't need to see her but to make sure we keep fluids going in and watch her temp. If any new symptoms came up, to call. She's been very tired tonight and her fever was still there. She took a small cat nap around 5 and we gave her some Tylenol. She's now playing (12 minutes to bedtime) and seems to be doing okay. We're going to see how she is doing in the morning and if she still has a fever will probably have Daddy stay home with her. We're suppose to go to a wedding this weekend but if she still isn't feeling well then we'll just send a gift to her home and stay home to rest.

Keep your fingers that she will get over this quickly!