Well, Olivia and i both are feeling better this week. She hasn't woke up in the middle of the night for over a week. No 2yr molars yet either, though. The other day Brian caught her with one leg on her crib rail, trying to climb out! He said if she was standing on her pillow to do that, she probably could have swung her leg further and fell out (ahhhhh!) So we'll be transforming her bed to the toddler bed probably this weekend after our yard sale! We want to move her bed into the spare bedroom since it's bigger and her toys can fit in there with her bed, instead of being out in the living room.

I'm going to meet her new physical therapist, Coreen, tomorrow at daycare. Then next week, we'll have Speech therapy at home Wednesday afternoon with Linda, who used to do it before the summer...she's great. Oct 14th is Dr. Kerkering appointment-pediatric neurodevelopmental doc. and Oct. 17th is Dr. Brown again. Tristen has ordered a new wrist splint and we are still taping Olivia's arm with Kenesio tape. She's adjusted a little more to her new foot brace, too. Her foot doesn't seem to be turning in quite as much, although her balance still needs some work with it on. I'll be interested to see what Dr Brown says about it.

Thanks Nana G and Grandma Call for the big girl pottie box of goodies last week! Olivia liked it all, but really took to those Crayola brushes!

Brian

Bri went back to the doctor today about his foot...and the cast is off! YAY! He goes back in two weeks and until then is wearing a "rocker shoe" that puts the pressure on his heel when he walks. But just the cast being off is a huge PLUS for us all!!!

Miss Olivia got sick Tuesday night and so Nana H kept her Wednesday at home. Then she went back to daycare today and I stayed home! I had a fever from about 7pm last night until 9am this morning. Just felt weak today and my throat hurts, my nose is stuffy and I'm sneezing some. Yuck.

Can't wait for the weekend-although it will be raining and i wanted to have a yard sale saturday :(

fall is here

Olivia has been doing great lately, sleeping better at night, although her nose is starting to run again... but she is continuing to go potty for us a couple times a day and talks our ear off most of the morning and evening :) She is starting to put words together, like "ow, that hurt mommy" or "no, decter (dexter), no". We took her back to va prosthetics last week and they say her new foot brace fits good and is doing what it is supposed to as far as making her walk a certain way. She just needs to get used to wearing it. It's just funny cause her therapists don't think the brace should make her gate pattern look worse or turn her foot in MORE than it looks like she does WITHOUT the brace! But we have dr. brown's appointment next friday so we'll see what he says about it, too. He's who ordered it. I am meeting Coreen, Liv's new physical therapist, at her daycare Thursday morning for her session, too. She'll be seeing Liv once a month, like Heather did. And we see Dr. Kerkering, a pediatric neurodevelopmental doctor, on Oct 14 th I believe, to get her take on any delays Olivia may have. I'm seriously thinking about making an appointment with a new pediatric orthopedic doctor, per the suggestion of a couple of her therapists.

Update on Bri's foot--he goes Thursday to get his 2nd cast taken off. It should be healed completely this time. (GOD WILLING!!!) He will be sooooo glad to get this cast off for good! And I dared him to touch his callous again :) LOL

Updates

Have had a good couple of weeks. Brian's foot has been in a cast for a week to heal faster...he goes back to the doctor Thursday. Hopefully, this is his last week of staying at home.

Olivia's new foot brace has been on a week and now we may have to get it adjusted because it makes her turn her foot in even more! I don't know if she really even needs it at this point. She has an appointment Wed. this week and tomorrow her new physical therapist is stopping by to see her walk/run in it. You all should see how FAST she runs without a brace at all...she's a speed demon! She stayed the night with Nana & Papa H. Saturday night and did good. She's feeling better than last week, for sure. I haven't felt her gums in a couple days, but I don't think she's cut her 2 yr molars, yet, although that may be the cause of the sleepless nights.

One great accomplishment to announce tonight!!! Daycare has been sitting Olivia on the potty throughout the day lately. Well today I picked her up at 5:00 and they had just sat her on the potty and she actually went while sitting there, they said! When I came into her room, she ran to me and said "pee pee". I asked her if she needed to pee pee or just went. and when I asked if she went pee pee on the potty, she said "Yeah!" She knows what is going on here!!! Isn't that GREAT?! It's the first time she's done that, although she's sat on it plenty of times at home! We're so proud of our big girl tonight!

"ah-boo"

This evening, our little princess finally TOLD us she had pooped in her diaper!!! It's the first sign to start potty training! After dinner, we were in the living room and she came over to me and with a look so serious, said "ah-boo" and I said "a boo?" and she said "ah-boo" again and again. I then asked "did you poo-poo in your diaper?" and she said "yeah" and turned around so I could look down the back of her diaper. And sure enough, she had! :)

Today at daycare Olivia would not go down for a nap, not sure why! But she fell asleep on the way home and did OK until bedtime at 8:00.

Brian went to the new podiatrist today, who did another xray, swab test, and is referring him back to the first doctor who we didn't think too much of. So he has an appointment tomorrow where they'll probably go ahead and do a MRI to make sure the infection is not in the bone. I'll keep ya posted...

Dexie vet trip

Well, we finally got Dexter to another vet...Cave Spring Vet Clinic. They did a thyroid test, ear swab, bloodwork to check his organs, fecal, the list goes on! We really liked this vet, they are very nice and thorough, so we hope to get Dexter feeling better soon. He does have a yeast infection in his ears and his skin conditions more than likely are thyroid related-we'll get results back Thursday. So he's taking a few different pills now and we bought some medicated shampoo for his baths. And the funniest part of the evening was when we were all in the exam room with Dexter and the vet took Dexter out of the room twice to draw blood and get a fecal...and Olivia cried from devistation!!! She had tears in her eyes and kept reaching for the door saying "Dexter, dexter!" It was heartbreaking! So adorable that she cares so much for him!

Labor Day weekend

We had a great weekend...some shopping, yardwork, Tech football (BOO ECS!), good food and company at Aunt Faye's, then slip n slide and cookout at home Monday! Olivia is a mess! She enjoys the pool and slip n slide SOO MUCH!