Month: March 2008

We get a daily report from school every day with what Mallory ate, when she napped, and when & what kind of diaper changes she had. I don’t normally pay attention to anything other than the nap column, but yesterday’s meal column was full so it stood out to me. This is what it said:

Food
Time

oatmeal cookie
6:25a

yogurt, milk
7:55a

cheerios, watermelon, 1/2 banana, water
9:05a

pizza, carrots, refused milk
11:50a

1/2 banana, watermelon, cheerios, water
1:25p

more carrots, cheerios, water
3:00p

We provide all this food (Friday was pizza day so we just sent money for that) so I shouldn’t be surprised that she ate all this. And the oatmeal …

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I thought I’d share more about our decision to do tubes.
Mallory had a hearing test which she passed with flying colors. They did another little test to see how her eardrums move (it helps the doctor know how much fluid is behind the eardrums). That result was just OK – not perfect but not horrible. When we met with the ENT guy, Dr Possum Hunting (not his real name), said that her ears didn’t show any signs of permanent damage so the decision was up to us, or rather me, since my husband is on vacation working in Florida.
One of …

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So this really cute book that Mallory just loves is becoming a big fat pain in my arse. She is OBSESSED with “Fancy Nancy”, which is pretty adorable (it’s the book she’s “reading” to herself in the video from a few days ago), but this obsession has started to interfere with diaper changes, getting dressed, taking baths, etc.
She wants to carry the book around and read it ALL.THE.TIME. And because it’s not a little board book, it’s big, like bigger than 8.5 x 11, she can’t read it while laying on her back while I change her diaper. And …

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