We just got Mallory’s first school pictures back! I was good – I resisted getting a bajillion wallet sized pictures to hand out to all of her friends.
Mallory is completely cured of all that ailed her last week. She is back walking full-time and we need to be very diligent about closing the baby gate at the bottom of our stairs…she seizes every opportunity to climb them. And when I realize that is where she is, I can’t rush over there because I don’t want to startle her and have her fall.
She loves to climb up on the brick hearth …
Year: 2007
Off-Topic: The Curse is Over!!
Mallory isn’t a bad-luck charm for Michigan Football Team!! They finally won a game that she went to. YEAH!!! This narrows the superstition down to my lack of mid-game pizza procurement at the first two games of the season this year.
Mals lasted into the fourth quarter of the Purdue game yesterday and after we left, Purdue scored two-thirds of their points, so maybe Mallory is now good luck for UM’s defense and we shouldn’t have left early? She LOVED watching the band at halftime and was actually doing a little clapping. But with her jersey and blue sweatpants on, everyone …
The Spatula Test
As you can see…Mallory has passed my SPATULA TEST! Yeah!! We got home from daycare today and I showed her the plastic spatula and off she went. She impressed the orthopedist this morning too; they are fairly certain it was that “transient synovitis” with no lasting concerns. Thank you everyone for your emails about our pumpkinhead over the past week. We are so grateful to have such great and caring friends.
Ok, enough sappy stuff.
For the most part Mallory has been beyond happy and chatty. She even “talked” to my mom on the phone for a few minutes Wednesday night, saying …
Feeling More Better…
I think we are in the clear or at least have “the clear” in our sights. Mallory is 8-million times better than she was on Monday. She is chatty and laughing and crawling and standing and taking a few steps but isn’t back to 100% yet (I’ll consider her 100% better when she is marching around the house with her favorite plastic spatula, heading straight for Cooper’s water dish). We’ll see how she is Wednesday and hopefully we can cancel our appointment Thursday with the pediatric orthopedist.
We had a scare today though – I called the pediatric orthopedist to give …
Feeling a Little Better…
Mallory is still showing a few signs of normalcy. She ate VERY well tonight at dinner (banana, applesauce with rice cereal, cheerios, water) and was actually playful…her new “thing” is peekaboo with her hands, which was going well until I let her have applesauce on her tray (all pictures will get bigger if you click on them)…
As of a little while ago, she is still uninterested in bearing weight on her right leg. After talking with the docs again later this afternoon, they are thinking “Transient Synovitis” which you can read about here. She is still fever-less which …
ER Follow-up
We followed up with Mallory’s regular doctor today (well, Rick did; I had the day scheduled off already to take my mom to a doctor’s appointment). Mal’s doc forwarded Rick & Mallory to the pediatric orthopedic people at the hospital, who in turn forwarded them off to pediatric radiology (where I finally met up with them). Mallory got some more ultrasounds done on her hips and those came back normal again. Was sort of scary because she hadn’t eaten since before her first appointment at 9a and when I asked about giving her a bottle at noon, someone said not …
E.R.
What a night. Our family (minus Cooper) spent 8+ hours in the Pediatric ER last night with our poor little girl.
Our sweet baby has been a little sick all week – runny diapers and horrible diaper rash. A couple of calls the doctor’s office and they said to just keep them posted but as long as she was eating & drinking & acting normal, to just keep going on. Friday I got the dreaded call from daycare to come get Mals because she had a fever and was really lethargic. We came home and she was just laying around and …
Miscellaneous
Mallory likes spaghetti:
The sweetest picture I’ve ever taken of my little pumpkinhead (too bad she has that owie on her cheek from mama):
And here are some pictures of Mallory getting an “underdog” push from her big cousin Lauren. Just an aside…I am praying that Mallory’s little curls will grow out to be gorgeous ringlets like Lauren’s :-) That girl has got some beautiful hair.
Good Big Brother!
Just a quick post about my Cooper-dog who loves his little sister:
Mallory is sleeping and there is a little boy outside near our front yard and he just started crying. Mallory’s monitor isn’t going off so I know it’s not Mallory but it sure sounds like her. Cooper just went RUNNING back to Mallory’s room with his eye on the door knob waiting for me to open it. I guess he wants her to wake up and have lunch and hopefully share some with him. Hahahaha.
She has been asleep for about 3.5 hours…and I have actually been getting some scrapbooking …
Mom of the Year
Ooops. For all the walking (and subsequent falling) that Mallory has been doing the past couple of weeks, the only injuries have been a slight bruise on her cheek from a toy bus at school and a bruise on bum from falling on her bag of wooden blocks. How horrible that her first bloodshed was the result of a hug from mom.
Some of her favorite toys are Cooper’s hard bones. Cooper chews & gnaws on them and the plastic (I think they are plastic?) gets some pretty rough edges. Last night Mallory was walking around with one and I scooped …