Plugs.

A couple of nights ago we were giving Bailey a bath. I can guarantee that this is her favorite part of the day! It seems like she is always doing or saying something new in the bathtub. This is why Bobby and I both make it a point to give her a bath together. We don't want to miss anything. She put both index fingers in her ears and I mean they went deep. At first it scared me but then I realized it wasn't going to hurt her. Bobby and I started talking in our normal voices. When she would unplug her ears she would hear our voices resignate. It was so neat to watch her little smiles like she just discovered something AMAZING!

After we got her ready for bed I started to breastfeed her. We had our windows opened in the bedroom. A huge gust of wind blew thru the wind chimes outside the window on the patio. It was pretty loud. While breastfeeding, she immediately covered both ears and stayed like that until the stopped. I guess she wanted a little peace and quiet.

Isn't it great to watch your children learn new things?! I love every minute of it!!!

Schedule.

Since last Saturday when Bailey got sick it has been a week for the books. Her schedule for sleeping is off, she wakes up two and three times a night, she wants to eat at odd hours and then doesn't. She still has horrible diarrhea! All I can keep thinking is "This too shall pass". I can't wait. Last night I was so irritated that I told Bobby not go and get her. She needed to scream it out. Eventually she got quiet but within an hour she was back to screaming. I know she has been sick, but my fear is that she is starting to adjust to this whacky schedule. It's not even a schedule really.

Please help me pray that my daughter and husband get their appetites back. My husband looks as if he has already lost twenty pounds. And if it weren't for breastfeeding, Bailey would have lost more weight than she already has. Bailey tried to eat a normal meal last night for dinner. She started screaming towards the end and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I get her out of her high chair and she went over in the corner and "blew out"!!! POOR THING.

Schedule, schedule, schedule!!!!!!!

More.

If some of you don't know already my husband was attacked by the same virus as Bailey. This stomach virus has been one for the books. I have NEVER seen two people in my adulthood life so sick. I know from stories that my siblings and I have had the stomach virus, but nothing compares to your child and husband being sick at the time. Bobby told me last night that there is NO WAY I could handle this virus at home by myself with Bailey. Thank you God for allowing me to make it through virus free!!!

So this morning I am sitting at the bar in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee and enjoying the smell of rain! It has been a week since I have been able to actually sit and drink coffee in the morning without any distractions. Bailey has been getting up quite early this past week. It is so quiet in the house.  What a nice thing to happen to me after what has been a crazy week.

By the way, I don't know how much weight my poor little boobear has lost but all of her twelve month pants are extremely baggy (she is almost sixteen months). And Bobby, poor thing hasn't had a MEAL since Monday lunch.

Hopefully we are on the mend in the Medlin house!!! I feel like I have been out of the blogger world forever. I will definitely be posting pictures today if we get a chance to play!!! I am sure we will.....we definitely can't go anywhere!

Sick.

Isn't it ironic that I am posting about sickness after Bailey's well check-up. Absolutely not! It is totally expected when you take your perfectly well child, in great health, who has NEVER been sick, to a germ-infested pediatrician's office.

On another amusing note, when we went to Bailey's well check-up on Friday they told me I needed to fill out some paperwork to update their files. That meant I had to put my child down in the waiting area to TOUCH the toys (because she is going to do that at fifteen months) while I filled out paperwork that had not changed since the last time I was there. My Mom made a great point when she said that doctors should make house visits for well check-ups. I couldn't agree more!!!

Enough of my soapbox. Onto the matter at hand. My child has never been sick. I have never had to deal with any child throwing up or having diarrhea that smelled like death. I am very NEW to all of this. But this is how it all started. Saturday I went to the grocery store around 2pm and left Bobby and Bailey in the sand box on the patio. I wasn't gone an hour. When I was bring the groceries into the kitchen I noticed they were not on the patio. I walked in the bathroom and Bobby had Bailey in the bath?! Why is she getting a bath at 3pm? Surely you knew to shake the sand off of her! And he did. Bobby proceeded to tell me the awful stomach pains she was having and then she blew out in her diaper. Ok....so it was a blowout. She wasn't acting any different and she hadn't pooped that day anyways. No worries. We finish our evening with a great dinner, play for a little while and then go to bed. Bailey usually gets up once during the night for breastfeeding but did not get up Saturday night. I got up around 6:45am and heard her moving. I made my coffee and went to get her to breastfeed with all intentions of putting her back to bed until around 9am. I never expected what would happen next. I walked in to her room and was hit by a smell that was all to familiar. SICKNESS!! It smelled like vomit. I quickly ran over to her crib to find vomit up one end of the bed and down the other. It was in her hair, it covered her new pajamas and it coated the bumper.

This violence went on from both ends all day yesterday. Every time we would give her some rice or banana it would come up with in five minutes. Much to our surprise she breastfed last night before bed and in the middle of the night with no problems. But at 5:45am it struck again. She has thrown up four times since then. I have been trying to blog this for the past three hours. She fell asleep in my arms just a short bit ago. I am doing the best I can to keep her hydrated but I do have my fears. This morning she seemed vibrant after each vomit like she was grateful to get it out. But the last vomit was bile and since then she has been laying on the floor. I have called the doctor and hopefully will get some answers.

Sidebar....Bobby said he was going to go into work today and quickly get things done and leave because he wanted to be home with his little girl. I almost cried but told him I have everything under control. Although right now with the vomit laundry, a sick little girl, work to do and house that is showing at 1:30pm is becoming a stress.

I would have loved to capture "the mess" yesterday in her bed but was trying to get her in the shower and clean her off. Below is a picture of the first load from her bed. This was followed by four more loads yesterday and two today so far. In the midst of all of this she still has the energy to say cheese for the camera.

This next picture is this morning!!! Definitely a difference in how she feels today verses yesterday!! PITIFUL!

Stats.

Today I took Bailey to the doctor for her check-up. It has been a long time since she has had a well check-up. We skipped the twelve month check-up and went straight to the fifteen month check-up. Her weight is 19 lbs. 4 oz. She has only gained three ounces since her nine month check up and doesn't even make it to the tenth percentile.  I know she is a little thing but I thought for sure she had gained some weight. Especially the way she eats! Her height is 31 inches. She has grown five inches in five months! WOW!!! She is right on track for height. During her first year she was in the twenty-fifth percentile but now jumps to the fiftieth percentile for height. Her head circumference is 46 1/2cm (normal).

We have opted out of vaccines for Bailey. So she has never, ever had a shot. But today she had to get her finger pricked. She didn't cry when the nurse pricked it, but she did not like when the nurse took five minutes to squeeze out the blood. My question is why do they do that before the child sees the doctor?  Why don't they wait. I think it makes the child more scared when the doctor comes in with a stethescope and medical utensils to look in your nose, eyes & ears. Just curious who thought that was the best sequence of events.

The doctor's conclusion is that Bailey is very active and there is no problem with her weight. She could afford to take in more calories though (I wish I had that problem). Dr. Woods also said that Bailey is one of the most vocal fifteen month olds she has seen. Bailey was talking so much that Dr. Woods lost her train of thought and finished up the visit. I was dressing Bailey when Dr. Woods came back in and said she was sorry but she forgot to ask her normal day-to-day questions about bowels, stomach, teeth and soforth. We were both laughing.

Yes.....I brought my camera to the doctor's office for pictures. Don't judge me!! I just had to get a picture of Bailey and her bandaid before we had to take it off. We did actually make it home before the bandaid needed to come off!

Fuzz.

Yesterday was a cloudy, rainy, snowy, busy day! That is a lot of adjectives to descibe one day but when the day was over we were exhausted. We showed the house twice yesterday and had a samll window of opportunity to come back home in between showings so I could shower and Bailey could hang out of a little bit.

I had recently purchased little fuzzy balls to put in my craft closet. I like to buy things on sale and store them for a rainy day for crafts and something fun and different to do. Of course most of the things I buy are for when Bailey gets older and can glue and cut with scissors. I was trying to think of something idfferent to give her to do and remembered the fuzzy balls. She is really good about NOT putting things in her mouth that don't belong so I figured it would be fine for her to play with them. I put them in a big cup and handed them to her. For the rest of the day, as we were in and out of the house, she had a blast!

Park.

After we had fun painting today we decided to get some fresh air and head over to the park. It was so beautiful outside. The local news station even showed up at the park while we were playing in the sand and shot video of us for the local news that aired tonight. It was a very memorable and fun day!!!

Green.

Today we had a lot of fun with green and white paint in honor of St. Patrick's Day coming up. Bailey absolutely loved getting her hands green. It was fun watching her create her masterpiece!

Noodles.

I was reading one of my friends blogs the other day and she had shared a great activity she did with her son. She took a bowl, noodles and some scoops and let him play with them. The object is to scoop the noodles out of the box and pour them into the bowl. What a great idea. It is something completely different from the norm. And its food. What toddler wouldn't be excited about playing with a box of noodles from the pantry?!

Bailey enjoyed scooping and pouring. I believe her favorite was to pour the noodles out of the box or bowl onto the floor and then pick them back up. Overall, it was fun watching her play. Thanks Sara for a great idea!!!

Crayons.

I bought these bath time crayons at Target the other day. I am very OCD when it comes to making a mess. I am trying to ease up on that with a toddler running around. It is going to happen so deal with it, right?! But I do try to have boundaries. I figured it would be fun to have her color on the walls of the shower because there is really no limit of space (meaning she doesn't have to worry about going off a tiny sheet of paper onto the countertop). She loves it. It has been fun watching her color the walls. I was a skeptic at first, but it wipes off VERY easily. Now, every time she gets in the bath she says "crayons".