Weighing in

Alana has been sick off and on for a few weeks now with a little cold. I brought her to the doctor a little over a month ago and they said it was just a cold and there wasn't much they could do, but that I could bring her in the bathroom with the steam and that might clear her up a little. So then she got better and last week and this week she has been pulling on her ears so I brought her back to the doctor today. She has double ear infections and they tested her for RSV but it came back negative. She does have to have treatment on the nebulizer a couple times a day though because she sounds all congested and that should help. She is such a happy baby though! Even though she is sick, she still smiles and laughes at everything. We weighed her while she was there and she now weighs 16 lbs. 7 oz. at 9 months, which is a little on the small side.

She also got her first tooth 2 days ago and it looks like her 2nd one will be coming through soon too. That same day she got her tooth, Alexis lost her very first baby tooth. That is completely weird to me that one lost her 1st tooth and the other got it, same bottom tooth too. Alexis was so excited that it finally came out after it being loose for a while. She ran right to her room to put her tooth under her pillow and fell fast asleep for the tooth fairy to come. This is my first tooth fairy experience and I quickly learned that it is not easy. I could not find where she put the tooth, took me 2 attempts and about 15 minutes, but I finally found it, took it and replaced it with $5. Yes, it seems a lot to me too, but it was such a big deal to her and we told her she probably will only get that much for the 1st tooth. She was so excited the next day when she found that the tooth fairy came, except for the part about the tooth fairy taking the tooth. She really, really wanted to keep her tooth. So all day yesterday all I heard from her is, "I really really really hope the tooth fairy knows how much I want my tooth back. Maybe if I keep wishing it all day she will bring it back to me. " And so the tooth fairy made another trip to the house last night to return the tooth back under the pillow. Happy Lexi! Oh and I also promised that when that tooth actually came out that we would go see the Tooth Fairy movie that is playing now. So sometime this week or weekend I am going to have to go see that with the kids, not very excited about that, but they are.