Lions, and Tigers and Bears, oh my

Sorry again for the late post. Avery, her cousins, Aunt and their friends went to the zoo last week. She loved looking at the fish the most. She would look at the fish with her eyes big and wide, then she would turn back to me and smile. It was so cute. 

We finally found some solid food that she doesn't hate. She seems to like Gerber peach yogurt. She still doesn't eat a ton of it but she didn't seem to mind it. 

I really enjoyed looking at the back of my eye lids while everyone else looked at the elephants.

I loved looking at the fish. They were so neat!

Mommy and I at the aquarium part of the zoo

Looking at the monkeys

Eddie wanted to hold me while looking at the monkeys so I sat next to him and Kaitlin

 Hanging out with Mommy

Oh my gosh, why is Scarlett in this picture!? It was supposed to be a picture of just me and my best buddy, Chewie.

Chewie made faces, so I made faces....

I liked eating the paper towel as much as I liked eating the yogurt.

Mommy and Daddy went to a wedding and I got to hang out with Grandma & Grandpa S!

Mommy, is this a good coupon??

Avery is one popular lady!

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Sorry I haven't updated in over a week. I guess I feel like there is not much to update when nothing is going wrong. (Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself). Avery had a pretty good week. One day last week at daycare she ate half a jar of bananas! That is great for Avery because she is not a fan of solid foods. There is no way she is eating cake on her birthday. We will try but I don't think it's going to happen.

Avery had a pretty fun week. She got to go to the Cuyahoga County Fair for the first time! She liked seeing all the animals. The goats really seemed to like her :-) Tim took her to the park a few times as well.

I started planning Avery's birthday party. Who knew planning a party for a one year old would be so difficult!

Mommy and I went to Target one day and it was pouring outside so I was all bundled up.

My first fair!! I liked looking at all the animals that I have never seen before...though in this pic I was looking and Mommy and I have seen her plenty of times.

What are you looking at??

This guy wanted to eat my piggies, I mean toes.

This guy acted like he was too cool to look at me.

Hey buddy, I know my thighs are chubby but you don't have to stare.

Mommy made this cow stand by me to take a pic

Me and Daddy having some fun!

Me and my buddy Chewie having some fun. Mommy is sad her finger got in the way when taking the picture.

Daddy took me to play on the swings!

Mommy said she can't believe her little lady is turning one...I can't wait for my party!

Chew on everything...

There isn't much to update. Avery still has her cough and congestion, though it doesn't seem as bad. We finished the 2 weeks of antibiotics yesterday. This week she likes to put everything, I mean everything, in her mouth. You will see in the pictures below.

We started planning for Avery's party. It's hard to believe that she will be a year old. It's funny because Tim asked me if I feel like a mom and I said not really and he said he didn't really feel like a dad either. It just seems...normal. Like this is how it has always been. I don't remember what we did with our time BA (before Aves). I think I slept a lot :-)

My cousin Kaitlin and I

I was sad when I went shopping with Mommy because someone asked if I was a boy or girl

Mommy bought me this fun hat when I was sleeping

Look how curly my hair is right after my bath. It looks like I have a perm

So tired...

Mommy doesn't know how to put these headbands on me..she makes me look like Rambo

My feet are tasty

MMMMmmm, so is this giraffe

This barn tastes great too!

11 Months!

Avery will be 11 months old tomorrow! It's hard to believe that next month at this time I will have a one-year old!!So crazy! I haven't posted because there really isn't much to update. Avery is still sick. She is still coughing and has a lot of congestion. She is taking antibiotics still ( has one more week to go on them) and it doesn't seem to be helping so I am guessing it's just a cold. It could also be allergies, I don't know. The nasal swab sample that Dr Love took last week was negative for Flu and RSV so that is good news.  I think Avery is starting to teethe. She has been waking up in the middle of the night and crying for what seems to be no reason. I put my finger on her gums and it seems to be pretty hard on the bottom middle part. When I move my finger farther back, it gets much softer. I can't wait for teething. This should be lots of fun (I am being sarcastic in case you couldn't tell.)

This is my arsenal of meds I take everyday

Ready to go for a walk

Now I sit to play with my playmat. I don't like being on my belly so I will probably never crawl

I like to chew everything, even Tigger

I love looking at my buddy, Chewie

I also like to look at Daddy

Hi!

We went out to eat and I sat like a big girl in the high chair!

Like I said, I like to chew on everything

This is how daddy dressed me for daycare today. It was cold outside!

Now that I can sit up, I can pick out whatever toys I want

Scarlett is jealous I have all of these toys and she doesn't! She has been really good about not chewing any of my stuff

What else is new? Sick again!

Avery started sneezing, was congested and was coughing really bad on Thursday night so Tim decided he was going to take her to the doctor's Friday before it started to get worse. I didn't feel very well when I got up but didn't think much of it. I went to work at 6:30am. I started feeling really nauseous and sick. I ended up going home around 10. Thankfully, I made it home in time. After countless trips to the bathroom, throwing up 3 times, a fever of 101.5 and feeling hot/cold and like I was going to faint, I pretty much spent the whole day in bed.

 Tim took Avery to her appointment. They said her cough just seemed to be from a cold. They want us to start breathing treatments again and they gave us a prescription for cefprozil. We were to wait a few days and only get the script filled if she was doing worse. They decided to take a viral culture from her nose to send it for testing and they put a referral in for her to see Pulmonary due to her wheezing in the past. Thankfully, they didn't hear wheezing on Friday.

When Tim came home from the appointment, I was in bad shape. I felt like I was going to faint just walking to the bathroom; there was no way I would be able to carry Avery around and care for her. Tim had to get some work done so his mom was nice enough to pick Avery up after she got out of work around 2:30 and watched Avery for awhile. What a lifesaver!We can't thank you enough!! We really appreciate it. Tim picked Avery up about 4 hours later and then he was the lifesaver..taking care of both Avery and I. I owe him big time because I am sure it wasn't easy. Us girls can be demanding sometimes :-)

Saturday morning I still wasn't feeling great and Tim had to do some work so Tim's mom was kind enough to watch Avery for a few hours. Again Mom, we can't thank you enough! I was able to get some rest and finally able to eat more than two popsicles, which is all I ate on Friday. I started feeling about 60% better by Saturday night.

Avery's coughing woke her up Saturday night and she couldn't stop so I gave her a breathing treatment at 2:30am. She finally went back to bed. She woke up this morning and she seemed to be coughing more than yesterday so we decided to start the prescription. I know you aren't supposed to use antibiotics all the time but I just get nervous. I worry that whenever Avery is sick, it could get bad really fast so I try to stop it before that happens.

Avery was in a pretty good mood today besides the coughing. Hopefully these antibiotics will do the trick. The last time we went to the doctor, she recommended we get this thing call the Nose Frieda. Its this tube and one end goes in the baby's nose and the other end in your mouth. It's basically a snot sucker. The doctor swore by it so I was like, yeah it's gross, but what do I have to lose? I ended up buying it and it does work great when Avery lets me use it. If we don't end up using it for it's intended purpose, we can let Avery have it as a toy. I let her hold it the one day and she played with it for over 1/2 an hour. She put it in her mouth(the right end even!) and then was twirling it around her head. She loved the thing and was mesmerized by it. (There are pics of it below but I don't have a pic of the part that you put in her nose).

I am playing with the snot sucker

How cute am I?

Still playing with this nose sucker thing

Yep, still playing

Wow, I can't believe it took me almost 11 months to find these things. Feet are so fun!

Forget the nose sucker, I can play with my feet!

 I love Chewie! He lets me climb all over him

This other puppy lets me climb on him too!

I am in a good mood even though I keep coughing