The Davlin Family

Sunday, January 23, 2011

New Headband

A friend of mine explained how to make headbands for Alyssa using knee highs and flowers from Hobby Lobby... here's my first attempt...

Here is Andrew shielding her eyes... he told me she doesn't like the camera flashes! Such a big protector!! :)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Yesterday, Alyssa had her two month checkup. I took her along with Andrew to Dr. Loden since he had a sore throat. Talk about a BUSY appointment!

Luckily, Alyssa was in a great mood and very cooperative. After a rainy and long weekend in Jefferson for Andrew, he on the other hand, was a bit hyper. But the 3 of us survived and after TWO HOURS, we accomplished this:

* Alyssa now weighs 12 lbs and is 24" long - she is 75% percentile for both height and weight.
* Her head circumference was 15.5.
* Alyssa also had her rotavirus vaccine which she drank fairly well. I don't think it really tasted like cherries as the nurse said, but she got it down nonetheless...
* 3 shots for Alyssa...she did NOT like those! But Andrew handled her shots better than I anticipated. I feared he would get upset but he did really well!
* A positive strep swab for Andrew and another round of Azithromycin for him. Hopefully this strep will clear up without needing steroids like the last bout required a few weeks ago.

All in all, it was a "good" visit. The shots knocked Alyssa out most of the day although she was quite fussy until we gave her Tylenol. She has been pretty lethargic today too which the information packlet said was a common side effect. Andrew has remained pretty hyper and I think everyone is looking forward to his return to daycare tomorrow. He's really been a trouper and such a big helper though. I think he just misses being able to run around and having fun with his friends.

I officially start back to work tomorrow :( and David is going to try and keep Alyssa home as long as he can juggle his work with her home. Aside from the cost of daycare, we want to keep her out until cold and flu season passes. And according to our doctor yesterday, RSV is running rampant so he said it was best for her to not be in a daycare setting or any congested areas such as Wal-Mart or HEB.

I think the reality of having 2 kids plus juggling work, church, life and all the other stuff is getting starting to set in. Let the juggling begin!!!

Monday, January 10, 2011

Picnic with my Andrew

Today David picked Andrew up a little early from daycare and brought him home for some "hang time" with me. Andrew wanted to have a picnic in "Uncle Jeff's" room (aka: the front living room / media room )...

I thought it would be fun to let Andrew take the reins on our picnic. We first had to fill 3 tupperware storage bowls with water to make "wishing wells" (I didn't ask... I just went with it!). Andrew then picked a blanket and a throw to place our picnic on Then we placed the wishing wells at three of the corners of our picnic blankets.

For our actual picnic, Andrew chose what we would be eating. Leave it to an almost 4 year old...we snacked on 1 string cheese stick, some Lays potato chips, marshmallows and Fruitable juice boxes (not pictured).

That was probably the best picnic I ever had...particularly because my sweet Andrew & I got to share about 30 minutes together talking and being silly together. What a perfect time!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Sweet girl...

Today, Alyssa is 7.5 weeks old. It still takes until noon for both me and her to get dressed (and that's on a GOOD day...)

I thought today we would attempt to go to HEB. We get dressed, then she has a meltdown of colicky madness. But this is the result after 30 minutes of screaming....too cute!

(And note...we didn't make it to HEB by ourselves...luckily David had to go to which was a Blessing because 5 minutes into HEB and Alyssa had a meltdown and only wanted me to hold her...the carseat wouldn't do the job for her...sigh....)