Gobble, Gobble

Today we had Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house. Maison is still sick with c-diff and we aren't supposed to be feeding her dairy products as it makes her stomach issues worse. Given that it's Thanksgiving and my mom's mac and cheese is legendary, I thought, what the hell...if you've been pooping your brains out for almost 2 months, what's a little mac and cheese going to do to you? It's homemade for goodness sake!

Maison ate the best she's eaten in weeks. The treatments she has been going through to cure her c-diff have side effects worse than the symptoms. She goes though 4-5 day bouts of not eating solids and not sleeping. But she was definitely in high spirits for the holiday. She ate turkey, mac and cheese, and sweet potato casserole. She ran around hitting everything and everyone with her Dora the Explorer bat. Since she can't have stuffed animals until she is better she has become obsessed with her Dora bat so we HAD to bring it to my parents.

Unfortunately, Maison's high spirits died around midnight when she woke up screaming bloody murder and I had to hold her until 6am so that she would sleep. Did I spend my black Friday shopping? No, I would be sleeping. Ok, so I did go to Galleria with Shari but it was late in the afternoon.

Happy 13 months, bug!

Today our sweet girl turned 13 months old. She's still sick but still trying hard to have fun and be our good little baby...

Maison is almost always in pjs these days as we rarely leave the house with her unless it's for a doctor's appointment or to go to the hospital. So her 13 mo pics feature her elephant pjs.

We Suck!

Even though Texas sucks this year and Maison has been sick now for 6 weeks, we decided we would go to Austin for the OSU game. Maison seemed to be doing better so we thought it would be ok to leave her for a night with my parents. We got to Austin, picked up Kari, and were heading to the stadium when we got a call from our pediatrician (yes, on Saturday!) telling us that Maison had relapsed and was testing positive for c-diff again. We were somewhat perplexed because she had seemed to be doing better. After talking to my mom, she assured us we should stay in Austin, enjoy the game, and come home tomorrow morning as we had planned.

Enjoy the game??? That's a little difficult when your team plays like stir fried azz. Yes, we lost to OSU 16-33. How do you beat Nebraska in Nebraska and then lose to Iowa St and Baylor AT HOME? I didn't think that was possible. Needless to say, it wasn't worth the trip to lose again at home and to find out Maison is still not well...what are we going to do? This poor child has suffered enough!

Maison's Photo Shoot

Since Maison has been sick we just got around to getting her 12 month pictures taken. I saw some great pictures of a sorority sister's children and emailed her to find out who had taken the pics. We lucked out and the photographer was available. She suggested that we do the pictures outside at the Frisco Heritage Center because she likes to capture children playing, running, and just being kids, and the Heritage Center is a mock old timey town with churches, barns, store fronts, railroads, etc. It was an excellent location. Here are some of the highlights:

If anyone is interested the photographer was Sarah Toth of sarahtothphotography.com.

Happy 63, Noo!

Last night we celebrated my mom's 63rd birthday at Brio followed by cake and presents at her house.

Nooey with Mais:

Nooey's fall colored cake:

Nooey blowing out her candles:

Happy 63rd, Mom!

Here we grow again - Part 5, The UN-wellness exam

Today we had Maison's 12 month wellness exam but given she has been sick now for almost a month with a bacterial infection (c-diff) it was really an UN-wellness exam. The only portion of the wellness exam we did was height and weight because she is too sick to get any vaccines and we spent the entire time discussing her illness we didn't even begin to discuss developmental milestones. So here's how she measured up...

Age Weight Height

Birth 7 lbs 9 oz 21"

2 weeks 8 lbs 11 oz 21 3/4"

2 months 11 lbs 14 oz 24"

4 months 15 lbs 2 oz 26"

6 months 17 lbs 7 oz 28 3/8"

9 months 21 lbs 0 oz 30 3/8"

12 months 22 lbs 10 oz 32 1/4"

Due to her illness she has actually lost weight and has fallen below 75% in weight...but her height is still holding strong at above 95%. I've heard the wives tale that if you double a child's height at 2 that is their adult height. Apparently, Maison will far exceed me given if you double her height at ONE she will already be 1 1/2 inches taller than me! Here's to hoping the 15 month wellness will in fact be wellness and not un-wellness.