Giddy Up

My dad's side of the family happens to be bonkers for horses, Tennessee Walking horses to be exact. I'm deathly allergic to the things and quite frankly, I think they stink. But my dad's side (more commonly refered to as my "crazy" side, which is actually a compliment) is making it their mission to make Sophia a horse lover. Who cares that mommy's throat closes off, her eyes swell shut, and she develops hives. Anyway, my dad and Marilyn bought Mr. Horse (he desperately needs a name) before Little Bit could even crawl. For months and months he sat in our basement looking sad because no one would play with him. Occasionally I would squeeze one of his ears so he would make the "trotting" and "neigh" sound just to freak the dog out. Well all of the sudden Sophia has become OBSESSED with Mr. Horse. You guys just might get your horse lover but the pony is staying at your house!

Culinary Catastrophe

I recently heard that Rachael Ray catered and hosted the Senior Prom at Enterprise High School in Alabama, which is the school that was devastated by the tornado. I have to admit that helping out the school like that was awesome but I'm just not a fan of Rachael Ray. Every time you turn on the food network you are GUARANTEED to see that woman within 5 minutes. She annoys me with her cute little terms like EVOO and the stupid names that she gives recipes such as"Why-the-chicken-crossed-the-Road-SantaFe-Tastic-Tortilla-Soup"and "Crab and Corn Chowda-Mac." I'm sorry but both of those sound disgusting (granted I'm no Iron Chef). So what I didn't know is that Rachael Ray also catered Sophia's Spring Party at day care.

Have you ever seen such a disgusting mix of food in your life?!? Gracie's mom sent me this photo and I almost gagged when I saw this smorgasbord o'crap. Cupcakes and cheese puffs mixed together!!!! NASTY!!! I swear this looks like something that Rachael would whip up and call it "Cupcake Surprise." But it looks as though Sophia enjoyed the heck out of it!

Hippity Hoppity...

Happy Easter Day!!!! To Sophia's delight one Mr. E. Bunny dropped off a basket full of goodies this morning. He left some Color Wonder, a Peter Pan DVD, sunglasses, sunscreen, a white chocolate bunny and a few other goodies. Sophie was a little late getting her basket this morning since she decided to sleep an extra two hours. Usually she wakes up like clockwork at 7 a.m but this morning she didn't wake up until 9 (yay mommy and daddy got to sleep in!!)! Today she seemed to feel a thousand times better. Maybe we are finally putting the sickness behind us. I'm just hoping we can go one whole week without going to the doctor!

Sad

Poor Little Bit is still not back to her old self. One look at her and you can tell that she doesn't feel well. She still has red dots all over her body (including her face), a runny nose, and watery eyes. And she's just sad. I want my happy Sophie B. back and I want her back now! I'm soooooo over her being sick and I'm sure she's over it too. This morning I tried putting her in the cutest "pillowcase dress" and hiding a few eggs around the house and she wanted nothing to do with it. She'd just lay down in the floor and cry. I wish I had some better pictures of her in her new dress. It looks adorable on her. Maybe tomorrow she'll feel a little better. After all the Easter Bunny will be stopping by our house in the morning!

Like the new watermark...this was my very first attempt....as I've said before Photoshop is INSANELY difficult to figure out.

The Saga CONTINUES

First off, I'm up and running again! YAY! Now if I could just talk a certain husband into letting be buy a certain Mac that I have all picked out and all pimped out with memory. Anywho, on to Sophia. This morning I get yet another call from day care. On this morning's menu is a rash covering Little Bit's entire body. Well I'm none to worried about the rash. Every single time the kid has taken an antibiotic she gets these little red dots. They aren't contagious (i know this because I have taken her to the doctor 3 times now for these dots.) So in goes another call to the doctor and of course he's super busy. Finally around 1:30 I finally talk to the doctor and he says "bring her on in so I can tell you again that she's not contagious and she can go back to day care."

So everything is right with the world, right? WRONG! I pick up Little Bit and notice that her hands are blue. No scratch that, blackish and cold. Her feet are normal but 3 fingers on her left hand were this blackish color and two fingers are this strange pinkish color. So off I go to the doctor and tell the chick at the window that "I'm here for the non-contagious rash but in the meantime Sophia appears to have gangrene in her fingers so could we make it snappy." Even the chick at the window was like "OMG!" So he takes us back immediately but strangely the man isn't panicking like me. I even tell him that I'm "about to flip out!" But instead he's more "intrigued." We strip her down and see that she also has two purple arms!! In comes the medical students to observe my petri dish of a child. And off they go to hit the books (actually they probably jumped on webmd to find out what is wrong with Little Bit, who by the way is happy as a calm.) The Doctor is still intrigued and is looking at her like "wow, this is cool!" Finally, after a few phone calls with colleagues the diagnosis is yet another reaction to medicine! Of course I'm a bad mommy and forget the exact term that the doctor used. But by the time we left the office her hands were back to their normal color and they should remain that way since she's now on a different medicine.

Steven and I LOVE Sophie's doctor and I really believe that's she's getting the best care ever. It's not his fault thatSophie reacted the way she did. He's already called the house to check on her this evening and gave me his home number in case we see any more blue fingers. The man even said that if it would make me feel better, he would meet me tomorrow to check her out on his off day! Now what doc does that! (Kelly thank-you sooooo much for sending me to him.) So in the meantime Little Bit is constantly being inspected. Fingers crossed that this new medicine works! This is a really bad picture but when you are sick you get Popsicles that's all there is to it!

Candidiasis

Pronounced -kan-di-dahy-uh-sis. Do you know what that means? Uh yeah, that means yeast infection, of the MOUTH! Two days after I had Little Bit at the doctor for her ear infection I get a call from day care that she has some strange looking blisters in her mouth. So off I go to the doctor yet again, to wait, wait, wait, and wait some more. We waited so long that the two of us fell asleep back in the examining room! Good thing I LOVE her doc or I might have went Nam on him or more likely on one of the two medical students currently interning. Medical students, that's a whole other subject for another blog. Anyway, turns out that Sophia had a reaction to the new antibiotic she had been taking resulting in thrush! So now she's on a new antibiotic, a cold and cough medicine, an oral yeast medicine that turns everything it touches yellow, and an ointment!! I'm crabby, she's even crabbier, I still don't have my new modem, and it's 30 degrees here today. So no new photos yet but this one from her b-day shoot is just so darn cute!

I'm Back!!!!

Well sort of...I don't have Internet at my house yet (stupid me ordered the wrong modem) but my mom does so here I am. Us girls had a fabulous weekend at Snowshoe. Gesh can the 6 of us talk, I hope none of your ears were burning too bad!! Unfortunately, I came home to a baby with yet another ear infection. So another trip to the doctor and another round of antibiotics for us. This time the doc mentioned the possibility of tubes. One more ear infection and I think that tubes our definitely in our future.

I haven't taken many pics lately since I can't use my computer. So for now here's a few quick ones that I snapped this evening. My poor sick Little Bit with her sad sad pigtails!