First Pairs of Shoes

Evie got her first shoes this past weekend from Stride Rite. Since she has a super chubby foot I wanted to make sure we got her fitted for the first time by someone who does this for a living. She has a pair of brown leather mary jane's with flowers on them and some white bootie/sneakers which have 3 very discreet little flowers on them as well so between the 2 pairs she can wear them with everything she owns, including her red Valentine's Day track suit. At first she was either paralyzed or very 'frankenstein-esque' in her booties but this morning I had her practice walking in them and now she is a pro!

She has also been crazy interested in the kitchen and playing around in there. Daddy took some cute pictures of her yesterday and we'll have to post those and a few shoe pictures soon. The shoe video would be fun too if she hadn't been in paralyzed by shoe phase when we tried to take it!

Last week was really busy for Buggies. She had a playdate with Glenn and at his house, then we all went to the Fishes for game night on Saturday (after going shoe shopping) AND she had her last swim lesson. She did pretty good with everything but refused to nap Sunday after swim lessons and was really crabby.

She appears to be breaking in a second tooth next to her first one and has been in really good spirits in spite of that! I feel terrible because I have been really sick all week and not able to enjoy her as much:(. Monday I started feeling yucky at work so took it easy when I got home and went to bed early, then Tuesday woke up feeling awful. I dropped Evie off at daycare and then came in to work since I was up and figured I might feel better but I just got worse--made it about 2.5 hours then went home and took a nap before going to the doctor. Here's where life gets really fun:

• the doctor did some blood work and set me up to get a CT scan the next day to check for a sinus infection. Because I just stopped taking an antibiotic to get rid of the stupid infection I got from taking another antibiotic they can't just put me on any old thing and hope it works (oh plus I was originally on a different antibiotic that I had a nasty allergic reaction to two weeks ago so this is like antibiotic nightmare for me)
  
• yesterday, my doctor called and said my CT scan was normal (no sinus infection) but my blood work was not--my white blood cell count was about 2x normal. So I went back in to have blood drawn again after work yesterday and they ran some other quick tests to see what was causing my infection. I also had to drop by this morning for more tests before coming in to work.
• I just got a call saying my white blood count came back high but much closer to normal. So now I have to go back in a week and do this all over again, plus probably won't hear back from the tests from today until next week.

Meanwhile, I feel like crap. I am super congested and a little out of it and I really don't think I can miss work since I started this job less than 2 months ago and I already took time off to take Evie to the allergist and an entire day off to get the stupid test done so I could find out I probably have Crohns. This has not been a healthy start to the year for me! Daddy can hardly believe how I got hit with the sick stick all at once, and I find it pretty incredible myself.

Meanwhile, Evie is healthy as ever. She gives germs to others but is impervious to them herself!