Toddlerhood

Well we have the quintessential kid injury out of the way. Hopefully, now that it's happened we won't have to worry about it happening again. You guessed it, Tessa stuck something up her nose. It was a small, smooth bead. One minute she had it in her hand and the next she is fussily saying nose. Sure enough it is jammed up there way further than we could hope to extract. We suggest taking her to the doctor to have them get it out and she fussily agrees. She was a little shaken up about it but was a brave little trooper. To get it out, they put a catheter up her nose past the bead, blew air into the catheter to make it blow up like a balloon on the end, and then pulled out the catheter removing the bead with it. She started crying as they were inserting the catheter and I could see she was uncomfortable and scared. Thankfully it was over fairly quickly. As soon as they finished getting it out, I was quick pick her up and reassure her that they had gotten it out and it was all done. She was happy and relieved when it was over and has since mentioned it many times in the last 3 weeks since it happened saying "bead out; all done!" We've since gotten the bill in the mail and go figure there is actually a medical code specifically for billing getting a foreign object out of the nose. Also of note, that billing code bills $225! Luckily this happened in a year we had already met our deductible so we only paid about $25 but wow - that could have been expensive!

Jennifer is 2 Weeks

We had Jennifer's 2 week appointment. She weighed 5 lbs 12 oz so she made it back to her birth weight which is what the doctor said he likes to see at the 2 week appointment. She's still in the fifth percentile but she's doing healthy.

I can't really tell if she looks plumper in the face . . . maybe?

Our Talker

Tessa has become a regular chatterbox which has been alot of fun. Some of her favorite phrases are "Tessa do it", "I did it", and "See that" (which means lift me so I can see something). She loves to do things on her own like trying to put her shoes on on her own and loves to help especially helping in the kitchen with stirring and adding ingredients. She also often says "Baby hold you" (which means she wants to hold the baby). She's really become able to communicate her opinions and wants extremely well. She'll often tell us that she wants to go outside or to the park which she calls the "swings slides" or the pool or splash pad. She can tell us what stuffed animals she wants to sleep with. She requests specific books to be read to her and asks for us to turn on her favorite show "Daniel Tiger" and can even request a specific episode. In the car, she'll request that we turn the radio on saying "song". She'll dance and sing along to songs. When she sings she'll generally sing made up words or will sing the phrase "Let it go". Commonly in the car she'll say, "Sun bright". She hates when the sun gets in her eyes particularly in the car; we bought her a sun hat we keep in the car that has helped some. She'll use that phrase when there are bright lights indoors though too. One funny thing she's started doing is saying "k" as in okay. She'll ask for something by saying something like "swings slides". We'll repeat back what we think she said in order to clarify that we heard and understood correctly by saying something like "you want to go to the park?" Then she'll say "k" as if going to the park was your idea the whole time and she's just agreeing to it. She's a funny kid. We love that she can talk so well now though. I love feeling like I'm really communicating with her and being able to see her personality and preferences.