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Elayna had her 6 month appointment on Monday, the 16th. She weighs 17 lbs, 13 oz, and is 26.5 inches long. Her height and weight are in the 75th percentile, but her head circumference is only in the 50th percentile. No worries. She is doing great, and takes her immunization shots fairly well. When Katie found out Elayna had to have shots, she asked to leave. The waiting room has a movie room, as well as a kind lady that just sits in the waiting room. The lady tries to keep the kids happy, watch kids that are staying in the movie room, and just keep the patients waiting appeased. She's nice. So Katie watched a movie while Elayna saw the doctor and got her shots.


On Tuesday, my mom's aunt Jean was visiting my parents. Katie, Elayna and I went over to visit. Amanda, Junior, and Abby (2 weeks older than Katie) also came over. Katie and Abby were playing downstairs, and Jean remembered that her pills were just sitting on top of her suitcase, so I went downstairs, shut the door, and told the girls not to go in that room. Well, about an hour later, Katie and Abby came upstairs, naked. They had evidently decided to go to the bathroom. Which was great, because Katie hadn't done that before at Mom's house. There is usually too much going on.
Well, Amanda and I went down to get their clothes and noticed, you guessed it, pills on the floor. Katie had also mentioned that she had makeup on her face, which after much prodding, we realized were bath beads that they had broken open and smeared on their faces. (Actually, Abby said she ate some, but we couldn't verify this) So, panicking a bit at this point, we got all the pills and had Jean verify what was missing. Luckily they were in those little week-long pill boxes so it wasn't too hard.
We called Poison Control (they are great, by the way) and told them that one diabetic medication called Glucaphog (no idea how to spell it) was missing. Ed told me to find out what all the other medication was, and call him back. Because, get this, there is a certain type of diabetic medicine that just happens to be fatal to children! Agh! So, really panicking now, we get the list of medicine and call him back. Thankfully, that medication wasn't on Jean's list of medicines, but it was still really scary. Ed told us to watch for vomiting, diarrhea, lethargic or unusual activity in the girls. After I got off the phone with him, I went to tell Amanda what we needed to look for, and she was crying. And that's when it hit me. This could have been so much worse! What a blessing that they didn't have any side effects (I don't know if Abby did, but Katie didn't) and didn't die or something.
About the time I got off the phone with Ed, Ryan and Jay showed up with the Chinese food for lunch. Hopefully the girls understood how serious it was. They had to sit on the couches, without talking to anyone, or playing with anything for about 30-45 minutes. They were still sitting there after we had checked for the pills, called Poison Control, checked the pills again, called Poison Control AGAIN, both mothers had started crying, and their fathers came to help.
Not an experience I want to relive. Unfortunately, I'm sure this will not be the last time I call Poison Control.

Ryan is so great. He didn't have to work on Friday, so he let me go shopping for about 3-4 hours. I'm not normally a shopping person, but it was really nice to wander around, find great deals (almost everything was 50% off), and just be by myself. (5 shirts, the most expensive being $6. A cute black skirt, some running shoes, and a pair of dress pants for Ryan) I shopped, had some lunch and yummy frozen custard, and went home. Then, on Saturday, Katie and I went grocery shopping while he watched Elayna. We didn't get the house clean, but meh, it isn't like it's really that important, right? And Ryan keeps telling me, we can always do it next week.

Elayna is not very fun to nurse right not. I think this is what goes through her mind when she nurses: I'm HUNGRY! Where is my food?! Oh good, there it is. Wait! What was that noise? Oh well, I'll keep eating. What was that!? Let me look. (at this point I will try to force her head back towards eating) Hey! That's my head! What do you think you are doing? I was looking around!
Eat more. Oh wait, is that Mom up there? Hi mom! How are you? I'm just eating. Did Katie say something? ....
you get the idea. If I'm in a dark room, just me and her, and she can't hear anyone talking, or making noise, she might just eat the whole time. Only 6 more months of this. :)

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