Madi is pretty much done with bottles and gets everything from the sippy cup. She does know what real cups are for so we had to pull that from the bath toys. Can't have her drinking the bath water, gross. She has a tea set that came with two cups and she'll pick one up and put her to her mouth. She also likes the cold bottom of a can. We usually can't get a pop from the Pepsi machine without Madi right there to suck on the bottom of the can for a while. It'll only be a matter of time before she picks up one of our opened cans and helps herself. Hopefully it'll be a pop and not a beer!
Pete and Bruiser are still great with Madi. Pete's friendly but he tends to move out of her way whenever she gets close. Bruiser just lays there and takes whatever she dishes out. For a while Madi was fascinated with his ears. She'd look at the underside, pull on them, stick her finger in there and Bruiser would just lay there. She's laid on top of him, crawled over him, grabbed his tail and tried to put his paws in her mouth. If we're outside playing fetch he'll put up with her taking his stick. That is saying a lot as the dog has an oral fixation, gotta have his toys to chew on.
We had our first real sickness last week. Madi had a runny nose off and on, figured it was due to teething but all the sudden in a span of a couple days she got so congested and developed this horrible cough. It was like she felt the gunk in her chest but couldn't figure out how to bring it up.One time she did figure out how to bring some of it up, and her entire dinner. Vomiting must be one of the scariest things to a baby. Madi cries and gives you this look like "what just happened to me and why does my nose burn now?" I took her to the doc and some nasty stuff is going around. Dr. McManus has seen kids go from a "cold" to pneumonia in a couple days time so she put Madi on an antibiotic right away. Said most parents aren't bringing in the kids early enough to head off pneumonia. Yikes! Glad I brought her in. Plus, I won't lie - Madi was waking up every couple hours and we needed to get her back on track. It's amazing how spoiled you get when given the chance to sleep through the night on a regular basis. We went to the dr on Thurs and by Sunday Madi sounded much better and was sleeping almost through the night. She still has a lingering cough but nothing like before. While at the doc's we got her first of two flu shots. Hopefully that'll cover her and we'll pray it's an easy year for RSV. We're still arguing with insurance over her Synagis shot in March so I really don't want to have to start those shots again. Silver lining is that they get us to max out of pocket in about two shots.
Side story: so when I went to pick up Madi's prescription the pharmacist asked if I needed a dosing syringe. Doc had already told me it would be 2ml/dose so I said no. Pharmacist then proceeded to tell me how important it would be to give Madi the right dose. Obviously the lady didn't look to see that we've been giving Madi 2ml of medicine every day for about a year. I told her we had plenty of syringes at home. Unbeknownst to me an older gentleman had walked up behind me and when I said we had plenty of syringes at home he gasped and said "Good Lord!" Aw geez, not like that. Made me chuckle.
Last week I was feeling spry and decided to try and wrangle both of the dogs and Madi for a walk on the Monon. Instead of taking the stroller I put Madi in the baby carrier. She was pretty content in the carrier, even held Bruiser's leash for a while. I couldn't see her face but I could tell she was flirting with the folks passing by based on their comments. Madi absolutely loves to be outdoors. Not too sure what we're going to do this winter. I wonder how she'll react to touching snow for the first time...
I took a few pictures after our walk. Of course Madi zoomed in on the metal part of the leash, shiny!
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