Short Weekend, Long Sunday

The weekend feels like it zipped by too fast, even though Sunday was a long day. Friday we hung out at home, then Saturday we hung out with all the grandparents and Cousin Shari. I had a lot of errands to run and weird family stuff to attend to so it was an exhausting day. We did have fun at House of Japan though with Evie being fascinated by all the fire!

Sunday we were greeters at church so Evie went with us to help and so we could show her off. She was adorable and did a very good job holding her 'tell me if you are visiting' tag so people could read it even while she chewed on it. She had fun for the first go-around but got bored (and chatty and loud) during the church service) before semi-melting down during greeting at the second service.

Yesterday was also Evie's next-to-last swim lesson and daddy got in the pool with her. I had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic I am taking on Thursday and had remnants of the nasty rash covering my body still so didn't want to run around in a bathing suit. The rash is finally mostly gone but I had to go on another, much more expensive, antibiotic. Who knew I was allergic to flagyl? Well, now you do.

It seems like every swim lesson makes Evie less comfortable with the water instead of more so. She has just been getting crabbier and crabbier, which may be due to a very short nap before lessons, teething, who knows but I think part of it is not having any funny in the frigid pool. I could hear her crying on and off the whole 30 minutes she was in there which is a bummer. Audry seemed upset a bit too but Allison was having a ball. Katie and Glenn weren't able to come yesterday so it was just 2/3 unhappy campers for the teacher Allix.

Otherwise, the buckeyes won their nail biter of a basketball game and we caught up on a little bit of television. I was actually kind of glad to come back to work today since the weekend was so stressful!

Toof!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have a tooth sighting. A tooth-nubbin began sticking through over the weekend (Evie's front bottom-right), and while there's been teasers before, it looks like this one is progressing to full-on toothness.

Unfortunately, Evie is completely uninterested in letting Mommy and Daddy (or anyone else for that matter) look or poke around in the mouth long enough to see if there's any other progress being made - let alone take a picture!

You didn't REALLY expect me to cooperate with documenting this, did you?

Daredevil baby

Evie is a little too fearless for comfort! She figured out how to go up stairs a short time ago and now she has figured out how to get in and out of a chair. Yup, we have my old toddler rocking chair from when mommy was a teensy-weensy baby and she has been trying to pull herself up into it for a few days now. We thought it would be cute to show her visiting Nana and grandpa how she tries to climb in the chair and then she just did it and climbed/fell out but rather gracefully for a first attempt. After that she would climb up, then grab the back and pull herself up so she could stand and rock the chair (safe=no, cute=yes with daddy as a spotter behind her). Then, she would get a little bored with that and would climb out then back on again, she did this for like 10-15 minutes which is a LONG time for a baby.

It was so cute and amazing! Unfortunately it also reemphasizes that she has no fear!

Rolling, Crawling, WALKING?!?!?

Evie June Bugger has started walking. She has been shuffle walking since this past weekend where she barely lifts her foot up or over and hardly moves but it looked like a precursor to walking and apparently was. On Tuesday after we got home from work EARLY--OSU was closed 1.5 days--woo hoo!--mommy was trying to show daddy how she could walk just barely holding onto one of my hands and she just walked all by herself instead. She has done 8+ steps in a row and made it about 4-5 feet without toppling over so far. She is still a little timid about walking and is a super fast crawler anyway, but she is really getting there. It took her a long time to learn to crawl but I guess walking wasn't that hard for some reason!

She also had her first Chris Fish's Birthday (aka Valentine's Day to the lay person) and we spent almost the entire day together since OSU had a snow day (can you tell I am still jazzed about that--we never get off). She had a special outfit for the day which started with:

her special v-day tiarathen moved into cutie -patootie work-out suit with onesie and heart front...and a heart butt! Which is how mommy got sold on it:)

Update on Mommy

I just got a call and apparently I have some weird bacterial infection of the intestines. My doctor said he was pretty sure that I still have Crohns but there is a chance that it is just a stupid infection you can get from being on antibiotics that you take antibiotics to get rid of--ironic, huh?

Unfortunately the type of infection is usually not common if you are otherwise healthy and has an increased incidence in people with auto immune problems...which goes back to Crohns.

10 Months Old and A Surprise

Evie is 10 months old, which means Allison's birthday is right around the corner! I can hardly believe how fast time has gone OR how fast all the babies I know are learning things and progressing. It is insane that when Evie June bug came out she couldn't do anything for herself, not even hold her head up or get her hand to her mouth to eat and now she crawls, pulls herself up and does a little tiny shuffle walk where she takes minuscule steps by barely moving her feet off the floor. How come we don't learn stuff this important this quickly once we are older?

Evie is having problems at swim lessons because the pool is so cold. This past Sunday I watcher her really carefully to see when she started to turn blue/chatter her teeth and she turned blue instantly. She managed to tolerate everything for about 20 minutes but then she started acting weird--burrowing in me and had a death grip on my arm like she was afraid so I took her out early again. I emailed the RPAC people and asked them to address the temperature issue--everyone was turning blue by the end so it isn't just that Evie is too fair skinned or anything. I think its kind of cold in there myself.

The surprise is actually mine and it wasn't the good kind. I have been a little sick lately and I thought it was just stress from changing jobs and all the hoopla that went on there but it turns out I have Crohns colitis. Basically, these are fancy-schmancy terms for a disease that effects the entire GI track and that you can't outgrow and for which there is no cure. I was really upset to find this out on Friday, of course, but it does explain a lot of other weird health problems (kidney stones, bad abdominal pain, etc.) I've had in the past so that's the positive spin on this one. It also does not get progressively worse which is a good deal too.

Finally, Evie has got to be teething or something. She woke up early yesterday--like 5:30 a.m. and this morning I finally got up with her at 4:30 a.m. after she had woken daddy up crying 2 times before this (but we valiantly hoped she would go back to sleep and not wake up until morning). So I got to work stupid early--7 a.m. because I had already been up for 2.5 hours so why not!?

Not A Surprise

Evie is allergic to milk. This includes cow and goat's milk, both of which she had a 3+/4 reaction to (4 being the most severe). The good news is we pretty much figured she was allergic to milk already so no 'new' news.

She also had a 2+ reaction to cats and a barely 1 reaction to dogs. The doctor didn't see very concerned about these 2. She did not have a reaction to any of the other things she was tested for, and they pricked her 32 times. Maybe they would have done more tests if there had been more space but the 32 pokings covered her entire back already. It was more than enough for me since I had to hold her down!
Since she has hives she will either outgrow this much more slowly than most would or she could have this allergy for life. She could also continue to be allergic forever but have a less severe reaction over time, like being congested or sneezing lots or something like that. Her cat/dog allergy could explain why she seems to have had a cold since August. The other thing about hives is that apparently hives are common to people who have anaphylaxis so we did get prescribed an epi-pen for her. However, the doctor said it was extremely unlikely that we would ever need it because milk doesn't usually result in an anaphylactic reaction. He said he gave me the prescription for my piece of mind AND because if anyone I talked to heard she had hives and he hadn't given her an epi-pen they would think he was lax or crazy. So we have a prescription for an epi-pen for the 0.01% chance that she swells up and stops breathing.

We can try baked goods with milk because apparently those aren't always a problem, but we'll have to wait and see on that. Apparently hot dogs have milk in them, along with all the other chum in the world, but they should be ok. Otherwise no milk stuff until she is at least 2-2.5 years old.

Also, there was nothing we could have done to prevent this and it's just one of those things. Fingers crossed that she does outgrow this or becomes less sensitive as soon as possible.

Stair Climber Evie

Nana and Grandpa live in a split-level house and today Evie learned how to clim stairs by following Nana up the 2 stairs from the family room (aka Evie's playroom) and the kitchen. She has done it several times now and is already really good at it! It's really cute too because she takes off to go up the stairs and turns around to make sure someone is following her (as a spotter).

She also had her 9 month pictures taken today. She was supposed to have them done weeks ago but she had the big cheek bruise from taking a header into the coffee table so we waited until that went away. It was a fairly awful experience and I feel really bad--we invited Nana and Grandpa to come with us thinking it would be fun, but it wasn't so much.

Now that Evie can crawl around she is super hard to photograph because she wants to be somewhere else, duh! The photographer didn't take very many pictures--she kept waiting for Evie to smile while looking at the camera which was like asking the planets to align on cue. This of course would have been an ideal picture to have but we like the pictures of Evie where she is doing her regular stuff too--like her super chub face when she looks at something really hard or how she eats her bottom lip all the time. After about 35-40 minutes of baby torture and mommy stress, we ended up with less than 10 pictures to choose from which is ridiculous. Since they do digital photography and as a result, the images are FREE to look at, why not take a ton of pictures? I am going to write and comment on this as well.

We'll get the pictures to everyone once they come in a few weeks from now!