Taking off

We had a nice Thanksgiving.  Avery was not up for getting passed around this year, but she did warm up and was social enough.  It was hard this morning to load her into the car seat and take her back to school and I mean literally hard, she was scooting herself back out with force.  She was however happy when we arrived at school to see her friends, and didn't cling to me, so that made it a little easier.

She did get past that vaccine last week without issue, thank goodness.

Avery's latest accomplishment is taking off her shirt.  She pulled it off several times yesterday before I gave up and allowed her to wander about unfettered.  It was pretty warm yesterday (near if not in the 50s) so the house wasn't too cold.

A few bites and a shot

Last night Avery received her MMR vaccine.  Maybe she was spaced out but she actually willingly ate some mandarin oranges! I've tried offering them to her several times and over the side they would go, but we had success last night.  Tonight was pizza, which she is willing to gnaw on.  She still seems happy and well. I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it would be nice to get through a vaccine without her starting to feel unwell in the next two days.

Snuggling up on cold nights

It's been an interesting and varied week.  Sunday night Avery woke back up at 10pm crying.  She was thrashing and hard to even keep a hold of at points.  Several attempts to get her back down later I finally figured it had to be teeth bothering her.  15 minutes later the half dose of children's tylenol settled her down enough to sleep.  I'm glad that happened the night it did, because if it happened the next day I would have been quite worried.

That next night, Monday, Avery got her varicella (chickenpox) vaccine.  She only took a very slight fever after, but did end up a bit unwell on Wednesday - mayhaps unrelated.  She threw up once at daycare in the afternoon, but looking back on her day sheet she ate her lunch and a yogurt around noon, went down for a nap, woke two hours later, and drank her bottle.  We've had a runny/stuffy nose off and on, again probably thanks to those teeth, so we think there was also some mucus in effect on top of all of that food and out some of it came.  She didn't want to eat later, but who does after they've thrown up?  Thursday she seemed okay, despite not being a voracious eater, so back to school she went and fortunately hung in there without issue.

During this week the weather went from summer to very autumn with the temps now going into the 40s over night and the day time not warming up.  Our walks are nice, it's brisk and only long sleeves/pants and a blankie for Avery and we're good to go.  The house however has cooled off enough that I did have to turn on the heat this evening just to take the chill off.  We also pulled out Avery's fleecy nighties, so no worries, her hands were nice and warm when I kissed her little forehead goodnight.

Kicking off the new year

Along with a birthday comes a visit to the doctor.  I am so grateful to report that Avery's lead levels were good for the follow up check from her 9 month appointment.  She got two shots as well, a pneumococcal and hep a vaccine.  Today she woke up a bit toasty - likely a result of the shots.  I still took her into daycare as it was a mild fever, after giving her a little bit of baby Tylenol.  Well, didn't daycare call mid-afternoon saying she was unhappy, wanted to be held, and was running a fever.  The temp I got when she got home wasn't as high as what they saw, and was lower than this morning, so I'm not sure what's up, but she did go down for a nap pretty quick.

While we were in the pediatrician's waiting room Avery decided to show off something else she has learned how to do - point!  She pointed to tweety bird, she pointed to minnie, she pointed at pooh... and so on.

That's how we roll

This week we added pumpkin and turkey - our first meat!  This kid is officially ready for Thanksgiving, but I guess we have plenty of time for that.

Yesterday I took Avery to the chiro after mentioning to her at my appointment the day before that she only seems to want to roll from her back to stomach in one direction (over her left arm) and that she wasn't really pulling her legs up in attempts to crawl yet.  She was adjusted in the lower back/sacrum area and she popped a little - enough that it scared Avery (I hope not hurt her) and she gave a hard cry, even after I held her close for a little while.  But I'm happy to report that when I picked her up at daycare she showed me she can roll over that right arm - and she did it a few more times at home, immediately followed by pulling those knees up under her a little.  She is still moving only backwards when on her stomach, but I do believe that this correction was good for her.

After the chiro we went to the doctor's office for yet another round of shots.  Thank goodness the little one is finally getting a month off - and we don't need to return until her 9 month checkup.

Three month weigh in

Avery is officially three months old.  She is also officially over her birth weight, finally.  We knew she was, and we were weighing her here at home, but I am still surprised to report she is over 10 lbs by 4 ounces (as of Monday)!  She got a few more shots, but didn't see the doctor, so they weren't even going to weigh her had I not requested it.

From there I took her to a le Leche League meeting and she wiped out before we left.  She was out pretty early at home and hard too - she even slept until 3am when I woke her to eat without her swaddle sack.

She remains a bit snotty, but her usual happy self.  Nothing else really to say other than I'm eager to go get her and get my share of daily cuddles.

Vaccine for Mummy

Today I headed out to get a TDAP vaccine. Actually, I did this twice.  The first run out was to the nearby Walgreens (and for a Starbucks run mid-day), but they "couldn't tell if it would be covered by my insurance" - Walgreens, not Starbucks.  *shakes head* After talking to Highmark I learned it is definitely covered and didn't matter which vaccine (I'll cover that later) so I headed to the Giant Eagle pharmacy after work.

I had a little bit of a wait, but I got my Boostrix TDAP.  From what I read there are two options, Boostrix and Adacel.  The first is Class B approved for people 10 and older, where as the other is a Class C for 10-64 year olds.  Sure, neither is perfect, but I'll opt for the lesser of two evils every chance I get.  Now we see if I end up with a sore arm tomorrow.  Hopefully I won't get wiped out by this.