Sick

She's had a sinus infection for a little while now.  We started the new round of antibiotics about a month ago. She is on her fourth round. The good news is that her ears are fine. Bad news is she seems to have a strain of bacteria that is extremely stubborn.
We have her on the strongest thing we can give her. Her doctor finally said, "we need to talk" about how to proceed with her. We've struggled for the last year with her health. At some point, we need to start looking deeper for potential underlying issues.
So I'm going to guess we will look at allergies and do a blood test to ensure her system can fight bugs correctly. I'm praying it's just allergies - how sad is that? Either way, she is responding to Bactrum. That is good. Just frustrating we have to go tot hat level.

My poor maddy.

What the heck?

Maddy can count to 10. That's all I have.

Swimming

Tonight, Reagan got to go into the big pool and do actual laps. I couldn't believe it. She is floating and kicking on her own and learning to push off the side of the pool. She was a little hesitant in the bigger pool. I think she was a tad afraid of the deep end, but she didn't seem to phased by it all. She did great!

She was so worn out by the end of her lesson, she went right to sleep. I was amazed.

Reagan's growth spurt

Reagan looks like she has shot up in the last few weeks. We've noticed that she's eating better during the day and also resting better too. Not only that, but her legs look longer. My little girl is getting so big on me. Sniff. I'm not ready for her to grow up yet.

Still sick

Maddy is still sick. Ugh. Fourth round of antibiotics. Going back to the ENT for a culture. So done with her being sick. :(

Shapes and Colors

Maddy knows her shapes, color and is moving onto letters and numbers. Rita was right. She is exploding with abilities. She can tell us what each shape is - heart, circle, oval, octogon, triangle and square. She can tell us colors - orange, blue, purple, yellow, etc... She's working on her numbers. Tonight at dinner, she started just saying random numbers - actually counting by two's which was weird. I'm sure it was a fluke, but it was a cool fluke. Reagan would say one letter or number, and Maddy would repeat it. So cool!

Sidewalk chalk

Today was the first time both of the girls played with sidewalk chalk together. It worked out that we had two different boxes. Maddy was intrigued when I showed her what the chalk would do. It was cute. I outlined Reagan's body and feet. I did Maddy's feet a few times. Maddy mainly carried it around and messed up Reagan's stuff. Reagan actually drew some cool stuff.