9 months old and tubes!

9 Months :: June 12th

Arden is one busy girl! At 9 months, she isn’t technically “crawling” but she gets where she wants to go one way or the other! She booty scoots and slithers, or she’ll look at you and stick her bottom lip out and look sad and someone will inevitably pick her up! With the exception of the past months ear infections, she is normally a really happy, laid back baby! She likes to watch Stratton but it’s not going to be much longer before curiosity gets the best of her and she’s in the middle of it!

She weighs 18 pounds and is wearing size 3 diapers and 9 mo/6-12 mo size clothes. She is eating good and still takes about 4 6oz bottles a day. Here are some more fun things about Arden at 9 months old!

• She is starting to pull her headbands and hair bows out! (This doesn’t make mommy happy)
• She loves to dump her toy bucket over and pull all the toys out. . .over and over and over. . .
• She is eating 3 meals a day now! So far she likes everything!
• Yogurt melts are her favorite snack, anything she can self-feed is a winner though.
• Still working on the sippy cup, so far not a fan.
• The stinker also won’t hold her bottle!
• She babbles; baabaa, daadaa, and other noises, but quit saying momma!
• She loves her brother and likes to kiss on him and wrestle with him!

This is what she does to Stratton’s animals when he’s not around : )

Really?! Of all the magazines for her to want to look at!

Cleaning out daddy’s magazine basket for him!

Hey brother! I wanna ride, too!!

That’s better!

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Tubes::  June 13th

The past week is a blur! She wasn’t acting like herself and was very cranky and fussy and her eyes were runny and matting up, so even though she wasn’t running a fever I took her the doctor on Monday. She (of course) had another ear infection. The 3rd one in about 6 weeks. Seems like there is about a week in between each one. They put her on another antibiotic, gave her a shot of rosephin and since we were going to the NEW ENT on Wednesday didn’t think they’d need to see her back. Tuesday my mom came and stayed with her and then Wednesday we had her ENT appointment with a different doctor and it went great, I was so relieved with all the information they gave me and made me feel so much better. Especially since I had to take her by myself I was afraid I’d be overwhelmed and not get all the information and ask the questions I wanted to! But it went fine. The doctor said her ears were really bad and if an adult had come in with the same thing they would be in tears. He was surprised she was so content and happy. (she was still kind of grumpy to me though!) They even remembered me (from Stratton and the rock incident- not sure if that’s a good thing or not?!) They also said they could do her tubes on Thursday! So, we ran to the hospital signed all her papers and got everything ready for her surgery the next morning! We were scheduled to be 2nd on Thursday morning. So we needed to be there between 5:30 and 6:00am. Which works great for us, since she is usually awake around 5:30 and ready for a bottle! I did wake her up (kinda, she didn’t really wake up fully) at 11:45pm and gave her a bottle because she wasn’t supposed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight. I think that might have helped some because she did great! She didn’t really wake up till we got to the hospital. She didn’t go back for surgery till about 7:30am, but she was so good the whole time. She even went willingly with the guy who took her back to have the procedure. It all took about 30 mins and when they came to get us they said she was just the best baby ever! Not that we were surprised! We were on our way back home by 8:30am! Jarrod went in to work, since he had a meeting in Searcy he didn’t want to miss, and I stayed home with Arden. They had warned us that she would be cranky, irritable, and sleepy. They were wrong. She took about a 30 minute nap and then was raring to go! She wore me out! She did take a little longer nap in the afternoon, but she didn’t act groggy or anything like they said she would! She actually acted like she felt better than she has in a week or more! So far we are really pleased with the results! The Dr told us her ears would probably drain for the next couple of weeks but other than that she wouldn’t have any other side effects. She is still taking her antibiotics for the infection she has, and they gave us some ear drops to use, so that’s not too bad. We go back for a follow up in a few weeks.

Waiting for her turn!