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Maddy said breakfast this morning. Really?

A few others that she is working on a bit more are circle, lunch, dog, shoes, fish, socks, miscellaneous body parts and yellow. love it.

Her doggies

This morning, Carson would not leave the bathroom. He only does this stuff when "the boomies" are about, but this morning there were none. And, just for the record, that drives me completely insane. I can't close the door which means kids can be chaotic in my room. Sigh...

So after a ton of coaxing, I had to pull him out of the bathroom.

This troubled the little Maddy a bit and she let me know.

Next was the bedroom. He just flat out would not leave. Hmmm.
So I went to my last resort of pulling him out again. This angered Maddy and she told me so. She screamed at me and immediately started crying. It was awful. I was shocked.

Not only did it make me stop, it made me realize how much she was connected to them and how much she loved them. Wow.

I stopped and he left. Nice.

Back to the doctor

I took Maddy back to the doctor today. The good news is that her lungs sounded okay. He said there was a bit of a squeak, but didn't sound too troubling. He felt she was on the road to recovery.

The bad news is she got an inhaler. Nice. She may not like that. We will see how she handles it.

He said she wasn't contagious at this point, but still watch her breating for any signs of distress. This was nothing to fool around with. Again, nice. :(

Reagan is pretending

Reagan's level of pretending has gone up a level. She really has embraced the Barbie element in her play and has started to make up her own games and jokes. I love watching her imagination at work.

Tonight, she made up this game with a bunch of Maddy's toys. It was called the Name game. I have no idea what we were supposed to do. She pretty much made it up as she went. But I had to just sit back and enjoy the ride. She just gets into it.

My parents came up and got swooped in as well. My dad and I played with her for a while. I wish I would have taken a picture of "the board". I did not. Maybe I can set it up again.

None the less, my little girl is expanding her brain and creativity.

Pills

Train your kids early on how to take pills. Tonight, I had to basically shove two pills from the first day of the zpack and yell at Jordan to swallow her pills. She has a huge mental block against pills for some reason. But I really didn't have a whole lot of patience for it.

After the whole thing, she hugged me a lot and told me how much she loved me. I thought that was worth mentioning considering how much a forcefully spoke to her and crammed food down her throat.

We tried water tricks, pudding, jello. The final thing that worked was jello. I put so much in her mouth she had to swallow it. She did eventually, but not before we had a volcano eruption of water (and jello), spewing of water and other things during the course of the event. I told her to think about her favorite things, including the possibility of kissing a boy. I believe that was the comment that made her like a volcano.  I also tried having her hold the spoon in her mouth to make her swallow (basically blocking her tongue from reacting). That didn't even work.

In the end, all is well. Jim is not too upset about my tactics.

She swallowed two pills.

Tomorrow, we have one more. :)

Moving furniture

Maddy loves to move things around. It doesn't really seem to matter how heavy the object is, she will find a way to move it. If it is light enough, she will pick it up and carry it somewhere, like her giraffe chair. If it is too heavy to carry, she will shove it as far as she can, like the kitchen chairs.

We're home again

Today we are home again. Maddy's cough is better, but I really still want to watch her. We visited Papa on the way home from dropping off Reagan. We did circle time. Now she is playing with her weebles. I just love watching her play. I think I'll be starting work soon, so I am grateful that I can just hang out with her.

I think a walk is in our future today.