On the mend...we hope!

Good Morning! I wanted to post a quick update to let you all know that we are hoping that I am on the mend again. My fever was still high, 104.3 on Monday night and I didn't sleep very well. Daddy stayed home with me yesterday and as the day went on I seemed to get better. My fever was only 99.6 last night. I slept better last night. I was still up to eat around 1:00am and had a lot of trouble going back to sleep but Mommy and Daddy took turns with me and I finally crashed around 2:30.

I ate 3 oz of formula this morning and my temperature was normal. I'm back at Miss Barb's today. She knows she can call Mommy or Daddy if I start to feel yucky again and they will come get me. I had a big smile on my face when I saw Barb this morning and she was so excited to see me. My friends at daycare were also excited.

That's what we know for now, just wanted to thank all of you for your emails and checking in on me.

By the way, I'm 7 months old today, can you believe it?

Love,
Addison

Road to Recovery....Not!

Well, my road to recovery lasted less than 1 week! It's official, I have another ear infection. It all started again on Saturday night. After I went to bed I kept waking up and crying. Mommy got up with me around 11:30, I ate a little bit and went back to sleep about 12:15. At 1am I woke up crying really hard. Mommy and Daddy took my temperature becauase I felt warm and it was 101.0 so they gave me some motrin and walked with me until I fell back to sleep at 2:30am.

Yesterday I just wasn't myself. I didn't want to eat any cereal or fruit (you know something is wrong when I don't want my fruit) and I would only eat a couple ounces of formula at a time. I was crying off and on like something hurt and by the afternoon my temperature was 104.0. Mommy called the after hours clinic nurse and she said she thought I should go get my ears checked at urgent care. So, we loaded in the car and off we went.

The doctor at urgent care said that my left ear had an infection again and gave me some new medicine. I ate well when we got home and took my first dose. Shortly after I had it I got sick. Mommy and Daddy knew the medicine might make my tummy upset but thought that maybe I just ate too much because I had 3 Tablespoons of cereal and almost a whole container of pears...I was hungry!

Mommy stayed home with me today. My temp was 100.2 this morning so I'm still taking my Motrin. I ate my breakfast and then took my medicine for my ear. After my nap I got sick again so Mommy called the doctor back and they said I needed different medicine. I have eaten a little bit more now that the yucky medicine is not in my tummy.

Daddy went to Walgreens at lunch and picked up my new prescription and brought it home. I'll have my first dose of that after I get up from my nap. I've been on this medicine before so we know it agrees with my tummy.

I'll keep you posted but hopefully I'll be on the mend soon!

Love,
Addison

A Real Pain in the...Ear?

Greetings everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I think I'm finally on the final stretch of my road to recovery. It's been a crazy six weeks or so with all my sickness. Today, daddy took me into the doctor [again!] because he and mommy thought that maybe one of my ears was still bothering me because I kept tugging on it over the weekend. It turns out all is clear. The nice doctor said that both of my ears look good. Thank goodness! That makes us all happy!

In other news, I got to spend some quality time with daddy on Friday and today. My day care was closed Friday and all this because Ms. Barb is on vacation. So daddy and I spent Friday and today together. He had the day off today due to President's Day. I'm going to go to one of mommy's friend's house Tuesday and Wednesday and mommy is going to stay home with me Thursday and Friday. It should all be fun.

Here are some of my latest pictures for you to enjoy.

Sitting up like a big girl.


Playing with the remote.


Chillin' on the couch.

Have a great week!

Love, Addison.

Update

Well, Mommy and Daddy decided to call the doctor back today. I've been on my amoxicillin for a week now and I was still pulling on my ear, wasn't very interested in my bottle and was restless when I was sleeping. The clinic decided they wanted to see me. That's three times in one week!

Dr. Dufort looked in my ears, he said my right one got the all clear but my left one still didn't look good, as a matter of fact he thought maybe it looked a little worse. So, Daddy is at Walgreens as I write picking up my new medicine. Hopefully this one will clear it all up! I did think that the tool Dr. Dufort used to look in my ear was pretty cool. I tried to grab it to check it out but he said he didn't need an assistant. Maybe I will follow in Uncle Ross' footsteps and be a doctor, they have lots of neat stuff to play with!

Now it's time to try some carrots, Mommy says she is curious to see what I think of them.

Have a good night!
Love,
Addison

6-Months Old

Greetings again everyone! Well, as promised I finally got around to post my "unofficial" six month old pictures. I've also included a few bonus ones of some of my various activities over the course of the last week or so. Enjoy!

Six months old.


Mommy and me taking a nap.


I was mesmerized by this thing and had fun playing with it.


Almost ready to go!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Love, Addison