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Not much to say tonight, other than drop off a picture. :)



Kate was in such a wonderful mood tonight. I think she's finally feeling well again. I canceled our appointment with the original ENT on Thursday, and decided to go with my friend's doctor. Our appointment is Friday morning. I haven't really thought about it much, and I haven't let my nerves get the best of me yet. I suppose we'll just see what the ENT recommends on Friday!

Sick Kate

Well, surprise of all surprises, Kate has strep throat again. In our hotel room on Saturday night, Kate woke up crying at 2am, and cried on and off for 2 hours. She made it clear to us that she wasn't going back to sleep, so we packed up and drove home. (Sorry to our Sunday School class in Moore for ditching you!!)

I got Kate in to the doctor this morning - I was sure it would be strep again, and sure enough, it is. We looked through Kate's chart and reviewed her history - June and July were the only months all year that she didn't have strep. Her doctor and I agreed that it's ENT time, and that we need to look into having her tonsils removed. She said that in general they like to wait until a child is 2 to have their tonsils removed, but Kate might be one of those cases where it's simply necessary.

So I tentatively have an appointment scheduled for Thursday afternoon... However, I have a friend who is a pediatric nurse at a hospital and she wasn't particularly thrilled with the 3 hospitals this doctor does surgery at, so I'm not sure if we're going to stick with this one or not. She's going to give me a couple phone numbers to see if we can get in anywhere else in a reasonable amount of time. We tried to get into Children's Hospital, but they aren't taking new patients until November. Because of insurance, we'd have to get this all said and done before January 1, so I'm just not sure that leaves enough time to get everything accomplished, not to mention 2-3 more rounds of strep in that time frame!

It's very stressful though, I'm dealing with some guilt wondering if I'm just being impatient and we should wait until she can actually get into Childrens, or if some of the other hospitals will be just as good??? I don't know. All I know is that I hate being in this situation, but if it improves her health as I've heard from many others it will, it'll be worth it. I'll just be a total nervous wreck when D-Day comes.

Funny Kate

We are in Oklahoma City this weekend for one of my college roommate's wedding. We are having a great time! Anyway, we took Kate to the mall this morning to kill time before we went to the wedding. The first store in the door is Old Navy. Kate turned to look, and saw the group of mannequins standing in the entryway, one of which was a dog mannequin. She FLIPPED. (In a good way!) She started barking, and RAN to the dog! When she got there, she gave it a HUGE hug. She spent a good 5 minutes with that dog, hugging it, petting it, and trying to climb on its back! This sure is one dog-loving kid! Hmm, I wonder who she got that from? :)

Catching Up

I was reminded by my friend, Stephanie, tonight that it has been too long since I've posted. So this is just for you Stephanie!

I guess I just feel like no one is reading my blog anymore, I guess Stephanie is. :) I'll start off with our trip to Chicago - we went to visit my sister, BIL, and nephews Micah and Dylan. We had SO much fun and our visit was way too short. There's a bunch of pictures on Facebook, so rather than post them here, I'll just refer you there. We did take the kids to Portrait Innovations, though, to get a good picture of the cousins.




Boy was that a harrowing experience! I really didn't think we were going to get one with all 3 kids, but thankfully the chairs kept Kate and Micah occupied enough for about 10 seconds that we could get a decent shot! It was very sad to go home, but it was made easier knowing that we'd see them again in Texas at Thanksgiving. I wish we lived closer.

Ever since we have come home, Kate has been having another mini verbal explosion. She has added moon, moo, and shoes to her vocabulary, among a few others I can't remember at 11 pm. :) Her FAVORITE word is shoes. (Such a girl!) Although, her version of "shoes" sounds more like "joos." It's so cute. Every time she sees a pair, or is looking for them, she'll walk around the house saying, "Joos? Joos?"

Her other big smarty-pants moment of the week was that on Dora the other night, they were talking about cows and how they say moo. Kate moo'd, then walked over and grabbed a book, opened it to a cow, showed it to me, and moo'd! What a smart baby. :)

We are officially DONE with the pacifier! We really did need it (and used it!) on our trip to Chicago, but as soon as we hit Texas soil again, the paci disappeared again and has been gone since. I can't bring myself to throw them away though. I feel like I need to get rid of them, though, just so I don't go grab one in a moment of desperation! Maybe I'll keep my favorite one to put away with her stuff as a keepsake... Or is that gross? 25 years from now, when she'll care, it'll probably be all decomposed and nasty. I should probably just take a picture and throw them away. :)