Ear infection #3

Yesterday I picked Karmann up from the daycare, and they said they had to clean out her nose in order for her to sleep - poor baby - but I've been trying to do the same thing for weeks (she is like holding down a cat!) and haven't been able to, so thankfully they did a good job! But, because they were concerned, I called the doctor right away and took her in. Sure enough, she has another ear infection in her left ear. So, she is officially "qualified" for tubes, but we'll discuss that at her 15 month check up. For now, she's on another round of antibiotics. No fever, though, thank goodness. The doctor also discovered that she is getting 4 molers right now, so no wonder the crankiness! Still she's not quite 20 lbs.

I had a late meeting tonight, so Kris picked her up from daycare today. Apparently, she is getting a belly ache from the medicine, which the doctor warned me about. We are feeding her banana and yogurt to try and combat that, but Kris said she was really fussy before she took a nap. She woke up kind of cranky, so I nursed her and fed her dinner. She ate well, so the next challenge was giving her the medicine. Kris was at a buddy's house playing his fantasy baseball, so it was all me. Luckily, after about 5 tries, she calmed down and took the whole dose in one swig! (this is when I say she is such an angel!) Off to the tub after that - which she again is too cute playing with her squirt toys! I am starting to "understand" her babbles a little bit, like for example, tonight when I put her little monkey squirt toy in the tub she got all excited almost like she said "there's my monkey!" but of course in her own language, but it made sense to me! More and more you can tell what she is thinking. After her bath we sometimes have a few minutes of play time and tonight she was trying to stack her knock-off lego's, and when she did, she almost said "I did it!" It was too cute. Of course I praised her and she kept doing it - she's pretty smart!! After that, she was really tired, so I took her into her room, turned on her music, laid her down in bed, and she went right to sleep!! Again - angel!! Let's hope she sleeps all night again! Speaking of which, that night last week was a total fluke. Though it gives me hope that the full night of sleep is closer!

Hopefully tomorrow we will get the proof's of her photo shoot at school, so I hope to have photos of some sort next blog. For now, I am headed to bed. Next time I hope to fill you in on the construction of the house...stay tuned!