The berry patch was about twenty minutes away in Hallsville and we ended up driving right through most of the storm. It wasn't too bad, just super heavy rain. I was glad we didn't get caught in it at the berry patch! Haley was a bit worried when we arrived at the doctor's. I kept telling her that we were there for Emy and as soon as Dr. Bagnell walked in Haley pointed to Emily and said, "Emily." As if to say, you are here to look at Emily, not me! Emily is kind of a peanut, she's not as small as Haley was at her age but she is definitely smaller than average. I can't find her stat page anywhere but I remember that all of her percentages were in the teens. She weighed 16 lb. 14oz (I think it was 14 percentile?), I think she was 27.75 inches tall which I think was in the 18th percentile. Her head circumference was in the 12th percentile but I don't remember the measurement.
The funniest part about the appointment was when the nurse was measuring Emily's head and height. She was laying on the table with her arms and legs all spread out like she was midway through the spread out part of a jumping jack and she was just laying there frozen, it was so funny. She laid completely still while the nurse did all of her stuff, she was watching the nurse pretty closely. Dr. Bagnell said Emily looked healthy and seemed to be developing normally. I filled out a survey on how she is progressing and have noticed since filling it out that I said she couldn't do several things that she actually can do, I just never noticed her doing them. Oh well.
Dr. Bagnell listened to her lungs for a long time and asked if she ever coughs and I said she does but only once every couple days or so. She thinks that Emily may have some kind of allergy thing where the symptoms are heavy breathing and coughing. I told her that Emily does not ever have a runny nose and doesn't sneeze like I do when I have allergies and then she explained how allergies worked and went into this super long explanation and I totally got lost somewhere in there. Anyways, what I got from it is that she maybe has some form of asthma that is triggered by allergies. Whatever the case, Dr. Bagnell said that if it's not affecting her mood or her sleep than it is probably not bothering her. Emily had to get a shot while we were there but she hardly cried, she is pretty brave when it comes to shots. Haley ended up benefiting from the whole visit because she came away with a sticker. I was surprised she chose a Mickey Mouse sticker over a Dora sticker.
After the doctor we came home and had lunch. Emily ate a bunch of our freshly picked blueberries and Haley ate a leftover biscuit. Then I let them play a little bit before putting them down for naps. While they slept I put a couple things from our unit online and started doing some cleaning. A friend from church who works for the Longview News Journal e-mailed me and asked me some questions about the online site where I sell stuff because he's writing an article about it. Later he sent me the link to the article where I am quoted, I'll have to put the link on here. You will all want to be selling stuff on this site!
When Haley woke up I was cleaning the bathroom so she sat on the toilet and watched for a while. I was so thankful that she woke up dry because I had forgotten to put a pull-up on her and I had just put clean sheets on their beds right before their naps. I invited a lady from church to come over for dinner because her husband is gone on a missions trip to Kenya (with the organization EMI which is who Daniel Iya is with) and David is out of town so I thought we could keep eachother company. After inviting her I realized that we were out of chicken so as soon as Emily woke up we ran to Sam's quick. We made it home with about fifteen minutes to spare before she arrived.
Her name is Suiledy (she is from Puerto Rico) and she has a little 3 month old named Thiago. Thiago is definitely a touchy baby, any sound or abrupt movement seemed to upset him. That means that he and Haley were completely incompatible, haha. He actually fell asleep in the swing during dinner so that was nice. I grilled some chicken and made baked potatoes and Suiledy brought some steamed vegetables. We ate some of David's leftover father's day cake for dessert, seemed a little wrong without David actually. Haley couldn't really figure out Suiledy's name, she called her Ms. Lady, haha. Suiledy stayed after dinner and we talked for a while and then she and Thiago headed out a little before eight because he was getting fussy and ready for bed. The girls and I did some dishes and then we skyped David before bed. Haley kept asking him to show her the airplanes, oh my. Emily definitely realized it was David, she was excited to see him. After our Skype date I put the girls to bed.
Haleyism:
Haley's panty leaking problem has been fixed by giving her an M&M everytime she doesn't leak. She caught on right away and now hardly ever leaks anymore. Now I will have to wean her off of M&Ms again, oh my.
Emilyism:
Emily can pull up onto furniture and creep along it. That was one of the things that I said she couldn't do and then when we came home I was watching her and she was doing it, oops.
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| Berry picking |
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| Playing at the doctor's. Yeah, they'll probably get sick from playing with those toys. |
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