Time to catch up

Sorry I haven't posted for so long. Things are going along swimmingly in our household - no more worms or hand, foot and mouth viruses. Madi has definitely changed! She is getting to be such a big girl. She's 19 lbs which is fabulous, especially since she has CF. She is much more vocal - saying lots of "ga ga gas" and "da da das". No "ma ma" yet, though. She enjoys torturing other babies by grabbing their hair, clothes, and anything else protruding. She makes scary growling noises that freaked out cousin Fredrik so much that he started bawling! She's very happy most of the time and has been off of antibiotics for about a month! Yahoo! She mastered sitting up from a lying down position over the last weekend and she seems to think she's pretty hot stuff. She has moved on from the army crawl to a weird inch worm crawl. I wish she would just figure it out, already! She also figured out how to get her hands up on the bottom stair and stand up. Yikes! Good thing we have the baby gates in place. Maggie the dog and Madeline are starting to enjoy playing tug-of-war with the dog rope. It's disgusting and germy but it's hilarious to watch Madi pull the toy away from Maggie and have Maggie pull back. I don't let her put the toy in her mouth and I wash her hands after she plays with the rope. A more difficult milestone has also arrived - stranger and seperation anxiety. She is very cautious when new people are around. She used to smile at everyone but now she really needs to check you over before awarding you with her 6 pearly whites. Oh, yeah, she's also grinding her teeth when she eats. It's enough to send shivers down my spine. I think she discovered that she has teeth on the top and bottom and likes to grind them together. Anyway, about the anxiety. She loves her Mama and wants to make sure that I am always in sight, even when Daddy is around. Last weekend I got her out of her crib in the morning and came downstairs to see Daddy and Maggie. I gave Madeline to Curt and she started screaming and reaching for me. I felt bad for Curt, but on the inside I was feeling pretty good:)

Madi had her first round of RSV vaccine last Friday. Her Pulmonologist, Dr. Phillips, set up a home care nurse to come and administer them once a month during RSV season (Oct-Apr) which is super convenient for us! No taking off of work and sitting in a germ-infested waiting room for a well child visit. Of course, Madeline hated the shots and the nurse, in my opinion, took way too long administering them. Poke-poke-Band-Aids-done is how they do it at the pediatrician but not the home care nurse. Her method was poke, open the Band-Aid, put on the Band-Aid, wash the other injection site, poke, open the 2nd Band-Aid and put on the 2nd Band-Aid. Nope - doesn't work well for babies or for the parent trying to console them and hold them down. Hopefully next time it will be a different nurse. Well, I guess I will attach some pictures since that's probably what most people check this blog for! Here are pictures of Madi playing hide and seek with the dog who is under the couch. I swear they played like this for 5 or 10 minutes! Maggie kept poking her head in and out of the flap of the couch. Madi would lift up the flap and look for her. It was so cute to see them interact.

Here's a picture of Madi playing hide and seek again. Only this time she was playing with the drapes! She would pull them over her face and the yank them off and laugh. What a cutie-pie. Maggie had fun watching her silly game...