Every month goes by so fast!

I didn’t post last month, because I was waiting to get Mallie into the

doctor for her Well Child check-up, so I could post her stats.

Well, I just barely got her in last week.  Oops.

Her stats are as follows:

Weight~ 14 lbs. 15 1/2 oz. (57%)

Length~ 24 1/2 in. (34%)

Head~  17 in. (ahem… 91%)

So, she’s short, chunky, and has a big head.  And SO cute!

She’s so much fun!  She loves to hear her own voice,

and let everyone else hear it, too…

She LOVES to eat.  She eats a big bowl of cereal twice a day,

and still acts like she’s starving!

I feed her her cereal in her bouncer.

Well, she’s recently figured out how to bounce.

And she bounces HIGH!  If she wasn’t strapped in….

She bounces highest when she’s excited.  And food makes her excited!

So, as I’m trying to get the spoon to her mouth, she’s bouncing high and wild…

 some gets on her hand because she grabs the spoon,

some on her “fored-head” and eyebrows, and some goes up her nose,

(thank goodness for the battery-powered booger sucker!).

It’s quite the task to clean up after.

We are really enjoying our little Mallie!  She’s such a sweetie!  :o)

Hannah has had a tummy ache for a year now.

I was hoping it would go away.  It hasn’t.

So, now we have to figure out what it is.

We started with allergy testing.

That was fun.

We were worried that she would have a ton of allergies, like her mother.

We were also worried that she’d go into anaphylaxic shock, like I did when I was tested.

She didn’t.  Thank Heaven!

The problem, and blessing, is, she isn’t allergic to anything.

So, allergies aren’t causing her tummy pain.

Next we had her tested for Celiac.

All her symptoms point to it- brittle bones, bad teeth, weight loss, tummy pain,

short stature.  Then there’s a family history of it, too.

Blood work came back negative.

Which doesn’t really mean she doesn’t have it, though.

So, for some reason, her doctor wanted her tested for Mono.

Negative.

Go figure.  She has NO symptoms of it.

Tested her for H. Pylori.

Negative.

Now, we have to get her into a Pediatric Gastroenterologist.

Hopefully they can find what’s going on.

It’s so hard to have her in pain and not know what it is and not know how to help.

Hopefully we find out soon.  I will let you know…

I finally got around to painting the girls’ room.

The paint has only been sitting in their room for four months.

And since it wasn’t painting itself, (HOW RUDE!), I had to do it!  ;)

Here’s how it looks now~

I would have taken more views, but this side of the room was clean.

The other side isn’t!  ;)

I still need to make curtains and get more nicknacky things for it.

But, I like it so much better than the awful purple that was there before!